Results 33,301-33,320 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Broadcasting Services (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Minister will be aware that a special meeting of the RTE Authority has been called for tomorrow following the upholding of a complaint by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland about the unfairness of the final television presidential election debate on RTE last year. Everyone will remember this issue well because between 800,000 and 900,000 people watched the programme live. The...
- Broadcasting Services (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: Minister, I do have to put it to you personally that the central issue here we are talking about revolved around a political donation. My understanding is that-----
- Broadcasting Services (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: The central issue here involved the content of what the tweet was about, namely, a political donation. My understanding is that the Minister personally canvassed for the successful candidate in the presidential election. I do not know whether he signed the candidate's nomination forms. I understand that he personally made a financial donation to the successful candidate. The Minister had...
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: I am speaking only about the cost involved. The Minister stated that there will be a 20% reduction in the cost of the public sector pay bill. However, when one adds the cost of the pay bill to the cost of the pensions bill, the actual reduction achieved between 2008 and 2015 will be only 12% or 13%, which while only a modest reduction is to be welcomed. We have had several opportunities to...
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this special debate on public sector numbers. I acknowledge that time has been provided for the debate by the Government. It is probably a good time to have the debate now that 29 February has come and gone. There was much debate, discussion and anxiety in the months prior to that date. Perhaps the Minister is correct. The public might be a little...
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: It is modest relative to the more than one billion saved during previous years.
- Public Sector Numbers: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: Yes. It is the level of saving that will be made on a permanent basis. All organisations must review their pay and pensions bills. I will not engage in a debate on there not being any new liability because people are retiring. However, pay and pension costs need to be addressed. The Minister stated that the pay bill in 2008 was â¬17.5 billion and the pension bill was â¬2.1 billion,...
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: From my understanding, the troika will have first call in respect of its share of the proceeds. Perhaps the Minister will clarify the position in this regard but he appears to be nodding his head. People seem to have obtained the impression that the first moneys realised from the sale of State assets will go to the troika and that if the entire â¬3 billion accrues, â¬1 billion can be used...
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: That means the Minister will have seen 5,000 job losses in the financial services sector despite the party coming here to talk about job creation. The people will know.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: In other words, the bad news is our fault and the good news is the Government's doing.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Government is in office a year and has got 12 months from that story.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: It is starting to wear thin.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: We understand that for a period after an election all the bad news would be our fault and the good news is the doing of the Government.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: The public is beginning to tire of it.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: Believe it or not-----
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: -----the Government has been in office for 12 months, although the Deputy does not seem to realise it.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Deputy cannot continue to blame-----
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: -----a previous Government or the Opposition for-----
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: -----for a lack in the current Government.
- Sale of State Assets: Statements (8 Mar 2012)
Seán Fleming: Some 12 months on the Deputy is continuing to say it.