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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: What would the international comparisons be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: I will be brief. Listening to this - and this is no criticism, as it is a big job - I can conclude that there is a decade in that. First the data has to be recorded, then the evidence will have to be produced from the data, and when all that is done, standards will have to be drawn up. Each of those, in the Irish way of doing business, will take a few years. If that was to go ahead, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: Moving on to a more difficult area, flood risk management, all of what Ms McGrath mentioned is in some way under somebody's control, but with flood risk management and flood defence work the OPW can spend X amount of money, build X number of walls, redirect rivers and so on. It can see what can be done, which is the output, but the difference between outputs and outcome might take a long...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015: Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to hear that.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (23 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the Housing Assistance Payment will be implemented in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32349/15]

Confidence in Taoiseach, the Attorney General and the Government: Motion (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: Take it off their time.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the amount of funding approved to be paid to a school (details supplied) in County Laois under the school meals programme for 2015-2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30974/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Ministerial Meetings (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 192. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to meet with an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31086/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Child Benefit Payments (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 228. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if parents who are in receipt of child benefit in respect of their children are obliged to notify her Department in advance if they are outside the State for more than two weeks; if they fail to do so, the implications regarding the child benefit payable for that period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31466/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of requests for payments under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme in 2015 to date in respect of requests for additional rental supplement over and above the standard rate approved in each local authority; the number of requests that have been approved for additional rent supplement payments; the number...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Application (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 291. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding public service pensioners who have to pay USC on some of their pensions whereas people who are in receipt of the State pension do not have this charge imposed; his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31114/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 321. To ask the Minister for Finance if a vehicle (details supplied) can be reclassified in respect of the carbon emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31039/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 323. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31084/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 324. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the pension levy on private pension schemes; his plans to reimburse pension funds for the levy deducted over recent years in view of the fact that the effect of the levy would be a reduction in pension that would last for the lifetime of the pensioner in view of the levy which reduced the value of the fund; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 399. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to introduce a guarantee on pension restoration (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31116/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 409. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to make available an audit report (details supplied) recently completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30822/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Redeployment (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 414. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider introducing formal arrangements within the civil service to facilitate requests for transfers to other locations where vacancies may arise at grades above clerical and staff officer level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31057/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 416. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views in relation to Retired Public Service Pensioners who will continue to pay the public service pension reductions in view of the fact that many retirees have been removed from this situation; his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31115/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 420. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to a matter (details supplied) regarding pension rate of pay and medical leave threshold under the PeoplePoint project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31205/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (22 Sep 2015)

Seán Fleming: 443. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated costs in 2016 of the increases that will arise as a result of the Lansdowne Road agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32277/15]