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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Infrastructure and Capital Investment Programme (2 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: 30. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the capital expenditure framework plan will be published; if it will list themes to the implemented or if it will include specific projects and a timeframe for their commencement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26391/15]

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Select Sub-Committee (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: I propose Deputy Regina Doherty.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 1:In page 3, to delete lines 10 to 34, and in page 4 to delete lines 1 to 5 and insert the following:“Amendment of the Staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas Act 1959 and the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Act 20031. (1) In this section—“Act of 1959” means the Staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas Act 1959; “Act of 2003”...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: Can we pair?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: I suggest we stay because the vote is on the legislation covering water services and we will be voting on that all day.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: I suggest we try to do this business.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: I ask that a member of the secretariat inform the Whips.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: I mentioned the issue of listing candidates in the order of preference.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: I will not be pressing the amendment. It is a point I thought was worth making-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: -----but I will not go to the wire on it. It is a new situation and if the next Dáil wants to revisit it, let it do so. I will happily withdraw my amendment.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: Could the Minister explain what would happen in a situation in which a Secretary General's term of office is completed towards the end of a Dáil session and a general election is called with no Houses of the Oireachtas Commission in situ? Who is to reconvene the next Dáil? If we try to fill the gap when a Secretary General is gone, what happens during the interregnum? Is there no...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps on Report Stage, the Minister might-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: It must do.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (1 Jul 2015)

Seán Fleming: They are replaced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am grateful for the opportunity to address the committee on the issue of an electoral commission. As was pointed out, I was Chairman of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Environment, Heritage and Local Government in the previous Dáil and we looked at the issue of the voters register. I am fully supportive of the electoral commission. It is a very good idea and it needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank Deputy McLoughlin for his questions. On his comment regarding updating of the register and checktheregister.ie, the difficulty with all of the local authorities doing this individually is that there is no real-time register. A person could apply today to the local authority for registration but his or her name will only appear on the draft register next November. There is no public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: I take the point made by Jim O'Keeffe about a permanent commission, but we carry out a census of population every five years and we should only change boundaries based on hard facts based on a census. It would not be right to change it every year on a rolling basis. It should only be done on the basis of census facts. By definition, the boundary issue only raises its head after each...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: Again, subject to data protection in using PPS numbers, the Department of Social Protection knows of everyone who turns 18 years of age each year when they come off child benefit. That list should automatically be sent to the electoral commission and each person should get their registration form, so one does not get the big hullabaloo when elections occur. It can run smoothly. The Revenue...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Coonan spoke about the upset caused by boundary changes. People need a sense of identity with whoever they are electing to the Dáil and the idea of somebody being a significant distance from the area, or not in the natural hinterland, county or even province is an issue the CSO figures probably just do not capture, as it is just numbers rather than people. There is a fair point...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: There is not.