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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...

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

Seán Fleming: They listened to one person but are now gone before the second speaker has finished. We have not even got to Sinn Féin or the Independent and Technical Group yet the Ministers are gone.

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

Seán Fleming: The people who wrote this budget have done this year in, year out. They are off to give a press conference and put a spin on what they did not say here today. This time last year, I asked the Ceann Comhairle, who was in the chair, if he would personally intervene to ensure this would not happen again on this occasion and he said he would.

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

Seán Fleming: I believe there is a legitimate case to be made for having the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in this Chamber to hear what is being said.

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

Seán Fleming: They are gone to the press conferences.

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

Seán Fleming: It speaks volumes on the contempt this Government has shown for the national Parliament. It is more interested in a press conference and having a word on the side with individual journalists in order to plant their stories than with putting the facts to this House in public.

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

Seán Fleming: I am sorry but, while we have the Taoiseach, we have not one other member of the Government here. I am looking around and the benches are empty.

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

Seán Fleming: Are they canvassing?