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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Reports (18 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 617. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has published its annual report for 2013. [48764/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Exemptions (17 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance if persons living here and who are 80 years of age and their only source of income is a pension from the UK and where this amount is over €400 per week, if these persons are liable to universal social charge in respect of any portion of their income for 2013, 2014 and for 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48721/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (17 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 66. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the new compliance and enforcement measures he proposes to introduce to provide a more proportionate, efficient and effective enforcement of employment law; if this will include payments due under the Payment of Wages Act 1991 where an employer ceases operating but does not go into liquidation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (17 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 161. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive a day procedure in St. James's Hospital, Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48582/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional funding in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Laois to enable them complete a building project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48647/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (17 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the employment of persons who have been working full time as special needs assistants in schools and where there is no longer a demand for a full time SNA or any SNA in a particular school; if there are arrangements in place where they can go on a panel to be provided with employment in adjoining schools; and if she will...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships Data (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I asked the Minister to give me a list of the current exposure. The Minister is telling me that we will get it some time in the spring as part of the capital review.

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships Data (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: When will we see that figure? The Minister is saying that the capital review will have the breakdown of the unitary payment.

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships Data (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I will wait for that. A large element of the €2.2 billion stimulus package the Minister mentioned last year related to primary care services. The outgoing Minister for Health had identified pet projects and pet locations. Could the Minister confirm whether any of those have gone to market because he said education, transport and justice projects have all gone to tender but they...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships Data (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I look forward to receiving that list. The Minister is concentrating on what he calls the stimulus package of €2.2 billion. My question was broader and concerned all the PPPs out there. It was not specifically concentrating on the ones that are currently working their way through the system.

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships Data (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: What is the unitary value of the roads and schools projects out there? I am referring to the ongoing commitments out there for the past-----

Other Questions: Estimates Process (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: What is the current exposure of the State and its agencies, including semi-State bodies, to public private partnerships, PPPs, that have been entered into in recent years? Has he plans to increase the use of PPPs?

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships Data (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current level of exposure of the State and its agencies to public private partnerships, PPPs; his plans to increase the use of PPPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47803/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister send on the full list of shared services projects in the public service? Some of these are in their initial stages, others partly up and running. I know some of these will take time. My local authority area, Laois County Council, is in charge of the shared services project for local authority payrolls. It brings on three other local authorities each quarter, so it will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: There is a build-up. We are all agreed it could not have been rushed on day one. On 23 October, I put down a parliamentary question on the number of staff redeployed within local government shared services over the past three years. The reply from the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government stated his Department does not collate the redeployment data as requested....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of shared services projects commenced across the Civil Service since 2011; the costs associated with these projects for each year; when these projects will generate an overall net saving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48016/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: In this question I ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the shared service projects commenced across the Civil Service since 2011, the costs associated with these projects for each year and when the projects will generate an overall net saving.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I understand the table will be circulated with the reply when we receive it by e-mail in the afternoon. Members on this side of the House have agreed with the principle and always known that there is a set-up cost. New offices and staff must be provided at new locations, while new software development systems must be put in place. Of course, it will take a few years and I am happy that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: In his Budget Statement of 15 October 2013 the Minister stated:The two Government parties agreed a strategy for this budget and the Estimates. It involves reducing the tax and spending consolidation from the published €3.1 billion to €2.5 billion, targeting a general Government deficit of 4.8% for 2014 and in the process, achieving a primary balance.The Minister did this on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Had the Minister factored that figure of €1.2 billion into his budgetary estimates last year, he would have exceeded the deficit ceiling of 5.1%. He knowingly came to the House to present a figure that was under the target of 4.8% in the hope the Department of Finance would bail him out with extra tax revenue. Did he do this deliberately?