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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: I cannot accept that response. That is almost verbatim the response I got on Second Stage.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister said he would look at it.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister is still saying he wants to do it. I do not doubt that he wants to do it. I fully agree that if we are selling the national lottery this money should be ring-fenced. Now is the time to put in the legislation how he proposes to do it. I have given him the option of producing the report within one month of the enactment of the Bill. If the Minister is serious about it he...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: Please God unless the Government messes things up. I will withdraw that comment. I will leave it on the record.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: We support the Minister's commitment to see out the three year programme and stick to it. The troika will not be here next year. Therefore, what the troika says or does, does not matter. It has told us it will make an annual visit to wish us well and to send on their cheque. The Minister also said he wanted to ring-fence it and that he hoped to acquire interest on an account he will hold...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The legislation is going through now.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister is selling the legislation in the public mind on the sole basis that a large portion of the up-front payment is going to the national children's hospital.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: I accept the Minister's good intentions but I need to see it. I am a doubting Thomas and it is our job to be a doubting Thomas. I accept the Minister's good intentions but when I do not see the legal mechanism under which he is doing it I cannot accept it. As we sit here today there is not a legal mechanism to do this. I have given the Minister the option of accepting the amendment. I...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: It is not part of it at all. That is my point, Chairman. It is intended-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: Yes.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: There is no capital; the Chairman cannot say that. It is the receipt to central government; that is not capital.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “4. The Minister shall, within one month of the enactment of this Bill, bring forward a report outlining how the proceeds from the sale of the National Lottery licence shall be ringfenced for the purposes of meeting the cost of constructing the National Children’s Hospital.”.I have spoken...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: Most people like to hold on to the family silver, and do not like to have to dispose of their assets. The main sweetener in terms of the public acceptability of the sale of the national lottery licence, is the absolute commitment given by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform as well as the Taoiseach and the Minister for Health that a substantial part of the proceeds from the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: National Lottery Bill 2012: Committee Stage (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: I have specific reasons for opposing this legislation, which I deal with when we come to the amendments in my name.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Transport (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the full cost of Ministerial transport and the breakdown of this cost between salaries, mileage allowance and other travel costs for Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15674/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance the dates on which the increase in deposit interest retention tax became effective in respect of changes in the Budget announced in December 2011 and December 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15453/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Application (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will defer the introduction of the local property tax and amend it to include an ability to pay clause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15456/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Transport (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance the full cost of Ministerial transport and the breakdown of this cost between salaries, mileage allowance and other travel costs for Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department for 2012 [15673/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Transport (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full cost of Ministerial transport and the breakdown of this cost between salaries, mileage allowance and other travel costs for Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15671/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Transport (27 Mar 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the full cost of Ministerial transport and the breakdown of this cost between salaries, mileage allowance and other travel costs for Ministers and Ministers of State in his Department for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15678/13]