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Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Minister is cutting public sector numbers and the capital expenditure programme. This announcement does not contain a single initiative to create jobs next month, next week or next year.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: When taken in conjunction with the VAT increases the Government will announce tomorrow, everything it is doing is cutting jobs. While I understand the Government is obliged to make savings, the biggest loser should not be the 450,000 people in receipt of unemployment benefit. The Minister's statement contains nothing about trying to get these people back onto proper working education and...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Fianna Fáil proposes that FÁS staff must be sent to the Department of Social Protection. FÁS should be closed down at the beginning of next year and its staff should be merged into the Department of Social Protection. This would enable people to go into a benefits and jobs office. In this scenario, the first thing someone who loses his or her job will do is to go to the jobs office to...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Such a change would be what I call public sector reform, that is, making sure that two offices or two Departments talk to each other and follow up with each other.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: This issue was raised at last week's meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts but the response was there were data protection issues that precluded the sharing of information between Departments. The Minister would have the support of this House, were he to amend the data protection legislation to make sure the Government operates in a single, joined-up manner. I refer to the manner in...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: A number of measures were introduced by the Minister with which I do not disagree and that I let go. However, the Minister has made a number of choices and priority decisions that were not enforced on him by the European Union, Angela Merkel or any of the Government's friends in Europe.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: I note the Taoiseach will be going over there next week to agree to whatever proposal she might have. In his speech last night, the Taoiseach referred to the European leaders as though the people in Europe, that is, in France and Germany, are the leaders. The Taoiseach is one of the European leaders. He is leader of one of the 27 member states and is leader of one of the 17 eurozone members.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: For him to talk about European leaders in the third person involves-----

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: The Taoiseach was putting himself in the category of spectator when it comes to those meetings because he is yet to put a single decent proposal to any such meeting. The Taoiseach should have been dealing with the future of the country last night and not today's budget.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Members today have heard a speech from the Minister, Deputy Howlin. Perhaps the Minister for Finance might tell Members what he has against the third and fourth child tomorrow. He referred to this last week and the point was understood. However, someone has won out in respect of that debate. This budget delivery process is a triumph of spin over substance. I have given repeated examples...

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Moreover, I only picked out the five or six key Ministries that are involved in this process to show where the Minister has given salary increases, travel expenses and hotel accommodation increases and office increases in the respective Ministers' Departments.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: All these increases are included in the expenditure report.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: I have tagged the pages for each and every one of them. If the Minister doubts any figure, he should note they come from his own document and are not my words. The Minister should explain the reason he is making these cuts to the fuel allowance and in respect of students.

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Seán Fleming: Why is he increasing the charge by 50%, when he is looking after his own friends and cronies in high places?

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2011)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 1: In page 4, line 7, before the word "Section" to insert the following subsection: "3.—(1) Section 1 of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2009 is amended by the insertion of the following definition after the definition of "Civil Service": " 'Contractor' means a person whose personal services are independently hired on a contract for services...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2011)

Seán Fleming: On a point of order-----

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (29 Nov 2011)

Seán Fleming: -----I know the Minister does not intend to continue to talk until 10.30 p.m., but we would love to be able to put one of the 21 amendments to a vote.

Written Answers — Garda Investigations: Garda Investigations (29 Nov 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 423: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position in relation to the criminal investigation currently under way in respect of practices at particular national car test centres, as highlighted earlier this year in a programme (details supplied); if he will inform Dáil Éireann when the Garda is expected to conclude their investigation; when a decision on whether to...

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (29 Nov 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 582: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he expects the number of cars failing the national car test to grow over the coming years as a result of the increase in the number of older cars on our roads because of the economic downturn; if he will outline the payment structure of the contract between him and the provider of the NCT; if this contract is a fixed price...

Written Answers — National Car Test: National Car Test (29 Nov 2011)

Seán Fleming: Question 583: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the criminal investigation into alleged criminal practices at several national car test centres as uncovered on a television programme (details supplied) earlier this year; if he is satisfied that the issues which were uncovered in this programme have now been fully addressed; if so, if he is...