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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 317. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding a couple who are not married but living together, where one person of the couple is working and cannot claim tax credits in respect of the partner, but at the same time when it comes to claiming social welfare the couple are looked at as a cohabiting couple and treated as one unit for Department of Social Protection purposes; his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (3 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 659. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive an appointment with the pain management clinic in St. James's Hospital in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37336/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (3 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 702. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding the approval of the drug fampridine, Fampyra, for persons who suffer from multiple sclerosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37593/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (3 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 862. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Government's commitment to the percentage of our national income towards overseas development aid; the projection for the percentage of national income to be allocated for this purpose in 2016 and for each of the subsequent years for which targets are in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37198/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Funding (3 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 1060. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for a list of initial applications for funding made to his Department under the rural water programme (details supplied), by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37729/15]

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister of State attacks us for what we did four or five years ago but if he wants to go back some 40 years to attack us, he will need a new generation of scriptwriters because most people under 50 will not know what it is about. We know our political history, so we know what was involved. It is not true to state that money has not been ring-fenced since the removal of domestic rates...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Then let us talk about it. The motor tax of approximately €1 billion, the local property tax of approximately €500 million and the money from the plastic bag levy were ring-fenced for the local government fund each year. As a result, saying that money has not been ring-fenced since the abolition of domestic rates in 1977 can only be explained by someone getting carried away...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: It is the public sector - I do not distinguish between Revenue or the Department of Finance in this instance. It is an extraordinary admission of failure in the public service. If that is the public service over which the Government presides, then it is not doing a good job. It is not satisfactory that the Department of Finance can say that and it is extraordinary that the Government is...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: A menu of options was considered. We had a four-year economic plan and the troika accepted that plan. The troika came and went without Irish Water ever having to be established. The troika came and went without water rates having to be introduced. When the troika went home and were safely back in their beds in New York or Europe, Fine Gael introduced its plan for Irish Water.

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The memo to which the Minister of State referred mentioned a small organisation - perhaps a bit like the National Roads Authority, with a staff of 25 or 30 - with the work continuing to be done by the local authorities. A referendum was referred to, and this was correct because the model chosen by the Government, in which it took responsibility away from local authorities in order to set up...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister of State knows as well as I that, once a commercial water service is available in Ireland, EU competition rules will insist that the market be opened up. We do not have to talk about a referendum or who owns the pipes. The same happened with the supply of electricity. The ESB used to supply electricity but it has been forced, through competition, to divest over 50% of its...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: This will be an issue to debate in the coming election. To return to this legislation on management fees for local property tax, we just want a partial exemption from the local property tax, in a very modest amount equal to one third of the management fee - where people are paying such a fee - or €300, whichever is the lower. In most cases the amount will be only €86. I am...

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I want to briefly reiterate the essence of the Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015. The Bill proposes that where a person is liable to pay an annual management fee to a management company in respect of a property, he or she should have a partial exemption in respect of his or her local property tax in the relevant year on confirmation that the management fee has been paid....

Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to commence the Second Stage debate on the Management Fees (Local Property Tax) Relief Bill 2015. Essentially, the Bill is an amendment to the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012 to make provision for a partial - I stress the word "partial" - exemption of property tax payable by a relevant owner whose property is located in a...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister of State for putting this up-to-date report on the record of the House. It corresponds substantially with the information I received in response to a parliamentary question I tabled on 13 October. I have been following this issue carefully and I raise it again today to try to ensure that the primary school project progresses to the next stage and is included in the next...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I want to speak about the urgent need for new school building projects in Monasterevin, County Kildare. Everybody in the town knows that the primary schools and the secondary school in the town need new buildings because of the old, cramped conditions that prevail in both school locations at present. I have visited all the schools in Monasterevin on a few occasions. My first visit was in...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome Mr. O'Brien and his colleagues before the committee. We have met representatives of the HSE for a good few years but there is something very different today. What the Comptroller and Auditor General has stated was confirmed in the HSE statement. The HSE's purpose is to deliver the health service to the country but the witnesses have told us it is an organisation not compliant...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Mulvany to send us a detailed note on this issue. People will be shocked to hear the HSE was not paying PRSI for its employees on time. I would have considered this to be a no-go area for any employer. I am simply picking up on what Mr. Mulvany said. He can understand the concerns he has raised in saying this.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I ask Mr. Mulvany to provide a detailed note for the committee because we are only having a cursory discussion in public this morning.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2014
2014 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 39: Health Service Executive
Chapter 19: Compliance with Prompt Payment Legislation in the Health Sector
Chapter 20: Management of Private Patient Income in the Health Sector
Chapter 21: Control over the Supply of High-Tech Drugs and Medicines (22 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: This is a matter on which members seek a detailed note. I accept that other public bodies have been caught for taxation in respect of benefit-in-kind, including the Houses of the Oireachtas.