Results 18,281-18,300 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is the other way around. I need the Minister for Finance's consent for the disposal of any assets where their value exceeds â¬50 million.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We must have capacity to sell.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We will bring in a pensions Bill before the end of this term.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is between 18,000 to 21,000 by 2014
- Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Who cut the minimum wage?
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I will respond briefly to that point. I fully appreciate what the Deputy is saying. I would have liked to have had more time to debate this legislation. However, it is scheduled to pass by 5 July and I do not wish it to go beyond that date as I have technical matters to address at that stage. This is largely a technical Bill. With due regard to the Bill's Office, this amendment is not...
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: We can debate that.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It is not. We will be able to debate policy issues like that in other enactments as we progress.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: This is a technical amendment which is being made on the advice of the Parliamentary Counsel.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Amendment No. 11 is a technical amendment. It allows for "public body" to be substituted for "public service body" to provide consistency of this term throughout the Bill and to ensure that the reference in section 16 is in line with the definition of a public service body outlined in section 3.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Amendment No. 12 provides for the deletion of reference to section 7C, 7E or 7G of the Act of 1976 which for the information of the House is the Gas Act. This allows for consistency in the sections listed under the relevant enactments listed in section 15. Amendment agreed to.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: These are technical amendments and are consequent on the deletion of Part 2 of Schedule 3. Part 2 of Schedule 3 lists a number of enactments which govern payment of pensions and remunerations from the Central Fund.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: Public confession comes under the whistleblowers legislation.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: No. Section 20 lists those bodies which remain under the aegis of the Minister for Finance. This list includes the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General. Section 20 provides that in relation to a limited number of public service type functions the Minister for Finance will consult with the Minister for public expenditure and reform. The powers of the Minister for Finance in...
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: The Senator can be certain of that.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I can allay the Senator's fears: there is no such intention and will be no such impact. As I explained this morning, this is a belt and braces set of sections. This is clearly a complicated structure to disaggregate functionalities. We have trawled comprehensively through every enactment; almost 200 statutes were reviewed dating back to Victorian times. We have set out clearly the...
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I have just checked with the officials and, to our knowledge, it has not.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: These are technical amendments. Amendment No. 17 ties up the wording of the section and refers to the Minister's belief the function performed is vested in him. Amendment No. 18 removes the word "or" from the end of the line, as an additional line is included in the following amendment. Amendment No. 19 excludes from section 22 functions transferred from the Minister for Finance to the...
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: I trust the advice of the Attorney General. Amendment put and declared lost.
- Seanad: Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (29 Jun 2011)
Brendan Howlin: It sounds like a dance troupe.