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Written Answers — Public Service Payroll System: Public Service Payroll System (18 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: There is no single central payroll system in the Civil Service. Rather, the common payroll software, CorePay, is used by a large number of Departments/Offices to pay civil and other public service staff (such as teachers, Gardaí, etc.) and pensioners. These include the largest payrolls in the country. The master contract for this software was put in place by the Department of Finance,...

Written Answers — Public Sector Recruitment: Public Sector Recruitment (18 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Data relating to moratorium derogations is currently being updated and will be communicated to the Deputy as soon as it is to hand. As I explained recently in response to the Deputy's other questions, exceptions from the moratorium can be considered in a number of special circumstances relating to the post in question and the nature of the duties involved. However, the reason why a post has...

Written Answers — Election Management System: Election Management System (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Under the National Treasury Management Agency (Amendment) Act 2000, the management of personal injury and property damage claims against the State and of the underlying risks was delegated to the NTMA. When performing these functions, the NTMA is known as the State Claims Agency (SCA). In the conduct of elections under the Election Acts, Returning Officers and their staff will be indemnified...

Written Answers — Appointments to State Boards: Appointments to State Boards (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The information requested by the Deputy in relation State Boards under the aegis of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform is contained in the table. Public Appointments Service Name of board member Remuneration Mr. Eddie Sullivan, ChairmanMr. Des Dowling, Assistant Secretary - Department of the Environment, Community and Local GovernmentMs Deirdre O'Keeffe, Assistant Secretary -...

Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Comprehensive Review of Expenditure (CRE) process has involved input from all Departments and their agencies along with work carried out by my Department on cross-cutting issues. The Departmental submissions are a central part of the pre-budget deliberations of the Government. I am engaging with every Department and there is a universal view across the Government that this is a common...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We can if the Deputy wants to.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The only decision the Government has made on the sale of any State assets, having taken months to ask each line Department to look in detail at the McCarthy recommendations, and beyond it to their own view so we could have an agenda for rational decisions in the interests of the State, is to sell a minority share-holding in ESB. The second decision we made was to ask a structure we set up to...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy is confused and I will explain to him in a moment.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Deputy Fleming has asked a number of important questions. Let me try to explain. We are dealing with the sale of State assets and the restructuring of the banking system as two distinct processes.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Let me explain. I do not know if the Deputy wants to hear the explanation or not. The Government made a strategic decision to seek external funding for the banking system. I commend the officials of the Department of Finance, who did extraordinary work throughout the summer to get that private sector investment into the banks. The week before that strategic investment was made the...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We will do that as well.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We are testing that now.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Can I explain it again?

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I will try to be as expansive and as clear and open as I can be. Negotiations are taking place between the troika and our officials today and will take place between the troika and the Minister for Finance and myself tomorrow. It may be poor strategy to hold negotiations in parallel with a debate in Parliament. Nevertheless, we should answer direct questions directly. A view was expressed...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: At the beginning and end of this debate I made that clear.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: They can hear it as well as the Deputy can.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I did not say we would be selling 25% of it. No percentage has yet been agreed..

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: We will be selling a minority stake.

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I will try to respond to the questions asked by Deputies McDonald and Wallace. On the ESB's capacity to borrow, the ESB is a flagship company which has a great record. However, it, no less than any other State company, is impaired by the impairment of the sovereign, which casts a shadow on the capacity to borrow of each State company that is part of the State apparatus. I do not wish to...

Sale of State Assets: Statements (13 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I thank all Deputies for their contributions. While I was in the House to hear most of them I had to leave on a couple of occasions to make some telephone calls. By and large, people know the position of Government, which has been set out from the beginning. Reference was made to the Labour Party's position. The Labour Party is part of a Coalition Government that negotiated a framework and...