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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: As the answer is zero, that is good news. Will Ms McGrath send us a note if the OPW was involved in acquiring the site for the decentralised offices of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in Portlaoise? It was an IDA Ireland site encompassing a couple of acres. I forget whether it was acquired by the OPW or Laois County Council. Was it acquired by the OPW?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Will Ms McGrath send us a note on the current plans for the project? From the perspective of the OPW, is there a plan for a reduced scale office or does the OPW have plans to extend what was the original office? As Ms McGrath knows, the OPW has approximately seven leases for seven properties in Portlaoise for the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine alone. In the interests of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Ms McGrath says the OPW has charge of 760 national monuments and 30 national historic properties. What is the role of the OPW in the 1916 commemorations? Will Ms McGrath send us a note on that matter? Some of the events will be held on OPW properties and it must be involved in the commemorations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: The OPW will probably need a budget for that work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Operations and Functions: Office of Public Works (10 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am happy to conclude, but will Ms McGrath send on the information to the committee?

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Minister referred already to the interview with the Ombudsman, Mr. Peter Tyndall, on "Morning Ireland" this morning. I understand he made it clear in his press release yesterday that his office cannot examine the actions in private nursing homes and essentially laid the blame at the Minister's door, saying he was waiting for the Minister to pass some statutory instrument. Why is the...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: The order we voted on just a few minutes ago was that the Dáil shall sit later than 5.30 p.m. today and shall adjourn not later than 10 p.m., and there shall be a suspension of sitting for one hour after the Order of Business. We have completed the Order of Business so, as we voted, we should suspend for an hour. Nevertheless, there is a proposal to take a vote now. That is not in...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps we should put that in Standing Orders if there are long-standing conventions that are not written anywhere. I told some people there would be a vote after the sos but it seems now it will be before the sos.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (11 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will be made under the single farm payment-disadvantage areas scheme in respect of a person (detail supplied) in County Laois following a recent inspection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47542/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role of his Department in respect of the overall book of Estimates for 2014, in view of the largest ever set of expenditure overruns across nine Government Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48015/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I wish to ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform about his role and that of his Department in respect of the overall book of Estimates for 2014, in view of the largest ever set of expenditure overruns across nine Government Departments.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: In his Budget Statement of 15 October 2013 the Minister stated:The two Government parties agreed a strategy for this budget and the Estimates. It involves reducing the tax and spending consolidation from the published €3.1 billion to €2.5 billion, targeting a general Government deficit of 4.8% for 2014 and in the process, achieving a primary balance.The Minister did this on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Had the Minister factored that figure of €1.2 billion into his budgetary estimates last year, he would have exceeded the deficit ceiling of 5.1%. He knowingly came to the House to present a figure that was under the target of 4.8% in the hope the Department of Finance would bail him out with extra tax revenue. Did he do this deliberately?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Minister has skirted around the fact that the 2014 Supplementary Estimate of €1.2 billion is the single biggest Supplementary Estimate in the history of the State. It was nearly matched by the Supplementary Estimate of €1.1 billion in 2012. The two biggest Supplementary Estimates since the foundation of the State have been presented since the Department of Public and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of shared services projects commenced across the Civil Service since 2011; the costs associated with these projects for each year; when these projects will generate an overall net saving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48016/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: In this question I ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the shared service projects commenced across the Civil Service since 2011, the costs associated with these projects for each year and when the projects will generate an overall net saving.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I understand the table will be circulated with the reply when we receive it by e-mail in the afternoon. Members on this side of the House have agreed with the principle and always known that there is a set-up cost. New offices and staff must be provided at new locations, while new software development systems must be put in place. Of course, it will take a few years and I am happy that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister send on the full list of shared services projects in the public service? Some of these are in their initial stages, others partly up and running. I know some of these will take time. My local authority area, Laois County Council, is in charge of the shared services project for local authority payrolls. It brings on three other local authorities each quarter, so it will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: There is a build-up. We are all agreed it could not have been rushed on day one. On 23 October, I put down a parliamentary question on the number of staff redeployed within local government shared services over the past three years. The reply from the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government stated his Department does not collate the redeployment data as requested....

Other Questions: Estimates Process (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: What is the current exposure of the State and its agencies, including semi-State bodies, to public private partnerships, PPPs, that have been entered into in recent years? Has he plans to increase the use of PPPs?