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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: Okay. The other question-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: I wish to take up a point made by Deputy McGrath. Something is clearly not right here and it must be said. I am sure that all of what Ms McKiernan has just said would be accepted by the credit union movement as being what they want to hear. Deputy McGrath went back to the €1 billion figure. That was around October 2011. It was disgraceful and damaging to the credit union movement...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: I will respond to Ms McKiernan after Senator Burke asks some more questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: How long will the consultation process take?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: If a new regulation is to be introduced or a regulation changed, does that process require the Central Bank to engage with all parties or can it introduce a regulation without doing so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: Could it be done without consultation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: It is an obligation. Are quarterly reports prepared? Would it be possible to go get some sort of regular report for this committee?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: Would the witness mind giving us what she considers reasonable reports?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: For example, a report to highlight the information the witness gave to Deputy Michael McGrath this morning and any changes to that. It would inform the members. The credit union movement in their different guises have told us that they have made many proposals. There was reference today to proposals not having been made. That has to be clarified between the Central Bank and the credit...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: Perhaps they were proposals that could not be acted upon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: Were there other proposals?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: I agree there should be a healthy tension between the regulated and the regulator. However, coming from my business background, I would hate to be regulated by this regulator. I understand an awful lot of the frustration expressed by the credit union movement. I agree with Deputy Michael McGrath and other members that there is a clear need for the credit union movement in this country....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: I think that it is a fair account of their sound foundations in spite of some of the drawbacks there-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: And no members lost. If only the banks had the same degree of regulation we might not be in the space we are in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Overview of the Credit Union Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: We will review what we have heard over the past few days. I thank the witness for attending.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for funding under the summer works scheme by a school (details supplied) will be approved; and the level of funding being considered. [14657/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied); when the funding will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14658/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an application for carer's allowance in the case of a person (details supplied) will be re-examined in view of the fact it would appear that some medical evidence was not considered; and if an oral hearing will be arranged in order that the details of the medical circumstances can be explained. [14655/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: 150. To ask the Minister for Health if a date for an operation will be arranged as a matter of urgency in the case of a person (details supplied). [14642/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (23 Mar 2017)
John McGuinness: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the investigations which have been undertaken by his Department regarding complaints made by a person (details supplied) relative to various matters concerning alleged fraud and contaminated milk; if correspondence sent to his Department regarding these matters had been processed; if the person has been informed of the outcome of...