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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes. I understand he is standing in for the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Howlin, who is away today. I have a couple of questions. I am calling for the Government to commit funding to ensure there is an independent review. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which is leading these talks, did not exist when...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Croke Park Agreement (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: While the concentration is on a reduction in numbers, I wish to put on record that part of the increase in numbers over that decade was due to the provision of additional resource teachers and special needs assistants in schools. This represented the biggest single increase in staff numbers and that cannot be ignored. I hope the Minister of State does not suggest the numbers that were...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that the proceeds from the sale of the National Lottery licence are ringfenced for key infrastructure investment; if he remains committed to using the maximum amount of the proceeds from the sale of State assets for job creating initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3186/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I know the Minister of State has read from a prepared script. I am beginning to realise that the people felt there was a genuine and very strong commitment that part of the proceeds from the sale of the national lottery licence would be ring-fenced for the new national children's hospital. There is absolutely no sense of that in the Minister of State's reply today. As a result of a new...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: What will happen this funding or will it be used for another purpose? When the time comes, will the Government be trying to find money for the national children's hospital? The Minister of State mentioned new legislation regarding the national lottery licensing, particularly the process of licensing. I have gone through every line of it but there is nothing in the legislation that would...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Some.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Sale of State Assets (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister of State knows that I never suggested that all the proceeds would be used from the sale of the national lottery licence, but it has always been stated that a significant portion would be used. Is the funding from the national lottery licence - whatever portion that is - to be ring-fenced for the national children's hospital, as everybody understood was the case? Will it be used...

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: On a point of order, I am surprised that six related questions have been grouped together, as they will take the rest of this questions session, approximately 36 minutes. The rest of the session will be spent on one topic. I have tabled a number of questions that are next in the sequence. Other Deputies have also tabled questions, but none will be discussed in this session.

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: What is the procedure? Must we agree to the grouping of questions-----

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: -----or do we have a choice?

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is that for all six?

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: It is all well and good for the talks to be held behind closed doors, but what of the public interest? The taxpayer is paying. The Government is participating with its employer's hat on and the employees are represented by the trade unions, but no one in the talks represents the public interest and the taxpayer. For this reason, people need to be made aware. According to the Minister of...

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The red line.

Other Questions: Public Service Reform (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: No.

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I do not blame the Minister, but I asked for an update on this issue. What the Minister said is a verbatim copy of the reply I am holding to a parliamentary question last November. I have every syllable, comma and full stop of what the Minister said in front of me.

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The record of the House shows there is no update from the update I am holding, which we were given in November after the Cabinet was updated at the end of October on measures to be implemented by 2012 and a review at the end of the third quarter. There is no update from then to now; the situation is the same.

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Yes. Several times before and since Christmas I have asked the Taoiseach about what progress had been made on the 47 measures that were to be implemented by 2012. Before Christmas he told me the heads of the Bill relating to the Competition Authority were to be published before Christmas. It did not happen. The legislative process for the rationalisation of the industrial relations...

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is what I asked for.

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I refer to the reply I received from the Minister on 21 November 2012. He stated: "I am confident based on the progress to date of the 47 measures will be completed at a minimum on an administrative basis by the end of the year."

Other Questions: State Agencies (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. I asked for an update and there has been no update. I acknowledge the work is ongoing. I thought it was nonsense when he said they would be completed by the end of the year but he put his neck out. That statement is on the Dáil record and I am just following up.