Results 81-100 of 134 for 5 million speaker:Brendan Howlin

Adjournment Debate Matters (11 Nov 2010)

Brendan Howlin: ...- the need to investigate expenditure on Horse Racing Ireland; (4) Deputy Thomas P. Broughan - the need to introduce a licensing procedure for the establishment and operation of gold shops; (5) Deputy John O'Mahony - the need to address the effect of the reduction in home help hours on the elderly; (6) Deputy Andrew Doyle - to discuss the issue of the implications of the European Court of...

Adjournment Debate Matters (8 Apr 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...speech therapy services at St. John of God's, Islandbridge, where she attends, and who is not allowed to access community speech therapy services because she attends special needs education; (5) Deputy Seán Sherlock — the proposal to cut down to two, from three, the number of consultants operating in Mallow General Hospital, resulting in a dramatic reduction in surgical services from...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...three years. Depending on a number of factors, as members know because we have reached a deficit of less than 3% of GDP, we are exiting the corrective arm of the Stability and Growth Pact in 2015. Next year we enter into a different economic paradigm, which is the preventative arm of the Stability and Growth Pact. The budget was cast on the basis that we would have to meet this new...

Adjournment Debate Matters (8 Oct 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...adequately in order that it is able to provide a full range of services; (4) Deputy John O'Mahony — the withdrawal of the visiting teacher for children who are visually impaired in County Mayo; (5) Deputy Michael McGrath — the need for the HSE to prioritise the provision of a dedicated unit at Cork University Hospital for the treatment of cystic fibrosis patients; (6) Deputy James...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (9 Oct 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...is 1.4%. The following is based on data available on above EU threshold awards. In 2011, the value of contracts that were awarded above this threshold to non-domestic companies was €240 million.  This represents less than 5% of the overall 2011 annual public procurement spend (approximately €13.1 billion). I am advised by the Office of Government Procurement that more...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions Issues (22 Jan 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...measures have also been taken over recent years which help to curb public service pension costs as follows:- In 2004 minimum pension age for new-joiner public service workers was raised from 60 to 65 years. - In 2010 public service pay cuts averaging approximately 7% were applied. Further pay cuts affecting public servants with annual earnings above €65,000 were applied in July...

Adjournment Debate Matters (1 Jul 2010)

Brendan Howlin: ...Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Joan Burton - the withdrawal of English language support teachers from Mary Mother of Hope Senior School, Littlepace, Clonee, Dublin 15; (2) Deputy Pat Breen - the future of the newly refurbished dementia unit at St. Joseph's Hospital in Ennis and the need for the Minister for Health and Children to lift the moratorium on...

Adjournment Debate Matters (5 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ...implications, of his plans to enable local authorities lease estates from developers as outlined by the Minister of State in recent days, and if he will he lay out his programme to spend €20 million in leasing currently idle properties from developers; (3) Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin — the consequences of the planned closure of 56 acute medical beds at Monaghan General Hospital; (4)...

Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement (27 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ...and extracting costs from public sector pay is less impactive on the economy than some of the alternatives, for example, cutting expenditure on social welfare or other areas. We need to get €300 million this year and €1 billion in expenditure reductions by 2015. The impact on the economy generally will be of the order of 0.25% but I will give the Deputy the details when we...

Adjournment Debate Matters (19 Nov 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...Creighton — the use of the Iveagh Gardens for sports facilities; (2) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to instruct immediately the HSE to pay the €1.5 million Government funding due to the Brothers of Charity, Bawnmore, Limerick, which provides services to the intellectually disabled, to prevent the loss of services to up to 100...

Written Answers — Members Allowances: Members Allowances (19 Jan 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...and Parliamentary Offices) Act, 1938, as amended by the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Act, 2001. As indicated in my reply to Parliamentary Question No. 40637 on 15th December last, I intend to bring proposals to Government shortly in relation to the Party Leader's Allowance. The allowance is paid to the parliamentary leader of a qualifying party in relation...

Adjournment Debate Matters (17 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ...and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, when an application for funding for a new fire station facility in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, first made by North Tipperary County Council in May 2005, will be provided by the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, taking into account the extreme deteriorating conditions at the establishment and subsequent health and safety...

Adjournment Debate Matters. (10 Feb 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ...Frank Feighan — the need to make changes to the qualifying criteria of community employment schemes; (4) Deputy Joe Costello — the need to maintain FÁS facilities at Jervis Street, Dublin; (5) Deputy Seymour Crawford — the need to reinstate home help in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Monaghan; (6) Deputy Brian O'Shea — the need to prevent the closure of St....

Croke Park Agreement (14 Jul 2011)

Brendan Howlin: The Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009 imposed a pension related reduction effective from March 2009 and a reduction in pay rates effective from January 2010 ranging from 5% to 15% for all public servants. The effect of these measures, combined with measures to reduce the numbers of public servants and to restrict other elements of the public service pay bill, has...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (26 May 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...for OGP operations, but the Office covers the policy aspects.  The categories are listed below. 1. Professional Services  2. Facilities Management 3. Utilities 4. ICT & Office Equipment 5. Marketing, Print, Stationary 6. Travel & HR Services 7. Fleet & Plant 8. Managed Services 9. Plant Hire 10. Minor Builds & Civil's 11. Med. Professional...

Adjournment Debate Matters (1 Oct 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...an immediate meeting with the CEOs of Dell and other leading multinational companies to listen to their concerns to ensure the security of the 3,000 direct jobs in Dell Limerick and of the other 150,000 plus direct jobs and the thousands of other jobs linked to the overall multinational sector; (3) Deputy Joe Costello — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to fund the Irish...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...it would be captured. In regard to turnover, one could make things more complicated but I have tried to make this as simple as possible. The current threshold for audit is in excess of €8 million. A €5 million turnover company would be audit exempt under the Companies Act. Whether we should have a threshold level that drifts into a particular turnover at a particular...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (4 Feb 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....

Adjournment Debate Matters (27 Jan 2010)

Brendan Howlin: ...3) Deputy James Bannon - the implementation of the River Shannon basin management plan; (4) Deputy Ulick Burke - the works that will take place in south Galway to prevent a recurrence of flooding; (5) Deputy Tom Sheahan - the need to have the PET scanner at Cork University Hospital operational; (6) Deputy Ciarán Lynch - the provision of a new school for Ballygarvan national school, County...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (23 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...of the Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG) includes an audit of property management under the decentralisation programme. This report identified capital expenditure on the Programme of 289.4 million euro on property and recurring costs (leases) of 7 million euro (as at April 2010). Dublin property disposals were 356m euro and leases with an annual value of 10m euro over the same period...