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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Records (24 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: 279. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department uses any system software for the auto-deletion of email messages; if so, her Department's guidelines on the use of such a system; and the length of time emails are stored before they are auto-deleted. [25174/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (23 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: 247. To ask the Minister for Finance if a person who has received an inheritance and who has to pay inheritance tax can agree to pay this in stages on an agreed phased basis, as the person may not have the cash resources to pay in one sum, and this may cause severe upset to family members if it is necessary to sell the house in order to raise the proceeds to pay the inheritance tax this year;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (23 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: 364. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the current legislation on firearms and the proposal to amend this legislation, if she will outline the proposed requirement of a sponsor for a person under 16 years of age who is undergoing training under the legislation, or the proposed amended legislation if the sponsors are obliged to attend or participate in a course as a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (23 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: 365. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality under the Firearms Legislation and the proposals to amend the Firearms Legislation currently under discussion, if it will be permitted for persons under 16 years of age to buy automatic guns, automatic rifles, or shotguns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24705/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that all service users in residential non-congregated community houses are receiving consistent care in respect of organisations which the Health Service Executive funds by section 38 agreements, in view of the fact that in some of the houses there can be on duty on different nights, qualified staff nurses, qualified social care workers,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Remit (23 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: 625. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is in a position to answer Parliamentary Questions in respect of operational matters for Irish Water; the extent of questions he can answer in relation to policy and overall issues; the type of issues he cannot deal with by way of Parliamentary Question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25095/15]

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)

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

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 to make provision for a partial exemption of property tax payable by a relevant owner whose property is located in a managed estate on which the owner of said property is liable to the payment of management fees and to provide for related matters.I thank you, a Cheann Comhairle,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. O'Driscoll and his colleagues. I have a few issues to raise and if they were specifically covered while I was attending other meetings, well and good. Twice on the first page of his opening script Mr. O'Driscoll referred to the successfully negotiated agreement on the reform of Common Agricultural Policy which included the end of milk quotas. Given that we were in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: Ireland is a net contributor, is it not?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: Ireland is a net contributor.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: I understand.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: There is another committee meeting next door which is complaining about the European Union bullying the banks. Now Mr. O'Driscoll is saying we were bullied in agriculture. I cannot resist making the comparison.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: Is that figure included in the Department's Estimates for this year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: That is, the interest cost. To finish on the superlevy, I ask the Department to supply a breakdown of the number of farmers affected by a levy of €5,000 or less, between €5,000 and €10,000 and so on. It must have all of these statistics, but I do not want to delay the meeting by asking the witnesses to read the figures. I ask that they supply the data to the committee...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: If 6,000 farmers are carrying a debt of €69 million, it averages out at a sum of around €10,000 per farmer. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: That is a serous amount of money for those affected. The tragedy is that they are probably our most progressive farmers, the ones who are trying to expand and produce more.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: On page 3 of the appropriation accounts I was surprised to read that the Department was in breach of national procurement guidelines to the tune of €5 million in 19 specific cases, or an average of €263,000 per case. In addition, there are other local historical supplier arrangements that are outside national procurement guidelines. Of the 19 cases referred to, what was the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: I will not ask Mr. O'Driscoll to repeat himself.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: On farm inspections, I received a reply to a parliamentary question from the Department yesterday. In cross-compliance inspections in 2014, of which there were 1,368, 26% of farms were given a clean bill of health, with no breaches; on 36% of farms there were minor breaches, with no financial penalty, while on 38% of farms there were breaches involving penalties. There were 4,743...