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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I do not have a figure for what the increase in the budget is expected to be next year. Is it €100 million? I am not sure what the figure is. If the figure for income forgone is €4.1 billion per annum for subsidies that are damaging to the environment, the little extra collected is trivial. It only amounts to crumbs relative to the big picture, hence the earlier comments...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: It is good that we have the figures in front of us. We could not have this debate if we did not have the reports. We are here to debate the issue in the cold light of day.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Upwards or downwards.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: As of now, it is a standard. For how long has that approximate standard been in place? I am looking at figures for the period from 2012 to 2016. It has been generally-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is that imminent as in next year or the following year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: How much extra revenue would it yield based on what has been collected?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Revenue officials will be before the committee. It is a Revenue figure and we can ask it about it. At this stage we just want to have some of these figures put into the public domain as carbon tax is an issue. When people heard the debate in recent weeks on increasing carbon tax, I think they forgot the fact that we had been collecting over €400 million each year since 2010. That...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Lastly, are there industries that are less harmful to the environment through producing CO2 emissions than others? Did I read that tourism was good because it provided accommodation? Is there any employment information on all of the industries? If Ireland was a greater tourism destination, would that be another way of reducing our CO2 emissions over a period of time, not just in taxation...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Which industries are low?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: For people watching, will Mr. Brady explain that word, NACE?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is that dealt with in these reports?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Brady send a link to that to our secretariat, please?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: One way a country could improve a situation is to engineer over a period of time what it does or produces into sectors that have lower carbon emissions. That is a big ask. It is a long-term strategy. Governments have strategies for long terms, over years and decades. If we were to move into some of those industries, it might be a better way of dealing with this particular issue.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Morrin to send on the link. Those were the type of points I wanted to raise. We wanted to talk about this issue and we will be talking to the Department, which is the Accounting Officer to this committee. We wanted to get some hard information from the witnesses in terms of the report that they produced so that we are not just talking to the Department on a general basis. There...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding persons who take up positions in the public service, if previous similar work can be taken into consideration in terms of their starting points on the scale (details supplied); if this applies across each Department and local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45899/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an appeal in respect of a suppression of a teaching post by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45978/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 163. To ask the Minister for Health when additional home help hours will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45977/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the position regarding the national broadband plan; when the maps that are being re-examined for the intervention area will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46006/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hedge Cutting Season (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: 222. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the period of time during which it is permitted to cut hedges and ditches here; the position regarding the levy of fines that can be imposed in circumstances in which landowners do not cut their hedges that can cause difficulty for road users; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45926/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)

Seán Fleming: We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness. He is joined by Ms Geraldine Mooney, deputy director of audit. We have received no apologies for this meeting. The first item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 24 October - we had no meeting last week - together with the follow-up questions sent to the Department of...