Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Departmental Legal Costs

Billy Kelleher

238. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department, use solicitors firms (details supplied); the amount paid to these solicitors each year from 2011 to 2014 by his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department; the date until which his Department, or State bodies or agencies under the aegis of his Department, are contracted to use these solicitors' firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9199/15]

Climate Change Policy

Catherine Murphy

239. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency has conceded that Ireland will fail to achieve its binding EU 2020 greenhouse gas reduction target by as much as 15%, the financial contingency planning he is putting in place to cover this eventuality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9222/15]

Sale of Aer Lingus

Mary Lou McDonald

240. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if existing Irish and European Union fiscal rules, such as the expenditure benchmark or fiscal treaty debt and deficit rules or any other policy or legal commitment to the European Union institutions would restrict the use of any proceeds from the sale of State assets, such as Aer Lingus, from being used to fund current or capital expenditure, and would require the Government to divert such proceeds exclusively or primarily into reducing Government debt. [9255/15]

Flood Prevention Measures

Seán Kyne

241. Deputy Seán Kyne asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the Office of Public Works progress on flood relief and defences at a location (details supplied) in County Galway. [9333/15]

By-election Issues

Denis Naughten

80. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of each by-election to the current Dáil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8485/15]

Ministerial Advisers Remuneration

Colm Keaveney

81. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total severance packages, individually detailed, received by any special advisers in his Department, or those under his aegis, since January 2014, specifically in respect of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8498/15]

Flood Risk Assessments

Michael McCarthy

82. Deputy Michael McCarthy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the Office of Public Works has deemed a portion of land (details supplied), in County Cork, to be a flood plain; if this adjudication could be reviewed in view of the fact that this land has never been the subject of, or at risk to, flooding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8502/15]

Valuation Office

Michael McNamara

83. Deputy Michael McNamara asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average length of time taken by the Valuation Office to issue a valuation certificate; if that time period has increased during the Thirty-First Dáil; if this represents a satisfactory level of public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8508/15]

Ombudsman's Remit

Sean Fleming

84. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Ombudsman's remit extends to An Bord Pleanála and EirGrid; when this changed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8520/15]

Court Accommodation Provision

Brian Stanley

85. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of floor space available for use in the accommodation rented at Kilminchy, Portlaoise, County Laois. [8315/15]

Commercial Rates Valuation Process

Michael Colreavy

86. Deputy Michael Colreavy asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the recourse open to the owner of a small, rural business whose enterprise is at imminent risk of closure because their appeal against an unfair rateable valuation was unsuccessful. [8327/15]

Public Procurement Contracts Social Clauses

Mary Lou McDonald

87. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public purchasers, including local authorities, are precluded from using social clauses in public procurement contracts until such time as the Working Group on Social Clauses in the Office of Public Procurement has completed its pilot projects, and decided what conditions to insert into the Government form of contract, they are required by law to use; and the scope such bodies have to use social clauses in the interim. [8351/15]

Exchequer Returns

Thomas P. Broughan

88. Deputy Thomas P. Broughan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the income generated for the Exchequer from mobile phone masts at Garda stations in the Dublin region for 2014 and to date in 2015. [8367/15]

Office of the Ombudsman Remit

Sean Fleming

89. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the organisations that have been removed from the remit of the Ombudsman; the dates on which same occurred; the reason in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8372/15]

Public Sector Staff Recruitment

Pat Deering

90. Deputy Pat Deering asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process for entry to the Civil Service; when it will open; and if there will be a regional breakdown of the applications. [8381/15]

Pension Levy

John Paul Phelan

91. Deputy John Paul Phelan asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to remove the public sector pension levy; and if so; if he will provide the timetable for its removal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8415/15]

Revised Estimates Publication

Sean Fleming

92. Deputy Sean Fleming asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No 244 of 10 February 2015 and the assertion that the readability of reports published by Departments is enhanced by the use of 12-point font or greater, his views on the point size of the font used on page 103 of the Revised Estimates for Public Services 2015, published by his Department; and if he considers such a point size to be easily readable. [8432/15]

Office of Public Works Properties

Fergus O'Dowd

93. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the properties in County Louth, under the care of the Office of Public Works, the spend, capital and current, by the Office of Public Works on each of these properties, for each year since 2012; the works carried out and the plans, capital and current, for expenditure in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8441/15]

Flood Risk Assessments

Brendan Griffin

255. Deputy Brendan Griffin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a serious flooding risk at a location (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7716/15]

Office of Public Works Projects

Michael Healy-Rae

256. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding a permit and a competition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7883/15]