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Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: That party claimed it would not accept one cent of EU or IMF funding.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: When it comes to decision making-----

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: We do not use vulgarity in this House, normally.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I know. Deputy O'Brien has no standards at all. When it comes to making decisions, Sinn Féin will not make them, at least in this part of the island. It makes decisions in Northern Ireland but its members do not like to be reminded of them down here.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: In Sinn Féin land it is always someone else's fault. The Government has been in office a mere eighteen months.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: It inherited an economy in an EU-IMF programme. Even in the awful days of the 1980s we avoided that. It was an economy unable to sustain itself. It was an economy which, until that programme was agreed, would have run out of money to pay the wages of teachers and gardaí. It was an economy which would not have been able to pay any child benefit to any of its citizens or any pensions...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The recovery is under way precisely because the Government has taken difficult decisions. No one on this side of the House takes any pleasure in what has happened to our country or in the decisions we have had to take since coming into office to begin the process of rebuilding and recovery. I stated in my budget speech last week that the people have endured a fiscal correction without...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Two parties, of different ideological perspectives, have come together.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: That party believes it owns the word "nation" as well as our flag, but it owns neither. Two parties of different ideological perspectives have come together to pursue a single shared aim. Deputies on this side of the House who support the Government do so not because it is easy. It is not easy. They do so because they know the long-term interest of the people requires decisions to be...

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is a disgrace.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I wish to share time with Deputies Varadkar and O'Dowd.

Confidence in the Government: Motion [Private Members] (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following:“has confidence in the Government as it deals with the current economic crisis in as fair a manner as possible, while prioritising economic recovery and job creation.”It is usual when a motion of confidence is moved in this House that there is some expectation that it...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: It is a matter for individual line Departments to monitor and control the roll out of their own capital programmes within the ceilings and sanction arrangements set down by my Department. Queries in relation to underspends within individual Departments should be directed to the relevant Minister and his/her Department. The most up to date figures for the forecast outturn of net voted...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Under EU Directives on public procurement public works, supplies and service contracts above certain thresholds must be advertised on the Official Journal of the EU and awarded on the basis of objective and non-restrictive criteria. As we cannot include nationality as a criterion in deciding on contract award my Department does not therefore hold these records. The aim of these European...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of State Assets (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I would draw the Deputy’s attention to my announcement of February 22 last in which I outlined the shape and scale of the State asset disposal programme that is to be pursued. In brief, the programme that the Government has agreed consists of:- - The sale of Bord Gáis Éireann’s energy business (but not including BGÉ’s gas transmission or distribution...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Services (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy’s question regarding new services that have been tested for external service delivery since March 2011 there were two areas identified as possibilities. The Financial Appraisal prepared in respect of the Human Resources Shared Service Centre for the Civil Service examined four options for the implementation of a HR shared service. This included one option...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Remuneration (11 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Shortall is due severance payments totalling €6,526.95 for year of assessment 2012. Deputy Shortall has kindly indicated that she is gifting this payment to the Minister for Finance. The Deputy may wish to note that in the context of Budget 2013 I announced that legislation will be brought in to abolish these severance payments in the future.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (6 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 38 and 39 together. 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...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (6 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The Local Authorities are subject to national procurement rules in the same manner as any other public body. The question of governance in the local authority sector to ensure, inter alia , that proper value-for-money safeguards and other procedural rules are being duly observed in the area of procurement is proper to my colleague, the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Brendan Howlin: That was your invention.