Results 27,001-27,020 of 34,777 for speaker:Seán Fleming

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Expenditure (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 140. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the cost of restoring the telephone allowance at the 2013 level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38264/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Living Alone Allowance (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 141. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to detail the cost per €1 increase in the living alone allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38265/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 142. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the cost of allowing long-term unemployed persons who return to the work force to retain the qualified child increase payment for a period of one year after they take up employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38266/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set out the cost of providing long-term unemployed persons who return to the work force with the option to retain an additional payment of €50 per week for a period of one year after they take up employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38267/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Staff (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to fulfil the commitment in the programme for Government to grant Members of Dáil and Seanad Éireann dedicated resources from within existing budgets for the proper scrutiny of the Estimates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38294/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Legal Costs (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 212. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to oblige State bodies to seek advice in the first instance from the Office of the Chief State Solicitor and not from the private sector to reduce costs; the progress in reducing the advice bill incurred by Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38295/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Station Closures (7 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 213. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied with the use to which closed Garda stations have been put to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38296/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Arrears Rate (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 13. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the very high level of arrears in the sub-prime mortgage sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37064/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax Regime (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 24. To ask the Minister for Finance the importance he attaches to stability in Ireland’s corporation tax regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37063/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (2 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in tabular form the number of PPS numbers issued in each year from 2003 to 2014; the number cancelled in each year; the total number of active PPS numbers currently in issuance; her views on the robustness of the system for issuing PPS numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37429/14]

Order of Business (1 Oct 2014)

Seán Fleming: The Taoiseach has announced that this day next month we will have a new framework for appointments to State boards. Will this require legislation or will it be just another circular that will be issued and ignored? When will we be able to discuss this legislation? It sounds from what has been said publicly by the Taoiseach and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: It is complicated and we will get into it in more detail. Some of the organisations, like the IFA or the GAA, have many paid officials. More often than not we meet the local voluntary chairman who is here on behalf of the person who sent him with a very good briefing note. The latter was from an organisation with more than ten people. That can happen in sporting organisations. I have...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: It is not a bone of contention but we might clarify that. I have an open mind on one of the contentious issues in this legislation. I do not have a fixed view, although some people have fixed views on this issue. The Minister nailed his colours to the mast in the programme for Government about the two year cooling off period. The legislation refers to one year. I know some people...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: That is fine, but I have an open mind on the issue. I want the best result for Ireland, once it is properly regulated. I move on to the areas that have been excluded, and I will start with the semi-State monopolies. We have had this argument previously. Bus Éireann is in competition with other Irish operators but I look at the monopoly. Irish Rail is a monopoly and Irish Water is a...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: No. I refer to other public bodies that I believe should come under this legislation. Eirgrid should come under it because it has a massive impact on people's lives. A director of Sustainable Energy Ireland is a director of one of the companies promoting the big wind farm projects - I refer to Brendan Halligan, a former colleague of the Minister. That has come up time and again, and I...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: No. We do not get increments and they do. That was taken off us in the last general election.

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am at €86,000. I do not know the scale they are on-----

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: Okay.

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: I am told principal officers and assistant principal officers regularly accompany Ministers to the Dáil and have a key interaction with what is going on, and they should be included also. There is a suggestion that the private secretaries to Ministers should be included also because they can have a key role in setting up meetings, encouraging meetings to take place or discouraging...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: I never thought we were that bad but the Minister gets the point I am making. What we have seen in the past week has shattered some people's confidence. Some people had a low opinion of politics to start with. Their confidence was not shattered but those people who had a decent interpretation of ethics in politics felt let down. We need a proper and full registration of lobbying Bill, not...