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Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: The Deputy has one minute left.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I have a couple of questions and Mr. Shanahan knows where I am coming from. I congratulate the agency on the approximately 200,000 people or 10% of the Irish work force in foreign direct investment companies in Ireland. The payroll in IDA Ireland companies is probably a bit higher than in other local companies or the public sector. They are good employers in terms of improving the local...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Painfully. I will not labour the point as we are short of time. In the midlands, the figure is 4,280, which is the lowest for the regions. Laois has been one of the fastest growing counties in terms of population and the witnesses mentioned population and urban trends in the opening statement. The population of Portlaoise, as the witnesses know, is substantially higher than Tullamore,...

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We can agree an appropriate schedule.

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: We will leave it at that. We are concluding the meeting because we wish to attend the Dáil. Is it agreed to dispose of the 2016 financial statements of IDA Ireland? Agreed. On behalf of the committee I thank all the witnesses from IDA Ireland, the Department and the Comptroller and Auditor General for being here and for the material supplied.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a tax allowance for the parents of children that are working to bring it in line with the child dependants allowance of €29.80 per week (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42015/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget Submissions (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on farm income averaging whereby either the farmer or spouse have a second income from self-employment; if a threshold can be introduced whereby the income average can apply rather than excluding due to the fact that in some situations it may be a small amount of self employment income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42122/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if the homecare package for a person (details supplied) can be improved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42074/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (4 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 156. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the situation whereby pharmacists' prescriptions in some cases request the person to come back on a weekly basis even though they have a monthly prescription; if there are additional payments available to the pharmacists for filling the prescriptions on a phased basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42115/17]

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Social Welfare Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017. It makes amendments to the social welfare legislation, the Pensions Act and the Civil Registration Act. I will speak briefly on the Civil Registration Act and will concentrate on the amendments relating to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005. My question for the Minister is one...

Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: Is the Taoiseach reading his script? The unit prepared the script for him.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Eligibility (3 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) did not qualify for DEIS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41308/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (3 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a sports hall will be provided to a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41309/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a transport grant payment will be made to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41916/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (3 Oct 2017)

Seán Fleming: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have been placed on a panel in respect of the recent application for the post of home help for CHO Area 8; the expected number to be recruited off this panel by county in 2017 and 2018; the length of time this panel will remain in place for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41283/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Apologies have been received from Deputy Josepha Madigan. Before we proceed to our normal business we will hear from acting Garda Commissioner, Mr. Dónall Ó Cualáin, on a commitment given to the committee at a meeting in July to provide a copy of the interim report on the reopening of certain Garda stations. The committee has still not received the report and is concerned...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: The members have indicated in the following order: Deputies Catherine Murphy, Shane Cassells, Alan Kelly, Marc MacSharry, Mary Lou McDonald and Catherine Connolly. I ask members to be precise when they put questions on the issue before us.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Each person will have five minutes for questions and answers and let us see how we get on at the end of seven or eight series of five minutes.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have agreed five minutes and the Deputy has been speaking for three minutes. Only two minutes remain for an response.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Seán Fleming: Mr. Ó Cualáin has two minutes before I move on to Deputy Kelly.