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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...

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...