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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (27 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Government’s Public Service Reform Plan, published November 2011, sets out an ambitious range of actions and timescales for comprehensive reform across all areas of the Public Service. In addition, all Departments and major Offices have developed their own high-level Integrated Reform Delivery Plans, which set out the key actions required to ensure the successful delivery of the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (27 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: As I have previously informed the House, none of the potential receipts from the State assets disposal programme are to be used as a means of achieving the budgetary targets set for 2013. Instead, it has been agreed with the Troika that all of the Government’s proceeds from the programme will be available, in one shape or another, to support job creating initiatives in the economy....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (27 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: As I indicated to the Deputy in my reply to his Parliamentary Question on this subject on 10 October 2012, I agree that Departments and Offices should make every effort to contain and reduce all administrative costs including both insurance and procurement costs. This approach is in line with Government’s overall reform and efficiency agenda. In light of the need to accelerate the...

State Forestry: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “recognises that for the duration of the EU-IMF financial assistance programme the Irish authorities have taken, and will continue to take, all the necessary measures to ensure a successful implementation of the programme and to minimise the cost to the taxpayer, while...

State Forestry: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I apologise for being late but I was at the Economic Management Council. I would not have missed the colourful contribution of Deputy McGrath in normal circumstances. I see he is now moving into the sphere of the Sinn Féin Deputies, telling the troika to take a hike and take their money with them.

State Forestry: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: It is lovely to hold that view. Deputy Mattie McGrath supported Bertie and all his works and pomps because he thought he was a great fellow, and he voted to rescue the banks and bankrupted the country. He was part of that cabal. Mind you, he did abandon ship when he saw the leak coming.

State Forestry: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Let me deal with the motion because it is a very important and significant issue that is before the House. I would like in the first instance to outline the background to the proposed sale of - the Deputies might listen to this - the harvesting rights, in order to put this discussion into context. The background is, essentially, that the Government was faced with unprecedented budgetary...

State Forestry: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: One cannot sell trees annually. They do not grow miraculously or pop up overnight. The issue then is whether we should sell them in an incremental way or sell them in advance to get the money the country desperately needs right now. These are the considerations we examined, which is quite proper and appropriate. There would be appropriate conditions attaching, including in regard to the...

Order of Business (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Strategies (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Department for Public Expenditure and Reform is responsible for developing and coordinating the implementation of eGovernment Policy for the non-commercial public sector. Since eGovernment 2012-2015 was launched in April 2012, my Department has been promoting awareness of the content of the Strategy, through bilateral meetings with Public Bodies to agree approaches to progressing and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Projects co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund are funded in the first instance by a public grant from a Public Beneficiary Body. The Exchequer may subsequently recoup an element of this public grant from the European Commission, subject to EU eligibility criteria. ERDF funding is not a direct aid to investment, however, nor does it supplement State funding. Full details of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Property (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 283 to 285, inclusive, together. By virtue of section 28 of the State Property Act 1954 all real and personal property held by a company at the time of its dissolution (with the exception of property held in trust by a company for another person) is vested in the State upon the dissolution of a company subject to any incumbrances or charges affecting the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Prison Service Overtime (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 286 and 297 together Following intensive engagement in recent days between the public service management and public service staff representatives which was facilitated by the Labour Relations Commission (LRC), the LRC has developed and recommended a set of proposals for consideration and agreement that seeks to secure the savings required by the Exchequer...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Due to reasons of commercial sensitivity (given that the contract for provision of facilities management services for laboratories based at the Backweston Campus, Celbridge, Co Kildare, will shortly be going out to tender), it would not be appropriate for me to provide the Deputy with the information sought.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Due to reasons of commercial sensitivity (given that the contract for provision of facilities management services for laboratories based at the Backweston Campus, Celbridge, Co Kildare, will shortly be going out to tender), it would not be appropriate for me to provide the Deputy with the information sought.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas Members' Salaries (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Significant reductions have been effected to the pay, allowances and expenses of Ministers and TDs through a number of measures since 2009. The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts of 2009 introduced a progressive pension related deduction, to apply from March 2009, and a reduction in remuneration, effective from January 2010, respectively, for all public servants,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy’s query the following is a list of payment of bonuses or other performance related payments and or allowances that were made to the staff of agencies under the aegis of my Department: Office of the Ombudsman Year Bonuses (scheme of performance related awards for posts at Assistant Secretary level) Performance Related Payments (Merit Awards)...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Agencies (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy’s question the following table outlines the details of payments made to the CEO or equivalent of all agencies under the aegis of my Department in 2012: Agency Title Salary Employer Pension Contribution Institute of Public Administration Director General €188,952.00 €65,377.00 Office of the Ombudsman Director General €146,649.71...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I am aware that you wrote to me last year on behalf of the person in question. While I understand that it had been anticipated that the issue would have been finalised by now, I am informed by my officials that the case in fact gave rise to complex legal and policy issues and had implications beyond a single individual. Officials within my Department are currently however finalizing a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (26 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The scope for including social considerations in public contracts is something that I have been examining closely recently. In this regard, I would refer the Deputy to my reply on this issue (PQ 3066/13 - answered 23/01/13). The inclusion of a social clause in all public procurement contracts requiring that a quota young unemployed people or long-term unemployed be employed in the delivery...