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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: Is Mr. Burgess solely talking about the vulture funds? There are 95,000 in total and then it is broken down for us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: There are then 63,000 vulnerable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: Will Mr. Hall deal with two questions? First, is the question of switching. Will he deal with that first?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: The second question was about how many people in Mr. Hall's organisation are with vulture funds.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: Does Mr. Hall think some of the clients he deals with might come forward to the committee and share their experiences?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: I want to return to consumer protection as a final point. Mr. Hall made a point in relation to that and the Central Bank. Where does he see the current structure failing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: The committee will pursue that strenuously. I have one final question. I do not know who said that there is no safe haven for people who are in debt. Everyone is protected but there is no safe haven-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: I thank the three witnesses for attending today and sharing their experience and views on these issues. I will ask them one last thing which is to link in with the clerk to the committee. If there are any people they are familiar with who would like to come in and share their views on vulture funds with the committee, I would like to hear them. To go back to Mr. Burgess's point, if the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: I want to pick up one point before I go to Mr. Hall. Mr. Burgess has said that some of them might switch. My experience is that once they go to a bank and say they are with Pepper, that is it - the conversation ends there.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (1 Mar 2023)
John McGuinness: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the number of biopsy tests relative to cancer that were submitted to the laboratory at UHW for analysis from hospitals located in counties Kilkenny, Tipperary and Waterford in the period from September 2022 to January 2023; if all of the patients concerned were informed of their biopsy histology results within the optimum timeframe; if he will confirm the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (22 Feb 2023)
John McGuinness: 241. To ask the Minister for Health if a colonoscopy will be arranged as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied). [9233/23]
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) John McGuinness: ----- to give us an indication as to where the scheme stands, who has responsibility for it and in whose hands it is now. We also need information on the next steps and so on.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) John McGuinness: I ask the Minister of State for an update on the flood relief schemes in County Kilkenny.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) John McGuinness: Recently Freshford was flooded very badly and, unusually, it is at a higher risk than before. Is there a timeframe? Where is Freshford in the scheme of things?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) John McGuinness: What about the Inistioge and Jenkinstown schemes?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) John McGuinness: What is the timeframe for the second tranche?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) John McGuinness: There are problems with one-off houses in particular areas. There is one in Jenkinstown where there has been serious flooding. If a local authority has in its housing stock houses that flood, do they qualify under those schemes or is there a separate budget for them?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) John McGuinness: It is up to the local authority to make the case for minor works funding for those one-off houses.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023) John McGuinness: With regard to estate management, the OPW has a lot of properties in its care. Many of them are on the tourist trail and bring people to the various parts of the counties that benefit from these sites. How is that estate portfolio being developed? We know about Kilkenny Castle, for example, but is the OPW looking at other sites that would be worth developing? Has it stopped taking...