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- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Brendan Ryan: This set of amendments is driven by what is happening to the-----
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Brendan Ryan: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle. I welcome the Leas-Cheann Comhairle who is taking the Chair. These amendments are driven by what is happening to the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, which is affecting airport workers both past and present. The central problem is that the IAS scheme is in the region of €720 million in deficit. I am reliably informed that if the scheme were wound...
- Social Welfare Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Dec 2014)
Brendan Ryan: This set of amendments-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: Are those visits unannounced?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: Looking strictly at subhead D3, there is an underspend of €40 million on schools that people in communities are actually waiting for. If I were managing this operation, I would be saying someone was slacking and we need to find out why these moneys were not spent. There are schools in every member’s community waiting for schools building projects. However, it turns out to be...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: Is shifting things around a common practice?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: Is it that everyone is happy if the sum comes in at the end irrespective of what pot it comes out of?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: Was it a question of being short of money for SUSI grants and then taking it from a pot of money that might have been expecting funding which, as a result, did not come?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: It was genuinely saved.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: Nobody was short elsewhere as a result of this.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: Sometimes when one has an appeals system, be it for medical cards or whatever, the appeal decides whether the original decision was correct in terms of the guidelines and the law and not whether there ought to have been some discretion. That is what is being asked about in terms of the Minister's happiness or otherwise with the discretion.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: With regard to the number of teachers retiring, 2,200 retirements were forecast but 2,650 occurred. How did the Department plan this and how did it get the figures wrong? How did the overrun occur? Was it open-ended - a matter of anticipation - or an incorrect forecast? Is it as simple as that?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: It is purely about forecasting.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: When teachers retire they get a lump sum, but once they are gone this results in a saving in the area of salaries. This is part of the Minister's presentation today.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: If a teacher retires halfway through the year there will be salary savings for the rest of the year.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (10 Dec 2014) Brendan Ryan: On the face of it, this appears to be a technical accounting measure, but if the adjustment will apply this year is there then a requirement to adjust the accounts for 2013, because obviously they will have changed as a result?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (9 Dec 2014)
Brendan Ryan: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he has taken to ensure that the tourism and hospitality sector is passing on the 9% VAT rate directly to consumers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47227/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Joint Labour Committees Agreements (9 Dec 2014)
Brendan Ryan: 206. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to ensure the hospitality sector are engaging in agreeing a new joint labour committee for the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47228/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ground Rents Payments (4 Dec 2014)
Brendan Ryan: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount the State pays annually in ground rents for State owned buildings and buildings in State control; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46693/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ground Rents Payments (4 Dec 2014)
Brendan Ryan: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the top ten recipients of ground rent payments from the Government in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46694/14]