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Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: We all like people to vote but sometimes when people do not vote it might be due to a lack of interest or that they are saying they will let the others decide and accept the outcome regardless. Sometimes there can be indifference as well. We cannot trumpet a result when it suits us and then when a result does not suit us, look at the underlying turnout. However, I stated there was a 31%...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Exactly, he might clarify that. At Committee Stage, we can tease that out. Those Members will get the second 50% of that 2013 FEMPI Act reduction on 1 January 2018. One must remember that those are really only the ones who experienced a reduction under the Haddington Road agreement, in which there was a sunset clause. I will not join the bandwagon of those who say TDs should work for...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: She is a member of the legal profession and maybe would hope to join that august body some day down the road. I always worry about members of the legal profession giving Government advice on giving salary increases to other members of the legal profession. I must put on record that I question this. In accordance with advice from the Office of the Attorney General, amendments to the...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I refer to teachers who have come in on low pay.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Okay. I will get the Minister to clarify it.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am sorry. I ask the question and the Minister can answer it in due course. I would be most concerned that the provision would apply to all public servants, including nurses, gardaí and teachers. Any of us who were listening to the radio in the past week or two will have been shocked to hear about the net take-home pay of some new gardaí, the garda recruits and gardaí who...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister looks forward to hearing the views of the House on this Bill. We will be supporting the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015 because it is based on the various agreements the Minister referred to, namely, the Lansdowne Road agreement, which succeeded the Haddington Road agreement, and it has been voted on democratically by hundreds of thousands of public...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to contribute on this motion, which calls on the Government to establish a commission of inquiry into the sale of NAMA's Northern Ireland portfolio. That is what it means in straightforward English, as people might not understand titles like "Project Eagle" and so on. There was a loan book of €5.4 billion. NAMA paid €2 billion and received...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Calculations (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 292. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the difference between the approach to commercial rates for hair salons versus premises that are being used as an educational establishment for persons in the hairdressing business; if there is an exemption from commercial rates for educational establishments; if this applies to educational establishments that are providing their...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 314. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36281/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (20 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 334. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the disadvantaged areas scheme will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36510/15]

Financial Resolution No. 4: Income Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: What about retirement villages?

Financial Resolution No. 4: Income Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I seek further information from the Minister on this proposal. I was intrigued by his final remark in which he stated the scheme has been extended in view of expansion works or extensions to nursing homes following a review of the operation of the scheme by consultants and the Department of Health. However, the essence of his comments in the first half of his remarks was that the scheme was...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Income Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The extension is the new piece and as the Minister noted, it was introduced as a result of a consultants' report in which they examined the operation of the scheme. However, the Minister has told Members the scheme has not yet been in operation. This new scheme only received EU approval as a result of last year's budget. This measure was included in last year's budget, the Minister stated...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Income Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps the review carried out by those consultants on behalf of the Department of Health was a review that saw a gap that should have been included or dealt with in the first place or perhaps it was a review of another tax relief for the operation of nursing homes and this is an opportunity to broaden it here. The Minister might clarify this point. Furthermore, does this proposal...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Capital Allowances (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: As there is no airport in the midlands, I am not too familiar with the details of this measure. Rather than criticise it, however, I will ask questions with the aim of putting more information on the record. We are talking about a measure that deals with construction facilities, maintenance, repair and overhaul, where the investment of a company will be limited to €5 million and...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise Duties on Mechanically Propelled Vehicles (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I support this financial resolution. Most Deputies throughout the country have been contacted in the last couple of months by various companies in the haulage business. I appreciate the fact that they contacted us, ran a good campaign and stated their case very clearly. Some of us were shocked at the anomalies between the North and the South when they told us what they were. That helped,...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: A sum of €540 million has been spent on water meters-----

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: -----which the Government does not plan to use until 2022. Furthermore, this is the cost of installing meters into only half of the houses in Ireland. Wait until we hear how much it intends to spend on putting water meters into the remaining housing. This is only phase 1. The Government refers to conservation measures, a most important aspect of the Irish Water debate. The reality is...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Government is giving with one hand and taking with the other. Pensioners have been hit to the tune of over €1,200 annually as a result of direct cuts to payments and tax increases, including the local property tax and water charges. Ability to pay was not taken into account by the Government.   The Government has imposed a litany of harsh cuts. The number of home helps...