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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Programmes (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Discussions on new EU programmes and funding are ongoing in the context of the negotiation of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020. Proposals for a new Peace IV Programme are being actively considered as part of this process. However the outcome will not be know until the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014 -2020 has been finalised by the European Council.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Health Service Reform (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I refer the Deputy to the Minister for Heath who has responsibility for achieving the €70m savings target set by Government in the estimates by way of a reduction in professional fees. It is matter for the Minister for Health to determine by regulation the appropriate level of reduction in professional fees for the different health professionals having regard to the state of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The monthly profiling of capital expenditure is carried out by individual Departments on the basis of the likely timing of payments related to capital projects and programmes which they deliver within their annual capital allocation. Job creation is not a factor of the profiling exercise. Queries in relation to the profiling of capital allocations are a matter for individual Ministers and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Appointments (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Following the identification by officials of the requirement for professional legal expertise to support the delivery of the legislative programme being delivered by the Government Reform Unit in my Department, a person was appointed on 26 March 2012 following an open procurement advertised publicly on e-tenders to act as adviser and as Director of the Statute Law Revision Programme reporting...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: My Department has access to detailed data on increments only in the Civil Service sector, for which I have direct responsibility. On increments generally, based on updated information submitted to my Department on the total cost of increments in a full year in the various sectors, the full year cost of increments in the public service (excluding the Local Authority sector) is now estimated at...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Social Welfare Code (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I am advised by my colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, that the delivery of means tested payments is constantly under review and that there are two important projects currently underway in the Department of Social Protection which will streamline the delivery of means tested payments. The objective of the first project is to facilitate the capture and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Allowances (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Departments were notified by my Department on 28th September 2012 of details of the Government decision in relation to the outcome of the Review of Public Sector Allowances and Premium Pay. Copies of these letters, detailing allowances to be abolished for new beneficiaries and allowances to be approved for new beneficiaries but subject to review and/or modification are publicly available on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The then Minister for Finance Mr. Brian Lenihan announced in Budget 2011 that a 10% reduction would apply to the pay rates of new entrant public servants with effect from 1 January 2011. It would not be normal practice to consult the Equality Authority on an announcement made as part of the Budget nor on matters of public service pay policy. They have not contacted my Department on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Rural Social Scheme (20 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I understand that my colleague the Minister for Social Protection and her Department are reviewing the range of employment support schemes and will assess the contribution of each programme to that Department’s labour market policy framework. As set out in the recent Expenditure Report 2013, a range of Focused Policy Assessments (FPAs) are currently underway within my Department, and...

Appropriation Bill 2012: Order for Second Stage (19 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Fixing what Fianna Fáil had broken.

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Again.

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Fianna Fáil broke the-----

Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has a brass neck.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Financial Resolution (18 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I move:THAT provision be made in the Act giving effect to this Resolution for the imposition in accordance with the Act of local property tax; for the establishment and maintenance by the Revenue Commissioners of a register of residential properties in the State; for the cessation of the household charge; and for the collection of any arrears of household charge.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (18 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: What about in Northern Ireland?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Ministerial Responsibilities (18 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: To be sure to be sure.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (18 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: We could be court-martialled yet.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill (18 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce new legislation to protect small building subcontractors that have been denied payments from bigger companies. In this regard, my colleague Minister of State Brian Hayes is working with Senator Feargal Quinn to develop the Senator’s private member’s Construction Contracts Bill into a robust piece of legislation. ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ethics in Public Office Recommendations (18 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The second report of the Moriarty Tribunal (March 2011) contains one recommendation (62.15) directly relevant to my area of responsibilities that consideration should be given to the introduction of a discretionary or voluntary system to be assumed by positive election on the part of Office Holders within the meaning of the Ethics in Public Office Acts, 1995 and 2001, whereby they would...