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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Contracts (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The issue of payment bonds to provide protection to the supply chain under a construction contract was examined during the consultation and Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) of the Construction Contracts Bill. The RIA found that requiring contractors to purchase bonds would reduce competition in the sector as such financial products are not widely available in the current market and the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Contracts (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The assessment of a tenderer’s financial and economic standing is a key part of any procurement process because tenderers must have the necessary capacity to carry out a contract. Establishing the appropriate suitability criteria that are relevant and appropriate to a particular contract is, of course, a matter for the contracting authority concerned. This is because the contracting...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Evaluation Officers' Role (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: As the Deputy is aware, the Government published the Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill, 2012 on 3rd August, 2012 as part of its legislative programme. The Bill proceeded through its second stage in Seanad Éireann on 11th October 2012. I wish to advise the Deputy that officials in my Department are currently engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and other interested parties and I...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Work Sharing Scheme (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: As I have direct responsibility for Human Resources policy for the civil service, the information provided is in respect of civil servants only. The Deputy should consult with the other sectors of the public service to determine the practice in the individual sectors. Recent changes to the Performance Management and Development System (PMDS), provide that from 2013 onwards increments will...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Contracts (12 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 recent reply on this issue (PQ 3066/13 - answered 23/01/13). The proposal that all public procurement contracts include a requirement that the contractor must register apprentices in order to be able to carry out a public...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The commitments relating to Freedom of Information (FOI) contained in the Programme for Government include extending FOI to all statutory bodies and all bodies significantly funded from the public purse. My officials will be consulting with other Government Departments, including the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government, the parent Department for the body referred to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 337 and 338 together. The published monthly net expenditure profiles have allowed for the transparent monitoring of expenditure across all Departments for the last number of years. The end-January Exchequer statement provided a year-on-year comparison of Departmental expenditure. The detailed Departmental profiles will be published with the final Revised...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: The Exchequer Statement for January 2013 shows that the total net capital spend in January 2013 was €108.3m. The Exchequer Statement also gives a breakdown of capital expenditure in January by Department. My Department does not hold information regarding capital expenditure at project level. Requests for information regarding expenditure on individual projects should be directed to the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (12 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy’s question no costs have been incurred by my Department in assessing means of individual citizens for any reason.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Would Deputy McGrath be able to make it go away?

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Apologise.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Does Deputy Doherty want the promissory note back?

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: That is rubbish. It is nonsense.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Doherty does not understand.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Default.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: We told the Deputy.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy’s question the Public Appointments Service (PAS), in the course of running recruitment competitions for the public service, avails, inter alia, of trained and experienced retired public servants as interviewers, assessors and as decisions arbitrators. At any given time, PAS would have approximately sixty active on their database that would be used from time...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Career Breaks (7 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 80 and 81 together. The Government is committed to developing a leaner, more efficient Public Service. To this end, the Government has decided to accelerate the reduction in Public Service numbers in order to achieve the previous end 2015 target of 282,500 by end 2014 instead. Greater efficiencies in the way the Public Service is going about its business...

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: Interest rates have never been high since we joined the euro.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: There is no doubt that everybody is represented here.