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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Construction Projects (2 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: 419. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of public construction contracts where novated specialists have been used; if he will list this information per year since 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31997/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Construction Projects (2 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: 416. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of public construction projects which have gone to arbitration; if he will list this information per year since 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31994/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (2 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: 420. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if Government bodies and agencies are permitted to buy supplies locally in cases where they can be purchased at a lower cost than via the National Procurement Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32029/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (2 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: 535. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to annul or withdraw the Local Government (Boundaries) (Town Elections) Regulations 1994 (S.I. No. 114/1994); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32202/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: 635. To ask the Minister for Health when an appointment for cataract surgery will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31494/13]

Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: Is the Minister, Deputy Bruton, the leader?

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: We will not waste any time. My views are well known. I expressed them last night. I am pressing the amendment.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 2:In page 12, line 40, after “device,” to insert the following: “and includes a transcript of phone calls to and from a landline or a mobile phone,”.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 3:In page 16, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: “6.--A committee conducting an inquiry established under this Act shall consist of a minimum of forty per cent of members of the current Government party and a minimum of forty per cent of members of the opposition.”.I welcome the opportunity to discuss amendments Nos. 3 and 4. These...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: I will be concise and to the point. The Minister's final remarks let the cat out of the bag about this inquiry because he was responding to the remark about what happened after the night of the guarantee. He said it was up to the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform to do that at any stage. The implication was that he, as a Government Minister, and this Government...

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 4:In page 16, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:“(2) A chairperson of any committee established under this Act shall be a member of the opposition.”.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: Where was Deputy Donnelly last night?

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: Thank you.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: Very well.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: It was done without this legislation.

Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: There are new amendments.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, line 23, after "approval" to insert "and includes service of the national debt".I welcome the opportunity to move amendment No. 1. We are discussing amendments Nos. 1 to 13, inclusive, as part of this overall topic. We discussed it at length on Committee Stage. It is the same amendment, by and large. Some of my other amendments might be slightly...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: I am sure the same treaty obligation put on an obligation on EU institutions, yet consider the discussion we had in recent months about agreeing its budget. The European Parliament gets to discuss the EU budget - what it takes in and receives from us - but we do not have an equivalent and reciprocal debate, yet we are governed by the same treaty. If the same debate can be held at European...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister stated the various items I have mentioned in amendments Nos. 1 to 13 are matters which the Oireachtas has decided by law are to be paid. If the Oireachtas can decide by law that they should be paid, the Oireachtas can equally decide by law to remove them from the arrangement they are in and make them voted expenditure. We will return to this issue. Thank God for Europe and...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: One reason we had to bring it forward was for the shared services programme because the budget figure last year was not big enough and we could not spend too much this year. The system is up and running and I hope it is working well. Thank God for Europe, and perhaps Europe might tell us to do this by way of voted expenditure at a future date.