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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Teachers' Remuneration (15 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he intends to intervene in the case of a number of Irish teachers forced to flee from Tripoli in Libya, who are seeking payment of their teaching contracts owed to them by ISM International; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23290/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (15 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 110. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of funding levies paid by each regulated body to the Financial Regulator in 2010, 2011 and 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23119/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (15 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 111. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of monetary penalties imposed, including directions to refund or withhold moneys charged or paid, on each regulated body by the Financial Regulator in 2010, 2011 and 2012 [23120/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (15 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the analysis used by the National Centre for Pharmaeconomics in their decision not to make Pirfendione available for patients with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis on economic grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23124/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: On the same question, Mr. Carrigan has highlighted various things he is happy with, but what have not been included are issues about which he is disappointed or things that have not happened.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Why not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not trying to set a trap here. I am genuinely interested. Is there nothing that has happened within the Department's remit that Mr. Carrigan is less than happy about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I think the Department has made considerable progress and it is to be congratulated on the work it has done, which has been recognised at a European level. However, I am always deeply suspicious of any individual or theme that gives all the good news but, when asked what the bad news is, says there is no bad news. This lack of counter-introspection takes generally from the credibility of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I was in Brussels on Tuesday for an EMU conference and spoke to various officials and Members of the European Parliament, all of whom were very positive about the Department of Finance officials and I imagine about the people in this committee room. People are speaking of all of them with very high regard in Brussels at the political and bureaucratic levels. I do not know what they have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: That is very useful. That was my understanding, as well. An awful lot of the talk in Brussels on Tuesday was about parliamentary input, parliamentary legitimacy and the disconnect between executives, cabinets or governments and their parliaments. I know this is not an issue for the officials to comment on but the reason I ask it is that it is important that we understand that the European...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Is it envisaged that the actual budget in our case, or in other more enlightened countries the draft budget, which is submitted in October, will line up more or less to the SPU which will be submitted in April?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I am not expecting the officials to comment but it is worth noting, and is very important, that the SPU is being submitted to Brussels without any parliamentary oversight or input whatsoever. We were given an hour, I think I got about four and a half minutes to question the Minister on it. That is essentially the blueprint for the budget. Again there was zero parliamentary oversight. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: When we submit our SPU and our actual budget who assesses them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Who are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Okay, could Mr. Gallagher repeat them? Who are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Do they appear before the relevant European parliamentary committees?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Can Mr. Ó Brolcháin find out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank Mr. Ó Brolcháin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Six Month EU Scrutiny Report: Discussion with Department of Finance (9 May 2013)

Stephen Donnelly: Mr. Gallagher is correct in saying I have asked this question previously. I am genuinely concerned. I am not concerned about our Department of Finance assessing political proposals from me or the Government or whoever, because the officials appear before the committee and there is, at least, some parliamentary oversight. We have got a group of people - civil servants, economists, PhDs,...