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Other Questions: Estimates Process (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: What is the current exposure of the State and its agencies, including semi-State bodies, to public private partnerships, PPPs, that have been entered into in recent years? Has he plans to increase the use of PPPs?

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships Data (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 95. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current level of exposure of the State and its agencies to public private partnerships, PPPs; his plans to increase the use of PPPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47803/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister send on the full list of shared services projects in the public service? Some of these are in their initial stages, others partly up and running. I know some of these will take time. My local authority area, Laois County Council, is in charge of the shared services project for local authority payrolls. It brings on three other local authorities each quarter, so it will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: There is a build-up. We are all agreed it could not have been rushed on day one. On 23 October, I put down a parliamentary question on the number of staff redeployed within local government shared services over the past three years. The reply from the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government stated his Department does not collate the redeployment data as requested....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of shared services projects commenced across the Civil Service since 2011; the costs associated with these projects for each year; when these projects will generate an overall net saving; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48016/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: In this question I ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a list of the shared service projects commenced across the Civil Service since 2011, the costs associated with these projects for each year and when the projects will generate an overall net saving.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Shared Services (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I understand the table will be circulated with the reply when we receive it by e-mail in the afternoon. Members on this side of the House have agreed with the principle and always known that there is a set-up cost. New offices and staff must be provided at new locations, while new software development systems must be put in place. Of course, it will take a few years and I am happy that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: In his Budget Statement of 15 October 2013 the Minister stated:The two Government parties agreed a strategy for this budget and the Estimates. It involves reducing the tax and spending consolidation from the published €3.1 billion to €2.5 billion, targeting a general Government deficit of 4.8% for 2014 and in the process, achieving a primary balance.The Minister did this on the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: Had the Minister factored that figure of €1.2 billion into his budgetary estimates last year, he would have exceeded the deficit ceiling of 5.1%. He knowingly came to the House to present a figure that was under the target of 4.8% in the hope the Department of Finance would bail him out with extra tax revenue. Did he do this deliberately?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Minister has skirted around the fact that the 2014 Supplementary Estimate of €1.2 billion is the single biggest Supplementary Estimate in the history of the State. It was nearly matched by the Supplementary Estimate of €1.1 billion in 2012. The two biggest Supplementary Estimates since the foundation of the State have been presented since the Department of Public and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 85. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role of his Department in respect of the overall book of Estimates for 2014, in view of the largest ever set of expenditure overruns across nine Government Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48015/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Government Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: I wish to ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform about his role and that of his Department in respect of the overall book of Estimates for 2014, in view of the largest ever set of expenditure overruns across nine Government Departments.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Insurance Cover (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the implementation measures in place in respect of the protocol between the Office of Public Works and insurance firms in respect of exchange of information on flood defences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47801/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the role his Department has had in respect of dealing with the insolvency of a company's pension scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47805/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 105. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has a strategy in place for the care and maintenance of national monuments; the way this is integrated with the centenary celebrations of the 1916 Rising; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47802/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the funding available for supplementary welfare allowances from her Department in 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014 and the estimate for 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48408/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Supplementary Welfare Allowance Expenditure (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 179. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a breakdown of the categories of payments under the supplementary welfare allowance scheme, outlining the number of payments and the amount of payments for each category for 2012, 2013, and to date in 2014; if she will provide an estimate of the amount provided for 2015 under these headings; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes in stamp duty in respect of agriculture in the Finance Bill 2014 and arising from the recent budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48396/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Communications (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the protocols in place in his Department and agencies and sections under his Department regarding recording all phone calls; if a procedure is in place whereby if persons on an urgent basis need to make a personal call or receive a personal call while at work these calls are recorded; if he is satisfied that adequate procedures are...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Licence Sale (16 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: 260. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the payments that have been made to date by Premier Lotteries Ireland in respect of the national lottery licence; the schedule of payments due to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48434/14]