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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 816: To ask the Minister for Health if the services that were provided to a person (details supplied) will be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35178/12]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 817: To ask the Minister for Health if he will increase the funding for persons who suffer with Chronic Inflammatory Polyneuropathy which is a motor neuron disease where the body's immune system attacks its own nerves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35179/12]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (17 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 818: To ask the Minister for Health the reason there has been a cut in funding and a deterioration in the service provided at a location (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35182/12]

Written Answers — Ministerial Allowances: Ministerial Allowances (17 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 902: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the full list of allowances that are not subject to income tax and the rates applicable that are available to him and Ministers of State in his Department in respect of their official duties including allowances relating to periods when they are away from their offices, either within the State or abroad; and the actual...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Allowances: Defence Forces Allowances (12 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 202: To ask the Minister for Defence if the Border duty allowance is still in existence; the number of persons currently in receipt of this; the rate of the allowance; the estimated cost for 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34227/12]

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 131: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Laois will receive a decision on an application for carer's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33844/12]

Written Answers — Carer's Allowance: Carer's Allowance (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an application for carer's allowance will be grated (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33846/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 211: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a position for Senior Accountant (details supplied) which is being publicly advertised is only confined to staff members of the Health Service Executive; the reason the position is not open to people with equivalent qualifications and experience from outside the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33825/12]

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 216: To ask the Minister for Health if he will recognise systemic lupus erythematosus as a long term illness and include it on the long term illness scheme; and if he will examine this matter [33848/12]

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: I will focus my remarks on amendment No. 37, which proposes to delete section 47. While most people understood that the Bill exclusively deals with new entrants to the public service, section 47 enables the Minister to change current public service pension schemes to reflect the consumer price index, CPI. This is not a matter we have discussed on Second Stage or Committee Stage, although I...

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Perhaps it was discussed today-----

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: According to the memorandum we received from the Minister last night the new scheme will reduce annual expenditure by approximately 35%, or €1.8 billion, based on current rates. The estimated savings comprise €1 billion from linking future pension schemes to the CPI as opposed to salary increases, €500 million from changing to career averaging and €300 million from the later pension...

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 36: In page 49, between lines 38 and 39, to insert the following: "(4) The Minister shall publish a report on the implications of introducing a maximum clawback period of four years under this section within six months of the enactment of this Act.". Section 45 relates to repayment of overpayments of benefit. One understands why this provision would exist and agrees with...

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister knows that an Opposition Member cannot table an amendment-----

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----calling for the introduction of a four-year period because that would ask the State to forgo reclaiming a pension payment to which it might have been entitled. Such an amendment would have been ruled out of order as imposing a charge on the State. The only way the Opposition can raise this issue is by couching it in a request for a report. I know the amendment would not work, but it...

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Those are the technicalities of how I had to phrase the amendment.

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 37: In page 50, to delete lines 6 to 15.

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 38: In page 54, between lines 44 and 45, to insert the following: "53.—Where a scheme member or a member of a pre-existing public service pension scheme is dismissed or resigns as a consequence of having lost the confidence of the Government, he or she shall not benefit from the scheme in respect of the position so held.". This amendment relates to pensionable service.

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: Go raibh maith agat. This amendment proposes the insertion of a new section to provide that where a scheme member, which means an existing or future public servant, is dismissed or resigns as a consequence of having lost the confidence of the Government, which would be an extreme and important case, he or she shall not benefit from the pension scheme in respect of the position so held. Some...

Public Service Pensions (Single Scheme and Other Provisions) Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----and I refer to the FÁS issue where the head of FÁS resigned. Such issues aggravate the public. Such individuals retire with large lump sum payments and massive pensions. Most people are of the view that they have not earned these pensions. They were being paid to do a job and they did not do it. My amendment confines the provision specifically to a final role in which the...