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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 9:In page 28, after line 38, to insert the following:“(a) by inserting the following before paragraph 1:“A1. Any building used for the purpose of providing childcare, including crèche and pre-school services.”,”. This is an issue I am taking up on behalf of members of the Minister of State's party who are backbench Deputies. They...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: It is a useful discussion and the Minister of State can see it is genuine. At best, one would question the profitability of even the private sector in this area. They operate on a shoestring and, if they operate for a profit, they are waiting for that profit and are just about lucky to get their own wages out of it. Like Deputy Creed for his area, I can list all the towns in County Laois...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I believe the Minister gets the net point in regard to the early childhood year. If there is a second year down the road, it will become an even bigger issue because the facilities will have to expand if there is double the number of children in these places.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 10:In page 29, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: “(b) by substituting for paragraph 8 the following:“8. Any land, building or part of a building used by a body for the purposes of caring for sick persons, for the treatment of illnesses or as a maternity hospital.”,”.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 11:In page 29, between lines 42 and 43, to insert the following: “(c) by substituting for paragraph 14 the following:“14. Any land, building or part of a building occupied for the purpose of caring for elderly, handicapped or disabled persons by a body.”,”.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Is the Minister saying the Water Services Act 2014 amended the Valuation Act and that all that is involved here is renumbering?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thought it would make some adjustment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: I still object to what the Government did for Irish Water by amending the Valuation Act.

Leaders' Questions (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: Only three Ministers are doing their jobs. There are 12 not doing their jobs.

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: The under 50s. That is all right. The Minister of State will deal with the older Members later. Some people cannot make it into social welfare offices while others are in nursing homes. Is an arrangement in place requiring photographs to be taken in these cases? If so, where is the common sense in sending officials out with cameras to take photographs of people in their sick beds? I...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: When we look at legislation from the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, in the area of social welfare, we must look at what she has done since becoming Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection in this Government in latter times. We must ask the basic question, namely, whether she has been good or bad. If she had been good, I would have been inclined...

Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: From the Seanad (4 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: We agree to this amendment and have no issue with what is before us. However, on a point of clarification, in local authorities managers must formally sign a delegation order or note for directors of services to carry out functions. Will the people in the commission have formally to sign a delegation order to a staff member or will it just be a word of mouth delegation?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: We have received a very comprehensive reply from the Taoiseach on the matters raised. I wish to refer briefly to the issue of Irish Water and its classification in terms of the market corporation test. The assumption up to now was that we would know by March how that would work out, that is, whether Irish Water would pass that test. However, in the Taoiseach's letter to the Chairman, he...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (3 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 163. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider examining, and introducing, changes to the legislation for the contributory State pension, whereby persons who have substantial numbers of pay related social insurance contributions but whose pensions are being reduced, because they may have worked in the very early stages of their life for a couple of weeks or months and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Remit (3 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the Freedom of Information Acts will apply to EirGrid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9000/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Internship Scheme Administration (3 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 257. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the procedures to protect persons who are taking part in an internship; their rights regarding changes to their working hours; if they should be working in an unsupervised manner, and left on their own; if he is satisfied that all employers under this scheme are operating in a fair manner in the spirit that was originally intended;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 404. To ask the Minister for Health when a doctor will be appointed to a location (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9026/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if funding will be provided in respect of a school (details supplied) for additional works - following approval for one mainstream classroom - as these works are required to improve the school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9003/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Aid (3 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a project (details supplied) qualified for the Per Cent for Art scheme; when the application was made; the nature of the project and the cost involved; when the payment was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9342/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (3 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reconsider the rules regarding the distance from a third level college for students to receive a higher level of maintenance grant, in view of the fact that many persons in the Portlaoise and County Laois area are receiving a lower grant as a result of the change in distance from Saint Patrick's College, Carlow, and Carlow...