Results 141-160 of 278 for going forward speaker:Seán Fleming

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

Seán Fleming: With respect to the Minister's record in the next six weeks, I look forward to her meeting the people and talking about the two-tier recovery. There is a two-tier recovery and the Labour Party should be, and is, ashamed of the fact that it stood by Fine Gael giving tax cuts to the wealthy while it made people on low incomes suffer. The Government has had five regressive budgets, documented...

1916 Quarter Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...the work of my colleague, Senator Darragh O'Brien, for introducing it in the Seanad. More especially, I thank the Fianna Fáil group in Dublin local authorities who have worked together to bring the legislation forward. They did most of the work because they are most intimately involved. They represent Dublin city and the surrounding areas and they understand better than most the...

Coroners Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: On my behalf and on behalf of Fianna Fáil, I support Deputy Clare Daly on bringing forward this legislation, the Coroners Bill 2015. Essentially, the Bill focuses on one issue, the need for an automatic inquest into all maternal deaths. We should all be ashamed that the Coroners Bill 2007 has been sitting on the shelf for so many years without having been completed. It is urgent that...

Ramming of Garda Vehicles Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...difficult in urban and rural areas. The gardaí need to know they have the support not just of the Parliament but of the people. They put their lives on the line. Two gardaí lost their lives recently going out on what appeared initially to be routine calls. They never suspected the outcome and the tragic loss to their families and their colleagues. These were deliberate...

Appropriation Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...all expenditure by Departments as approved under the Estimates and Supplementary Estimates processes, the latter of which we discussed recently. The Estimates are based on the choices made by Government in terms of its priorities for 2015. As spokesperson for Fianna Fáil, I do not accept many of the choices made by the Government in 2015. The budget allocations for 2015 were set...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...has been said about people who have had their houses adapted for disability purposes. I also agree with what has been said about pyrite, although I would be happier if the Government did some of what it has said it is going to do. It needs to implement the proposal to give some people who have been affected by pyrite an exemption from the local property tax. There is still a list of...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: It is very timely to discuss this Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2015 today. There is one good element to its substance, which is the deferring of the revaluation date for the local property tax from 1 November 2016 to 1 November 2019. The issues of exemptions for people affected by pyrite and disabilities are also welcome but they are more of a public relations...

Finance (Tax Appeals) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...than just announcing a decision. It is very important and will help bring certainty to the tax system, given that people will see how decisions were arrived at. In due course, it will lead to a reduction in appeals going to the system. Practitioners who are dealing with cases can see how similar cases were decided in the past and what the outcome was, and potential appellants can use...

Credit Union Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...to speak in support of the motion. I genuinely believe that the motion has the full support of every Member of Dáil Éireann. I listened to several speakers and what has been said on the Government and Opposition sides is indistinguishable. Everybody is singing off the one hymn sheet in support of the credit union movement. It would be a disservice to politics, therefore, if...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...6 billion. He has increased the expenditure ceilings by a quick announcement on budget day. The Minister states he had an extra €2.2 billion in tax revenue and that almost €2 billion of it will go on additional expenditure. The logic is that if one of the big multinationals had thrown in an extra €1 billion or €2 billion in corporation tax this year, the...

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)

Seán Fleming: ...emergency. However, I remind the Minister of the Government's recent actions. Some 13 months ago, the week before the budget, and in the spring statement last year, everybody was told there was going be a negative adjustment of about €2 billion. When we came to budget day, we had a positive adjustment of €1 billion. That was a turnaround of €3 billion. Then...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...legislation that has been brought before us. We are saying to elderly people that we will give them a miserable €3 and that they should be grateful. People are not grateful and it is important the Government appreciates that. All one had to do was meet people on the morning following the budget and ask what they thought. All they said was, "Three miserable euro". That is the...

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

Seán Fleming: ...country's competitiveness. I concede that we are still in a very difficult financial situation with regard to one issue. I am not speaking about the national debt, which is generally coming under control. We are going to be heading to European average figures very soon. I refer instead to the level of personal debt associated with people's high mortgages and negative equity. I would...

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

Seán Fleming: The Minister looks forward to hearing the views of the House on this Bill. We will be supporting the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015 because it is based on the various agreements the Minister referred to, namely, the Lansdowne Road agreement, which succeeded the Haddington Road agreement, and it has been voted on democratically by hundreds of thousands of public...

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

Seán Fleming: ...waiting lists. There are 471 homeless families with 1,054 homeless children sleeping in hotel rooms tonight in Dublin, Cork and Galway, waiting to be kicked out the next morning before they go to school, ashamed to say where they spent the night. This is in addition to the people sleeping rough on our streets every night. There are thousands of empty housing units throughout our...

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...so we have no hesitation in supporting this Bill, in spirit and in practice, and will do so on Committee Stage. The Minister said there would need to be amendments and he said that other legislation currently going through the Seanad might be amended to deal with some particular issues. It is important that this legislation comes before the Dáil as well as we do not want a lacuna to...

Draft Ombudsman Act 1980 (Section 1A) (No. 2) Order 2015: Motion (14 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...the public that he could examine complaints about the HSE and all HSE-run centres, including nursing homes. Áras Attracta was such a centre but people did not seem to know that they had the right to go to the Ombudsman so there is a lack of information, publicity and public awareness about his role. The Ombudsman made it clear in his opening statement on 10 December that while he...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 25: Environment, Community and Local Government
Chapter 5: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Special Report No 84: Transhipment of Waste (25 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...'s Vote. As the Accounting Officer of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, which is the mother Department of local authorities, Mr. McCarthy might discuss the 60%. He can forward to us a general breakdown of it if he does not have the information with him. For example, what is the breakdown between commercial rates, development levies, planning fees,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (1 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...legal adviser would be seeking information on other cases and how matters were dealt with in the past. As that information might have helped them with the judicial reviews, it seems the Minister is bringing forward this change to help the Department to defeat applicants in cases of judicial review. He really let the cat out of the bag in the briefing note from the Department of Justice...

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion [Private Members] (31 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for bringing forward this motion. The issue of mortgages and mortgage arrears is one that Fianna Fáil has raised consistently over the past couple of years. We are now raising the issue of people on the standard variable rate. I must declare my own interest. I am on a standard variable mortgage from Permanent TSB and I feel the pain but I do not think...