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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Then where is the wealth?

Membership of Committee: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move: That Deputy Billy Timmins be discharged from the Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality and that Deputy Alan Farrell be appointed in substitution for him.

Estimates for Public Services 2011: Motion (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December, 2011:– Vote 25 — Environment, Community and Local Government (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 34 — Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Supplementary Estimate). Vote 37 — Army Pensions (Supplementary Estimate). Question put and agreed to.

Estimates for Public Services 2011: Referral to Select Committee (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move: That, subject to leave being given to introduce the following Supplementary Estimates for the service of the year ending on 31st December, 2011, the Supplementary Estimates be referred to the following Select Committees or sub-Committees, as appropriate, pursuant to Standing Orders 82A(3)(c) and (6)(a) and 159(3), and paragraph (8) of the Orders of Reference of Select Committees,...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Order for Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

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

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." The primary purpose of the Bill is to apply the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts of 2009 to serving members of the Judiciary in line with the decision of the people in the referendum on the Twenty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution. The latter amended Article 35.5 of the Constitution in respect of judicial...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Military judges were also exempted from the provisions of the Act. The same sections of the Bill also make provision to remove the exemptions applying to a military judge from the application of the pension related deduction and pay under sections 3, 4 and 5. There is currently no serving military judge. In the context of developing the conditions of appointment of the next military judge,...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The first five are grouped as one.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The reverse is true. I am coming back to the Dáil with it.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: First. It will have to come back here.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: No, the amendment I am-----

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Would the Deputy prefer me to table it tonight?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: No, that will be in the Seanad. I will come back and give it time here.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It will happen automatically in February.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: No. The pay cuts for retirees after February apply to their pensions.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I do.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is complicated, but we can look at those in forensic detail on Committee Stage.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They are researchers who were recruited to conduct research.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Many of them are externally funded as well, but I will explain that to the Deputy.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: It is a continuum-----