Results 7,541-7,560 of 34,780 for speaker:Seán Fleming

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Generally, I understand what is involved but there is one issue. I tabled amendments which are part of this group. Amendment No. 101 is in my name and the Minister's name and it deals with EirGrid. EirGrid is the issue I want to talk about in this group. We put the case to the Minister on Committee Stage that Irish Water is now under FOI and EirGrid is a State monopoly. The Minister is...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I love to bring matters back to layperson’s English. Essentially, the Minister is including ESB Networks Limited in this Schedule because it deals with smaller transmission issues. Does this mean the planning process involving EirGrid and its transmission functions will be covered by freedom of information?

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Except the commercial bit?

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is good. I know the Minister will have some refinements to make in the autumn.

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Does the Minister hope that in the course of 2015, people will be able to make freedom of information requests to EirGrid? From when will it apply?

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 89:In page 73, to delete lines 12 to 33.This amendment concerns the Labour Relations Commission which I will not press. Amendment No. 91 relates to the National Treasury Management Agency, NTMA. While we will not go the wire on this, I am still shocked how the agency and the Department of Finance got one over on the Minister on this. Here we are opening up freedom of...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 91:In page 74, to delete lines 7 to 11 and substitute “functions;”.

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 98:In page 75, to delete line 33.

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 100:In page 75, to delete line 36.

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 104: In page 76, to delete line 13.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 94. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in relation to the panel for clerical officers in the public service established in 2007-08, the number of persons employed from this panel on a region basis and in particular the numbers that were employed in the Carlow-Kilkenny area and the Laois-Offaly-Westmeath area and the numbers of persons with disabilities who were on this...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of persons expected to be employed arising from the advertising of positions for clerical officers in the public service; the expected numbers to be employed in each of the regions throughout the country; the time scale for same; the number that are expected to be recruited in 2014, 2015 and subsequent years; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Recruitment (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 185. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of positions available in his Department for the position of serologists; the number of these positions that are expected to be filled in 2014, 2015 and subsequent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31811/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: State Bodies (17 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of agencies or State bodies under the aegis of his Department that have been abolished since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32241/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: State Bodies (17 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 39. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of new agencies or State bodies that have been established under the aegis of his Department since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32256/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff Remuneration (17 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 40. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total value of bonus payments made to staff under the aegis of his Department in 2013 and to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32271/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (17 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 56. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide full details, including salary, of every appointment he has approved since coming into office of special advisers under his remit; the salary cap that is in place with respect to special adviser appointments; the number of appointments he has approved with salaries in excess of the cap; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Jobs Initiative (17 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 2011 jobs initiative is still in operation; if so, the total expenditure that will be incurred as part of the jobs initiative in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32870/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (17 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance when a tax rebate will be issued to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32224/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Bodies Abolition (17 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of agencies or State bodies under the aegis of his Department that have been abolished since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32240/14]