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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: eGovernment Services (17 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy will be aware that the continued rollout of eGovernment services has been a priority of this Government and many services have already been moved online.  My Department is responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of eGovernment policy and for central eGovernment operations.  Individual Departments and Offices remain responsible for the...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Fleming is right. We had a fairly long discussion on this amendment on Committee Stage. I did not accept it then and, on reflection, I believe I was right. In the event that the disclosure of the recipient determines that he or she should pass on information to the appropriate officeholder, I am satisfied that that information, by virtue of the requirements of section 18 of the...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Deputies opposite. By and large we had a very constructive debate. I said on Committee Stage that it is unusual for a Bill to make such substantial progress between Second Stage and Committee and Report Stages. The amendments accepted on Committee Stage have resulted in a much better Bill, particularly as it relates to An Garda Síochána. I reaffirm my commitment to...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The provision in Schedule 2 represents standard practice concerning complaints and the procedures for Rights Commissioners. I heard the Deputy's contribution today and on Committee Stage, but the workings of the Rights Commissioner Service's mechanisms is a matter for the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, not me. However, the Minister is addressing these issues and the...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: It would not have been very confidential if people were able to find out who it was.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: These amendments relate to the appointment and dismissal of the disclosures recipient, respectively. Amendment No. 47 deals with section 18. As I advised on Committee Stage, the role of the disclosures recipient is a narrow one. It has no real function other than to be the conduit for information that relates to section 18, namely, a narrow range of information pertaining to the security...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: Different regimes will apply to freedom of information and protected disclosures legislation. Freedom of information legislation will apply to public bodies. It does not apply in the private sphere. The point of debate, to which we will return when the freedom of information legislation is taken on Report Stage, relates to commercial semi-State bodies. My view which Deputy Seán...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment number 44:In page 19, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “Annual report22. (1) Every public body shall prepare and publish not later than 30 June in each year a report in relation to the immediately preceding year in a form which does not enable the identification of the persons involved containing information relating to the matters specified in...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: That depends on how quickly the House concludes its business. If we can conclude our deliberations on the Bill today-----

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: -----then it will proceed to the Seanad forthwith. I will not be in any way deleterious when it comes to advancing it to enactment.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I will do so.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 42:In page 19, to delete lines 9 to 13 and substitute the following:“Internal procedures for protected disclosures made by workers employed by public bodies 21. (1) Every public body shall establish and maintain procedures for the making of protected disclosures by workers who are or were employed by the public body and for dealing with such disclosures. (2) The...

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: First Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: No.

European Development Fund Agreement: Motion (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That Dáil Éireann approves the ratification by Ireland of the Internal Agreement concerning the 11th European Development Fund, signed in Luxembourg on 24th June, 2013, copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 17th April, 2014.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is calmer in his post-break intervention than he was beforehand. We were making very considerable progress on a consensual basis. I always try, in as far as is practicable, to be open and amenable to Opposition amendments. I have never worked on the basis that this side of the House has all knowledge and wisdom. In that context, I was taken aback by some of the things the...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 29:In page 15, between lines 1 and 2, to insert the following:“(a) the person to whom the protected disclosure was made or referred shows that he or she took all reasonable steps to avoid so disclosing any such information,”.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 32:In page 15, line 34, to delete “in accordance with” and substitute “in the manner specified in”.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 33:In page 15, line 35, to delete “in accordance with” and substitute “in the manner specified in”.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 34:In page 16, line 1, to delete “in accordance with” and substitute “in the manner specified in”.

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013: Report Stage (12 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 35:In page 16, line 6, to delete “in accordance with” and substitute “in the manner specified in”.