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Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Deputies for their contribution on what is detailed and complicated legislation. The insertion today was of substance and I thank Deputies for their forbearance on that because it was a challenge to all of us to ensure we were in tune with the procedures of the House in moving from Report Stage back to Committee Stage. We gave a fair airing to the significant issues that arose. I...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 6:In page 5, to delete lines 22 and 23 and substitute the following: 3.—Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—(a) in subsection (2) by deleting paragraph (a), and (b) by substituting the following for subsection (4):“(4) Nothing in this section shall be read as affecting—(a) the application of section 34(1)(i) to appointments to which...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 7:In page 5, to delete lines 24 and 25 and substitute the following:4.—Section 8 of the Principal Act is amended—(a) in subsection (2) by substituting “for the purposes of any provisions of this Act other than Parts 6A and 7A*,” for “for the purposes of this Act,”, and (b) in subsection (8) by substituting “for the...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 8:In page 6, between lines 8 and 9, to insert the following:“(c) ‘public service body’ means—(i) the Civil Service, (ii) that category of persons referred to in section 30(g) of the Defence Act 1954, namely civilians employed thereunder by the Minister for Defence, (iii) a local authority within the meaning of the Local Government Act 2001,...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 9:In page 6, line 9, to delete “(c) ‘recognised trade’ ” and substitute “(d) ‘recognised trade’ ”.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 10:In page 6, in line 17 to delete “(d) ‘redeployment day’ ” and substitute “(e) ‘redeployment day’ ”.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 11:In page 6, line 19 to delete “(e) a reference” and substitute the “(f) a reference”.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I advised during the Committee Stage debate when we had a long discussion about this that the Bill will not provide power to the PAS in any circumstances to establish a system under which employees may be compulsorily moved. The Bill is designed to facilitate definitive voluntary cross-sectoral moves. It will not and cannot in itself force such reassignments. If cross-sectoral moves are...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: We did discuss this matter on Committee Stage. I indicated then that I believe that the Irish public service has a reasonably well developed initiative to promote staff mobility and I gave some examples of that on Committee Stage. I accept that there is scope to introduce a more integrated mobility policy. We have agreed with the unions under the Croke Park agreement that we need to move...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 14:In page 9, line 28, to delete “that” and substitute “the pay”.This is a technical amendment. On Report Stage in the Seanad the text of 57D(b) was amended to remove any doubt that the PAS must always consider any collective agreement on mobility or redeployment in the context of the broader redeployment and mobility policy of the Minister....

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 15:In page 10, lines 5 to 9, to delete all words from and including “(inserted” in line 5 down to and including “1977)” in line 9 and substitute the following: “(amended by section 11 of the Ministerial, Parliamentary and Judicial Offices and Oireachtas Members (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2001)”.This is another technical...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I apologise to the House. My officials have just been notified that on the costings I provided to Deputies, the costs are fine but the percentage days lost need to be redone. I have asked my officials to redo that and we will send copies immediately to Deputy Sean Fleming. I will also send it to the Deputies who were in the House earlier and are absent now. I wall also send it to the...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I will resume with the rest when I come back in.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: My amendment No. 8 seeks to reposition the definition of "public service body" that applies in respect of the redeployment of Part 6A by moving it from section 2 to Part 6A of the Bill. I have already referenced that. Amendment No. 9 is a technical amendment necessitated by amendment No. 8 and involves renumbering the section beginning with "recognised trade". Amendment No. 10 is another...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I went through them in the Deputy's absence.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy makes a fair point about stress. I do not want to be flippant about it. Stress is a real issue for many public representatives. I assure the House that I have never had a more challenging job than the position I have held for the last two and a half years. That is true of whole sectors of the public service. People in my Department and in every front-line delivery system were...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 2:In page 3, to delete lines 23 to 32, to delete page 4 and in page 5, to delete lines 1 to 7 and substitute the following:"(b) by substituting the following for the definition of "public service body":" 'public service body' means, other than for the purposes of Parts 6A and 7A—(a) the Civil Service, (b) the Garda Síochána, (c) a local authority within...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has made that point before.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: That is done already.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: They are all done.