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

Brendan Howlin: I am happy to deal with it. There were four substantial points made by Deputy Fleming and I will deal with those in sequence. We debated the regulation issue earlier. Deputy Fleming has tabled an amendment to it. I have before me as many pieces of paper as Deputy Fleming. I am trying to find the note on Deputy Fleming's amendment on the regulation. The Deputy proposes the insertion of a...

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

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Fleming made the point about the juxtaposition of reduced formal payment and the interaction it has with social welfare payments, especially for people of low pay when they get to a half-pay rate and the impact that has on the family income generally. It primarily is a matter for social welfare provision because what is being done here does not alter the current position. The...

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

Brendan Howlin: It is a social welfare issue.

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

Brendan Howlin: That is also standard.

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

Brendan Howlin: Why?

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointment) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Order for Report Stage (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

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

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, line 11, after "SECTORS);" to insert the following:"TO PROVIDE FOR REGULATIONS CONCERNING SICK LEAVE IN THE PUBLIC SERVICE;".I understand that amendments Nos. 1 and 16 and amendments Nos. 2 and 3 to amendment No. 16 are being taken together.

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

Brendan Howlin: It is all the time I spent in the Chair. Forgive me. These amendments relate to the insertion of a new Part 7A concerning sick leave remuneration into the principal Act, as we have discussed at some length. The amendment provides for the insertion of a new sentence into the Long Title to reflect that fact. As the Long Title suggests, the Bill amends the 2004 recruitment Act to provide...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has a brass neck.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I will do my best to address the real issues raised by Deputies. Deputy Fleming, in his opening comments, said he was supportive of the approach and of saving the money, but he was against this proposal. He willed the end but denied the means, in what is now becoming a feature of Fianna Fáil, in that it is for and against most things. Deputy Fleming raised a number of issues with...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: -----which I consider reasonable in all the circumstances. There are two levels. There is the sick leave issue and, bluntly, as I have said repeatedly, the volume of sick leave in the public service is not sustainable. It is costing €500 million this year. It is all right to have a little rant about these things, and some people have the recorded rant.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I listened carefully to what the Deputy said so he might listen to me. There is a requirement for those of us who want to have a future for the public service, and to have decent quality public services, to have regard for the norms that apply across the working environment and to try to make these adjustments. That is why we engaged with all the public sector unions and why we have taken a...

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy might listen.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Shout me down.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy wants to overturn the Government and overturn the leadership of the trade union movement. Is it not great to be so perfect and that he is better than all? Let me quote from-----

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is much better at ranting as if he were on the back of a lorry than listening.

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Instruction to Committee (resumed) (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Labour Court stated that these new arrangements, in the context of an entitlement over a four year period, are both reasonable and modest relative to sick pay arrangements applicable in other employments. The trade union movement is engaging with this and it understands these changes are necessary. They are part of a negotiating process involving the representatives of workers....

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy McGrath has done a bit of jumping himself.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: We are in mid-December of this year.

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: It will build more than the Deputy's party built.