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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: It is the same as Iarnród Éireann.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I accept the Minister's response on the North-South issues.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 11: In page 15, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following:“(b) the functions of Bus Éireann that directly relate to the provision by it of school transport services for the Department of Education and Skills on a contract agency basis;”.What is the Minister's response? This is about Bus Éireann and school transport.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendments No. 12: In page 15, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(b) receivers and administrators working for or employed by the National Asset Management Agency;”. People will understand the reason the agency is worthy of discussion when it comes to FOI legislation is the scale of its activities. Amendment No. 79 has been tabled by the Minister and is...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I will go back to those three issues. Amendment No. 12 refers to "receivers and administrators working for or employed by the National Asset Management Agency". I understand that in most cases in which NAMA is holding loans, companies bring in the receiver or administrator. It is done by the company with the agreement and full knowledge of NAMA, which is required to give its consent, but...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: It is under NAMA legislation. It does not concern the Companies Act. I am fairly sure the matter is not covered by companies legislation as there is specific legislation for NAMA. I am only speaking about cases in which NAMA appoints receivers, as opposed to most cases in which receivers are appointed by companies. We might seek clarification on that point. Amendment No. 81 refers to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I am surprised at the Minister. The big boys are calling the shots again. They should have been told where to go. Most people agreed with what the Minister did in bringing down the pay of the chief executives but it is galling-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I said most people, although there are some who would not agree. Once again, NAMA and the NTMA have got out of it. This is not good enough. Let us look at what the NTMA does. One could say that for the past three years, while the troika was in town, it had very little work to do. It was not raising the level of funding on the market that it had been raising. I know it might have had to...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: The NTMA is being partially included but the Minister is excluding the terms and conditions of the senior executives.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: That is not good enough. The Minister might explain why the terms and conditions are being excluded. I think the Minister's instinct was not to accept it but it was forced on him by the Department of Finance. If the Minister had his hand on this, he would have told them where to go and we would have supported him in that. I have no doubt we will vote on this amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I do not-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: No.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I accept that.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: They had a lot less to do.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: From where is the resistance coming, other than the people who are receiving the payments? I know the Minister will not comment and that this legislation is as a result of a collective Cabinet decision but I can understand his instinct is to say what they are paid. However, they have said they do not want that to happen. The Minister gave his answer in his press release on the publication...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I accept several paragraphs in the same section and I know Deputy Donnelly had a different view and wanted them excluded. I accept investors are going to invest, that company funds are potential investors and that purchasers are potential purchasers of assets. I could have included that but I felt, in the interests of the Irish taxpayers, that good commercial practice might be compromised...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I accept that.

Access to Credit: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak at the conclusion of this debate. The message from the beginning of the debate right through to the end is that we all recognise that accessing credit remains very difficult for businesses and personal customers throughout the country. The continuing decline in the number of banks operating in the Irish economy, particularly in the retail sector - it has...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (13 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: 127. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when Garda vetting will be finalised in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48493/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (13 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if he wil provide information regarding the categories of persons based on clinical assessment with the orthodontist on the orthodontic treatment waiting list; the basis for the different categories such as 4d,5i,4f,4c, and all other categories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48517/13]