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Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Separately. This is an issue Mr. Ó Foghlú.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: This is a topic we will come back to and I thank Deputy Mac Sharry and Deputy Aylward. We have concluded our meeting and I have found it an interesting and helpful exercise. Many members found the contributions positive and beneficial to the whole public discourse into the role, the regulation, the authority and powers of investigation of the HEA vis-à-vis the Department. In...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 233. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when funding will be provided for flooding relief works at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43465/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Indemnity Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 403. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to re-examine the conditions by which consultants can prescribe medicinal cannabis for persons with Dravet syndrome in such a way as to not make them personally liable for their entire treatment thereafter which understandably makes them reluctant to prescribe medicinal cannabis in these situations; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 404. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding providing medical treatment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43447/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 409. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Treatment Purchase Fund will approve funding for a procedure to be carried out for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43507/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 470. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a date for a surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43795/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 598. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason a project (details supplied) was not approved for funding under the town and village renewal scheme 2018; the reason its application was not approved; if there is a review mechanism and an appeal system in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43476/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Applications (23 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) will be re-examined with a view to approving the back to education allowance in view of the fact that the person was only 11 days short of the required number of days, which is an administrative rule in her Department rather than a statutory rule, and in further view of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I congratulate the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, on his new position. Owing to his family contacts, he is very familiar with the constituency of Laois-Offaly and perhaps Kolbe Special School, Portlaoise. I hope he will take a special interest in the school. The reason I am raising the issue of this school, in particular, is that it is extraordinary. There are very...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Do not say that, please.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for his reply. I hope he is at the cusp of making some progress. He said he hopes to progress the project to architectural planning at an early stage. I have given a commitment to the parents and the teachers. I will be back to the Minister every month about this issue. I ask him to get the work started. Even when it is started, it will have to go through the...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Finance Bill 2018. It is important that we have a good discussion on this significant legislation which runs to 149 pages. I will generally talk about the budget as that is what the Finance Bill is based on. However, there is a lot of small print in the Finance Bill which I hope will receive detailed scrutiny at Committee Stage. This is merely an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. He is joined by Deirdre Quaid, senior auditor. Apologies have been received from Deputy Deering. I am holding over the minutes of the previous meeting and we will come to clear a few of them, in a group manner, shortly. Therefore, no matters arise from them as we have not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: During the course of construction.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: Fine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: We are agreeing to write to the Department on those lines. We should ask it at this stage for the contract price for each of the schools involved. If we are sorting out the money side of this issue, we need to know the global cost of what is involved. We want to be specific on that. I propose that we write to the Department and ask that it reply by 13 November, as we have a meeting on 15...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: No. 1668?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: It is. We are holding it over. All items related to the housing issue will be noted for today but they will be on our agenda for when have our second meeting on the housing situation, which will be on 29 November.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 Oct 2018)

Seán Fleming: There is. Chapter 10 in the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report today, on which we have commented, is on the approved housing bodies. There is no statutory regulation there. The Comptroller and Auditor General made that point very clear in his report last month. We will be dealing with that issue and it is fair to raise it today. While the people from the Irish Council for...