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Other Questions: Sale of State Assets (9 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: It will be good to get the note. Will the Minister also give me a detailed note on the rules on the special dividend? I can understand that there probably are regulations on how much can be transferred from a semi-State company onto the State balance sheet. We will study the note. There is a capital investment programme of approximately €3.3 billion per annum. When the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Parliamentary Questions (9 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 15. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to proceed with the proposal to impose a statutory duty on bodies established by or under statute, or with a majority ownership or funding by the State, to submit to the same parliamentary questions regime as applies to Departments, including an obligation to provide answers to written questions within a specified number of...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (9 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions he has taken on foot of the recently published Comptroller and Auditor General report to ensure expenditure occurs in the best interests of the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38158/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (9 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views that the number of State contracts that are awarded to companies outside the State is above the European average; the way this can be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38162/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (9 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 130. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will be provided a hearing aid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38617/14]

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: I thank my colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath, for opening Fianna Fáil's response to the budget. The budget is all about making choices. In the past three years we have seen three regressive budgets which cut expenditure on essential public services and the incomes of those who could least afford it. We on this side of the House welcome the improvement in the economy and the...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Government's actions today are creating a divided society. The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening. Fianna Fáil could have chosen in its budget proposal to cut the top rate of income tax for the highest income earners, but it did not. We believe resources should, in the first instance, be directed to improve services for citizens and the quality of life of all....

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: People are homeless, sleeping in doorways not 100 yd. from this building but the Government’s response is to give tax cuts to the high earners. People cannot afford the new water tax but the Government’s response is to give tax cuts to the high earners.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: I know the Government feels we should all be aboard the train leaving the station. In its haste, however, it is leaving many people stranded on the platform. Will the Government consider the effects it is having on society? A key aspect of the budget’s proposals is to rebuild our health services. It is not sufficient to just stand still in the delivery of our health services....

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: I refer to page 80 of today's document where, in microscopic print - one would need to go to Specsavers to able to read it - is stated:In addition to the figures provided, the Department of Health is progressing a range of savings measures, €130 million and income generation measures, €330 million, estimated to have the potential to support expenditure in 2015. Further detail...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: There is €460 million of a black hole and the Minister will not tell us today how it will be fixed. He claims he will increase income generation capacity of the HSE for €330 million with another expenditure cut of €130 million.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: He came in last year with an expenditure cut of €113 million for his bogus medical card probity. We saw where that got him. It was a shambles. Has he learned nothing? How will these unspecified savings be achieved?

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: The review states, “To do so will involve commitment to ongoing reform and efficiency measures and reprioritisation of expenditure as appropriate.” That means cancel and cut projects.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Why will he not tell us today what is in the Estimate?

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Why do we have to wait for a couple of months for the specific figures to come out? Will the €330 million be made up of additional accident and emergency department charges?

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Will it be new prescription charges in the HSE annual service plan?

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Will it be a charge for waiting on a hospital trolley in an accident and emergency unit?

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is what it will be. When one goes into hospital from now on, one will be asked for one’s private health insurance number. Then one will be told one can have either the trolley or the chair but will still pay €400 a day because one has private health insurance.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: Where else is the Government getting the extra €330 million in income generation? I know where some of it comes from. The Government promised free-GP care for the under-sixes last year.

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Budget Statement 2015 (14 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: It did not happen but still the Government had to get a Supplementary Estimate to balance the books. We saw the hint of it the other day. The new Minister for Health has said there might be a nominal fee for the free-GP card. How much will this nominal fee be? Those are the Minister’s words, not mine.