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- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: One might need a flight to America to be treated.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I thank the Deputies opposite for their range of views. In essence, this set of amendments seeks to alter the threshold and accompanying rates of the pay reduction to be impose on higher paid public servants. I know there is an anomaly as amendments seeking decreases were ruled out of order because they would be a charge on the State but the amendments seeking increases are in order. That...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That is the long and the short of it.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: It might be useful to put on record figures from the Central Statistics Office, CSO, that were published yesterday. They indicate that the average private sector wage in the State is €32,670. The threshold for the pay cut I propose is hence double the average private sector wage. As I have stated privately to Deputy Boyd Barrett, it is getting harder to get into the working class...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: After the reduction set out in this Bill, the Taoiseach will earn €185,350.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: That is €100,000 in reductions. Taking in the pension-related deduction, his income before tax will be €167,938.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: I do not know. He will not be able to fly to America for hospital treatment as he would have to pay his own way. The reduction for the Taoiseach is 41%.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: With regard to Ministers, the talented crew in office in 2009 had a salary-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Deputy wish to hear me? She keeps harping on about high pay so we should hear what are the reductions. At the height of the last Administration in 2009, a Minister earned €245,325, but after these reductions a Minister will be paid €171,000, or €155,000 before tax and after the pension-related deduction. That percentage decrease for Ministers is 36% and other...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Healy is wrong. He should read the Bill.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: He should read the Bill.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Fleming's amendment seeks to explicitly exclude overtime payments from the definition of remuneration being used for pay reductions being introduced in this legislation. I am happy to confirm a reference to remuneration for the purposes of the pay reduction being applied here is a reference to basic salary and fixed periodic allowances only. Overtime is neither basic salary nor a...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Please God.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: In terms of the-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: There is neither respect for the Chair nor the House from some people. Deputy Fleming posed a valid question. He wanted me to define whether there is still an emergency in order to justify the Bill. In the Bill I amalgamate the requirements - this will be the fifth financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, item of legislation - to bring a report to the House to identify...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Five months of discussions-----
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: Does the Chair want me to respond to the point she allowed be made by everybody else? I am responding to the points I took from everybody else's contribution. It would be extraordinary if I was prevented from responding to the points made.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The truth is that this is reflecting what has been brokered by the Labour Relations Commission to deal with an emergency. The genesis of this is simple. One of the parting gifts this Government was left when we came in to a broken economy by the outgoing Fianna Fáil-Green Party Administration was a profile of expenditure, including many expenditure reductions, but even on top of all...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The issue is about amendments. For as long as I have been here it is the rule of the House that amendments that cause a charge on the State are not in order to be tabled by the Opposition. Deputy Healy also spoke about low paid and average paid workers. I do not know what he thinks is average pay but as I said, those on €65,000 make up 13% of the workforce.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Brendan Howlin: The threshold is €65,000 above which we are making a pay cut. That is well above anybody's average working pay in this State. Deputy Nulty makes valid points about open debate.