“Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of reducing the student contribution rate by €250, €500 or €1,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil written answers, 10 July]
“Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated first and full-year cost of decreasing the non-adjacent rate of third-level grants from 45 km to 24 km; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil written answers, 10 July]
“Further increases to student fees or the introduction of a student loan scheme have been ruled out, the Irish Examiner can reveal. In a ‘highly significant’ development, the Government has rejected two of three recommendations contained in a 2016 report into how a gaping hole in third-level funding is to be filled …” (more)
[Daniel McConnell, Irish Examiner, 27 March]
“Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of reducing the student conution rate by €250, €500 or €1,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil written answers, 27 September]
“Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour): To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of decreasing the non-adjacent rate of third level grants from 45 to 24 kilometres; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil written answers, 27 September]
“Good evening, It’s an honour to be here at Tom Johnson for my second time as Labour leader. And I’m particularly pleased that we’re gathering here in Cork …” (more)
[Brendan Howlin, Labour Party, 10 June]
“Minister Howlin welcomes High Court decision to refuse an application for an injunction over the awarding of a contract for the Grangegorman DIT campus. Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin TD, today (1 December 2015) welcomed the High Court decision …” (more)
[Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, 1 December]
“Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin has signed an order which will provide for pay increases for about 300,000 staff in the public service as well as pension rises for retired personnel from early next year …” (more)
[Martin Wall, Irish Times, 30 November]
“The Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform will meet tomorrow to conduct Committee stage examination of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015 with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin TD …” (more)
[Houses of the Oireachtas, 9 November]
“As far as most people in Waterford are concerned, discussions are still ongoing between WIT and CIT about a possible merger and the creation of a Technological University serving the South East region …” (more)
[John O’ Connor, Munster Express, 27 October]
“Dr Patricia Mulcahy, President of Institute of Technology Carlow, has welcomed the announcement today by Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin of approval to acquire a new site for the Institute’s Wexford Campus. The new campus will be located on a 35-acre site in a prime location in Wexford Town …” (more)
[IT Carlow, 8 October]
“Senior figures at two third-level colleges in the southeast have given positive soundings about the prospect of restarting talks on a university for the region, despite serious problems highlighted in a plan …” (more)
[Niall Murray, Irish Examiner, 28 July]
“Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the conditions for a financial emergency as set out in financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, legislation still apply; his plans to unwind this legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter …” (more)
[Dáil Éireann, 2 July]
“The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Mr Brendan Howlin TD, announced today (Thursday 18 June 2015) that the Government has approved the priority drafting of a Bill to provide for a statutory framework governing public sector disclosure of interests and related matters on a consolidated basis …” (more)
[Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, 18 June]
[It appears that these proposals are meant to include the universities: the draft scheme defines “public body” to include “a higher education institution in receipt of public funds”.]
“Two thirds of retired public service workers who saw their pensions slashed during the economic crash are set to benefit from increases of up to €1,680 over the next three years, in sharp contrast to their private sector colleagues …” (more)
[Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Irish Examiner, 17 June]
“The new public service pay restoration deal, which will see most public service staff receive €2,000 on a phased basis, will cost the State €566 million over three years. However, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Brendan Howlin last night said it was ‘affordable’ and the ‘right thing to do’ …” (more)
[Martin Wall, Irish Times, 30 May]
“There has been a successful conclusion to talks on public-sector pay which will see most public servants having their pay restored by around €2,000. According to the IMPACT trade union, this will happen over three phases between January 2016 and September of 2017 …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 29 May]
“The first face-to-face negotiations in the public sector pay talks got under way in Dublin this afternoon. The negotiations involve more than 19 public sector unions and officials from the Department of Public Expenditure …” (more)
[RTÉ News, 19 May]
“New deals aimed at curbing strikes in the public sector have been signalled by Tánaiste Joan Burton. She insisted industrial action was ‘the last thing we want’ as negotiations resume regarding the restoration of pay cuts imposed during the financial crash …” (more)
[Shaun Connolly, Irish Examiner, 16 May]
“The first round of the public sector pay talks opened and closed this afternoon in just fifteen minutes. This afternoon’s session is the first in a phase of talks between union representatives for 300,000 public servants and the Government, and today both parties laid out their opening positions …” (more)
[Emma Jane Hade, Independent, 12 May]
