Results 33,561-33,580 of 34,956 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. The motion before us deals with issues that are of great interest to the public. People might be somewhat bored talking about banks, debts, promissory notes and Anglo Irish Bank, but they realise that these issues are affecting us deeply and they recognise the repercussions of what has gone before. The motion calls on the Government...
- Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: Different parties and groups are entitled to put forward motions in Private Members' time on different weeks. The motion goes on to note the Government's intention to make a payment of â¬3.1 billion, on 31 March 2012, in respect of a promissory note for the debt of Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society. It further notes that promissory note payments to the value of...
- Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: I suspect the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, did not mean to mislead people in claiming the money is not coming from the taxpayer but that he simply does not understand.
- Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Government gave the promissory note for approximately â¬31 billion to Anglo Irish Bank last March. The latter took the note to the Central Bank in exchange for cash, which it has used to put into its deposits in order to replace the funding which fled. I agree with the final part of the motion which states the Government is committed to paying â¬3.1 billion per annum for the next...
- Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Minister, Deputy Noonan, when in Brussels today, should have pressed President Draghi of the European Central Bank for a clear timetable to reduce that debt in terms of overall European Central Bank requirements. There is a compelling case for deployment by the European Union of a new funding stream to ease the burden of debt on the Irish taxpayer. The ESF was not in place when the...
- Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: This debate must move on.
- Private Members' Business. Promissory Notes: Motion (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: We have moved on. As I have stated on many occasions in this House, having 17 central banks in the euro area and 27 in the EU is a nonsense. There should be only one central bank, and it should take over the Irish debt. The removal of this debt from the backs of Irish taxpayers should be the focus of the Government in negotiations on this issue. This debt is being carried by the Irish...
- Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: It sounds like a good decision. The Government has essentially decided to put the whole process on the long finger. The Minister put it more nicely. Policy issues have been introduced.
- Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: There will be no fire sales and regulatory matters are to be examined. Obviously, the European Union has a big role to play in that regard. It sounds as if the Government jumped the fence very quickly. The Minister agreed with his Fine Gael colleagues that the Labour Party should be bullied into selling off the ESB, Coillte and several other semi-State bodies. I am delighted that the...
- Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: It included no figure.
- Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: Will the Minister confirm that no sale of semi-State companies, or shares in semi-State companies, will take place in this calendar year? Is it the case that the matter has been put on the long finger until 2013 or beyond?
- Semi-State Bodies (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: The timetable is gone.
- Departmental Staff (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of public servants expected to retire at the end of February; the measures Government Departments have put in place to protect frontline services when these public servants retire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3940/12]
- Departmental Staff (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: That is the script the Minister brought to the Chamber approximately three months ago. No new information has been given today. That, in itself, is disappointing because the purpose of this last oral question session with the Minister before 29 February is to elicit information on what will happen when we know thousands will leave front-line services. The Minister has given no indications...
- Departmental Staff (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: The figures outlined by the Minister are not correct. I accept some of those who indicated they would retire will not do so, but more may give notice next week. What will the Minister do, especially with nurses in front-line services?
- Departmental Staff (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: In regard to the additional staff to be recruited in the course of the year, it is my understanding that the majority will be teachers filling the vacancies that arise in schools throughout the State. Will the Minister give a commitment that where there are problems in front line services due to reduced numbers of nurses in the health sector, he will consider allowing additional recruitment?...
- Croke Park Agreement (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: Question 49: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is satisfied that the Croke Park Agreement is achieving the necessary reform and savings; if he will outline the savings required under the agreement for 2011 and 2012; if there are any circumstances under which he envisages a reopening of the Croke Park Agreement if there is a deepening of the Eurozone crisis; and if...
- Croke Park Agreement (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: I thank the Minister. A few minutes ago, the Minister referred to the Darby O'Gill school of economics, of which he is the best exponent present on this matter. The Minister has stated his target for payroll savings under the Croke Park deal for 2012, as announced by him on budget day, is â¬400 million. However, he omitted to mention the cost of â¬600 million in lump sums to be paid this...
- Croke Park Agreement (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: In a nutshell, what is the Minister's definition of success? I could be glib, as are some Members, by complaining about the Croke Park agreement in this Chamber. However, one should acknowledge the remarkable level of industrial peace that exists. What is the Minister's definition of success and in what circumstances would he pull the trapdoor and seek a return to the drawing board?
- Croke Park Agreement (24 Jan 2012)
Seán Fleming: The Minister should provide us with the figures.