Results 9,541-9,560 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy does not need to face the Press Gallery. He can talk through the Chair like the rest of us.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is doing something completely different.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: Chairman, this is bizarre.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I will get the information for the Deputy.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I am anxious that we will proceed. There is a lot of Dáil business to be done in the short time remaining. The Deputy has asked for a simple tabular statement that I will provide tomorrow. I have said I will do so and I have never not provided what I undertook to provide to this committee. I ask the Deputy to allow this business to proceed. My officials have work to do, we need to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I will get the information for the Deputy tomorrow.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I will do my best. Obviously, I must go through PeoplePoint because it will be necessary to go through 1,100 files. Obviously, my Department has the breakdown and it will simply tabulate it for the Deputy. It may take 48 hours, at most.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I certainly will do my best to provide it to the Deputy this week. However, it is a question of putting together a tabular statement for the Deputy in respect of the breakdown of the individuals who are entitled to this pension for up to 40 years' service and more to the State.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: They are entitled to their pension-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ----- and I wish to ensure they are paid their pension. More people are retiring than expected this year. Obviously, the mix of skills is something the Deputy is entitled to see and I will make sure he does.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: It is just a way of working but it would be helpful, if people are anxious about any particular matter to give me advance notice and I will provide whatever information I can get in advance. I would be happy to do that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: No, it was never asked for previously.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: Now the Chairman can read the message.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I will get the tabular statement and if there is anything else members seek, they should come back to me.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: PAS has indicated to me that this is the volume of applications for the panels they have opened, the biggest being the clerical officer panel. If the Deputy would like a breakdown of each of the panels, I will happily provide it. I understand the clerical officer panel attracted 28,000 applicants. The Garda recruitment process attracted 24,000 applications. There are also other panels.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: No, but I can get the information to the Deputy. A representative of the Public Appointments Service is with us. I will circulate that information for each panel. We have also given a new role to PAS on the appointment of State boards. It will be busy doing that work also.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: In PAS?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I apologise. I thought the Deputy was asking how many people worked in PAS. The Deputy is asking how many clerical positions we are going to fill. It depends. I indicated in a parliamentary reply that because of the speed with which we established PeoplePoint in my Department, for example, there is a number of people appointed there on contract. I want to regularise this. Therefore, I...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The first 100 started last month, and the second 100 will start in January. A third 100 will start a couple of months thereafter.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.