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Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: It is relevant to the amendment because members cannot understand whether the amendment is workable or feasible unless they can understand the answer to that question.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: Consequently, it is administered entirely separately by the political parties to the rest of the moneys that are either fund-raised or generated through the Electoral Acts.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: It is only when one is elected.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I understand entirely from where the Deputy Fleming is coming with his amendment but perhaps the Minister could shed light on his understanding of whether the leaders' allowance, or as it is to be called-----

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: -----the parliamentary activities allowance is, by necessity, separated in terms of the payment and expenditure from the overall activity of the political party.

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Oireachtas (Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: In practice, does that mean that all payroll activity, etc., is done entirely separately from the political party in terms of, as Deputy Fleming said, issuing P45s, tax numbers, etc.? Is it entirely separate to the activity of the political parties, or can it be joined?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if analysis was conducted by the special liquidator into the number of Irish Nationwide mortgage holders who would have bought back their own loans at a price greater than the independent valuation obtained for their individual loan if provided an opportunity to do so; if analysis was conducted assessing the total amount in euro that could be lost by...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance further to his statement read on his behalf if he will confirm that amending section 172 of the National Asset Management Agency Act is one of the areas being examined as part of the review of NAMA being carried out by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10319/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the intake of new students to a school (details supplied) Dublin 6 has been halved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10116/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (27 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 122. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 10 December 2013, when the Bill reforming the law on employees' right to engage in collective bargaining under the Industrial Relations (Amendment) Act 2001 will be introduced; if a regulatory impact assessment will be published in advance of publication of this Bill; if he will confirm...

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I was pointing out what they are saying privately versus what they are saying publicly.

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: It is quite pathetic when the Deputy tries to turn it into personalities all the time.

Allegations in relation to An Garda Síochána: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: It is deeply depressing that the democracy of this State and the functioning of government has been paralysed due to weeks of collective failure by the Government to uphold the free and fair administration of justice. This is not just a matter that falls on one Minister. The events of recent weeks have demonstrated the profound weaknesses that exist here in the 31st Dáil. Those...

Other Questions: School Transport Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: My understanding is that the matter is with the Information Commissioner. Presumably, the Minister of State's officials can fill him in on that. There is also a broad policy question as to whether there is an appetite on the part of the Minister or the Department to review this matter. The annual cost is approximately €166 million, which is substantial. Effectively, it is a...

Other Questions: School Transport Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: The European Commission obliges it.

Other Questions: School Transport Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the European Commission is likely to investigate his Department for breach of state aid rules; if he has taken any pre-emptive action by his Department regarding the school transport services administered by Bus Éireann on behalf of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9154/14]

Other Questions: School Transport Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline his views on whether the European Commission may make adverse findings against his Department for being in breach of EU state aid rules in respect of the school transport services administered by Bus Éireann on behalf of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9155/14]

Other Questions: School Transport Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: There was a report in The Irish Times on 10 February suggesting that the European Commission had indicated that it is likely to launch an investigation into claims that, as currently operated, the school transport scheme is in breach of EU state aid rules. Is that the case? If so, when is it likely to be initiated? Is there any further information that the Minister of State can provide to...

Other Questions: School Transport Administration (25 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Minister of State. Perhaps the question that faces the Minister and the Department is whether it might be time to reassess how the school transport scheme is being administered by Bus Éireann. I understand that the legal basis for the scheme is grounded in a letter sent in 1967 to Bus Éireann which gave the company total administrative rights over the school transport...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Consultancy Contracts (25 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: 555. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to his statement on 18 February 2014 that he had received a peer review report on the technical matters of relevance from a company (details supplied) to seek clarification of the technical information contained in the Verrimus report and an opinion with regard to the risks as identified and presented to GSOC, if he will detail the...