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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 do not think it is right, in the public interest, that there can be 30 side agreements, some of which might be quite small-----

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: Yes, individual-----

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: In the interest of accountability, it should be possible to track these down. Issues of public sector pay and conditions should not be negotiated without any possibility of public accountability.

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 even worse. I suggest the Minister changes that but I will leave it at that.

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: -----Fine Gael will be happy. However, people expected better from the Labour Party and what is ironic about the homelessness situation is that two Ministers are directly responsible for it. One is the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection, who is the Minister responsible for the legislation under discussion and who is responsible for rent supplement but has not done anything on...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: All the Minister of State can say about what the Government inherited, along with the financial situation, is that my party in office built too many houses. It is a particular achievement of the Labour Party to turn a surplus of houses into a homelessness crisis. No other Government has turned a situation in which it inherited a surplus of houses into a homelessness crisis within a few...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: This homelessness crisis is a domestically-generated problem caused and taking place in the Irish economy.

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: There was no homelessness crisis when the Government came to power but there is one as it is leaving power. This issue will be visited heavily, and rightly so, on the Labour Party. While Fine Gael Members might not like me saying it, the Fine Gael way is not to worry about such people. However, it should be the Labour Party's way - not Frankfurt's way but the Labour Party's way. The...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: My view, and that of many elderly people and many others in society, on the budget can be summarised in a few simple words, namely, €3, three miserable euro. That is what this Bill is about. It is the most miserable bit of legislation that has been brought before us. We are saying to elderly people that we will give them a miserable €3 and that they should be grateful....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Decentralisation Programme Data (5 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 116. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the departmental units and agencies that are decentralised to County Cork, in tabular form; their locations; the number of staff; if he has plans to transfer or change the existing staff numbers and locations for decentralised units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38839/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Eligibility (5 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is entitled to a single payment; if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38826/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Freedom of Information Data (3 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 149. To ask the Taoiseach the number of Freedom of Information requests received by his Department in 2015 to date, in tabular form; the number of such requests where the period of consideration, was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; was extended by up to four weeks because the necessary resources to complete the request within the original time frame were not...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Nov 2015)

Seán Fleming: 227. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the position regarding a couple who are not married but living together and where one person of the couple is working, and when it comes to claiming social welfare they are looked on as a cohabiting couple and treated as one unit for Department of Social Protection purposes, but they cannot claim tax credits in respect of the...

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...