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

Seán Fleming: I have made the point already-----

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

Seán Fleming: -----but this level of arrogance is what will trip up the Government on the doorsteps.

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

Seán Fleming: It might get away with this arrogance here in the House but it will not get away with it on the doorsteps, whenever that will be.

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

Seán Fleming: On child care, there is nothing in the budget announcement today for hard-pressed working families with young children under three years of age. They get six months of maternity leave. After that, from the age of six months to two and a half years, the parents are back at work and paying for child care. It is costing up to €400 per week for two children, which is an annual cost of...

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

Seán Fleming: The Government will claim there is a greater degree of openness and transparency in the budgetary process. The spring economic statement, part of the EU fiscal rules, is indeed welcome. However, in recent years the budgetary process presented in Dáil Éireann is less honest and less accurate with no meaningful review mechanism in place. Last year, the Government announced...

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

Seán Fleming: An essential review of this budgetary process is now required. The Dáil should be given an accurate and honest quarterly report at the end of March, June and September each year to ensure funding available for expenditure can be allocated, approved and utilised in a logical manner. This is a subject the Government has failed to acknowledge. Is this slush fund of €1.5 billion an...

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

Seán Fleming: It has managed to turn it into a housing emergency, some achievement. Some 130,000 people are languishing on the social housing waiting lists. There are 471 homeless families with 1,054 homeless children sleeping in hotel rooms tonight in Dublin, Cork and Galway, waiting to be kicked out the next morning before they go to school, ashamed to say where they spent the night. This is in...

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

Seán Fleming: We are now entering the final chapter of this Fine Gael-Labour Party Government. The story is as follows: chapter 1 - the setting is Government Buildings March 2011 and the main characters are Enda and Eamon. Does the Taoiseach remember Eamon?  They look at each other and say, "We’ve landed, what will we do now?" Enda says, "Do you remember the four-year plan we opposed, the...

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

Seán Fleming: -----and we said there will be no water charges. I’ll do a U-turn as well and drop every one of those promises.  It’s the price of power."

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

Seán Fleming: That was it settled. Both of them agreed-----

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

Seán Fleming: -----and said, "We’ll call it a democratic revolution". Chapter 2 of the story is about the economy and regressive anti–social budgets introduced by this Government.  It looked after the wealthy and gave tax cuts to the high earners. It spoke about trickle-down economics. It took the four-year plan it inherited from the previous Government and removed all traces of...

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

Seán Fleming: -----or to have vital surgery carried out.  It also tells the story of the sale of important strategic State assets such as part of Bord Gáis and the national lottery licence. 

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

Seán Fleming: NAMA agrees to sell off many of its valuable properties throughout the country to the new found friends the Minister, Deputy Michael Noonan, met in Davos at knockdown prices, further exacerbating the burden on our citizens.  We should not forget the water meters and the new super quango, Irish Water.

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

Seán Fleming: Chapter 4 tells a story of the housing crisis, people homeless sleeping rough, children living in hotel rooms, high rents and long waiting lists for social housing.  Those lucky enough to have a house to live in no longer feel safe in their own homes due to the cutbacks in the number of gardaí leading to a lack of normal policing. We have now come to the final chapter. Enda...

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

Seán Fleming: They conclude by saying, "Let’s hope we can fool the people for a second time around". That is the story of this Government. The first duty of any government in a civilised society is to provide housing for its people. This Government has clearly failed to do this. The second duty of a government is to ensure people feel safe in their homes. This Government has failed to do...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Bodies Data (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of commercial State and semi-State organisations whose borrowings are on the State's balance sheet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35180/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 189. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to set down in tabular form the number of members of An Garda Síochána assigned to each Garda Síochána station in the Laois-Offaly division from the end of September 2010 to the end of September 2015 or the latest date available. [35696/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building (details supplied) in County Kildare; if this will be included in the forthcoming five-year plan-capital building programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35415/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: 385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding a school building (details supplied) in County Kildare; if this will be included in the forthcoming five-year plan-capital building programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35416/15]

Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2014. Fianna Fáil will support the Bill and we compliment Deputy Anne Ferris on its introduction. We believe we should recognise the potential of our ageing population to contribute to and enrich our society in many diverse ways, given their talents, experience, wisdom and the...