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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: How much work on these projects will physically start in 2013? I take it that nothing will happen this year. Perhaps the Minister can tell us how many people will be employed specifically as a result of this initiative in 2013.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister introduced party politics into this. He will get his answer back from me.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister was not there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I would love him to look-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister feels that he is in a position to comment even though he was not there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am responding to the Minister's response. The Government is producing its second budget. It might not have dawned on the Minister that the public has realised that he and his colleagues are in government. I do not hear President Hollande of France blaming Nicolas Sarkozy for his difficult choices.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I do not believe David Cameron goes around-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister thinks the solution to the Government's problems is to continue to pass the buck to those who were in government in previous years, but the people of Ireland have moved on from the past.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: They are more interested in the present and the future.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister knows that if the Government is not happy with the programme it inherited, it is free to renegotiate elements of it each quarter. It has the ability to do that and it has done it in certain cases. The Minister cannot hitch it onto the old Government. This Government has the flexibility to renegotiate any aspect of the programme that it does not like. The Minister and his...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: There is no figure in the agreement for the sale of State assets.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister has made an inaccurate statement. There is no figure in the memorandum of understanding for the sale of State assets.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister should not try to rewrite history.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the payments of salary increases by means of increment to public servants earning more than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43388/12]

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: While I thank the Minister for the figures, the question sought to ascertain the Minister's views on the issue. By way of parliamentary question to the Department of Health, I obtained the information that 185 people in the HSE on salaries of in excess of €100,000 will receive increments this year. The HSE represents approximately one third of the entire public service so we can...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to hear the Minister is personally well disposed to the issue if he can find a legal mechanism to do it. While it is only 500 people this year, it is another 500 next year and so on. In fact, the figure is about 6,000 or 7,000 over a period of a few years.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: It is approximately 500 this year and I have no reason to believe it will be any less than 500 next year or the following year. If it is €40 million a year, that is a significant contribution over a couple of years. I suggest the Minister might take a case to the Labour Court and see what it decides and whether this can be negotiated. I would much prefer to see the public sector...

Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I asked a broad question on the Croke Park agreement which, as the Minister noted, was introduced by the previous Government. It has helped to achieve, in industrial peace, the reduction of staff numbers from approximately 320,000 to 292,000 and is intended to bring about savings of some €3.5 billion. It is important to put that on the record because people complain now and ask...

Other Questions: Croke Park Agreement Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The first annual report covered the period from 1 April to 31 March so one can conclude the same again if it is a four year agreement. Can it extend to the end of 2014? The Minister might clarify that point because people continue to ask that question. Would he be minded to bring forward that date, as some Members on the Government side have suggested, in order to get an earlier deal on...

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012. The background and context to the discussion is that the Irish people recently voted in a referendum, by a majority of 60% to 40%, to pass what was generally described at the time as the fiscal compact agreement. Essentially, this legislation is to give effect to the budget and debt rules which are part of the...