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Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Brendan Howlin: -----is due to issue by the end of this month. A total of 13,000 direct and many more indirect jobs are expected to be created by this programme. Earlier this year I announced €150 million of direct Exchequer capital and a further €250 million of PPPs. The extra Exchequer money is being invested in 28 badly needed school projects, maintaining the local road network and a...

Written Answers — Public Expenditure: Public Expenditure (11 Oct 2011)

Brendan Howlin: Under the terms of the EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support, an overall current expenditure reduction of €2,090 million was targeted in 2011, with an additional €1,800 million from capital. This reduction was to be made up of social protection expenditure reductions, a reduction in public service employment numbers, a reduction on existing public service pensions on a progressive basis...

Statement of Estimates for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion (7 Jul 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Act 2006 and section 9 of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Act 2009, which was laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas on 2 July 2015.Under section 5 of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Acts 2003-2013, the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission is funded on the basis of a three-year statutory cycle. Its current...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ..., transparency and accountability, underpinned by legislative change, where necessary. PUBLIC SERVICE PAY AND NUMBERS Today I am announcing that the public service pay bill will fall by €400 million next year. By the end of this year the numbers employed in the public service will be below 300,000. Next year the Government plans to reduce the size of the public service by a further...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Levy Yield (16 Apr 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...service Pension-related Deduction (PRD), which was introduced in March 2009 under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 is provisionally estimated to have yielded €891 million in 2014.  This estimated total does not include non-Exchequer PRD receipts, as arising for example in the local government sector. PRD is a progressively structured...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement (16 Jan 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...award notices on eTenders and the Official Journal of the EU (OJEU) for those contracts whose values exceed the EU thresholds. The current EU threshold for public works contracts is above €5 million; and for supplies and services above €130,000/€200,000 (Government Departments and Offices/Local and Regional Authorities and public bodies outside the Utilities sector)....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pensions Levy Issues (15 Jan 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...as part of our national fiscal consolidation. Across all sectors of the public service, and based on the current PRD rates structure, it is estimated that the deduction raises in the region of €950 million per year. On this basis, the key importance of the measure in restoring balance to the public finances means that I have no plans at present to cease PRD deductions, but as with...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Programme Expenditure (17 Jun 2014)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 285 and 289 together. Since July 2012, I have made a number of announcements in relation to additional capital investment to be funded from stimulus moneys: - In July 2012 I announced a €2.25 billion Stimulus Package which included a new €1.5 billion PPP programme involving projects across the education, roads, healthcare and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Data (30 Apr 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...pensioners who have two or more qualifying public service pensions should have those pensions subjected to PSPR on a combined or aggregated basis, not separately as was originally the case. Section 5(5) of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013 modified this requirement to aggregate pensions for PSPR purposes so that it only applies to persons whose...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies Data (19 Jan 2016)

Brendan Howlin: ...a result of these measures, there were 170 fewer State Bodies at the end of 2014 than in 2011, with a further 11 due to go.  The current position, as of January 2016, is that there are 176 fewer bodies, with a further 5 outstanding. The Report also shows that recurring annual savings of over €15 million were accruing to Central Government, with a further...

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Brendan Howlin: I begin by expressing my appreciation to the Business Committee for scheduling this truly important debate at the request of my colleague, Deputy Duncan Smith, with whom I will share time. Like millions of others, I watched with fear and concern as the Taliban forces advanced towards Kabul in August and regained total control of Afghanistan. We were aware of the type of regime the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2019)

Brendan Howlin: ...is suggesting they are completely false, they are all we can budget on. The figures were all proofed by the Department of Finance. They project a surplus next year of 0.2% of GDP, or €700 million, having provided €5 per week to every pensioner or anybody in receipt of a social welfare payment, including the disability benefit or carer's benefit. What it does do is ask the...

Written Answers — Public Sector Pay: Public Sector Pay (12 Jun 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I announced the review of allowances and premia payments, to be carried out by my Department, in my address on the 2012 Expenditure Estimates on 5 December 2012. This announcement was made on foot of a Government decision which requires the public service to take additional measures to deliver further efficiencies in 2012 so as to ensure that pay bill targets are met and with a view to...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Brendan Howlin: I am also pleased to announce that we are increasing the fuel allowance by €2.50 per week to €22.50. This increase will benefit people dependant on long-term social welfare payments and those unable to provide for their own heating needs. A shared prosperity is one where every person, regardless of income, feels the benefit of our new recovery. To complement the changes in the...

Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012-2016: Statements (16 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: This review maintains existing planned levels of health capital investment into the medium term at €390 million a year or €1.95 billion over the period of the plan. This investment will allow for the replacement of the Central Mental Hospital and the national project for radiation oncology. For too long focus on mental health services has fallen off the table. I, along with the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Legislation (4 Nov 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...a progressively structured reduction to the pay of pensionable public servants ensuring that those on higher remuneration rates are impacted more adversely than those on lower pay. It raises of the order of €900 million per year and is therefore a critical component of the public service pay and pension measures adopted as part of our national fiscal...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (30 Sep 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...of works, supplies and service contracts above certain thresholds must be advertised awarded on the basis of objective and non-restrictive criteria. For works contracts the threshold is €5.186 million; for supplies and service contracts awarded by Government Departments the threshold is €134,000 and for the remainder of public bodies the threshold is €207,000. The...

Written Answers — Public Sector Reform: Public Sector Reform (13 Jun 2012)

Brendan Howlin: I announced the review of allowances and premia payments, to be carried out by my Department, in my address on the 2012 Expenditure Estimates on 5 December 2012. This announcement was made on foot of a Government decision which requires the public service to take additional measures to deliver further efficiencies in 2012 so as to ensure that paybill targets are met and with a view to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (7 May 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...contracts above certain thresholds must be advertised on the Official Journal of the EU and awarded on the basis of objective and non-restrictive criteria. For works contracts the threshold is €5.186 million; for supplies and service contracts awarded by Government Departments the threshold is €134,000 and for the remainder of public bodies the threshold is €207,000....

Written Answers — Public Service Reform: Public Service Reform (29 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...that will be realised from the Reform Plan is the preservation of critical front line services in tandem with a very significant reduction in Public Service numbers over the coming years. By 2015, we expect to achieve a planned reduction of 37,500 staff, or 12%, since 2008. In total, the Government are expecting the gross Public Service pay bill to reduce by some €2.5 billion to...