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Written Answers — Animal Welfare: Animal Welfare (6 Mar 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 446: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role of the Turf Club in relation to a complaint relating to the welfare of horses while in training with a licensed trainer in view of the fact that he referred to this matter in Parliamentary Question No. 563 of 21 February 2012, and the reason in a parliamentary question on a similar matter, Parliamentary Question...

Leaders' Questions (6 Mar 2012)

Seán Fleming: If they let us win, we might vote.

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (1 Mar 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 14: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total verifiable amount of fraud in the social welfare system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11720/12]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (29 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will set out in tabular form the corporation tax rate prevailing in each year from 1985 to date; the receipts from corporation tax; the total receipts of taxation in each year; the percent of total taxation received from corporation tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11805/12]

Written Answers — Job Creation: Job Creation (29 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency supported jobs in the country at the end of each year since 1985; the total number employed here; the percentage of employment in I.D.A. supported businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11806/12]

Written Answers — Land Act Trusts: Land Act Trusts (29 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the information in relation to trusts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11804/12]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (29 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: Question 201: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconcile the discrepancies between the figures shown in the Health Service Executive annual accounts in both 2009 and 2010 in respect of payments to an organisation (details supplied) in Newbridge, County Kildare to the amount that their accounts indicate as income from the HSE for the same period; if he will ensure that no...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: May I share time with Deputy Niall Collins?

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the sale of State assets. We discussed it briefly during Question Time, but this debate gives us more time to discuss it further. I disagree completely with the Government's proposal on using two thirds of the proceeds of the sale of any State asset to pay down our national debt. I reject it entirely.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: No, we did not. I will address the factual situation later. Some 100% of the sale of any State asset should be used for job creation, growth, economic development and investment. It is only through economic growth and investment that we can work our way out of our financial difficulties. I have read the wording of the memorandum again. The Minister seems to believe some of the scripts...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: I will go through the facts and the exact sequence of events. Under the memorandum of understanding that the Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government signed in December 2010, we agreed to undertake an independent assessment of the electricity and gas sectors with a view towards enhancing their difficulties-----

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: -----and "setting appropriate targets for the possible privatisation" of State assets. I am quoting the memorandum. This section of the memorandum dealt with raising Ireland's growth potential. It was not the section on safeguarding public finances, namely, paying our debt. Changes occurred. Following the new Government entering into office 12 months ago, the memorandum read: "It is...

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: We accept responsibility for signing up to the original memorandum of understanding, but we will not accept the Minister's claims that the memorandum contained provisions on-----

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: To review possible privatisation, not to reduce the national debt.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: The Minister stated: "In negotiating a programme for Government, the two Government parties accepted a new approach to the management and use of State assets in the interests of the economy, the people and job creation was required as part of the mechanism to address the fiscal crisis." The new approach was introduced in the programme for Government.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: State assets were to be sold to manage the financial crisis.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: This has not been publicly acknowledged until now, although Fine Gael had wanted to do it for years. The sale of State assets is part of Fine Gael's agenda but part of the price was that the Labour Party would sacrifice its soul. In its rush to get into Government, the Labour Party signed up to anything Fine Gael wanted.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: We will deal with that. I am opposing the sale of State assets unless the proceeds are specifically used for job creation and investment.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: All of them.

State Assets: Motion (28 Feb 2012)

Seán Fleming: We are very clear in that regard. If the Minister had announced that the proceeds from the sale were being invested in job creation, business development and enhancing growth, we would have supported him.