Results 17,121-17,140 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Written Answers — Public Service Staff: Public Service Staff (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The information the Deputy is seeking is freely available on my Department's website in the Public Service Staff Numbers Databank. The information is presented on a whole time equivalent basis and shows the number of staff employed in each sector at the end of each year for the period 1994 to 2010. For 2011 the data is published on a quarterly basis. The Databank is regularly updated and...
- Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Contemporary data on earnings for public servants is not available to my Department. The most up to date earnings data available to the Revenue Commissioners, as stated in my Reply to Parliamentary Question 37624/11 on 29 November 2011, is not comparable for a number of reasons to the statistics produced by my Department on public service numbers and earnings. They also predate the measures...
- Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: In June of this year, the Government agreed with my proposal to the introduction of:-
- Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: · a general pay ceiling of â¬200,000 for future appointments to higher positions across the public service; and
- Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: · a general pay ceiling of â¬250,000 for future appointments to CEO posts within Commercial State Companies.
- Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I proposed this pay ceiling in light of the decision taken by the Government on its first day in office to reduce the salary of the Taoiseach to â¬200,000 and to apply a pro rata reduction to other members of the Government. In relation to current incumbents, the Government gave detailed consideration to the potential legal and contractual issues arising from the imposition of an immediate...
- Appropriation Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now." Question put and agreed to.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Members will be aware that this legislation amends the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2010, which reduced public service pensions in payment and for those who retire before the end of the so-called "grace period". I told the Dáil on Committee Stage that I would introduce an amendment in the Seanad to impose a higher reduction rate of 20% on public service pension...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Sixty-eight per cent.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The universal social charge is included.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is 7%.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Yes, 69%. The levels are 42%, 62% and 69%.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I thank Deputies for their support for the measure. The 100% levy rate for every euro over â¬100,000 in a public service pension, as proposed by Deputy McDonald, is tantamount to confiscation. There may be a rationale to that as we are in a desperate state and it should be debated as to whether it is an appropriate step. The advice from the Office of the Attorney General is extremely...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is proportionate to all the other measures. Deputy McDonald must understand the point I am making.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: God forbid.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is right. It is surprising.
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: As the Ceann Comhairle rightly said, the Deputy is straying back to the debate we had on the substance of the Bill. However, I grapple every day with people who have contractual rights that I am trying to undo and they are making it perfectly clear to me that they will go to the High Court. The advice I am getting is that I cannot undo them. We are only nine or ten months in office and we...
- Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Deputy has already asked. I suggest she asks any lawyer for advice and she will get something similar. She used the word "proportionate". The action relating to the public service in terms of the volume of levy has to be proportionate to that across society in general. We cannot have a confiscatory amount for one narrow group and that is the advice. The Deputy's characterisation of...
- Written Answers — Public Private Partnerships: Public Private Partnerships (14 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is my view that Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) can continue to play a valuable role in delivering public infrastructure alongside more traditional procurement. PPP procurement represents the most suitable method for securing additional private financing for capital investment as there is a degree of familiarity with the PPP process, and we have already put in place the legislative,...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (14 Dec 2011)
Brendan Howlin: In the timeframe allowed, it is not possible to provide the information required by the Deputy. However, the information will be forwarded directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.