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Special Educational Needs (19 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 6: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants employed at the end of September 2011; the number employed at the end of December 2011; the number employed at the end of March 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19392/12]

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 107: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will ensure that the sale of State assets will not include the disposal of any assets of a company involved in the provision of water supply to households throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20542/12]

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps the Minister did not get the gist of the purpose of my question. Earlier this year, on 22 February, the Minister announced the Government had decided to sell Bord Gáis Éireann's energy business. Be that as it may, we will not discuss whether it is a good idea in this debate. Subsequently, last week the Government decided in light of the experience and knowledge of Bord Gáis...

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: In his opening comment the Minister spoke about an independent subsidiary. These two words are mutually contradictory; a subsidiary is under something else and not independent by definition. Will the Minister accept that regardless of whether the Minister, Deputy Hogan, made a hames of his role in the proposed metering of water, he will be held responsible for the possible privatisation of...

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister accept that the more he speaks the more he confuses the issue in the public mind? The Minister stated in his initial reply that Irish Water would be an independent subsidiary of Bord Gáis. In his subsequent reply he said it would be a wholly owned State company. It cannot be both. It must be one or the other. It will be owned by Bord Gáis, not the State.

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: It does not own the shares in its subsidiary companies.

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: It does not, Bord Gáis owns them. The Minister should check company law. One does not own the assets of a company just because one owns a share in it. That is a fact. I again plead with the Minister to remove Bord Gáis from its list of companies to be part privatised by way of the sale of assets given it is the company to which the Government is giving the water metering and billing...

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: BGE will be the parent company.

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: No. It owns a share of it.

National Lottery (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 110: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will he ensure, in relation to the sale of the valuable National Lottery licence by the State, that the issues highlighted in respect of the sale of the second mobile phone licence will not recur; if he will further ensure that no contact with Ministers by parties involved in the licence process will be permitted,...

National Lottery (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge that he addressed the last portion of my question, namely, the per cent for good causes and prizes in the retailers' margin, but the essence of my question was different. When Fine Gael and Labour were last in government, one of their last actions was to issue the second mobile telephone licence. We all know that substantial issues were raised about the...

National Lottery (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I have finished my question, Deputy.

National Lottery (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister issue it publicly?

National Lottery (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to hear that and I would welcome the protocol's publication, which was news to me. Will the Minister consider the lobbyist Bill? During this process, which will last for 12 months or so, people who know people who know people will inevitably contact Ministers through various mechanisms, as occurred previously. We want to ensure that the scoring card by which the ultimate...

Public Service Staff (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for the information where he indicated that 8,000 have retired up to the end of February and he expects possibly another 500 to leave over the subsequent ten months up to the end of the year. Does that meet his original target as I thought there was a figure of closer to 9,000? How many new people will be recruited to fill the vacancies created by the 8,500 who have...

Public Service Staff (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister mentioned some time ago that the next set of retirements would be targeted.

Public Service Staff (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: He might explain what he means by that. Will retirement be made available for specific grades while other grades are excluded, or will it apply to a certain coterie of employees with X number of years' service?

National Monuments (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister of State for the information provided to date. I would welcome the full list he stated could be provided. He noted there were guides at 69 sites throughout the country. At how many of these do people have to pay to enter? The Minister of State might give the House that information. I agree with him there is great tourism value and that is why I highlighted this...

Croke Park Agreement (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: I ask the Minister to take up the issue of the Croke Park agreement in subsequent meetings. I am being kind when I described the format and content of the original annual report as unsatisfactory. We let it go but only two sentences mentioned the saving of €300 million. At the meeting of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, we told Mr. Fitzpatrick...

Sale of State Assets (24 Apr 2012)

Seán Fleming: We mentioned the national lottery licence earlier and I would consider that to be a State asset. Does it come under the remit of these discussions and if not, why not? Is the troika happy the sale of the licence should proceed? I would consider it as much a State asset as some of the other assets being sold. On several occasions Ministers have said there will be no fire sale of State...