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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: -----for Report Stage, he will consider it. I signal my intention to do so.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: Were they aware?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: I am not happy with that. Could you explain the reason? The amendment is an essential change to the Bill to deal with those who supply bespoke materials as part of a construction contract. Throughout the process everyone has spoken about including this element in the legislation. I received the letter stating the amendment is outside the scope of the Bill. Will you explain to me in...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: I do not understand that because we are talking about construction contracts and related matters.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is most unfair.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: This is Committee Stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: I am even more puzzled now as to why we had contracts relating to drilling and extraction of oil included in the Bill and the Minister of State has chosen to remove them, but what we thought was germane and essential to the Bill – people supplying quarried material, concrete materials and items fundamental to the construction of the project at hand - cannot be covered. The legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to alleviate the cost disadvantage that Ireland has in relation to all freight transport modes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22977/13]

Other Questions: Universal Health Insurance White Paper (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Reilly is going socialist.

Other Questions: Cancer Screening Programme (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 81. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to expand the BreastCheck programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22595/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Exemptions (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 172. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a list of persons liable for the local property tax that are not required to pay the 2013 tax until 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22158/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Assessments (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 173. To ask the Minister for Finance the reasons that identical houses in private estates may have different values attributed to them for the local property tax in situations where the local authority is the owner of some of these houses and under the planning and development acts, Part 5, social and affordable housing scheme and these houses are to fall into the lowest valuation band of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 174. To ask the Minister for Finance the situation regarding the capital gains tax payable by a landowner who transfers a site to a relation for no consideration; the liability that attaches to the person who transfers the site and the liability that attaches to the person who receives the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22160/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 180. To ask the Minister for Finance if State bodies, State agencies and public bodies should be required to get a tax clearance certificate ffrom persons who purchase assets from them to ensure assets formerly owned by the State are not going into the black economy in view of the fact that there is a requirement for tax clearance certificates to be available for people who are receiving...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Redundancies (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons in the public service who are employed in more than one location are eligible for the enhanced redundancy payment in respect of one of their locations of work while continuing in the education system while working at another location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22168/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff Redundancies (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers who have teaching hours in more than one location are eligible to obtain the enhanced redundancy package in respect of one of their locations while continuing to teach for other hours at a different location and still continue to work in the education system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22170/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Safe Passes (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason safe pass tickets for various courses on construction and other sites do not last for up to three or four years as is the case in many other countries in view of the fact that it is putting on undue burden on people who are not in employment to continue to pay to have these updated on a more regular basis; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason new entrants into the teaching profession have to pay a teacher registration fee of €90 whereas the fee for existing teachers is €65; if this is not placing an unfair burden on new entrants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22169/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 233. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person on a teaching panel in second level education and are waiting to be redeployed to an alternative location are being paid their normal salary during these periods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22171/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (14 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school building projects (details supplied) in County Laois; when this is expected to go to construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22180/13]