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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Referral to Select Committee (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That the Bill be referred to the Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(a) and (6)(a) and 126(1) of the Standing Orders relative to Public Business.

Estimates for Public Services 2013 (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move the following Supplementary Estimate: Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Supplementary)That a supplementary sum not exceeding €219,000,000 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2013, for the salaries and expenses of the Health Service Executive and certain other services administered by the...

Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Discuss it at the Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection.

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

Brendan Howlin: We are not attacking them.

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

Brendan Howlin: I told the Deputy about this in September.

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

Brendan Howlin: I have not been idle since then.

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

Brendan Howlin: I move:That, pursuant to Standing Order 177, Standing Order 131 is modified to permit an instruction to the committee on the Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013, that it has power to make provision in the Bill for a new Part 7A in relation to sick leave remuneration, empowering the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to make regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (12 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Ireland has been allocated approximately €1bn from Structural Funds, i.e. the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the European Social Fund (ESF), for the 2014-2020 period. The split between the two Funds will be determined in the context of the programme planning that is currently underway. I understand that the allocation for the European Maritime & Fisheries Fund...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is behind the news. It was called off two days ago.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy's question has been answered already.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: It is subject to a judicial process.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: This year is nearly done.

Supplementary Estimate for Public Services: Motion (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2013:Vote 39 — Health Service Executive (Supplementary Estimate).

Supplementary Estimate for Public Services: Referral to Select Committee (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move:That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending on 31st December, 2013, the Supplementary Estimate be referred to the Select sub-Committee on Health, pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(c) and (6)(a) and 159(3), which shall report back to the Dáil by no later than 12th December:Vote 39 — Health Service...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: After all the damage the Deputy's party did-----

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: We know all about what the Deputy's party did.

Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: It ruined the country.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Legal Costs (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy's question the following table outlines the costs incurred by my Department, and those bodies under my remit, since the formation of this Government. Department Oireachtas Member Plaintiff Cost Ombudsman Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill Standards in public Office Commission €97,772.70 Public Expenditure and Reform Deputy Joan Collins Minister for Finance and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: EU Directives (11 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy's question I can confirm that there are no EU directives relating to my Department that have yet to be transposed into Irish law with a deadline date having passed.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Statistics (10 Dec 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy will be aware from the Exchequer returns information published monthly by the Department of Finance and my Department (available at ) that, at the end of November 2013, total gross voted expenditure was €48.9 billion, which is 1.3% or €644 million lower than profile. This showed expenditure is being managed within profile, although there were some pressures in the...