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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (3 Feb 2015)

Seán Fleming: 590. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide a list of all bonus payments to chief executives of commercial semi-State agencies paid in each year from 2011 to 2014 under the remit of his Department; if bonuses were withheld by commercial semi-States during the period; the reasons for withholding of bonuses; the current policy regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Semi-State Bodies Remuneration (3 Feb 2015)

Seán Fleming: 609. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a list of all bonus payments made to chief executives of commercial semi-State agencies under the remit of his Department in each year from 2011 to 2014; if bonuses were withheld by commercial semi-States during the period; the reasons for withholding of bonuses; the current policy regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (29 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: 93. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a proposal for a project (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4124/15]

Housing Affordability: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Private Members' motion and thank Deputies Michael McGrath and Cowen for putting it on the agenda. The first line of the motion is highly significant and has been lost by a lot of people. It refers to the significant fall in home ownership rates in Ireland, which is a real issue as far as I am concerned. Home ownership rates have been declining...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: I object to this sequence. The committee has two types of meeting, one of which is when a Minister comes before it. At these meetings members of the Opposition should be allowed to put their questions first, rather than every second speaker being a member of the Government. At the other type of meeting, the witnesses before the committee are not Ministers and it is right to rotate speaking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: It is the normal pattern when a Minister comes before the committee. I fully agree that at other meetings speakers should rotate between the Government and the Opposition, but not when a Minister is present. It may not have a practical impact, and this is not a tactic to delay for a few minutes, but when a Minister comes before the committee Opposition members should put their questions first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for being present to discuss the comprehensive expenditure report. We should receive the Minister's opening remarks in advance so we have an opportunity to consider them prior to the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am speaking about the opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: We will move on. We are dealing with what the Minister terms the comprehensive expenditure report for 2015 to 2017, which covers approximately €150 billion expenditure over the three-year period. If I ask questions to which we do not get answers, or for which we do not have time to have answered today, I am happy to come back next week or whenever the information comes. I may ask a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: The expenditure ceilings in the previous comprehensive expenditure report-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: Yes. It was headed "2012-2014".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: For the years 2012, 2013 and 2014. What were the outturns in those years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: I am on the committee and am asking that the Department-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for interrupting me. I believed I had a few minutes. I did not interrupt him. I will repeat my comments. This document is flawed and the Minister should be ashamed of it. I gave proof via the figures the Minister cited on budget day, which claimed extra expenditure for 2015 that ignored the Supplementary Estimates. Expenditure in 2015 will be less than it was in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: When the Minister attended the committee to discuss the Supplementary Estimates, I asked him questions. Three times he told me that he would give me the information the following day. I knew that it would take longer, as did the officials who were beside the Minister, but he stated it three times on the record. We did not get the information before the Supplementary Estimates were voted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: No, I am putting my questions. The Minister will respond or we can get a response in writing, whichever he chooses. The Minister knows that the population will increase and age and asserts that we should be considering long-term issues. No one believes that the Department will be able to provide a service with an increase in expenditure of just 0.5% in each of the next three years, yet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister can respond to the committee in due course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: Chairman, is the Minister entitled to call people silly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: The Minister has used the word "silly" every time he has spoken to me in public.