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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: They were all by and large State pensioners, people getting disability payments, illness benefit and such.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The elderly and disabled.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: How much does that package cost? Is it approximately €19?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: I received that information by way of reply to a parliamentary question during the week. That only applies to Eircom and the others may follow.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: Am I correct in saying that the monthly reduction was €13?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: At €13 per month, it would be €156 per annum which is significant for a person in receipt of the State pension, disability payment or carer's allowance.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: I know it is a budget day decision. Apart from the telephone allowances, were there changes to the energy allowance or the television licence?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: Of electricity.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: What is the effective change for the old-age pensioners?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: What was the average value of the old one?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: What was the average the Department worked out?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: So there is no cut at all there.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The only change was really on the telephone allowance. For the average person there was no change for the electricity allowance but there was for the telephone.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011 (14 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Department carried out a review of the domiciliary care allowance. What is the situation on that? It involves a thorny application process, with which I have to help people.

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Regional Service Plans (20 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health in view of the staff cuts in a number of sectors, the way the new Health Service Executive regional service plans will deliver improved services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13858/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors Working Conditions (20 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health the way he intends to improve the working conditions of non consultant hospital doctors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13841/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Trusts (20 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the plan in relation to the grouping of regional hospitals will be published; the implications for the hospitals in Portlaoise, Tullamore and Mullingar; the services that will not be continuing in the region in the long term in view of the possible breaking up of the four hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13722/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (20 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure that the pay cuts in line with the Croke Park 2 agreement for the public service are extended to the bailed-out banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14017/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (20 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance the parliamentary oversight provisions he has established in relation to the liquidator appointed to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in liquidation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14019/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Staff (20 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance if employees who are willing to cooperate with the liquidator of Irish Bank Resolution Corporation in liquidation to ensure a satisfactory outcome for the taxpayer will be compensated for their ongoing cooperation by way of making available the previous redundancy programme that existed in the bank prior to the liquidation in view of the fact taht the...