Results 8,101-8,120 of 34,780 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: The Minister can understand that we are here to tease that out.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: If anybody watching this thinks we are not too bright because we have to go through it slowly, so be it. We are doing it in the public interest.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: Those in the final Schedule are not exempted. That means the Minister is free to designate them, if he chooses.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: However, he has not yet designated them.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 68: In page 12, between lines 36 and 37, to insert the following:"(9) This section shall not apply to unpaid volunteers of an organisation that is otherwise a registered person for the purposes of this Act.".This amendment refers to the returns to be made by registered persons, organisations, lobby groups, lobbyists or organisations that have lobbying carried out. The...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: More importantly, we will see if we get any result.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: That is a very good evening's work. We can now go and vote in the Chamber.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: Section 14 concerns delayed publication. This section provides for two scenarios where publication can be delayed. One is where the State’s interests are at risk and the other is where the individual's business is likely to suffer a material loss. With regard to the former, as the Bill is written the commission can only delay publication when the registered person applies, i.e. the...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: I note the Minister's comments.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: I presume this point could come in under a variety of sections. Section 15 is entitled "Evidence of entries on Register". The issue has been raised by some people involved in the industry connected with lobbying. They are concerned about the level of lobbying activity in this building, the national Parliament. In Brussels, there is an open system where lobbyists are registered and badged...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: Is it a matter for the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission to introduce it?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: I do not know the difference between them.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: The Public Relations Institute of Ireland is concerned that a Deputy or Senator must sign people in to get access to the building, whereas other people might have more informal access through former connections with the building.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: Some day we will. It is a matter to be raised internally in the Oireachtas rather than in legislation.
- Order of Business (26 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: The Government should remove the guillotine.
- State Boards (Appointments) Bill 2014: First Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to reform the method whereby persons are recruited and selected for appointment to State boards; and to ensure that persons of the highest quality are recruited and selected for such appointments.I appreciate being allowed to introduce this Bill, the purpose of which is to put appointments by Ministers to State boards on - I...
- State Boards (Appointments) Bill 2014: First Stage (26 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Topical Issue Debate: HSE Staffing (26 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: I appreciate the opportunity to raise the issue following a report which appeared in The Irish Timesrecently, which showed that the number of senior management staff in acute hospitals has increased from 273 in 2011 to 303 in 2014. That is a rise of 11%. The number of senior managers has increased by that amount over the three and a half years even though there has been a significant...
- Topical Issue Debate: HSE Staffing (26 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for the information he supplied. Essentially, I am wearing my hat as spokesperson on public expenditure. I am shocked to hear that the Haddington Road agreement seems to be increasing costs in the public service. The agreement was intended to lead to a reduction of €1 billion across the public service, one third of which was to come from the HSE because it...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (26 Nov 2014)
Seán Fleming: 42. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that her officials are finding it difficult to refer potential participants to sponsors for community employment projects in view of restrictions being implemented, which keeps the number of years a person may actually work on community employment to a minimum, and due to this high turnover of...