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Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (4 Oct 2022)

John McGuinness: 706. To ask the Minister for Health when agency staff and section 39 employees will be paid the €1,000 Covid bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48529/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (29 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: 167. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the building regulations of 2010 (details supplied) to include technical guidance documents for wheelchair-liveable housing; and if he will engage with the disability groups to hear their perspective on the current regulations and the way they impact negatively on their lives. [47783/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (29 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: 168. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the lack of an available stock of wheelchair-liveable housing in Ireland; the steps he will take to amend the outdated building regulations of 2010 (details supplied); the number of liveable units that have been delivered in the past five years; and the number being funded currently by his Department. [47784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Data (27 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: 144. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he or his Department receive reports from a company (details supplied) on the financial returns to its shareholders; if so, the amount in each of the years 2014 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46845/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (27 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: 145. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the current status of a report (details supplied) that was commissioned by him into the treatment of good causes funding in other jurisdictions and to undertake a consultation on same; the timelines for the publication of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46846/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: 543. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the south east regional drug and alcohol task force has not had a full-time co-ordinator for almost three years; if all parties are acting with appropriate haste to resolve the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the age restriction of 66 years applied by Bus Éireann to school bus drivers operating under contract to the company will be removed to allow them to drive school buses up to the same retirement age applicable to direct employees of the company; if he will clarify the position with the company; and if she will make a statement on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: At our private session earlier today, we approved the minutes of our meeting of 14 September. We are now joined by the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and his officials, who are very welcome. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss banking issues, following on from the meeting we had last week with representatives of the main banks. I remind attendees that the evidence of persons...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: I thank Deputy Pearse Doherty. The technology is failing Senator Maria Byrne; we cannot hear her. We will take Deputy Durkan while the Senator tries to rectify things at her end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: I have some questions I want to ask. Before I do, I want to remind everyone of what was said by the Central Bank in its headings regarding its key findings. It said that AIB: Failed to consider the entitlements of customers when it withdrew the tracker mortgage product ... Breached customers' mortgage contracts, delayed in rectifying the breach, and failed to take immediate and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: I hope the Minister knows that it is this type of carry-on, and the carry-on of the respective bodies that I have mentioned which have failed to do what they should be doing, that actually gives the whole political system a bad name. I heard the Minister's reply in relation to EBS. I will continue to pursue the matter. The committee decided earlier that we will invite in some EBS tied...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: I have not commented on the work of the Central Bank or, indeed, the man in charge of AIB. I am talking about the general culture, and the fact that at the end of the day, someone is responsible for it. It has to be asked why no individual has been held to account, in spite of all of the destruction that all of the banks involved brought on the people of this country, who are supposed to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: There was not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: I am speaking about what was there then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: I may not be representing myself properly but I have to say to the Minister that what was going on then was unacceptable but it would be still going on if it were not for the courageous efforts of those who had tracker mortgages to put their personal lives out into the public domain, and to explain what was going on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: I would still go back and say that during the peak of this, people lost their homes but no one lost their job. It is astonishing, with time, when one can read and look at this-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: -----and digest what happened to people. Alongside that, when one reads the Central Bank commentary, one understands that actually nothing happened in the bank. Nobody within the bank who was of a senior position decided that this happened on his or her watch and that he or she should go, or decided that a particular person did something wrong and that person should go. Nothing like that...