Results 121-140 of 159 for 5 million speaker:Seán Fleming

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: Let us say there are properties valued at more than €5 million or €10 million. Revenue has this information in its files. Has it matched each of these to its large cases files?

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: Did any properties come in about which the Revenue Commissioners did not know about the people concerned? If somebody came in with a property worth €5 million, Revenue should have know about him or her.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Service Reform: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: .... We need patient safety covered but HIQA should be capable of doing that. Seeing as the Minister asked, there is just one. On an issue we discussed here previously, the Minister confirmed that 5% of overall annual public procurement, which amounted to €650 million of the €13 billion in 2011, went to companies outside of Ireland. I note the Minister wants to drive down...

Protected Disclosures Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (4 Feb 2014)

Seán Fleming: ...the fact that the issue was dealt with in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report and was related to a loss of income to the State. The whistleblower has suggested that the loss of income could amount to €5 million per annum. The Comptroller and Auditor General does not put a figure on it but that is the type of money we are talking about; he did not check every last one of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Land Swap Arrangement in the Provision of Affordable Houses
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (30 Jan 2014)

Seán Fleming: I refer to the opening paragraph of the judgment by Mr. Justice Charlton delivered on 5 July 2012 in the case of Durkan New Homes v. Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government. That paragraph states that in 2006 the site on Harcourt Terrace comprising the film censor's office and the Garda station on 0.87 of an acre was valued at €17.7 million. That was at the height...

Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...and sold for closer to par. The ECB will not give the figures. Professor Honohan runs for cover on this issue and he does not want to discuss it at the finance committee. The ECB made a profit of up to €5 billion on buying Irish distressed debt at a reduced price in the secondary market. The bank has made a profit of €5 million from the Irish taxpayer and it should devise...

Access to Credit: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...knows that hundreds of thousands of people are working in small and medium sized enterprises. It was troubling in recent days to read about the release of a report by ISME suggesting that 57% of its members have been refused credit in recent months. ISME has also reported that the average time taken to process loans has increased from four weeks to five weeks. That is difficult, but...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...Stage of the Finance Bill. Corrections are much needed. The issue of payment by debit and credit card has been well documented in recent days. Let me refer to the letter I received and which 1 million others received. Paragraph 2 states one can pay in full by debit card, credit card or cash or through an approved payment service provider. The first option listed by the Revenue...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...this and perhaps discuss some of the specifics in more detail. What we are doing today is increasing the number of waiting days for which people will be eligible for illness benefit to save €22 million. We want to cut €30 million from women on maternity benefit and people getting adoptive benefit. We want to take €17 million from people by eliminating the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...issued last week that the average cost of finance in respect of the national debt is about 4%. I do not see a reason the State and the taxpayer should have to pay a finance charge of more than 5% on a figure of €4 billion to €5 billion. If we were to save 1% on the finance charge on a figure of €4 billion, there would be a saving of €40 million next year. If...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process (3 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: It would be helpful if the Department or Government could set a target of 95%, which would be closer to the EU figure. I am calculating the figure. Mr. Watt is saying 90% of the figure of €13 billion goes to Irish businesses. If another 5% was added to that, it would be another €700 million out of that figure of €13 billion going into the Irish economy just for making...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...a provision excluding records “advising on or managing public infrastructure projects, including public private partnership arrangements”. It is impossible even for the Committee of Public Accounts to obtain information on these arrangements. The Minister is playing to the big boys who want to be involved in PPPs and bringing in new restrictions on information on PPPs. Last...

Estimates for Public Services 2013: Motion (11 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...has nothing to do with the establishment of the Minister's Department or a new way of doing politics; it is as a result of changes imposed from Europe. The Estimates for 2014 will be published on 15 October and hopefully voted through before the end of this year. That is the way to do business. The essence of today's debate is to discuss the €2 billion of cuts which the...

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...tie his hands. We regularly have announcements of capital expenditure and that we might have a reduction in capital expenditure, yet the following month we see a press release on a stimulus package of €150 million. People think it is new money, while it is part of the capital expenditure. I know the Minister would say the last €150 million was new, but-----

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 201: Report and Final Stages (3 Jul 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 19:In page 4, line 34, after "concerned." to insert the following:"The Ministerial expenditure ceiling shall be set out by way of regulation on or before 15 September 2013.".The main section in the legislation relates to Government and ministerial expenditure ceilings, a matter that we discussed on Committee Stage. I wish to firm up the significance of ministerial...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...an issue in the annual report of the HSE that is mentioned in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. In simple English, there was an overpayment for medical cards amounting to between €3 million and €5 million. With all of the difficulties in the health service, instead of just noting the account, we should write to the HSE now requesting that it quantify the amount...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2013)

Seán Fleming: Each year between €3 million and €5 million is paid out for medical cards that should be ineligible.

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...the House. I am not saying we should not do so, but the public needs to know that the mechanism of the House and legislation do not allow for discussion of this as part of the Estimates process. This year €5 million of taxpayers' money is budgeted for payments to PSE Kinsale Energy Limited under the Finance Act 1992. I presume this has to do with the Kinsale gas field, but...

Public Sector Pay and Conditions: Motion [Private Members] (23 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: ...addition to his failure to persuade the public to support his Oireachtas inquiries referendum some time ago. We have a clear picture now of a Minister who talks a good game but fails to deliver on the big occasions. In the 2012 budget he told us he would secure €75 million in savings in 2012 and €150 million in savings in respect of allowances by the end of 2013. At the...

National Lottery Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Apr 2013)

Seán Fleming: I move amendment No. 23:In page 13, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following:“(2) The amount of the annual levy under this section shall be decided by the Minister.”.This is the levy that will be used to meet the expenses properly incurred by the regulator in the discharge of his or her functions. I note the licence shall provide for the payment by the operator of an...