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Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Yes, the courts. We know what they are - repossessions.

Other Questions: Office of Government Procurement (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the procedures put in place by the Office of Government Procurement, OGP, to ensure recipients of State contracts, particularly in the construction sector, fully abide by all relevant laws and regulations including tax, social welfare, and health and safety; if this also applies to subcontractors engaged by the main contractor on...

Other Questions: Office of Government Procurement (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister clarify who is the contracting party? I have put down several questions recently to line Departments about their role and the role of the OGP in awarding contracts. A line Department will say it is working in consultation with the OGP while the OGP says it is working with the line Department. There is a circular flow with everyone involved but nobody willing to say who is...

Other Questions: Office of Government Procurement (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Some contracts are given to contractors outside the State which means there is a greater risk trying to ensuring compliance. What about a case where, say, an IT contract is given to a contractor in the State but it decides to outsource it to another EU country or even outside of the EU? What kind of mechanisms are in place to follow through with the OGP, in consultation with the relevant...

Other Questions: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of new State bodies and agencies that have been established since February 2011; the number that are subject to a sunset clause and that are currently being planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40603/15]

Other Questions: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I wish to ask the Minister the number of new State bodies and agencies that have been established since February 2011 that are subject to a sunset clause, or those that are currently being planned. I am not inquiring about the ones the Minister has abolished but about new agencies. I ask him to respond on that and make a statement on the matter.

Other Questions: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I must address my comments to the Ceann Comhairle in the first instance. I asked the Minister the number of State agencies that have been established. He made no attempt to answer that. I am complaining to the Ceann Comhairle and I ask him to help me, as a Member, to get an answer on Question Time. I asked about the number of agencies subject to a sunset clause but the Minister chose not...

Other Questions: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister never said that.

Other Questions: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for the reply. He is putting on the record, fairly and squarely, that he, as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, has no interest in dealing with these issues-----

Other Questions: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: -----or he is saying he has no authority to answer to the House on the number of State bodies that have been established.

Other Questions: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: And I will put those questions to the Ministers.

Other Questions: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I asked specifically about sunset clauses. The Ceann Comhairle knows that, even on the second attempt to respond by the Minister, there was still no reference to the sunset clause issue. The phrase has not come out of the Minister's mouth here today. I expect that he will probably answer on the third attempt and I look forward to receiving that answer. The Minister is responsible for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fiscal Policy (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister does not know they will happen next year. The Government took this once-off money from the multinationals to increase spending, because it could. However, the Minister has said it will not be allowed next year and that if a Supplementary Estimate is required, it will have to be funded by additional taxes or charges. Could this include extra charges in the health service to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fiscal Policy (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister is not quite right. The biggest element of the extra tax that came in this year was corporation tax, of which 80% comes from the multinational sector. Nobody in the Government has any control over what cheque the multinationals feel like writing here to suit their global requirements. Although it is out of our control, the Minister is factoring it into future plans. When the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fiscal Policy (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 4. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected annual scope for additional expenditure in future years; the projected growth rate on which this is based; the circumstances in which this scope would be increased; how departmental expenditure overruns will be dealt with now that Ireland is in the preventive arm of the Stability and Growth Pact; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fiscal Policy (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: What is the expected annual scope for additional expenditure in future years and the projected growth rate on which it is based? What are the circumstances in which this scope would be increased? How will departmental expenditure overruns be dealt with now that Ireland is part of the preventive arm of the Stability and Growth Pact?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fiscal Policy (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister. The Department of Finance documents on budget day indicated a €500 million fiscal space would be available in 2017. I have never seen a document produced by the Government on fiscal space which has ever turned out to be anywhere within €1 billion of the actual mark. We will take this remark as genuine in so far as it was made, in the full knowledge that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 1. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total Supplementary Estimates that are now expected to be introduced for 2015; how this breaks down across individual Departments; if additional expenditure is required because of inadequate expenditure provision at the start; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40741/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I wish to ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total Supplementary Estimates that are now expected to be introduced - there is reference to 13 of them, without any figures attached so far, on today's Order Paper - how this breaks down across individual Departments, if additional expenditure is required because of inadequate expenditure provision at the start of the year, and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Essentially, the answer the Minister has given and his opening sentence, in straightforward English, is, "We have it so we will spend it". That is precisely what he has said here today. "We have it so we will spend it," is the new mantra from Deputy Howlin in the run-up to the general election. I indicated in previous debates the extra €7.3 billion the Minister is pumping into the...