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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (12 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding provided in 2015 under the improvement works in lieu of local authority housing scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39812/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (12 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 188. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding provided in 2015 under the mobility aids grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39814/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (12 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding provided in 2015 under the housing aid for older persons scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39815/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (12 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding provided in 2015 under the housing adaptation grant for people with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39816/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Inspections (11 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I acknowledge the Minister's reply and agree with the decision to extend the deadline for various institutions to comply with HIQA requirements to 2021, because it was not going to be possible to reach it in the short term. The Minister said the HSE would submit a plan to HIQA in the coming weeks. We expect something on the future of health care facilities over a six-year period to be a...

Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Home Inspections (11 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I wish to raise directly with the Minister the question of what action will be taken by him, the Department of Health and the HSE in respect of St. Vincent's Community Nursing Unit in Mountmellick in order that it can admit patients again. Some weeks ago I received a telephone call from a lady whose elderly mother was due to go in for respite care the following Tuesday. This was on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (11 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress in relation to the recruitment of clerical officers as part of the 2014 recruitment campaign into the Civil Service; the number of positions filled to date; the number of applicants on the list; the number of vacancies remaining to be filled from the list of applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39644/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Will the Chairman explain the Short Title of the Bill? There is a page before section 1 and I do not understand whether that is the Long Title or the Short Title.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Will the committee come to that at the end?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I might not call a vote on it but I wish to speak on the section. This committee is here today to deal with the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill. I put it to the Minister, Deputy Howlin, that Ireland is not in a financial emergency now, although it might have been in the past. It might have been in an emergency when we brought in the FEMPI legislation in 2009 and...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I will respond briefly because-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: That is the essence of the Bill.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Title of the Bill includes the term "financial emergency" and we could not be more in tune with this debate than when discussing the Title of the Bill. Two or three observations come to mind. I am concerned that the Minister is essentially saying that, if we do not have the suite of old FEMPI legislation in place, the Lansdowne Road agreement will be torn up. That is the import of what...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister is saying that if FEMPI goes, the Lansdowne Road agreement goes with it. Where was the honour on both sides in that agreement if it is felt that a change to this legislation means the agreement did not happen? The Minister referred to the agreement and the changes that were introduced. I take the view that the people who negotiated the Lansdowne Road agreement for the next...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: My mistake, the Lansdowne Road agreement will bring an additional cost of €300 million next year and for each of three years, making a total of €900 million by 2018. The Minister also said that the total savings under the FEMPI legislation would be €2.2 billion. I still do not believe the FEMPI legislation would hold in court today. The Minister might think it would...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: What the Minister is now saying is that until such time as the Exchequer can afford to fully pay back that €2.2 billion, the FEMPI legislation remains on the Statute Book. In effect what the Minister is saying is that in the course of the three year period, if we get to €900 million, a sum of €1.3 billion still remains to be met beyond 2018. If we are lucky enough to be...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister explain, as that is the impression he gave? Until we are in a position to deal with reversing the €2.2 billion we are still in a financial emergency. Based on the progress we have made, it will take between five and seven years. That is a ludicrous position for anybody to be taking here today, that the FEMPI legislation will continue for six or seven years. Does...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: I will conclude on this point. I know the Minister cannot determine the number of years, in the way I did, but is he saying that the Lansdowne Road agreement, which the Government has agreed with the unions, brings costs of €900 million at the end of the period in question? Is that €900 million per annum at the end of it?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: That is €900 million per annum at the end of it out of a figure of €2.3 billion. If we run the three full years of the Lansdowne Road agreement, based on the projected growth of 6%, 4.5% to 5% and so on, will we be approaching half way in terms of reversing the costs?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: Everyone would hope that when we get to the second half, the process will be quicker. Is the Minister essentially saying that at the end of the period of the Lansdowne Road agreement, based on the projections that he has entered into the agreement, that the Government will be 40% of the way towards restoring pay cuts, paying €900 million out of €2.2 billion, and that when we...