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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: For what sort of vehicle?

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 am happy with that reply, thank you.

Leaders' Questions (1 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: In the next decade.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Work Allowance Application Numbers (1 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 145. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications in 2015 to date under the back to work allowance scheme; the maximum, minimum and average time it takes to process an application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42566/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Responsibilities (1 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 242. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine which Ministers were responsible for animal welfare matters prior to the commencement of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, which was commenced on 6 March 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42878/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ministerial Responsibilities (1 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department had any responsibility for animal welfare matters prior to the commencement of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 on 6 March 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42838/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare Expenditure (1 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 288. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 19 May 2015 on an issue (details supplied) where he confirmed that these organisations stated that they had fully examined the matters that had been raised, but where there is no reference to the matters being investigated, if he will confirm if these matters were fully investigated by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (1 Dec 2015)

Seán Fleming: 410. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a married couple (details supplied) in County Kildare only pay €25 for their joint prescriptions charges each month. [42522/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I agree with the Chairman completely. The Department of Finance has point-blank refused to do that. We have tabled various parliamentary questions on it and my party colleague, Deputy Michael McGrath has published legislation which would enable the IFAC to carry out that role. All the Department of Finance is willing to do at the moment is to cost an individual proposal but it will not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee. (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Yes, but some packages would include taxes as well as spending.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. Meaney, Ms Larkin and their colleagues before the committee today. I wish to take up one comment made by Ms Larkin in her opening statement on which she might provide members with a little information. I believe I heard two years ago the news the Irish Greyhound Board was signing contracts "with some of the most iconic global wagering names" to increase revenue. How much...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank Ms Larkin. That is good to hear.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Note 24, page 42, of the Bord na gCon annual report 2014 states under the heading, commitments and contingencies:The board is involved in legal cases, the outcome of which are not possible to predict. No provision has been made in the financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2014. Have any major cases been settled recently? What were the costs that were not possible to predict...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: No. I am not a bit interested in the IGB’s costs. That would be a small element of it. I am sure the settlement and compensation, which might have been paid, is where the main money lies. I am sure the costs the IGB incurred to date were approved for in the 2014 accounts. Did it involve a payment by the IGB to settle the three cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: That would indicate the IGB will pay its own costs, the settlement and probably pay the other party’s costs.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: We are in a difficult situation because a large proportion of the IGB’s income is taxpayers’ money. There was a time some years ago when the taxpayers’ contribution was 20% or 30% of the board’s income. It is now heading towards 50%. The IGB is not a commercial organisation and could not exist without a taxpayer subvention of €14 million next year. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: In other words, there will have to be some disclosure when the board members come to sign off on the accounts for next year. Will the witnesses square that circle for me in the context of the confidentiality agreement?

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thought the IGB settled something and it was just the final details that had to be signed off.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Okay. Three cases were mentioned. Who were the defendants in each case? Was it Bord na gCon or individual board members? To whom is the taxpayer paying money? I will cut to the chase. If these cases were before the High Court, then they would have been listed. I can google the High Court website to find the names in the cases.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Are the trainer and the owner two different people?