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Financial Resolution No. 6: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister for that.

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Will the Minister provide us with clarification and additional information on this proposal? The information provided is sketchy with regard to the figure of €64 million. Perhaps the Minister might be able to answer a few questions. I respectfully state that if the answers are not available, we will want them by way of replies to parliamentary questions in the near future. How much of...

Financial Resolution No. 7: Stamp Duties (6 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Are we going to play games in the last ten minutes?

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 175: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for a disability allowance will be granted in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38552/11]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (6 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 176: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when an appeal for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Laois will be granted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38553/11]

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (6 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 458: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that all tendering procedures were properly carried out, evaluated and concluded in respect of a contract (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38863/11]

Written Answers — Industrial Relations: Industrial Relations (6 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 459: To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive followed up on all matters referred to by the Labour Court in its recommendations in respect of a case (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38864/11]

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: It is fitting that the Minister for Social Protection has walked out from the Chamber. That says it all, she does not want to hear constructive views from the Opposition or members of the public who sat here patiently and quietly and listened to the masked language, camouflaging the cuts that will dribble out over the coming weeks and months. I understand that the Minister is unable to face...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Regarding the statement on expenditure, the overall consolidation to be achieved in this budgetary process is well accepted by most people and is supported by Fianna Fáil. This is the first opportunity for the new Fine Gael-Labour Party Government to outline its priorities and plans for the future. We agree with some of the choices but there are a number of individual decisions announced...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Taoiseach has ensured a 35% salary increase for one of his friends. More to the point, on Tuesday last week in the Dáil, the Government parties voted down proposals to cut the excessive pay rates of chief executives of a number of semi-State companies. Each Member on the Government side voted against a range of measures to cut highly-paid public servants earning more than €200,000...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: There is no hypocrisy. We accept the consolidation of €3.8 billion to be achieved between today and tomorrow. We accept the expenditure reduction of €2.2 billion and we expect an announcement tomorrow of tax increases of €1.6 billion. We support the overall figure and we agree with the budget deficit targets of 8.6% for 2012 and 3% deficit in 2015. However, individual measures such...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the new approach of announcing the expenditure plans here today. The booklet circulated to Members contains 200 pages and in previous budgets that would have been an annex to the main taxation measures. We all know that for this year, next year and subsequent years the main financial consolidation had to happen on the expenditure side as opposed to on the taxation side and that is...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: -----he will not get hung up on individual choices once they are within the overall budgetary framework and meet the target. He left here in the middle of October after the September review and did not intend coming back until next year because he was satisfied. Once the Government assures him that it will stay within the figures he does not mind what changes it makes. However, the people...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: They are being made to carry the can for some of these decisions. In the past two weeks the Government announced the capital expenditure programme, which resulted in a reduction of €750 million in capital expenditure. As the Minister knows that €750 million cut will directly lead to 9,000 people who are in work today not having projects to move on to next year and they will lose their...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: By just increasing the capital expenditure on health areas, it could bring all those nursing homes up to HIQA standard and it would not be necessary to close the ones proposed to be closed. One of the Minister's roles is to deal with public sector reform. Last week we discussed his document on the subject at a committee meeting. I said it was the weakest document he had produced - he has...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The essence of it is that the Taoiseach announced last night that there will be 37,000 fewer people working in the public service by 2015 - 23,000 extra from today. That is higher than the figure the Minister announced during the general election campaign, but clearly he lost that battle in Government. I accept that is the way compromise goes. The Minister also mentioned a list of quangos...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: He wants to establish a public service chief information officer, a shared-services transformation manager in the reform and delivery office, appoint a payroll shared services manager, an officer responsible for business plans, a pensions shared services project manager-----

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: ----- a project manager in the Civil Service human resources shared services centre, a senior responsible officer to provide leadership to overall procurement in the public sector reform and a head of commercial delivery within the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. He wants to set up an implementation steering group-----

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: ----- to plan, monitor and evaluate the basic payments account plan. That is why I criticised the Minister's document. On that issue, I accept what he is saying about the expenditure cuts. However, on that issue, I have never seen a Minister captured so quickly by his senior civil servants that he could put his name to a document with all that Civil Service gobbledegook.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: That is the Minister's solution to public sector reform. Nobody else would regard all these internal quangos as public sector reform. Jobs have been identified as a target area by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, the Taoiseach and the Minister for Finance. Since the Government came into office unemployment has increased by 10,000.