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Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in respect of the October Exchequer returns; the reason the capital spending for his Department was €4m below profile for this period; his plans to ensure that the full capital spending is implemented before the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53826/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in respect of the October Exchequer returns, the reason the capital spending for his Department was €19m below profile for this period; his plans to ensure that the full capital spending is implemented before the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53827/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in respect of the October Exchequer returns, the reason the capital spending for his Department was €150m below profile for this period; his plans to ensure that the full capital spending is implemented before the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53829/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: International Agreements (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when Ireland will fully implement the Aarhus Convention; if this will have an impact for wind farms here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54106/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Staff (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of veterinary inspectors who availed of the early retirement scheme earlier this year that are currently working for his Department on a contract/agency or other basis; the amount of money paid to them since they took early retirement and a timescale for when this practice will end and appropriate new staff...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in respect of the October Exchequer returns, the reason the capital spending for his Department was €11m below profile for this period; his plans to ensure that the full capital spending is implemented before the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53834/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Defence in respect of the October Exchequer returns, the reason the capital spending for his Department was €2m below profile for this period; his plans to ensure that the full capital spending is implemented before the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53828/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in respect of the October Exchequer returns, the reason the capital spending for his Department was €13m below profile for this period; his plans to ensure that the full capital spending is implemented before the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53825/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health in respect of the October Exchequer returns, the reason the capital spending for his Department was €32m below profile for this period; his plans to ensure that the full capital spending is implemented before the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53832/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health the number of ambulance managers that have access to Health Service Executive cars in the course of their work; the number that are allowed to bring them to their private homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54404/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Expenditure (4 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in respect of the October Exchequer returns, the reason the capital spending for his Department was €23m below profile for this period; his plans to ensure that the full capital spending is implemented before the end of the year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53837/12]

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: I look forward to making a contribution on detailed aspects of the budget. I want to highlight issues that will affect the majority of ordinary families and people. This budget effectively tightens and squeezes the majority of families. Despite promises that this would be a fair budget, it is anything but. It follows the pattern of last year. Fine Gael defended its constituency of high...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: In respect of the Department of Social Protection benefits, the Minister has cut the period in which people can avail of jobseeker's benefit, from 12 to nine months for people who were working for three, four or five years and who, through no fault of their own, have lost their jobs, and from nine months to six for those who have worked ten, 20 or 30 years and who never missed a day's work or...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: In preparing for the Supplementary Estimates debate last week, the Library and Research Service gave me details of all the Supplementary Estimates. I asked how much there was in Supplementary Estimates in previous years and the staff gave me the figures for each year back to 2007. There have never been in recent memory Supplementary Estimates of the scale of those that have gone through the...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: They amount to €1.118 billion. I will spell it out to the Minister in further detail. When the Taoiseach set up the new Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, I thought it was a good idea and I supported it. In the Government's first full year in office, we have seen this Department fail utterly. The Taoiseach should take out the scorecards he stated he had for the Ministers....

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: What use did that Department serve? I will explain it to the people. Since the Minister stood in this House exactly one year ago, all of the Departments that are under his direct control as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform-----

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----overspent by €3 million every day, €20 million a week or €100 million every month for the past 12 months, and there have been Supplementary Estimates recently in the order of €1.2 billion. The list is available and the Minister knows it well. I have never seen such a poor outcome for a new Department and I did not expect I would be going down this road. I did...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----but those are the irrefutable facts.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: We told the Minister this time last year that the health Estimate was flawed. The figures were wrong; they did not stand up. Everybody knew they were flawed. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, needs stronger legislative powers to be able to stand up to the Ministers, Deputy Reilly and Deputy Burton, and tell them they cannot overspend.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Howlin comes into the House at the end of the year and thinks he can slip through €1 billion in Supplementary Estimates that arise from flawed budgeting. There was no overspending in the Department of Health. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, had a flawed budget for that Department to start with. Everybody told him the figures passed by the House last year were not adequate for the...