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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: We will move on. We are dealing with what the Minister terms the comprehensive expenditure report for 2015 to 2017, which covers approximately €150 billion expenditure over the three-year period. If I ask questions to which we do not get answers, or for which we do not have time to have answered today, I am happy to come back next week or whenever the information comes. I may ask a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: The expenditure ceilings in the previous comprehensive expenditure report-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: Yes. It was headed "2012-2014".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: For the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. What were the outturns in those years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am on the committee and am asking that the Department-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for interrupting me. I believed I had a few minutes. I did not interrupt him. I will repeat my comments. This document is flawed and the Minister should be ashamed of it. I gave proof via the figures the Minister cited on budget day, which claimed extra expenditure for 2015 that ignored the Supplementary Estimates. Expenditure in 2015 will be less than it was in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: When the Minister attended the committee to discuss the Supplementary Estimates, I asked him questions. Three times he told me that he would give me the information the following day. I knew that it would take longer, as did the officials who were beside the Minister, but he stated it three times on the record. We did not get the information before the Supplementary Estimates were voted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: No, I am putting my questions. The Minister will respond or we can get a response in writing, whichever he chooses. The Minister knows that the population will increase and age and asserts that we should be considering long-term issues. No one believes that the Department will be able to provide a service with an increase in expenditure of just 0.5% in each of the next three years, yet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister can respond to the committee in due course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: Chairman, is the Minister entitled to call people silly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister has used the word "silly" every time he has spoken to me in public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: You made them. I am not silly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: You are getting personal, Minister, calling me silly. You did it in the Chamber on the last occasion during Question Time as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: Several years ago a number of Departments prepared value for money reports on various projects. Have they gone out of fashion or are many still being carried out? Perhaps the Minister can send us a note on them. I get the impression that with the reduction in staff numbers they may not be produced to the same extent. If a project receives €20 million over three years, it is worth...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: One of the other topics under the President's establishment is the centenarians' bounty. I hope the Government is not planning to take anything from that cohort.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. The reviews are honing in on the President.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: The clerk might check the transcripts and if there is any information outstanding, the Minister might revert to me.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: 33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the discussions his Department was involved with in respect of the €100 water conservation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47804/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Confidentiality (27 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: He has given up on it.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Review (27 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: 181. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when the review for the domiciliary care allowance will be completed in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3831/15]