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Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Do not frighten them.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: That has nothing to do with this proposal.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: It is scaremongering.

Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2012: First Stage (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: No.

An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cearta Geilleagracha, Comhdhaonnacha agus Cultúir) 2012 / Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) Bill 2012: First Stage (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: No.

Estimates for Public Services 2012 (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I move the following Supplementary Estimate:

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív needed some reconditioning.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: He left behind a wilderness.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: There will be a court martial.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: He is moving on.

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: He is an extraordinary man.

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: You were with them at that stage, Mattie.

Personal Insolvency Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: Mattie is having a crisis of conscience.

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I am aware that public procurement can be an important source of business for Irish small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Current guidelines (Circular 10/10) issued by my Department require public bodies to promote participation of SMEs in the award of public contracts. The guidance also highlights practices that are to be avoided because they can unjustifiably hinder small businesses in...

Written Answers — Public Procurement: Public Procurement (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The rules on awarding public contracts have provisions which allow the specification of social criteria, such as the requirement for employment of long term unemployed, as a condition in the performance of the contract. Any such provision must be compatible with EU law, i.e. they must be made known to all interested parties and must not restrict participation by contractors from other Member...

Written Answers — Ministerial Expenditure: Ministerial Expenditure (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: As the Deputy will be aware my Department was only established in 2011 and would therefore not have any such records.

Written Answers — Capital Expenditure: Capital Expenditure (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: The information sought by the Deputy is published in the annual Revised Book of Estimates and is also available in the statistical databank on my Department's website at http://databank.per.gov.ie/. Over the past decade many of the economy's key infrastructural deficits were addressed through a large capital investment of over €60 billion in infrastructure through Exchequer capital...

Written Answers — Capital Expenditure: Capital Expenditure (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: In November of last year I published the "Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Medium Term Exchequer Framework" which outlined the five year Exchequer Capital Framework out to 2016. This Framework was published following a Government wide review of the public capital programme led by my Department. The Framework sets out a significant programme of Exchequer investment over the...

Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (18 Jul 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 asset disposal programme that is to be pursued. In brief, the programme that was agreed by Government in February consists of: · The sale of Bord Gáis Éireann's energy business (but not including BGÉ's gas transmission or distribution systems or the two gas...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (18 Jul 2012)

Brendan Howlin: My Department has not incurred any expenditure in respect of structures of local Government in 2011 or to date in 2012.