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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 a daft premise.

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 did not say 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.

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 here this evening to present to the committee a net Supplementary Estimate of €22.25 million, gross €33 million, in respect of Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances, and €200,000 in respect of the Public Appointments Service. The Supplementary Estimate in respect of the superannuation Vote arises from the fact that there have been approximately 250 more...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputies opposing this motion are asking the people to embrace anarchy and to take another chance with chaos. As a people, we have stared down that barrel before, we have seen the track record of the people opposite, and we will not be going back there. This Fine Gael-Labour Government has made real mistakes. We know and have said that. No doubt, we have actually made more. However,...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: Simple, yes.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I am pleased to have a brief opportunity to contribute to this debate, regardless of how ill-conceived the tabling of this motion of no confidence was. I was struck last week by a line in a piece about W.T. Cosgrave by the historian Michael Laffan, in which the endeavours of the last six years to rescue the State were compared to the task faced by Cosgrave in establishing the State in the...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I accept that we have more to do and issues to resolve. That was the case during the Celtic tiger years and it is surely the case now after six years of fiscal retraction. The Taoiseach, Deputy Enda Kenny, has led our national recovery alongside the former Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, and the current Tánaiste, Deputy Burton. The Taoiseach will go down in history as one of our finest...

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: All done.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Parliament seems to have no role.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is of course open to persuasion.

Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: We have restored that benefit.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation Office (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 187 and 192 together. Under section 28 (4) of the Valuation Act 2001, a Revision Officer appointed by the Commissioner of Valuation may carry out a revision of valuation in relation to a particular property only if a material change of circumstances has occurred such as the coming into being of a new building, a change in value due to structural alterations...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act came into effect on 14 October 2014. In line with the Programme for Government, the Act provides for the extension of FOI to An Garda Síochána for its administrative records relating to human resources, or finance or procurement matters, subject to security exemptions. In accordance with Section 1(3)(b) of the FOI Act 2014, in the case...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Secret Service (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The estimate and expenditure under the Vote for the Secret Service in the period 2004 to 2014 are listed in the following table: Year Estimate Expenditure - €000 €000 2004 767 350 2005 786 358 2006 806 374 2007 805 516 2008 818 608 2009 900 602 2010 1,000 581 2011 1,000 568 2012 1,000 515 2013 1,000 587 2014 1,000 n/a Each year's figures are published as part...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I refer the Deputy to my reply of 6 November 2014 to Parliamentary Question Number 42277.  The position remains unchanged.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Levy (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The public service Pension-related Deduction (PRD) was introduced in March 2009 under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009.  PRD is a progressively structured multi-band reduction imposed on the remuneration of public servants who are members of a public service pension scheme or have entitlement to benefit under such a scheme or...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Legislation (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Act 2012  which provides the statutory basis for Single Public Service Pension Scheme enables me to make regulations providing for inter alia the inward transfers of pension savings from other pension schemes and the purchase of additional pension rights by Single Scheme members. I understand work on the development of a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Fhoireann Rannach (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: Mar fhreagra ar cheist an Theachta, is féidir liom a dhearbhú go bhfuil de chumas ag ochtar ball foirne obair na Roinne a  dhéanamh trí Ghaeilge, is ionann sin agus thart ar 1% den líon foirne. B'fheidir go bhfuil cuma íseal ar an bhfigiúr seo, ach is cinnte gur leor é chun freastal a dhéanamh ar riachtanais na heagraíochta. Mar gheall...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (9 Dec 2014)

Brendan Howlin: In the following tables, Table 1 sets out the overall progress in establishing the Office of Government Procurement. As at early December, 139 (60%) of the planned OGP headcount of 231 is on board; a further 58 (25%) has been selected and most should take up their positions early Q1 2015. Some 34 positions remain to be filled. 21 of these positions will be filled through the newly...