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Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am pleased to hear the Minister is personally well disposed to the issue if he can find a legal mechanism to do it. While it is only 500 people this year, it is another 500 next year and so on. In fact, the figure is about 6,000 or 7,000 over a period of a few years.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: It is approximately 500 this year and I have no reason to believe it will be any less than 500 next year or the following year. If it is €40 million a year, that is a significant contribution over a couple of years. I suggest the Minister might take a case to the Labour Court and see what it decides and whether this can be negotiated. I would much prefer to see the public sector...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: How much work on these projects will physically start in 2013? I take it that nothing will happen this year. Perhaps the Minister can tell us how many people will be employed specifically as a result of this initiative in 2013.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister introduced party politics into this. He will get his answer back from me.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister was not there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I would love him to look-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister feels that he is in a position to comment even though he was not there.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I am responding to the Minister's response. The Government is producing its second budget. It might not have dawned on the Minister that the public has realised that he and his colleagues are in government. I do not hear President Hollande of France blaming Nicolas Sarkozy for his difficult choices.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I do not believe David Cameron goes around-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister thinks the solution to the Government's problems is to continue to pass the buck to those who were in government in previous years, but the people of Ireland have moved on from the past.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: They are more interested in the present and the future.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister knows that if the Government is not happy with the programme it inherited, it is free to renegotiate elements of it each quarter. It has the ability to do that and it has done it in certain cases. The Minister cannot hitch it onto the old Government. This Government has the flexibility to renegotiate any aspect of the programme that it does not like. The Minister and his...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: There is no figure in the agreement for the sale of State assets.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister has made an inaccurate statement. There is no figure in the memorandum of understanding for the sale of State assets.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister should not try to rewrite history.

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the payments of salary increases by means of increment to public servants earning more than €100,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43388/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected level of jobs that will be created by the end of 2012 and 2013 respectively as a result of the stimulus plan announced in July 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43505/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: My question specifically asked how many jobs would be created by the end of 2012 and 2013, respectively, but the Minister did not give an answer. Therefore, I can only assume the answer is zero.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister said that after six or seven years some 13,000 might be involved in the programme. He cut capital expenditure this year by €750 million and will cut it by €550 million next year. This amounts to almost half of the value of the stimulus package. Therefore, it does not even go half way towards meeting the cuts announced for this year and proposed for next year....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Staff Issues (10 Oct 2012)

Seán Fleming: I wish to put on record that we discussed this targeted redundancy package in this House last June or July, before the summer recess. Some people were surprised by the announcement but if they had been listening to us in the Chamber they would not have been surprised. The matter was discussed here and flagged months ago. I ask the Minister to confirm that this will be a Government...