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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions that have been taken to date in respect of the public sector voluntary redundancy scheme he announced in October 2012; if a cost benefit analysis has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2798/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (23 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a Student Universal Support Ireland grant will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3259/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Small and Medium Enterprises (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied that the small and medium enterprise sector is accessing the credit it needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3321/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a Student Universal Support Ireland Grant application will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in Co. Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3508/13]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: My question relates directly to last week's meeting dealing with the 2011 accounts for the Commission for Aviation Regulation, Commission for Communications Regulation and Commission for Energy Regulation. While we discussed those accounts during that meeting it was only following the meeting that I got a proper look at the accounts, which were for the year ended 30 June 2011 and as such...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The annual accounts for the year ending 30 June 2011 were signed off on 21 December 2011, which led me to query whether the 2012 accounts had been signed off. It would have been far more beneficial for the committee to have had those accounts. On two occasions during the past couple of months we discussed accounts that were a year and a half old. It would be far more beneficial and make...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: On that matter, why do we receive the accounts for the Navan Golf Club PLC? Is it part of a larger body and so on?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I understand the issue with Leopardstown, the Cork race course and Fairyhouse. They are race courses involved with horse racing. I do not see the connection between Navan Golf Club and the horse racing industry.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I know there is no obligation but out of courtesy could the auditor come before us, even if it was only in private session? He might agree to come in the interests of joined up governance.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Will the briefing be private or public?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. Murphy and his colleagues to the meeting. I will not dwell on all the meetings I have had with the authority during the year about the cessation of the bus route which served Abbeyleix, Durrow, Johnstown and Urlingford on the Dublin-Cork route and the reduction in the services on the Limerick route. This seems to be happening throughout the country. I thank Mr. Murphy for his...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Has the authority received many such requests during the year? I did not notice this heading in the annual accounts. Is there a ballpark figure available?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The website is very important. I know that the NTA has a list on its website of every private operator in the country that has a licence but their timetables are not on the site. People with local knowledge might tell somebody if there is a bus service licensed to go from town A to town B in some province. Due to commercial activities some of those buses are not operating although they...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: Are all the timetables there?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is great.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is important. I am critical of CIÉ and yesterday I listened to people from Roscommon on "Morning Ireland" whose service had been replaced by a service to Dublin Airport. Every route in the country seems to start or end at an airport and the people in between do not count. CIE has abandoned many rural areas and there will be further denuding of CIE expressway services around the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The NTA gives a figure of €265 million paid to Iarnród Éireann, Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann in public service obligation. Is any of that available to private operators or is it confined to CIE group companies?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is excellent news for us in Laois and for the Roscommon people I heard on "Morning Ireland", and all over the country. Does the NTA have much of a fund for this? Rural communities would love to hear the news this morning that there is a PSO subsidy for some of these new routes. Is this new?

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: The strength of the representations did this.

Public Accounts Committee: National Transport Authority - Financial Statement 2011 (24 Jan 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is good. It is a learning experience for us all. Does the NTA issue taxi licences for the whole of Ireland?