Results 4,561-4,580 of 34,779 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I know that, but I am talking about the actual payment. Also included are the salaries and pensions of Uachtarán na hÉireann, the Comptroller and Auditor General, and Deputies. I will come back to those points. The Central Fund, unless otherwise stipulated by law, is where all State revenues are deposited. I now want to deal with a specific issue. I refer to the document, the...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I am referring to the Medium-Term Fiscal Statement, published in November 2012. I believe it came after the comprehensive review of public expenditure. This was the one published in November 2012, incorporating the Department of Finance autumn forecasts.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: Fine. I do have it, but the figures I am taking-----
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: It is interesting that the figures published last year have changed already. Is that the point the Minister is making?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I would have hoped the forecast would have lasted longer than six months. Anyhow it is an update. I have checked some recent figures also based on the 2013 Estimates. I refer to the document, Estimates of Receipt and Expenditure for the year ending 31 December 2013, which costs €1 for those who want to pay for it. I also referenced my figures to this document and there is a slight...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I understand that, but we should be speaking about the cost of the debt which is part of government expenditure. It should not be excluded from our discussion process because it comes from the Central Fund and has nothing to do with Parliament. It is taxpayers' money and how much we pay on the national debt should be voted through each year. This is the point I wish to make. I know...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: Of course we get money from the EU, but we certainly do not get back the money for servicing the national debt. That money is gone.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I am just saying we do not get to discuss as part of the Estimates process the €8 billion which goes to service the national debt. We also do not get to discuss the contribution to the EU budget of €1.444 billion, and if we did there might be greater understanding about it. I believe we receive approximately €2 billion per annum from the EU through the Department of...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: Maybe not. I am delighted to see that we are getting more than €2.5 billion back, but I do not think people realise that we are paying that sum into the EU's coffers this year. My point - which I will continue to make until people are tired of hearing it, so that maybe somebody will act eventually - is that it is never discussed in this House. It is excluded because it is called...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he will take to alleviate the cost disadvantage that Ireland has in relation to all freight transport modes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22977/13]
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I am not happy with that. Could you explain the reason? The amendment is an essential change to the Bill to deal with those who supply bespoke materials as part of a construction contract. Throughout the process everyone has spoken about including this element in the legislation. I received the letter stating the amendment is outside the scope of the Bill. Will you explain to me in...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I do not understand that because we are talking about construction contracts and related matters.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: That is most unfair.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: This is Committee Stage.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I am even more puzzled now as to why we had contracts relating to drilling and extraction of oil included in the Bill and the Minister of State has chosen to remove them, but what we thought was germane and essential to the Bill – people supplying quarried material, concrete materials and items fundamental to the construction of the project at hand - cannot be covered. The legislation...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I hear what the Minister of State is saying. We all have a considerable amount of material on this legislation, which affects people's livelihoods, with people going out of business if they are not paid for work. We have letters from the Irish Concrete Federation, the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, and several other bodies, indicating their preference to have bespoke...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: -----for Report Stage, he will consider it. I signal my intention to do so.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: Were they aware?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, subsection (1), between lines 42 and 43, to insert the following:" "social contract clause” means a clause that obliges an executing party to—(a) employ some unemployed persons who are on the live register and who are under 25 years of age, and (b) employ some persons who are long term unemployed;".The intention of the amendment is to include a...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Construction Contracts Bill 2010: Committee Stage (15 May 2013)
Seán Fleming: That is the point I wanted to make.