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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...

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

Seán Fleming: The Minister published expenditure ceilings this time last year for a three-year period and he blew them out of the water on budget day. We were told they were sacrosanct. He has now increased them by €1.6 billion. He has increased the expenditure ceilings by a quick announcement on budget day. The Minister states he had an extra €2.2 billion in tax revenue and that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 18. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of defined-benefit pension schemes currently listed for public sector employees, the number that are in deficit; his plans to consolidate any of these schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40606/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Expenditure Reviews (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 21. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the specific actions he is taking on foot of the recently published Comptroller and Auditor General report, to ensure expenditure occurs in the best interests of the general public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40602/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 54. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of new State bodies and agencies under her remit that have been established since February 2011; the number of such bodies subject to a sunset clause; the number of new public bodies currenty being planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41274/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 55. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of defined benefit pension schemes currently listed for employees under her remit; the number that are in deficit; her plans to consolidate any of these schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41292/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of new State bodies and agencies under his remit that have been established since February 2011; the number of such bodies subject to a sunset clause; the number of new public bodies currenty being planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41270/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (19 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new State bodies and agencies under his remit that have been established since February 2011; the number of such bodies subject to a sunset clause; the number of new public bodies currenty being planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41272/15]