Results 28,981-29,000 of 34,778 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report November 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: The witnesses are very welcome here today and I thank them for their brief presentation. They are very clear that the Government should have continued with the previously planned adjustment of €3.1 billion rather than the reduced amount of €2.5 billion, but the Minister's statement consistently refers to the €3.1 billion adjustment made up of expenditure reductions,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Business of Joint Committee (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: I propose Deputy Dara Murphy.
- Order of Business (5 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: The Minister is aware that under planning legislation, the wind energy guidelines published in 2006 were to be reviewed by the relevant Minister. The Minister concerned has indicated this review will be completed this week. Will this deadline be met? How soon can we expect the review of the wind energy guidelines to be published?
- Electricity Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (3 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity of speaking on this debate. In the motion, we in Fianna Fáil propose that Dáil Éireann, "agrees that Ireland's electricity infrastructure and transmission capability be modernised, as well as expanded, to allow for a clean, sustainable and affordable supply to the public and to support all future economic and societal development." My party's motion...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I apologise for being a little late. On the Peoplepoint and payroll shared services projects, I am aware there were significant initial costs involved in the setting up of the projects in the first year. I understand from what I have heard across the public service there are set-up costs for projects for the first two years and then they start to save money from year 3 onwards. From where...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I understand that. Perhaps I was not clear in putting my question. Take any of the organisations whose function is transferred to Peoplepoint and, say, five people were involved in the payroll in that section-----
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I am making the same point, irrespective of which service I give as an example. Let us say five people are dealing with human resources or payroll in an organisation and those functions are transferred to Peoplepoint or payroll shared services, those five people are no longer required to do that work in the organisation as it is now being done centrally. Those five people will be subsumed...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: This will lead to a saving if the employment control framework for the relevant organisation is reduced by the number of staff now doing the work. Does that happen? Is the employment control framework reduced by the number of staff that used to be in the section? If so, there are fewer staff members.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: Is there a specific reduction?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: The Minister does not have information about the 13 organisations now up and running. Perhaps the Minister can send information to the committee secretariat. Can the Minister give us an example of how the employment control framework has been reduced?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: We are dealing with HR issues and the HR function will be administering sick pay arrangements from 1 January. Will the counting of the clock be made retrospective? The most fundamental thing we learned is that legislation cannot be made retrospective. It cannot be backdated and it does not happen with tax. We see the counting of the clock in respect of sick days is going back a number of...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: I am only teasing out the issue with the Minister.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: This is the last point but it is connected to the topic.
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: Is this the legislation dealing with sick pay?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: Was the measure on sick pay included in the legislation?
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Supplementary) (3 Dec 2013) Seán Fleming: Report Stage will be taken on Thursday according to an e-mail I got this afternoon. We will resume discussion on the issue then.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (3 Dec 2013)
Seán Fleming: 165. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a carer's allowance appeal will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51437/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (28 Nov 2013)
Seán Fleming: 69. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received representations on concerns regarding the retrospective application of the public sector sick pay scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51111/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (28 Nov 2013)
Seán Fleming: 71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there have been any changes to the public sector sick pay scheme and the way it will be applied since the Haddington Road agreement was finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51161/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Staff Sick Leave (28 Nov 2013)
Seán Fleming: 153. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department have received representations on concerns regarding the retrospective application of the public sector sick pay scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51112/13]