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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Equipment Scheme Applications (9 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be approved for a grant under the dairy equipment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44263/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (8 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 156. To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements in place for persons to pay a compromise sum to the Revenue Commissioners for breach of the regulations regarding mineral oil containing a prescribed marker in their private car, if the payment can be made in instalments, when these provisions came into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43842/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Cafés Expenditure (8 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 334. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of funding for a project (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43540/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Governance (8 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 517. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the governance manual for primary schools 2015 to 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43936/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Religious Education (8 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 518. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a copy of the consultation paper regarding education on religion, belief and ethics in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (3 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 30. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional medical and nursing staff that have been recruited at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, County Laois, in 2015 to date; the plans for 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43005/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Departments (3 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 71. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the future of the emergency department at the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43004/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Lansdowne Road Agreement Implementation (3 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 109. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if members of unions who do not sign up to the Lansdowne Road agreement will receive the pay increases and changes to the pension levy provided for by the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43452/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: I wish to ask one question about State legal fees and fees to barristers. If cases were settled earlier, would it result in lower fees? If one takes the example of the HSE, it regularly issues half hearted apologies seven years after children suffer catastrophic injuries at birth. That seven year period would involve quite a build up of fees. I ask the Minister of State to outline the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on the Department of the Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: Has the new Court of Appeal which is now up and running become another gravy train for the legal profession? Are there many cases where one State agency is suing another? I am not expecting to get that information now but I ask the Minister of State to provide a report on that as soon as possible. We often hear of cases where a local authority is being sued by the Inland Fisheries Board,...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: There is no issue with the Supplementary Estimates for either of these areas but I will raise a few general points. It states in the notes that the contributions received from people who joined the public service single pension scheme were estimated at €25 million but that the current projection is €45 million. I take it the Supplementary Estimate would have been higher had...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: How many people have gone through the Public Appointments Commission process for appointment to State boards? Some of the State boards now use the Public Appointments Service. How does the gender quota work? The target is 40% but is the PAS required to come forward with numbers to meet the target?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: Yes. I think they are dealt with by the PAS now. Do those boards feel that people of a suitable quality were not picked because of the gender quota? How is the Department getting on with the appointment of members of the arbitration board under the Construction Contracts Act? I understood the chairman was to be picked from the board but it has been done in reverse order and the chairman...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: It will help people get into round 3 who have had no involvement in the process up to that point. I have heard the complaint from members of the Garda reserve who felt they did the best they could but did not get past step 1 or step 2. Then they hear from their neighbour that they had got the garda up the road to fill in their form. Is there anything the Minister can do about this? I am...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps the Minister will deal with the questions to him first.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister did not have to go as high as superintendent.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: They can speak if we are in private session.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: It is done after the second stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Supplementary)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister can send them on, if we are caught for time.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Supplementary) (2 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Minister. It goes without saying there is no issue with setting up the new subhead. I gather there is unlikely to be a payment in 2015, that this is to simply provide for the establishment of the subhead to allow payments to roll out from the start of January 2016. The Minister outlined an estimated cost of €10 million. Is that in the same ball park as the previous...