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- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: This is a Second Stage speech.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Mattie is off.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Mattie McGrath is a clown.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: This is the national Parliament.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: They have base motives.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Deputy Mattie McGrath should stop shouting people down.
- Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (25 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: This is a matter primarily for my colleague the Minister for Finance. However, I am informed by the Revenue Commissioners that the telephonist service in Revenue's Athlone office was provided on a temporary agency basis by the National Council for the Blind following the retirement of a Revenue employee in 2005. However, the telephone system for the Westmeath-Offaly district needed to be...
- Written Answers — Public Service Agreements: Public Service Agreements (25 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The Public Service Agreement 2010 â 2014 provides for redeployment of staff within and across each sector of the Public Service including the local government sector. The Agreement sets out the detailed arrangements that apply. The Agreement provides that redeployment in the local government sector "will generally take precedence over recruitment (including fixed term employees),...
- Written Answers — State Boards: State Boards (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: In response to the Deputy's question my Department does not keep a central record of all appointments made to state boards. Each Department is responsible for the boards that come under their aegis. Details in respect boards under the remit of my Department are as follows. Board Name No of current members Fees received An Post National Lottery 5 sitting members2 current vacancies to be...
- Written Answers — Public Service Reform: Public Service Reform (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 60 and 79 together. The Government is proceeding with its plans to rational some 48 bodies by the end of 2012 as announced in The Public Service Reform Plan of 17 November 2011. Each Department is responsible for the bodies under their remit and will be providing a response in relation projected savings in relation to the bodies under their remit which are...
- Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: My Department is at an advanced stage in the preparation of the General Scheme of a Bill to give effect to the commitments in the Programme for Government in relation to Freedom of Information. Subject to Government approval of the draft Heads of the Bill and other priorities in the Government's legislative programme, I expect to be in a position to introduce the Bill to give effect to the...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The Guidelines on Staffing in Ministerial Offices were revised following decisions by this Government on a number of cost saving measures relating to the personal appointees of Ministers and Ministers of State. The current Guidelines provide that Special Advisers to Ministers are to be placed on the Principal Officer (standard) scale, which currently runs from â¬80,051 at the minimum to...
- Written Answers — Data Protection: Data Protection (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: Currently, personal data is shared between Government Departments and public bodies if required to allow them fulfil their objectives in the most efficient and cost-effective manner. Such sharing has always required firstly that the data is being shared in accordance with law, including data protection legislation, and secondly that the most stringent precautions are taken to preserve the...
- Written Answers — Public Service Reform: Public Service Reform (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 64 and 68 together. The Government is committed to a programme of public service reform and improvement. The Deputies will be aware of the Government's plans to reduce the number of State Agencies. As a further part of reforms in this area, the Government has also decided to: · Introduce "sunset clauses" when new bodies are created which will ensure that a...
- Written Answers — Political Reform Agenda: Political Reform Agenda (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 65 and 83 together. My Department is responsible for a number of commitments in the Programme for Government that form part of the Government's overall political reform agenda. These include:- introducing a statutory register of lobbyists, and rules concerning the practice of lobbying; legislating for a reformulated code of laws, replacing both the...
- Written Answers — Public Service Reform: Public Service Reform (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 66, 67 and 93 together. On 17 November last, I announced several key developments relating to Public Service reform and published the Government's Public Service Reform Plan which provides the basis for the comprehensive and strategic reform of the Public Service in the coming years. The Reform Plan outlines the priority actions and timelines for reform in a...
- Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The Troika view asset disposals as a structural reform measure â intended to improve efficiency and competition in the economy, while also offering the prospect of reducing overall debt levels. The Government, however, views asset disposals as offering the potential to release value from State assets for use on employment generating initiatives in the economy. As I have previously stated,...
- Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The Guidelines on Staffing in Ministerial Offices were revised following decisions by this Government on a number of cost saving measures relating to the personal appointees of Ministers and Ministers of State. The current Guidelines provide that Special Advisers to Ministers are to be placed on the Principal Officer (standard) scale, which currently runs from â¬80,051 at the minimum to...
- Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: The latest departmental reports regarding cost savings were received as part of the 2011 Comprehensive Review of Expenditure (CRE). All of these reports, including analyses carried out by the Central Expenditure Evaluation Unit (CEEU) of my Department, were published on the Department's website, www.per.gov.ie, on 6 December 2011. This overall approach demonstrates an unprecedented level of...
- Written Answers — State Agencies: State Agencies (24 Jan 2012)
Brendan Howlin: I only as recently as June last year announced the introduction of general pay ceilings of: â¬200,000 for future appointments to higher positions across the public service; â¬250,000 for future appointments to CEO posts within Commercial State Companies. I have no plans to revise this general pay ceiling. CEO posts in Non Commercial State Agencies are generally filled by way of fixed-term...