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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (16 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: 135. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be issued with an appointment for the pain clinic in Saint James's Hospital in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15014/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: The witnesses are very welcome. I wish to discuss clay pipes. What scale are these pipes? Are they little or very big pipes? Are they sewerage pipes? What scale is Mr. Thompson talking about when he talks about clay pipes? He said development can affect them. Whoever was doing the development and planning should have asked them to investigate the underground drainage and pipe network...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: Are they for underground rivers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: While most people acknowledge the OPW does great work, the problem is it does not do enough which is probably due to a lack of resources. The OPW has done catchment flood risk assessment and management reports. I have raised this question before but what level of feed-in does the OPW have with local authorities in terms of their county development plans regarding flood risk in identified...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: I have one final question. The Carlow town project was completed in 2012 and the one in Hazelhatch-Celbridge was completed in 2000 but was only recently handed over. I know Mr. Smyth said that was the memorandum but why was a memorandum agreed that there would be a five-year time lag before the work being completed-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: Why were the projects that were completed in 2000 and 2012 not available for handing over before now? Does Mr. Smyth follow my question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: Is there much more flood defence work which has been completed but which has yet to be handed over to the insurance companies? Has it got everything the OPW has completed at this stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: My final plea to Mr. Smith is to try to get that information to the insurance companies as quickly as possible-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: -----because the four areas he mentioned are big urban areas and there are insurance issues. The insurance industry will say it is waiting for the information to assess the works that were completed. The longer it takes to get the information to the insurance industry, the longer it will take it to be able to respond to the information. I would encourage Mr. Smyth to get it to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Smyth mentioned that Waterford-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Smyth might send the list to the committee secretariat, which will circulate it to us, because there might be one he is missing, but it will be interesting to see the ones where work is completed and they are in the system for transmission. I am happy for that to be sent on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Smyth might give us a note on the stages that have been reached in the various projects.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: That is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: There is a risk now.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Annual Leave (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: 200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the maximum number of days annual leave persons are entitled to, across the public service, including State agencies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14291/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Grant Payments (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: 784. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an estimate of the costs to be incurred by his Department in respect of administering the new conservation grant; the reason this new project was not put out to public tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14279/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Waterways Ireland Staff (15 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: 917. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views that it is reasonable that 32 days annual leave is granted for the position of Regional Manager of the Western Region in Waterways Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14277/15]

Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (2 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased we are having this short debate on these U-turns in respect of freedom of information being proposed by the Minister. The Government's original plan was to have it taken here without debate, but we said there had to be a proper debate and have succeeded in getting five minutes for each of the Opposition speakers, which is welcome and is better than where we were. I acknowledge...

Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (2 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. I will have to go to all 14 Departments and there might be a search and retrieval fee. The Minister acknowledged in the briefing note we received that in the case of the refugee bodies, an additional concern communicated by the Department of Justice and Equality was that third-party freedom of information requests would have the potential to delay judicial reviews of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Act 2014: Motions (1 Apr 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am shocked that we are here after the trumpeting of the introduction of freedom of information legislation. We are proceeding to unravel freedom of information legislation. We are introducing new exemptions and changing effective dates. It is a serious rowing back, a U-turn on the promise to reform and expand freedom of information legislation. This raft of changes introduces secrecy in...