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

Seán Fleming: When he has funding to prevent flooding in people's houses, he should actually use it. I will deal with that matter specifically when I move my amendment on Committee Stage. I am not opposing the broad thrust of the legislation because we agree with the extension to 2019 that the Minister of State has included in it. However, we would not need to be here today if he or the Minister for...

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: I understand what the Minister of State said and I am sure he understands the point I make. I accept it will not be dealt with specifically in this legislation. I acknowledge that paragraph (c) provides that the Appeals Commissioners must indicate in their statement if a case has been referred to the High Court. I accept that some of the cases that proceed to the High Court will be between...

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

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 8:In page 41, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following:“(5) A report shall subsequently be amended by the Appeal Commissioners to state the result of any appeal to the Circuit Court or the High Court arising out of the determination, together with the result of any subsequent appeal from such a decision of the High Court to the Court of Appeal.”. I...

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

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 4:In page 39, line 19, after “appealed to” to insert “the Circuit Court or”. I welcome the opportunity to move the amendment, which my colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath submitted. Of the 14 amendments in this group of amendments, six are in the name of Deputy Michael McGrath. When we have dealt with them, only one amendment will remain to be...

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (9 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to contribute to this debate on the Supplementary Estimates, which are additional record Supplementary Estimates from the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin. His Department was set up to reform public expenditure but the only reform he has achieved was to ensure no adequate budgeting at the beginning of each year. In the last fortnight of every...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Act 2013 to allow interchangeability between biologic and biosimilar medical goods. I am pleased to introduce this short Bill, which I hope can reduce the large bill of up to €2 billion that we face each year for medicines in our health services. The Department of...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications (9 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be approved for a grant under the dairy equipment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44263/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (8 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements in place for persons to pay a compromise sum to the Revenue Commissioners for breach of the regulations regarding mineral oil containing a prescribed marker in their private car, if the payment can be made in instalments, when these provisions came into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43842/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Cafés Expenditure (8 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 334. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of funding for a project (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43540/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Governance (8 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the governance manual for primary schools 2015 to 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43936/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Religious Education (8 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a copy of the consultation paper regarding education on religion, belief and ethics in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (3 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 30. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional medical and nursing staff that have been recruited at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, County Laois, in 2015 to date; the plans for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43005/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (3 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 71. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the future of the emergency department at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43004/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (3 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if members of unions who do not sign up to the Lansdowne Road agreement will receive the pay increases and changes to the pension levy provided for by the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43452/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: I wish to ask one question about State legal fees and fees to barristers. If cases were settled earlier, would it result in lower fees? If one takes the example of the HSE, it regularly issues half hearted apologies seven years after children suffer catastrophic injuries at birth. That seven year period would involve quite a build up of fees. I ask the Minister of State to outline the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: Has the new Court of Appeal which is now up and running become another gravy train for the legal profession? Are there many cases where one State agency is suing another? I am not expecting to get that information now but I ask the Minister of State to provide a report on that as soon as possible. We often hear of cases where a local authority is being sued by the Inland Fisheries Board,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: There is no issue with the Supplementary Estimates for either of these areas but I will raise a few general points. It states in the notes that the contributions received from people who joined the public service single pension scheme were estimated at €25 million but that the current projection is €45 million. I take it the Supplementary Estimate would have been higher had...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: How many people have gone through the Public Appointments Commission process for appointment to State boards? Some of the State boards now use the Public Appointments Service. How does the gender quota work? The target is 40% but is the PAS required to come forward with numbers to meet the target?