Results 11,901-11,920 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: To give the Deputy a specific example in regard to Peoplepoint, it is currently providing services to 13 organisations. It is expanding quicker than we expected and 40 more are to transition between now and the end of next year. At that point the forecasted savings are reckoned to be of the order of €12.5 million per annum. From where do those savings come is the Deputy's question....
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: Peoplepoint is the human resource management service; payroll is a different shared service.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: The idea is that each Department and agency of the State operates on an employment control framework and, therefore, there are set ceilings of numbers. If there are people who do no move to the new Peoplepoint service, they are available for redeployment to cover retirements and the normal churn or turnover of staff. They are within the employment control frameworks that we have and we are...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: Yes, that is how it works.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: We target the numbers.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: I will be back before the week after next to deal with the Estimate. We will go through it in some detail at that meeting.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: I thought Deputy Sean Fleming was in favour of these reforms.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: We are well beyond the scope of this technical Supplementary Estimate.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: I will appear before the committee to deal with that legislation, which has not yet passed through the Dáil.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: Yes. It has passed the Seanad.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Brendan Howlin: Yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation Office (3 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Commissioner of Valuation is independent in the exercise of his duties under the Valuation Act, 2001 and the carrying out of valuations for rating purposes is his sole prerogative and the Act does not accord me as Minister any function in this regard. There are two provisions in the legislation governing the assessment of valuations, i.e. revision and revaluation. Revision of...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (3 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The payment of fees for membership of professional bodies for staff in my Department are in accordance with Department of Finance Circular 23/2007: Post-Entry Education – Refund of Fees, Study Leave and Examination Leave and Department of Finance Circular 47/2001 Reimbursement of Professional Membership Fees. The provision of Section 7 of the Finance Act 2011 applies to such payments....
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (3 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The arrangements governing Refund of Fees in respect of further education including third level education are set out in Department of Finance Circular 23/2007: Post-Entry Education – Refund of Fees, Study Leave and Examination Leave. The purpose of the Circular is to facilitate Departments in building appropriate skill and expertise by supporting employees’ efforts in...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Issues (3 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2010 imposed a Public Service Pension Reduction (PSPR) with effect from 1 January 2011. It affects public service pensioners (including civil servants) on pensions of €12,000 and upwards. A further reduction on public service pensions over €32,500 was imposed by the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Court Recommendations (3 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The issue raised by the Deputy is not in the first instance the responsibility of my Department. The particular issue in question was however previously addressed by my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 576 on 6 November 2012.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (3 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I would refer the Deputy to Table 5 (page 22) of the 2013 Revised Estimates for Public Services publication from my Department.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (3 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The Freedom of Information Bill 2013 is in the course of its passage through the Houses of the Oireachtas. Where it is proposed that a body should be exempt in full from the freedom of information legislation, that body is included in Schedule 1 Part 2 of the Bill. Both Bord na Mona and Coillte Teoranta are included in Schedule 1 Part 2. I believe that commercial state bodies should not,...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (3 Dec 2013)
Brendan Howlin: A total of six officials from my Department were involved to varying extents in the work of the Working Group and Steering Group overseeing the sale process for Bord Gáis Energy, in addition to their other duties. No external resources were retained by the Department for the purpose of the transaction process. Nor did the Department directly engage or incur any expenses in respect of...
- Seanad: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (28 Nov 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Time is tight.