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Other Questions: Public Service Reform Plan Update (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister. Perhaps when he has the figure of the allowances that have been discontinued for new entrants he might send it to us. Could he give us the list of the allowances? It might not affect the number because with the recent recruitment situation an allowance might have been discontinued but there might have been no new entrant in that area yet. I am concerned that it seems...

Other Questions: Public Service Reform Plan Update (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: There is a conflict and a mechanism to slow it up. The Minister caused a brouhaha with his unrealistic announcement of €75 million in savings that was to be achieved by this. Once he drilled into it, he saw that some of the allowances were excellent value for money, were part of core pay in effect but were given through a variety of mechanisms. It would be good for the public...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: While I certainly will the ends, which are to balance the books, I deny the means by which the Government has gone about it in each of its three budgets. The ESRI and everybody have stated they were the most unfair budgets Ireland has had in recent years-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: -----in that the cuts have been directed at those on the lowest levels of income and additional sources of revenue have not been targeted at those earning more than €100,000. It begs the question as to the reason the Minister has been in government supporting Fine Gael policy all along. I refer to something I cannot understand. The Minister announced cuts of €113 million in...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to ensure all expenditure measures announced in budget 2014 are implemented throughout Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23711/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: Last October, during his budget day speech, the Minister announced savings of €113 million through medical card probity analysis which led to the onslaught we have had against the elderly and sick people who have lost their medical cards despite every member of the Government, including the Taoiseach, stating there was no change in Government policy. On the same day, the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: I will go back to the statement made by the Minister last October to be implemented this year, in particular the savage cuts he and his party colleague, the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, inflicted on people this year. Why is the Labour Party in government when the Minister and Deputy Burton-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Budget 2014 (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Minister, and the Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, have announced the discontinuance of the telephone allowance for elderly people. They also approved cuts to maternity and adoptive benefits, as announced by the Minister, Deputy Howlin, and implemented by the Minister, Deputy Burton, who obviously agreed to it before the announcement. The Ministers also cut illness benefit and jobseeker's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: I know the Minister was very keen to pass the Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Act 2014. He might explain why he chose not to commence it until such time as he was embarrassed publicly to so do when the Minister, Deputy Shatter, announced his resignation and why he has now chosen to bring the remainder of it into operation in a month's time or so and not on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: I had a quick look through the various items of legislation that have been passed by the Minister's Department since he has come into office. He might tell us - if he does not have the answer to hand today he might send it on to me - when he commenced the operation of the legislation providing for national lottery regulator. If he does not have the answer to that on file with him he might...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the legislative provisions in respect of his Department that have been passed by the Oireachtas but not come in to effect to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23710/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: Arising from the recent revelation, which made clear that while the Oireachtas had passed legislation, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform had failed to bring it into operation, as a result of which the former Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, Deputy Shatter, was able to claim his severance payment when he stood down, will the Minister tell me what other legislative...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Housing Finance Agency Issues (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: 10. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the State’s policy in respect of dividends from the Housing Finance Agency; if the policy has changed in recent times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23699/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Licence Sale (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: 17. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied with the operating plans for the new national lottery licence is respect of protecting vulnerable persons from developing gambling problems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23698/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2015 (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the budget planning process for budget 2015 has commenced; the priorities that he has set for the next budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23702/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Administration (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 11 February 2014 regarding the maintenance charge of €23,000 per bus per year which is over five times higher than the equivalent charges for school transport in Northern Ireland, if he will immediately claw back all money paid to Bus Éireann under state aid rules in view of the fact that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: 185. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation will be carried out in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23741/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Jun 2014)

Seán Fleming: 186. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital in Mountmellick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23742/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (29 May 2014)

Seán Fleming: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the situation regarding the allocation of learning support to schools; if he will consider making this allocation on the basis of the number of pupils in a school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23542/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (29 May 2014)

Seán Fleming: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements and facilities provided separately by learning support facilities and resource facilities in primary schools; if the allocation of staff will be mixed between learning support and resource teaching; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23582/14]