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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: For the questioning, I propose we permit 15 minute slots, if that is agreeable. Before calling Deputy Charles Flanagan, I want to outline the overall context for the Minister. There are three questions that need to be asked of him. First, what is driving the public sector reform plan? While the reforms have a financial context, surely reduction is not reform in that it creates an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: No. 5 is a discussion with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, on the second progress report on the public service reform plan 2014 to 2016. I welcome the Minister and his officials. The format will be that the Minister will make his opening remarks, following which members may put questions to him. I remind them and those in the Visitors Gallery that all...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (19 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review his decision to suppress a legacy post at a school (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8486/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy, you must conclude because we are running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I call Deputy Mathews. He must be very brief because the meeting must end at 11 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy, I asked you to be brief. Questioning is not evidence. If you want evidence, you talk to a witness. I told you this meeting will end at 11 a.m. and the Minister must get some time to reply, so if you wish to continue with the narrative, I will just end the meeting when you finish the narrative.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I am finishing the meeting at 11 a.m. You are talking about global economics-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: -----and I am trying to explain simple time keeping. This meeting will end at 11 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I call on the Minister to reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: What is unbelievable is that you do not understand the clock. You are talking about global finance and I am trying to tell you that this meeting ends at 11 a.m. There are three minutes left. I call on the Minister to reply.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I call the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: Is the Deputy waiting for the response?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: With the Minister's permission I will bring the meeting to a conclusion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: You might have a word with your colleague in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, because they are no longer available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I will take the Minister's suggestion on board. I could think of other things to do with committee members as well, but we will bring the meeting to a conclusion now at 11 a.m. I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy, without interruption.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I must ask the Deputy to move on as we are almost out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: I might give the Deputy some time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Forthcoming Economic and Financial Affairs Council: Minister for Finance (13 Feb 2014)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy many ask a brief question, but I do not think the Minister will give him a brief reply - that is the difficulty.