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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: In practice, does that mean that all payroll activity, etc., is done entirely separately from the political party in terms of, as Deputy Fleming said, issuing P45s, tax numbers, etc.? Is it entirely separate to the activity of the political parties, or can it be joined?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I did not make a wide-ranging speech but merely asked a specific question, namely, to the Minister's knowledge, how do the political parties administer these moneys?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: Correct.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: Correct, but to try to understand whether Deputy Fleming's amendment is valid or can be applied or whether a new wording can be found that might be acceptable to the Minister, I am trying to establish what is a very important point. The funds are clearly specifically designed for parliamentary activity. While I understand that completely, it is not clear to me that they are paid separately...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: It is relevant to the amendment because members cannot understand whether the amendment is workable or feasible unless they can understand the answer to that question.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: Consequently, it is administered entirely separately by the political parties to the rest of the moneys that are either fund-raised or generated through the Electoral Acts.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I disagree entirely with the Minister. We cannot respect the will or intent of the electorate on the basis of trite snapshots after an election. It is particularly telling that those snapshots are quite moveable in the event of a by-election from the point of view of the prevailing perspective in government and, indeed, the Minister's perspective. Frankly, that is convenient. It does not...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: As elected representatives of the people in our constituencies and across this country, we have been treated contemptibly. I refer to us not as individuals but as representatives of those who voted for us. The Minister is very well aware of the commitments made by the two Government parties, the Labour Party and my party, Fine Gael, and explicitly by the Taoiseach who committed to a...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: It is an iPad.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: We cannot vote.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: That is not the point.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: This goes to the very core of the legislation and it is relevant. I appreciate that Oireachtas Members are elected on the basis of how they present themselves at election time, whether as members of a political party or not. However, they are also individually selected. The two go hand in hand so the Minister cannot say the party brand supersedes the individual. Perhaps we will have an...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: This is relevant because the Minister has made the point that we are elected on a platform before an election and that if we walk away from that it is tough luck. In fact, it is not that simple. The individuals are punished through this legislation while the political parties get a bonus for reneging on pre-election commitments because they have fewer people on whom to spend the funds....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I support the Minister. We have been at odds on many issues today, but this is a really important point. I strongly support any initiative in the Government to establish a cabinetsystem whereby senior officials in Departments would be linked to the tenure of a Minister. There should be equal numbers of external advisers adding value and bringing expertise from outside and the existing...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (4 Mar 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 58. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation special liquidator's statement that PwC were the party responsible for conducting a review on the cost implications to the creditors of IBRC, if they sold Irish Nationwide Mortgages on an individual borrower basis to those who could afford to refinance the loan at the reserve value; if he will publish the PwC...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (4 Mar 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the value that the 2% of borrowers par value loans represent as a percentage of the entire Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loan book; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10875/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Inquiries (4 Mar 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 439. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm which section of what legislation precludes the Health Service Executive from commenting on the neglect of patients if the Medical Council has been investigating complaints, and precludes it from investigating issues that have been investigated by the Medical Council, as a person (details supplied) was informed by a person in the HSE; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Portfolio Value (5 Mar 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 on 13 February 2014, and the letter provided to this Deputy from his Department on 20 February 2014, if the National Assets Management Agency will detail the euro nominal amount of the balance of the €3.5 billion by category that is secured by property, assets other than land and development and unsecured; if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loan Book (6 Mar 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 13 February 2014, to which he responded by letter on 20 February 2014, if he will confirm the split of the €3.5 billion of par value loans acquired for nil consideration by the National Asset Management Agency, for each of Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks, Anglo Irish Bank, Irish Nationwide Building...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loan Book (6 Mar 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 63. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 13 February 2014, to which he responded by letter on 20 February 2014, if either the National Asset Management Agency or the originating banks, Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks, Anglo Irish Bank, Irish Nationwide Building Society and the Educational Building Society, have been investigated by the Central Bank...