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Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The last Government decided, in the context of the serious national budgetary position, that retired public service pensioners should make a contribution to the overall required fiscal adjustment. This decision was taken having regard to the gap between the burden being borne by those currently in public service employment (where the pension related deduction (PRD) and pay reduction have...

Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 248 and 249 together. I have no plans to establish a commission to examine levels of pay and establish key pay relativities in the private and public sectors of the economy. Apart from instances where statutory rates of pay apply, pay rates in the private sector are generally a matter for negotiation between individual employers and employees. With regard to...

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 250, 251, 256 and 257 together. I refer to my reply to Question No 21065/11 of 19 July.

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: According to the Guidelines on Staffing of Ministerial Offices issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in March 2011 Special Advisors are to be placed on the Principal Officer (standard) scale. Appointments are generally required to be at the minimum of the scale. The approval for Special Advisor posts is not fully finalised in all instances, though I expect it to be...

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I refer to the reply by my colleague the Minister for Finance to Question Nos. 18587, 18588 and 18586 taken together on 5 July 2011.

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The estimated full year saving if the maximum salary of all Chief Executive Officers of commercial State companies were capped at €100,000 per annum is approximately €3 million.

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Government supports a strong policy of pay restraint in the public service. The Deputy will be aware that the Government recently announced a general pay ceiling of €200,000 in the public service which included non-commercial State sponsored bodies/agencies. I have no plans, nor am I currently examining the effect of, the introduction of a unilateral pay cap at €100,000 for senior...

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I am not aware of any instance in which the annual fee payable to a State agency board member exceeds €50,000 euros.

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The following tables set out the position on the various reduced public representative expenses rates Ministerial Motor Travel Rates Under 6437 km Current 10% reduction 20% reduction 30% reduction 0 - 1200cc 39.12 cent 35.21 cent 31.30 cent 27.38 cent 1201 - 1500cc 46.25 cent 41.63 cent 37.00 cent 32.38 cent 1501 - 2000 cc 59.07 cent 53.16 cent 47.26 cent 41.35 cent over 2000 cc 70.89...

Written Answers — Exchequer Savings: Exchequer Savings (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: My Department has responsibility for setting the actual rates for various expense allowances payable to civil servants including senior civil servants. The following tables set out the position on the various reduced rates payable to senior civil servants. Motor Travel Rates Under 6437 km Current 10% reduction 20% reduction 30% reduction 0 - 1200cc 39.12 cent 35.21 cent 31.30 cent 27.38...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Information on the number of agency staff employed in the public sector is not reported to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. However, I should point out that the employment of agency staff would be subject to the terms of the public service moratorium on recruitment. Details of numbers of agency staff should be sought from individual Departments. In relation to my own...

Written Answers — Public Investment Projects: Public Investment Projects (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 264, 272 and 275 together. The Review of Capital Expenditure is currently underway and is running in parallel with the Comprehensive Review of Expenditure. It is intended that the review will be completed in the autumn. Programmes and projects that support economic recovery, or address urgent social needs will be at the core of the capital review. This review...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Details of capital allocations, outturns and capital carryover are outlined in the attached table as requested. It should be noted that, as 2008 and 2009 expenditure figures are from the appropriation accounts for the years in question, they incorporate expenditure on capital carryover from previous year. 2010 Expenditure figures are provisional outturn figures to which expenditure on...

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Programme for Government contains a commitment to introduce new legislation to protect small building subcontractors that have been denied payments from bigger companies. In addition, you may be aware that the Construction Contracts Bill 2010 was introduced by Senator Feargal Quinn and passed Committee and remaining stages in the Seanad on 8 March 2011. It is now before the Dáil. In...

Written Answers — Public Service Contracts: Public Service Contracts (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Guidelines from my Department require that public bodies conduct the public procurement function in a way that facilitates and does not place barriers to participation of small and medium enterprises. As one measure to achieve this, the guidance advises that the sub-dividing of procurement requirements into "lots" should be considered by contracting authorities where it would be appropriate...

Written Answers — Programme for Government: Programme for Government (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Deputy's question refers to the commitment in the Programme for Government to sell non-strategic assets up to a value of €2 billion to fund investment in key networks of the economy. This will occur when market conditions are right and when adequate regulatory structures have been established to protect consumer interests. Following publication of the Report of the Review Group on State...

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: As the Deputy is aware, the Minister for Finance recently announced this Government's Jobs Initiative. The Initiative provided for a further €30 million for school works and associated works in 2011 over the existing allocation. Some €20 million of this is being reallocated by the Minister for Education and Skills from within his own Department's allocation. A further €10 million of...

Written Answers — National Lottery Funding: National Lottery Funding (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Funding from the National Lottery which was allocated to this Department was used for the Charitable Lotteries Scheme. Under this Scheme, funding is made available to supplement the income of certain private charitable lotteries whose products are competing directly with National Lottery products. The amount of funding provided from the National Lottery to this Department for this Scheme in...

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The position is that public servants are in general liable to pay the pension-related deduction introduced in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009. The criteria for being subject to the pension-related deduction are, essentially, that one is a public servant (defined in section 1 of the Act) and a) is a member of a public service pension scheme (defined in...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (21 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: My Department was established under the provisions of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act 2011 on 6 July 2011. No public funds have been awarded, by my Department, to the Irish Business and Employers Confederation since that date.