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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: This contract was null and void if the contractor had ceased trading. There was no enforceable contract against the Department because the contractor did not complete the job. Why does the Department refer to a "legally enforceable commitment" if nobody can legally enforce it against the Department? Who was the contracting authority for this, St. Patrick's or the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: There have been other schools projects that have attracted much publicity where contractors have gone bust. How many of them have occurred under the Department's Vote since 2010? Can we get a list of all the schools and campuses where the contractor has ceased trading during the course of the project and another contractor had to come in? After it had happened once or twice, it must have...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Minister. Everyone is in favour of money that can be carried forward to be spent in 2013 on projects and capital investment needed at that time. I would be surprised if anyone had a difficulty with the principle. The Minister could not have anticipated the questions I would ask but the script he has provided does not answer the questions on which I seek information. If he...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: I would like the information to be provided to the committee before the vote in the Dail to accept it. A number of Departments that are seeking to carry forward unspent allocations for capital expenditure in 2012 to 2013. Of those, which Departments required a Supplementary Estimate in December? We had Supplementary Estimates across a range of Departments amounting to over €1...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: We can give him a list of projects that are ready to go.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: There were six or seven Supplementary Estimates, although some of them were smaller. Those were the two big ones.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: There are two issues: the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and schools, and we will follow those up. We understand that there can be planning issues with the schools building programme and we hope the schools are built as soon as possible.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Will the Department's capital expenditure be commensurately reduced to take account of that?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is one of the biggest concerns. Leader money is a major issue, particularly where it has moved slowly. On that side, applications going into local development companies have declined because of the requirement for matching funding from the promoter of the business. The lack of any such funding, which also relates to the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Irish Water will not be up and running for a couple of years. I am concerned local authorities will stand back from completing projects. Is there any requirement for some small part of the funding to come from the local authority's own resources in addition to department money? If there is such a requirement, we can understand why local authorities will not want to do this. We need to see...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: In relation to the public private partnerships for schools and other areas, I presume the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, has a role but does it come under the Department of Finance or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister will be pleased to learn that this morning I will skip the discussion on the location of primary health centres.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Other things would arrive later.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Half of the work could be done.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: In what category are Garda vehicles?

Meath East By-election: Issue of Writ (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Tánaiste should have some respect for the man.

Topical Issues: Housing Adaptation Grants Expenditure (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: I am grateful for this opportunity to refer to the letters that were issued by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government to local authorities last Friday. They announced major, severe and draconian cuts to housing adaption grants and a number of other grants. Last year, the Department allocated approximately €55 million for this important area, yet these...

Topical Issues: Housing Adaptation Grants Expenditure (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister of State may assist in respect of transparency by publishing the list that went to each local authority, as Members have not had sight of it.

Topical Issues: Housing Adaptation Grants Expenditure (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: Second, the reason Laois County Council had zero commitments was it did not enter into commitments when it did not know it was guaranteed funding. It is being penalised for being prudent whereas in respect of the other counties, the Minister of State has indicated that €18 million of commitments were entered into without a guarantee of funding and consequently, they have access to the...

Topical Issues: Housing Adaptation Grants Expenditure (5 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: -----because of mismanagement of the capital budget in the aforementioned Department. Some of that money should be going to these people this year.