Results 101-120 of 137 for 5 million speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (27 May 2014)

Brendan Howlin: ...Buyer' events hosted nationwide. These 'Meet the Buyer' events are run in conjunction with Enterprise Ireland and InterTrade-Ireland. To date the OGP has facilitated workshops and presented at seminars to over 4,500 SMEs nationwide. These events afforded suppliers an opportunity to meet and discuss the issues with public service buyers and provide networking opportunities for suppliers...

Adjournment Debate Matters (27 Jan 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ..., Mullingar, County Westmeath, to ensure patient safety and best possible outcomes; (4) Deputy Pádraic McCormack — the provision of a new building for Clifden Community School, County Galway; (5) Deputy Finian McGrath — funding for the new centre for St. Joseph's for the Visually Impaired, Drumcondra, Dublin 9; (6) Deputy Charles Flanagan — to raise with the Minister for Social and...

Adjournment Debate Matters (25 Nov 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...funding has been allocated for the project; (4) Deputy Bernard Durkan — the urgent and pressing issue of mortgage supplement in the case of a woman where the HSE is only prepared to assist on a 50% basis as the mortgage is in joint names but there is a barring order against her husband and if the Minister will make a statement on the matter; (5) Deputy Dinny McGinley — an tionchar...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (26 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....

Spring Economic Statement (28 Apr 2015)

Brendan Howlin: Including these additional allocations, general Government expenditure, excluding debt interest, is forecast now at just 32% of GDP or 37.5% of GNP. As a proportion of the overall economy, Government spending is back now to roughly the size it was in 2001. Post-2016, the no-policy-change position outlined in the documentation before the Members is an annual increase of €300...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jun 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...transfer or alienation of shares or stock to which a relevant enactment applies. (c) In this subsection— "Act of 2004" means the State Airports Act 2004; "relevant enactment" means— (i) section 5 (amended by sections 6 and 14 of the Minerals Company Act 1945) or 15 of the Minerals Exploration and Development Company Act 1941, (ii) section 16 of the Act of 1945, (iii) section 6 or 14 of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (30 Apr 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 252 and 253 together. Public procurement is the acquisition, whether under formal contract or not, of works, supplies and services by public bodies. Public procurement in Ireland is governed by legal requirements, rules and guidelines set both at national and EU level. The general requirements for goods and general services are set out in the Public...

Adjournment Debate Matters (4 Jul 2007)

Brendan Howlin: ...to allow for the intake of first year students in September 2007 and to proceed rapidly with the purchase of the site so that a replacement school can be provided within the timeframe specified; (5) Deputy Niall Collins — the need to facilitate Bus Éireann in providing a regular daily bus service serving the Limerick west communities of Ardagh, Carrigkerry and Athea and the Kerry north...

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (28 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...day of the budget, shows that, in sub-programme A, defence policy and support, military capacities and operational outputs - the core spending of the Department on the military - is to rise from €915.362 million next year to €920.712 million. That is a 1%, or €5 million, increase. It is a joke. The Government is not serious about giving capacity to our Defence...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: From the Seanad (15 Dec 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...we attack his pension instead of the consultant who decided to work exclusively in the private system and who may have a significant pension pot which was allowed 100% tax breaks for up to €5 million a time? Many public servants stayed in the public service when they could have earned more outside but the attraction was they got a decent pension at the end. The quantum of pension at the...

Seanad: Infrastructure and Capital Investment: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Nov 2011)

Brendan Howlin: ...capital expenditure has shrunk, the percentage directed to direct supports to industry will be greater. This will enable the IDA to deliver on its Horizon 2020 strategy, targeting the creation of 105,000 new jobs and 640 investments in the years 2012 to 2014. Enterprise Ireland will continue to support the growth and development of Irish enterprises in world markets. Its science...

Adjournment Debate Matters (17 Jun 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...need to introduce European studies, along with CSPE, as a subject at second level for the leaving certificate curriculum in Ireland; (2) Deputy Joan Burton — the substantial debt of up to €40 million owed by the Department of Education and Science to Fingal County Council in respect of school sites acquired on the Department's behalf; (3) Deputy Charles Flanagan — to raise with the...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: .... Epidemics and plagues were a constant fear. Through the application of centuries of scientific research, we, as a species, have been able to combat dozens of diseases that once routinely killed millions. The success of these efforts should not be forgotten, and we will continually search out new ways to defeat diseases that so often were a constant threat to our very survival as a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Budgets (16 Jul 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...- Consultancy & Other Services 337 337 61 61 (276) B.6 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer 1,534 391  1,925 896 104  1,000 (925) B.7 - Reform Agenda 1,347 1,347 648 648 (699) B.8 - Employee Assistance Officer Shared Service 605 605 607 607 2 B.9 - Statute Law Revision Programme 190 190 145 145 (45) Total (2,820) An amount of...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Brendan Howlin: .... When we came into office, reform of the public service was a key component of our strategy to meet the enormous challenges we faced. Collective agreements implemented by the Government provide for 15 million additional working hours by public and civil servants, helping the Government to provide additional services to citizens with fewer staff. Under those agreements, we have seen...

Adjournment Debate Matters (21 May 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...given under Standing Order 21 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Leo Varadkar — that the Minister for Transport report to this House in respect of barrier free tolling on the M50; the basis on which he informed the Dáil on 28 June 2007 that as an incentive to use electronic tagging "registered users will be offered a discount on the standard toll rate"; and on whether...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Reform Implementation (28 May 2013)

Brendan Howlin: ..., the tables show that significant progress has been made by Departments on the implementation of agreed rationalisation measures. To date, rationalisation and amalgamation measures involving 25 bodies have been fully implemented, and measures involving a further 83 bodies are at advanced legislative or administrative stages. Further measures, involving 107 bodies, were identified under...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement (27 Feb 2013)

Brendan Howlin: I propose to take Questions Nos. 1 and 5 together. Last December on behalf of Government I extended an invitation to the members of the public services committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions to enter discussions with public service management on a new agenda for reductions in the cost of delivery of public services and substantial longer-term productivity improvements and workplace...

Public Accounts Committee: Public Service Reform Plan: Discussion (11 Oct 2012)

Brendan Howlin: ...detail of public service reform, it is important to recall briefly the progress made in achieving our fiscal targets. In total, budgetary adjustments designed to save or yield approximately €25 billion have been made. This is an extraordinary burden on the people. As the committee is aware, two thirds of these adjustments have been on the expenditure side. It is also important...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Brendan Howlin: ...workers three, reductions in pay since the outbreak of the financial crisis. Moreover, under the collective agreements necessitated by our need to cope with the exigencies of the past few years, they are now working 15 million additional hours and providing additional services with 10% fewer staff. Under those same agreements, they have also seen overtime and other payments reduced, while...