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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (10 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 513. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding paid out under mobility aids grants in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and the estimate for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10044/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (10 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 514. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding paid out under the housing adaptation grants, in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and the estimate for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10045/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Disability Services Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 515. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider issuing guidelines to local authorities regarding persons in wheelchairs, to be incorporated in future county development plans by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10047/15]

Estimates for Public Services 2015 (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to have a brief opportunity to speak on the 2015 public service Estimates, which the Minister published a few days before Christmas. This is the first debate in the Dáil on this Book of Estimates. No proper debate on these issues has taken place anywhere. I object to the contemptuous manner in which the Government reacted to the request for a full three-hour debate on the...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Tánaiste is guillotining the debate on the Revised Estimates, for which she wants to allow 25 minutes. I thought the Government had learned a few lessons and would not use the Dáil as a rubber-stamp or force items through which it was afraid to debate. Using the jackboot the Tánaiste wants to guillotine the debate. The Dáil should not be used as a rubber-stamp by...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: It will be very brief and concise. The figure with which we are dealing is €53 billion of taxpayers' money, of which €38 billion is net expenditure, down 2.7% from last year. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform will say the Revised Estimates were discussed at the committees, but the overall choices made and the priorities as between Departments were not discussed by...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am almost finished.

Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: There will be the use of the guillotine in one minute but I will not have my contribution guillotined. The Tánaiste yesterday gave a commitment to provide information for our spokesperson and the committee on the cost of restoring the respite care grant to its previous level, but she has not yet done so. She is forcing the issue to a vote today without the information requested at the...

Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: This information was published since the budget was announced.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Confident.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Government will be issuing the bills.

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: There is a long way to go before we have a decision as to whether or not Irish Water will be classified as an independent, commercially viable semi-State company. The raison d'êtrefor the establishment of Irish Water was that it would function as a commercial semi-State company along the lines of ESB and, in that way, be taken off the Government's balance sheet. EUROSTAT has not yet...

Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Is the Tánaiste seeking to undermine the letter the Taoiseach issued to the Select Sub-committee on the Department of the Taoiseach this week, in which he said the CSO is working to finalise its report "in the next two to three weeks", after which that assessment will be provided to EUROSTAT? In other words, there is no delay on the part of EUROSTAT; the delay is with the CSO, which is...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: We have received significant helpful information. I wish to raise an issue on the Vote on the Central Statistics Office. We got information on global valuations and this included the valuation of Irish Water. I want to make a formal request to the joint committee to invite the Central Statistics Office to discuss its work on the market corporation test in respect of Irish Water and to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 11 - Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I will send an e-mail formally requesting the CSO to be invited to appear before the joint committee to discuss the matter. It will be on the list for next week's correspondence.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2015: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: This is a routine request to the committee every year. This year's carryover is smaller than last year and the year before. It is €79 million this year while last year it was in excess of €100 million. It is the smallest carryover in recent years, which means most of what was allocated was spent. We will not argue too much about the big figures because they are going in the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2015: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The briefing note the Minister of State has given us on how the carryover is to be spent this year states that €3.8 million will be spent on assisting in meeting obligations arising from the EU habitats and birds directives to address EU infringement cases. The hen harrier is in the Slieve Bloom mountains in my constituency. I am sure the Minister of State heard about it when he was...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2015: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister of State arrange a briefing note on the €3.8 million that must be spent as part of this carryover to address infringement cases with regard to the habitats and birds directives? It sounds as though a fine is in the pipeline.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2015: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Oireachtas is funny in how it runs its affairs. I will ask the Minister of State to get responses from the line Departments, because the committee will be told the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht does not report to this committee and so it will not send us a letter, and the same will happen with regard to swimming pools because the Department of Transport, Tourism and...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2015: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The amount surrendered was €6.433 million.