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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (17 Jun 2015)
Seán Fleming: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Garda Síochána clearance is required for all persons teaching and working in schools; if this procedure applies to members of the boards of management of schools and to bodies that oversee the provision of schools, such as Educate Together, Gaelscoileanna and other national organisations; if Garda Síochána vetting is...
- Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)
Seán Fleming: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 to make provision for a partial exemption of property tax payable by a relevant owner whose property is located in a managed estate on which the owner of said property is liable to the payment of management fees and to provide for related matters.I thank you, a Cheann Comhairle,...
- Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: First Stage (18 Jun 2015)
Seán Fleming: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Monuments (18 Jun 2015)
Seán Fleming: 18. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide a specific timetable and budget for the Office of Public Works to advance works on the National Monument at Number 14 to 17 Moore Street in Dublin 1; if these works will be completed by Easter 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18239/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. O'Driscoll and his colleagues. I have a few issues to raise and if they were specifically covered while I was attending other meetings, well and good. Twice on the first page of his opening script Mr. O'Driscoll referred to the successfully negotiated agreement on the reform of Common Agricultural Policy which included the end of milk quotas. Given that we were in the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: Ireland is a net contributor, is it not?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: Ireland is a net contributor.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: There is another committee meeting next door which is complaining about the European Union bullying the banks. Now Mr. O'Driscoll is saying we were bullied in agriculture. I cannot resist making the comparison.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: Is that figure included in the Department's Estimates for this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: That is, the interest cost. To finish on the superlevy, I ask the Department to supply a breakdown of the number of farmers affected by a levy of €5,000 or less, between €5,000 and €10,000 and so on. It must have all of these statistics, but I do not want to delay the meeting by asking the witnesses to read the figures. I ask that they supply the data to the committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: If 6,000 farmers are carrying a debt of €69 million, it averages out at a sum of around €10,000 per farmer. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: That is a serous amount of money for those affected. The tragedy is that they are probably our most progressive farmers, the ones who are trying to expand and produce more.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: On page 3 of the appropriation accounts I was surprised to read that the Department was in breach of national procurement guidelines to the tune of €5 million in 19 specific cases, or an average of €263,000 per case. In addition, there are other local historical supplier arrangements that are outside national procurement guidelines. Of the 19 cases referred to, what was the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: I will not ask Mr. O'Driscoll to repeat himself.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: On farm inspections, I received a reply to a parliamentary question from the Department yesterday. In cross-compliance inspections in 2014, of which there were 1,368, 26% of farms were given a clean bill of health, with no breaches; on 36% of farms there were minor breaches, with no financial penalty, while on 38% of farms there were breaches involving penalties. There were 4,743...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: For what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: What is the amount per annum and does the Department have a contingent liability included in its figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: Have we paid any of the €180 million fine?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: We have not paid any of the fines since 2008. Is that the case?