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- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 3:In page 3, line 23, after "approval" to insert the following:"and includes payments to PSE Kinsale Energy Limited".
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 19:In page 4, line 34, after "concerned." to insert the following:"The Ministerial expenditure ceiling shall be set out by way of regulation on or before 15 September 2013.".The main section in the legislation relates to Government and ministerial expenditure ceilings, a matter that we discussed on Committee Stage. I wish to firm up the significance of ministerial...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: Depending on the winters. I have seen crossovers between capital and current expenditure, which is not meant to happen. Even where there is no crossover within a Department, what it considers capital might be considered current by another Department. This issue must be examined. From an overall public expenditure and policy point of view, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: Are they not fixed for three years?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: I am not sure of the percentages. Taxation probably came in in terms of the overall output.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: On the expenditure side, there was €1 billion but we will not go there again. The Minister might clarify one small item. He said that the expenditure ceiling will be laid before the House, but can he explain what he means by that? If something is laid before the House, is it just put in the Oireachtas Library?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: So it is just part of the documentation?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: When the Minister said it was laid before the House, I thought we could see everything.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: No.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 23:In page 5, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“(11) The Minister shall set out by way of regulation those items that are current expenditure and those that are capital expenditure under the Ministerial expenditure ceilings on or before 15 September 2013.”.”.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 24:In page 5, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“(11) Any Government stimulus package or infrastructure programme that involves current or capital expenditure shall be set out by way of regulations by the Minister.”.”.We had a brief discussion on this topic on Committee Stage. This amendment states that "Any Government stimulus package...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: It was new money but less money is being spent on capital expenditure purposes compared to the previous year. In the way these things come out, however, one often thinks otherwise. The Minister may make a big cut in capital expenditure of €600 million or €700 million and then he announces an extra €100 million in March and another €100 million in July. People...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: The Minister might be able to help me as this is the third time I have asked this question. If he does not have the answer, perhaps he can send it on. We are talking about current versus capital expenditure concerning the amendment. The recent stimulus package was very current when we discussed it on Committee Stage because the Minister had just announced it. Does the Minister or the...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 26:In page 5, line 28, to delete "endorse" and substitute "give its opinion".We had an extensive debate on this issue on Committee Stage. The Bill provides that the fiscal council shall endorse as it considers appropriate the macro-economic forecast prepared. Despite that we had a lengthy debate on this issue, none of us was convinced and we are all reasonable people.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: Fine. If that is the legal Parliamentary Counsel's opinion, then the Minister should send him or her on a English course. What is provided for in the Bill is not plain English. We are all competent people but none of us can accept that "endorse" means "endorse or not endorse". I know that the Supreme Court often attaches a negative to an interpretation and that such can go either way. ...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: From what document was the Minister reading?
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: I bow to his or her superior knowledge of the English language.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: Yes, in the interests of clarity.
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 27:In page 5, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: "(d) the Minister shall, by way of regulation, provide on an annual basis, a detailed reconciliation between the macro-economic forecast and the official forecast.".".Again, this issue was discussed at length on Committee Stage, at which time I indicated my intention to table it again on Report Stage. The...
- Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)
Seán Fleming: It would be helpful if the Minister could circulate that note to members tomorrow. The Minister stated earlier that a reconciliation can be done.