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Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Government voted down the motion to reduce their salaries. The Minister, Deputy Quinn, when he gave an answer in the Dáil earlier this month----

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Minister for Education and Skills stated in a reply in the House early last month that 99 people in our third level institutions earn more than €200,000 per annum.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Government's response is to increase student fees by 50% to pay for those salaries. Last week, the Government voted against-----

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Government said it would not do that. The parties in Government won the general election by deceiving the students of Ireland and their parents. It has now told them to return in 2015 and there might be a job for them. That is this Government's solution. The Government voted against a proposal to cut those salaries.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: In the health area, a number of medical consultants are also earning more than €200,000 per annum. I do not know what influence the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, has over the Government but he has been able to have the salaries of medical consultants exempted from examination in terms of the overall pay strategy for public servants. They have been excluded from the process. As I...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Another area on which I want to comment is that of legal fees. I am aware those in this sector also have friends in Cabinet. The States Claims Agency, to which the Minister did not refer today, has outstanding liabilities of €900 million. It has stated that it will pay €450 million, 50%, extra in legal fees dealing with those claims. Yet there is no proposal to cut legal fees. The...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Taoiseach, whom I watched intently on television last night, should go on television again tonight to explain the following.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: When the Taoiseach's script writers met with him last week they scripted a speech with the message that we are all in this together and that the Government was going to be fair. However, they had hardly left the room when the Taoiseach approved an 18% increase in travel and subsistence for senior officials of his Department. Staff in the Taoiseach's Office have had their travel and...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: We had spin last night and the substance is coming out today. Also, contract legal services for the Attorney General's Office, which comes under the remit of the Taoiseach, are to be increased to €668,925, a 38% increase. There are a few more increases I would like to mention.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: At a time when the Minister for Finance is asking everyone else to take a cut, he has increased salaries in his Department from €17.8 billion to €20.5 billion, an increase of 15%.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Travel expenses for his staff are also to be increased by a whopping 34%. Tell that to people whose fuel allowance is being cut.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Minister, Deputy Howlin, is increasing consultancy charges in his Department by 43%.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: He is also increasing his Department's office expenses by 27% and there is an increase of 11% for retired civil servants. The Office of Public Works, which comes within the remit of the Minister, Deputy Howlin, is increasing its office expenditure by 8%. Yet, everyone else is to take a cut. How does the Government reconcile these increases with fairness for the public? The Minister for...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The equality, integration and disability service at that Department has been also cut by 15%, from €19.7 million to €16.8 million. Will the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, who left the Chamber a few minutes ago, explain to those on whom she proposes to impose cuts the reason she has increased office expenditure in her Department by 23%, from €11.9 million to €14.7...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: This is a cut in the rates. The child benefit rate of €140 in respect of the first and second child is not to be cut but the rate in respect of the third and fourth child in respect of whom €166 and €176, respectively, is paid is to be cut. This is a cut of more than €1,000 per annum or €100 per week for a family with five or six children.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Government said this was a red line issue.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: A Cheann Comhairle, I am cutting-----

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: It is stated on page 29 of the document "...phase out entitlements to higher rates for the third and subsequent child over the next two years...", from which €70.7 million per annum will be saved.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: That means the Government is cutting the rate of child benefit.