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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Why will it be private?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Our own report?

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Payments (17 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 16. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is concerned by recent reports from the St. Vincent de Paul charity that it is paying more than €10 million a year to gas and electricity companies to help families pay their energy bills; the plans her Department has to combat fuel poverty in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43320/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Appeals (16 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 50. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision on an appeal for family income supplement in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will be decided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43792/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (16 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 140. To ask the Minister for Health when orthodontic treatment will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43742/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: It is €100.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: She dislikes the payment because she thinks it is money for the banks and as a result, those in mortgage arrears are the ones who will suffer. The Minister is cutting the allowance now. Some 19,000 mortgage holders were benefiting from the scheme when he came to office and by next year, he will have the scheme almost abolished. As has been mentioned, the Minister is reducing jobseeker's...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Finally, the household benefits package and the bereavement grant changes have been fundamental issues and the Minister has gone out of his way to attack the elderly. I refer to two items. One relates to the overall Government waste. I would advise the Ministers to read the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. There is €300 million of waste in there. The Minister, Deputy...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: These are all worthwhile issues but the Minister is introducing them, from the proceeds of the sale of the national lottery which should have been ring-fenced and kept for the national children's hospital, as a slush fund to buy votes in the local elections in May 2014. I would ask the Minister to reconsider a number of those changes.

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I do not know what the Minister, Deputy Howlin, has against young people in asking them to emigrate. I do not know what he has against expectant mothers. Especially, I do not what he has against the elderly, where he is hitting their medical cards, hitting their free telephone allowance and hitting them everywhere it hurts. They will be afraid in their homes tonight. They will be losing...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I ask the Government to reverse this measure. The Government is in the process of gutting the household benefits package and failing to recognise its social and economic value. Every pensioner over 70 years relies on the free telephone allowance, and the Government is hitting every person on the carer's allowance, everyone between 66 and 70 years in receipt of the State contributory or...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: They are more important than the national Parliament. That shows the commitment to political reform in this Chamber. Last year the Minister said that his measures to reduce the cost of drugs and prescribed items would save €160 million in 2013 and €330 million in 2014 and subsequent years. We all know these figures were a figment of the Minister's imagination. It did not...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister went on to mention another mean cut. We talk about getting people back to work, but the Minister said that when a person returns to work he or she will now only be given a GP card instead of retaining the full medical card. That will save the Department of Health and the HSE €11 million. Cutting medical cards for people who should be incentivised to go back to work is...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: In the days leading up to the budget we were told to expect a family-friendly budget, one that would help hard-pressed families. What we have got instead is a litany of cuts and tax increases which, taken with the last two budgets, show a Government which is both lacking in imagination and a basic commitment to fairness. The last two budgets hit those relying on public services hardes. It...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: Some 35,000 elderly people are watching today who will lose their medical cards as a result of this decision. In fact, it was based on the Minister making a reduction of €200, but the figure is probably higher at €300 per couple. The medical card is highly valued by older people and those on low incomes. It provides reassurance and a right of access to health care at a time...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 432. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive orthodontic treatment and much needed braces from the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43490/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Provision (15 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 435. To ask the Minister for Health when a child (details supplied) in County Laois will receive orthodontic treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43523/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Retail Sector Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the progress that has been made by the Interdepartmental Group on the Retail Sector since the second quarter of the year; the initiatives it has recommended based on the submissions received; the initiatives he is taking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42719/13]

Other Questions: National Procurement Service Savings (9 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: I table this question because I am generally supportive of the concept of the national procurement office located in the Minister's Department. Last Thursday, the Committee of Public Accounts met his officials. The Minister mentioned that procurement was valued at approximately €9 billion per annum. Added to capital expenditure, the figure is €12 billion or €13...

Other Questions: National Procurement Service Savings (9 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: The European average is 97% or 98%. The Minister should undertake measures within the EU guidelines to increase our rate to 95% in the next year or so, yet with the same prices. This would result in an extra €600 million or €700 million for the domestic economy. It is a tragedy that €1.3 billion of Government procurement goes to companies outside the country when that...