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Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...of the cuts it imposed. Finally, I wish to refer to a couple of other items in the Budget Statement. I have already mentioned the child care announcement. The Minister says he will provide an extra €18 million for family income supplement, a payment to people who are at work and on low incomes. He says that the increase in the family income supplement income threshold by...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: On page 3 of the appropriation accounts I was surprised to read that the Department was in breach of national procurement guidelines to the tune of €5 million in 19 specific cases, or an average of €263,000 per case. In addition, there are other local historical supplier arrangements that are outside national procurement guidelines. Of the 19 cases referred to, what was the...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 6:In page 6, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following:“(2) Section 33A of the Central Bank Act 1997 is amended by inserting the following subsection after subsection (5):“(6) The Bank shall also impose, on a debt management firm and or a credit servicing firm, a condition that a customer shall, within 30 days of his or her credit agreement being sold...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...care to show up for a debate such as this. Where are the Ministers? They are agreeing a mechanism whereby companies such as Siteserv install water meters, which will cost Irish Water customers €500 million. There will, no doubt, be substantial additional funds for phase 2 of the water metering project. The Government is making sure that people, through attachment orders to...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: I move:“That Dáil Eireann: notes that:— in 2012, Siteserv owed €150 million to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC; — in March 2012, IBRC sold Siteserv for €45 million; — external trade buyers were excluded from the sale of Siteserv and there are questions about due diligence; — some bidders were also excluded from the sale and may...

Sale of Siteserv: Motion [Private Members] (6 May 2015)

Seán Fleming: ..., is in the House to hear what we have to say directly. I know the Minister will respond in due course as the debate proceeds up to 9 p.m. tonight. The motion notes that, in 2012, Siteserv owed €150 million to the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, and that it was sold in March 2012 for €45 million; in the process, some bidders were excluded from the sale although they...

Residential Mortgage Interest Rates: Motion [Private Members] (31 Mar 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...by Deputy Troy that a standard variable rate customer with a typical €200,000 mortgage will pay approximately €6,000 a year more in interest than a borrower with a tracker mortgage. This is €500 per month and over €100 per week. That is the difference between surviving and being able to have a life. Banks operating in the Republic of Ireland and Northern...

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure and Reform (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - Shared Services (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised) (11 Feb 2015)

Seán Fleming: .... The Estimates never before provided a figure for liabilities under Chapter 2C of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Although nobody can predict the ultimate figure, the estimated figure is €1 million. The Act places joint liability for taxes due on the trustees of pension schemes where an individual's pension benefit from all sources exceeds €2 million. While this...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Report Stage (14 Jan 2015)

Seán Fleming: ...with the issue of the size of an organisation. It refers to "communications by or on behalf of an employer, other than a registered person, with not more than 10 employees and less than €10 million of an annual turnover". On Committee Stage, I had a figure of €5 million. The Minister stated that the audit figure for some companies was at a higher threshold than that, and I...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...next year. It should have the decency to withdraw this Bill and refer back to the House when it knows what it is doing. Otherwise, we will be dealing with water services legislation Mark 5, 6 and 7 before the organisation even collects a red cent. The Government fatally damaged the Irish Water project through its mismanagement of the process. It is nobody's fault but the Government's....

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform: Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (25 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...vulture capitalist companies in the world who wanted to get easy pickings in Ireland at the bottom of the property market came here. Bits and pieces of NAMA were sold off for €200 or €300 million rather than having decent offers of €5 billion or €6 billion. That level of lobbying has the potential to have a more significant impact for the future of Irish...

Nursing Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...for tabling this important motion regarding the care of the elderly and, in particular, the fair deal scheme. As he stated, everybody should recognise that the rate of growth for Ireland’s over 65 population is almost double that of the EU as a whole and the number of over 65s is projected to increase by approximately 20,000 per year between now and 2021. That speaks volumes and...

Social Welfare Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Nov 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...Bill and the Finance Bill may be good and are welcome. Overall, it is a camouflage and a fig leaf for a bad budget. For that reason we must oppose the entire Bill. The Bill provides for an increase of €5 a month in child benefit, which is welcome. However, when one considers the cuts introduced by the Minister, who is now the Tánaiste, in this area since she came into...

Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (30 Sep 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...are tired of talking about main contractors who pass jobs on to subcontractors who pass them on again. The main contractor for the job may be a shelf company taken on for a specific project worth tens of millions of euro. While the intention in the ten employee provision is good, we must capture more people than that number. Many of the largest companies in the country have shelf...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...of Public Accounts cannot compel them to give evidence before it. I am trying to get information on these bodies through freedom of information as it is taxpayers’ money in the end. There are 25 section 39 bodies getting over €5 million each from the State per annum. The money is voted by the Oireachtas to the HSE but because it goes to the HSE we - even the Committee of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (15 Jul 2014)

Seán Fleming: Another issue has been mentioned is the issue of procurement, on which we have not made much progress. The Government has its office of procurement. I believe we are at least 5% behind other EU countries in terms of contracts that are given to native businesses - businesses that are registered here in Ireland. Between capital and current expenditure, the Government spends about €13...

Competition and Consumer Protection Bill 2014: Second Stage (16 Apr 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...market. The response we get from all these multinationals is that the Northern Ireland market is part of the UK market and they have the economies of scale when selling to a population of 60 million, something that does not apply to a population of 4 million in the Republic of Ireland. Newry and Belfast are closer to Dublin than they are to London or Edinburgh, and I do not accept the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

Seán Fleming: At my request they have given us a list of 25 agencies with section 39 agreements with the HSE, each of which receives over €5 million. We wanted to have an indication of the other organisations such as Rehab Care, etc. I was surprised to see that there are 25 organisations receiving €344,699 between them. In case anyone would think we are picking on Rehab or any other...

Public Accounts Committee: Payments to Section 39 Companies: Discussion (27 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...to them. I would like to ask about the review the HSE is doing. Mr. O'Brien said earlier this morning that the HSE is dealing in the first instance with organisations that receive in excess of €5 million and hopes to have a report on those organisations by the end of March. How many such organisations are there? Can Mr. O'Brien list them? Is there a list? There cannot be too...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Chapter 23 - Revenue Collection
Chapter 24 - Management of Revenue Debt
Chapter 25 - Taxpayer Compliance
Chapter 26 - Corporation Tax Losses
Chapter 27 - Tax Audit Settlements (20 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: Could she even give us the top ten payments? How many properties were valued at more than €10 million or over €5 million?