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Croke Park Agreement (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister should provide us with the figures.

Croke Park Agreement (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: I have only one point to make on this matter. The Minister continually provides information on the gross savings to be made from the point of view of payroll. We know that people are entitled to their lump sums and pensions. All I ask is that the Minister provide the net figure for savings to the taxpayer. He continually refers to the savings to be made in one little sub-silo in his...

Legislative Programme (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to hear the reply and presume the Minister is speaking about the protected disclosure Bill.

Legislative Programme (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: I was very concerned because it seemed the issue had been referred back to individual Departments to be buried. This issue is all the more relevant having heard over the weekend about the case of an advocate for persons availing of mental health services who had made public comments and found herself out of a job. I was happy to hear on the radio on the way here that she had been...

Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: It sounds like a good decision. The Government has essentially decided to put the whole process on the long finger. The Minister put it more nicely. Policy issues have been introduced.

Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: There will be no fire sales and regulatory matters are to be examined. Obviously, the European Union has a big role to play in that regard. It sounds as if the Government jumped the fence very quickly. The Minister agreed with his Fine Gael colleagues that the Labour Party should be bullied into selling off the ESB, Coillte and several other semi-State bodies. I am delighted that the...

Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: It included no figure.

Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister confirm that no sale of semi-State companies, or shares in semi-State companies, will take place in this calendar year? Is it the case that the matter has been put on the long finger until 2013 or beyond?

Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: The timetable is gone.

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. The motion before us deals with issues that are of great interest to the public. People might be somewhat bored talking about banks, debts, promissory notes and Anglo Irish Bank, but they realise that these issues are affecting us deeply and they recognise the repercussions of what has gone before. The motion calls on the Government...

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: Different parties and groups are entitled to put forward motions in Private Members' time on different weeks. The motion goes on to note the Government's intention to make a payment of €3.1 billion, on 31 March 2012, in respect of a promissory note for the debt of Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society. It further notes that promissory note payments to the value of...

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: I suspect the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, did not mean to mislead people in claiming the money is not coming from the taxpayer but that he simply does not understand.

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Government gave the promissory note for approximately €31 billion to Anglo Irish Bank last March. The latter took the note to the Central Bank in exchange for cash, which it has used to put into its deposits in order to replace the funding which fled. I agree with the final part of the motion which states the Government is committed to paying €3.1 billion per annum for the next...

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, when in Brussels today, should have pressed President Draghi of the European Central Bank for a clear timetable to reduce that debt in terms of overall European Central Bank requirements. There is a compelling case for deployment by the European Union of a new funding stream to ease the burden of debt on the Irish taxpayer. The ESF was not in place when the...

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: This debate must move on.

Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: We have moved on. As I have stated on many occasions in this House, having 17 central banks in the euro area and 27 in the EU is a nonsense. There should be only one central bank, and it should take over the Irish debt. The removal of this debt from the backs of Irish taxpayers should be the focus of the Government in negotiations on this issue. This debt is being carried by the Irish...

Written Answers — Ministerial Staff: Ministerial Staff (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 62: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason he sanctioned a salary of €114,000 for his own special adviser despite it being in breach of the pay cap for Government advisers; if he will reverse the pay of all Government advisers who are currently in breach of the Government's pay cap of €92,672; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3751/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 98: To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the projected savings for each State agency to be rationalised as set out in the recent public service reform plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4569/12]

Written Answers — Traveller Education Strategy: Traveller Education Strategy (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 218: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the closure of a centre (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3895/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (24 Jan 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 251: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the organisations designated as approved organisations for the purpose of section 4 of the Superannuation and Pensions Act 1963 which are covered by Superannuation (Designation of Approved Organisations) Regulations 1987, signed by the Minister for the Public Service on 9 March 1987; and if he will outline in respect of each...