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Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: In respect of the Department of Social Protection benefits, the Minister has cut the period in which people can avail of jobseeker's benefit, from 12 to nine months for people who were working for three, four or five years and who, through no fault of their own, have lost their jobs, and from nine months to six for those who have worked ten, 20 or 30 years and who never missed a day's work or...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: In preparing for the Supplementary Estimates debate last week, the Library and Research Service gave me details of all the Supplementary Estimates. I asked how much there was in Supplementary Estimates in previous years and the staff gave me the figures for each year back to 2007. There have never been in recent memory Supplementary Estimates of the scale of those that have gone through the...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: They amount to €1.118 billion. I will spell it out to the Minister in further detail. When the Taoiseach set up the new Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, I thought it was a good idea and I supported it. In the Government's first full year in office, we have seen this Department fail utterly. The Taoiseach should take out the scorecards he stated he had for the Ministers....

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: What use did that Department serve? I will explain it to the people. Since the Minister stood in this House exactly one year ago, all of the Departments that are under his direct control as Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform-----

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----overspent by €3 million every day, €20 million a week or €100 million every month for the past 12 months, and there have been Supplementary Estimates recently in the order of €1.2 billion. The list is available and the Minister knows it well. I have never seen such a poor outcome for a new Department and I did not expect I would be going down this road. I did...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----but those are the irrefutable facts.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: We told the Minister this time last year that the health Estimate was flawed. The figures were wrong; they did not stand up. Everybody knew they were flawed. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, needs stronger legislative powers to be able to stand up to the Ministers, Deputy Reilly and Deputy Burton, and tell them they cannot overspend.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Howlin comes into the House at the end of the year and thinks he can slip through €1 billion in Supplementary Estimates that arise from flawed budgeting. There was no overspending in the Department of Health. The Minister, Deputy Howlin, had a flawed budget for that Department to start with. Everybody told him the figures passed by the House last year were not adequate for the...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: If we continue to have overspending of the Estimates produced today-----

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----in the order of €3 million a day, €20 million a week, €100 million a month or more than €1 billion per annum, woe betide the Minister if he does not do his job and the troika must stay.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: The troika are scheduled to go. They are on the road out of here.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: They were here for a short period and the Minister, Deputy Howlin, should not mess it up.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister should not mess it up.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: Last Thursday was an interesting day in this Chamber. The public is focused on us today and they all tune in once a year to see what is going on in the House, but I would take them back to Thursday last when the Labour Party voted to renew the bank guarantee in this Chamber. That seems to run counter to everything that party's members stated they would do before they took office. Also...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: Deputy Howlin is the one who has done the talk. He promised the change.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: These are civil servants' pensions.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: I want to be clear. These pensions were for the retired Sir Humphreys. The modern-day Sir Humphreys captured the Minister to look after the retired Sir Humphreys because they will be in that category some fine day.

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: The pensions were for civil servants only. If that had happened in a local authority where it had trouble in the last month of the year meeting the payments for its retired workers, it would have had to have found the money for those pensions out of its own resources and make the necessary cuts. Civil servants, however, were able to walk into the Minister, Deputy Howlin's office and say:...

Financial Resolutions 2013 - Budget Statement 2013 (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: I look forward to making a contribution on detailed aspects of the budget. I want to highlight issues that will affect the majority of ordinary families and people. This budget effectively tightens and squeezes the majority of families. Despite promises that this would be a fair budget, it is anything but. It follows the pattern of last year. Fine Gael defended its constituency of high...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline on a county basis or an area basis in the Health Service Executive the class in which children in primary schools receive their first dental check; the steps he will take to ensure that there is an equal service countrywide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54736/12]