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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 122. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Valuation Office will carry out revaluations in respect of commercial rates in local authorities; if the amounts paid under the global valuation system are excluded from this exercise and dealt with separately; the procedure in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24291/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commercial Rates Exemptions (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 123. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if green waste facilities which compost green waste into fertiliser that is sold for commercial purposes is a rateable activity on which commercial rates should be charged by a local authority; if she will have the matter dealt with by the Valuation Office; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24301/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to ensure that there is equality in pay and that teachers who qualified after 2010 will not be discriminated against in terms of pay; his views on whether equal work for equal pay is appropriate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24247/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Uniforms (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 219. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on capitation fees paid to schools in circumstances in which the school requires uniforms to be of a certain style and these are manufactured here to a higher standard than imported uniforms that are on sale in various locations; his further views on whether schools should be financially penalised for using Irish produced goods; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the organisations that are subject to global valuation for commercial rate purposes to local authorities; the overall commercial rates paid by each of these organisations in 2011 in each local authority and for the most recent year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 354. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 11 May 2017, the number of persons who owe his Department less than €1,000, between €1,000 and €2,000, between €2,000 and €5,000, between €5,000 and €10,000, between €10,000 and €15,000, between €15,000 and €20,000, and in...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 355. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 140 of 11 May 2017, further to the €41 million stated to be owed as a result of customer fraud, the number of persons that owe the Department less than €1,000, between €1,000 and €2,000, between €2,000 and €5,000, between €5,000 and €10,000, between...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Memoranda of Understanding (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 11 May 2017, if there is a memorandum of understanding between his Department and the Revenue Commissioners regarding non-insolvent businesses and non-registered businesses including partnerships and sole traders with debts due to the social insurance fund; the reasons his Department is unable to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Fund Data (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 138 and 139 of 11 May 2017, the number of individuals and organisations that owe the social insurance fund less than €10,000, between €10,000 and €50,000, between €50,000 and €100,000, between €100,000 and €250,000, between €250,000 and €500,000,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 382. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a group (details supplied) will be included in discussions in relation to an extension to the new agreements affecting pay and pensions of public servants; his views on whether it is correct to exclude it from discussions; if he will ensure it is represented in some part of the talks at which it will impact on the group before...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (23 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: 595. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the situation regarding the provision of broadband in a location (details supplied) in County Laois; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24302/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I understand why the Minister made the decision. As he said, it was partly due to financial and administrative reasons and the time taken for diagnostic tests. He referred to socioeconomic criteria for schools. The profile involves an averaging system, but children are not average. Every child is different. That is the essential point that is being lost in the system. It is...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: I wish to raise the issue of what I believe is discrimination against children who started primary school in 2016 and those who will start in 2017 from consideration and allocation of resources under the new special education teaching resource model. The Minister will be aware that I raised this with the Minister in a parliamentary question on 3 May 2017 on this very topic. Parents and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We have a quorum and the committee is now in public session. We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, a permanent witness at the committee, who is accompanied by Mr. Mark Brady, deputy director of audit. I have no list of apologies to be recorded so far. The next item on the agenda is the minutes of the meeting of 11 May 2017. I have just had a quick...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are not holding over the minutes but I will give the Deputy a bit of latitude. They were draft minutes not approved.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Grace’s whistleblower?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: We are coming to that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Absolutely. Before we go into public session with Bord na gCon, we will have a private session on that exact issue and, obviously, the Templemore issue. We have two issues to talk about in private session before we go into public session. The next item is correspondence received since the last meeting. Nos. 449 A and 452A, carried over from the last meeting with Bord na gCon, are the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Yes, more homework. We will not have a public quiz on it, however.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 May 2017)

Seán Fleming: Fine. That is useful information for committee members to have. We will note and publish that. Nos. 477B (i) and (ii), correspondence dated 10 May 2017, from Professor Patrick O’Shea, president of University College Cork, providing follow-up information subsequent to the university’s appearance before the committee with information of the gender breakdown and the Irish...