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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Sometimes the most obvious question is the one to which the answer is not available. How many grants have been awarded?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Okay, we will. If 69,000 applications were received and 55,000 were completed, how many have been granted? I am sure I will get an answer in a few minutes. I will move on to the appeals process as some of these applications have been refused. I tried to get this figure before asking the question but we will get the figure in any event. What is the appeal system for someone who has been...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: In what category are Garda vehicles?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: In relation to the public private partnerships for schools and other areas, I presume the National Development Finance Agency, NDFA, has a role but does it come under the Department of Finance or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Minister will be pleased to learn that this morning I will skip the discussion on the location of primary health centres.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Other things would arrive later.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Half of the work could be done.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: We can give him a list of projects that are ready to go.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: There were six or seven Supplementary Estimates, although some of them were smaller. Those were the two big ones.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: There are two issues: the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and schools, and we will follow those up. We understand that there can be planning issues with the schools building programme and we hope the schools are built as soon as possible.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Will the Department's capital expenditure be commensurately reduced to take account of that?

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: The Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government is one of the biggest concerns. Leader money is a major issue, particularly where it has moved slowly. On that side, applications going into local development companies have declined because of the requirement for matching funding from the promoter of the business. The lack of any such funding, which also relates to the...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: Irish Water will not be up and running for a couple of years. I am concerned local authorities will stand back from completing projects. Is there any requirement for some small part of the funding to come from the local authority's own resources in addition to department money? If there is such a requirement, we can understand why local authorities will not want to do this. We need to see...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the Minister. Everyone is in favour of money that can be carried forward to be spent in 2013 on projects and capital investment needed at that time. I would be surprised if anyone had a difficulty with the principle. The Minister could not have anticipated the questions I would ask but the script he has provided does not answer the questions on which I seek information. If he...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Finance Act 2004 (Section 91) (Deferred Surrender to the Central Fund) Order 2013: Motion (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: I would like the information to be provided to the committee before the vote in the Dail to accept it. A number of Departments that are seeking to carry forward unspent allocations for capital expenditure in 2012 to 2013. Of those, which Departments required a Supplementary Estimate in December? We had Supplementary Estimates across a range of Departments amounting to over €1...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Assets Management Agency has adequate resources to support its efforts to gain security over assets controlled by its debtors that were not secured at the time when loans were transferred to the agency from the banks and where these assets were subsequently transferred to family members of the debtor; the amount of the €750 million...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Sale of State Assets (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Finance the number of external consultants currently engaged by his Department providing advice in respect of the proposed sale of State assets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10404/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (28 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when carer's allowance will be granted to a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10805/13]

Other Questions: Departmental Staff Numbers (27 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: On the draft public service agreement and the clarifications that will be required in the weeks before workers vote, will the Minister comment further on the pay equalisation issue as it relates to nurses? It appears the Government is already dealing with the latter in respect of teachers. Everyone accepts that the largest number of agency workers in the public service is to be found among...

Other Questions: Departmental Staff Numbers (27 Feb 2013)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for providing that information. The total number of staff, between the Department and the agencies, is 56. The Minister has stated he is only accountable for his own line Department when replying to parliamentary questions. However, we regard him as the Minister with responsibility for the public service. I have a question about the new draft public service...