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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: JobPath Programme (30 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: 263. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by clients of Turas Nua who work on a part-time basis (details supplied); if one such case will be examined; and if issues relative to the case will be resolved. [4454/19]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I want to place on record my disappointment that these services are not appropriately staffed with the qualified people who are necessary to deal with the numbers who are turning up for the services. I have seen that at first hand in Kilkenny. In the psychiatric services generally, we can see that there are patients there who have been inappropriately placed because there is no place else...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Data (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: 120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the benefits accrued to a person (details supplied) when their pension entitlements transferred from a company to the public sector transfer network in 1974; if they were paid a lump sum at the time; the way in which this transfer improved their pension entitlements; the details of the knock-for-knock system of contributions...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Before we deal with the main business of the meeting, as agreed in private session, members who wish to comment on the nurses' action may do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: The purpose of giving members the opportunity this morning to air their views is because the committee deals with public expenditure and reform. Part of the committee remit is to cover the agreements on public pay. Having witnessed the nurses working at first-hand, any of us would agree that they are at the coal-face, that they are understaffed, that the pay situation has not been what it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: The joint committee agreed that EU proposals COM (2018) 821, COM (2018) 832, COM (2018) 812 and COM (2018) 819 do not warrant further scrutiny. Full details of the decision will be published on the committee website.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: We will now discuss the final report of the credit union advisory committee implementation group. I welcome all the guests this morning. Mr. Corr is from the Department of Finance. Mr. Farrell is from the Irish League of Credit Unions. Mr. Kevin Johnson is from the Credit Union Development Association. Mr. Tim Molan is from the Credit Union Managers Association. Mr. Joe Tobin is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: We will take Mr. Johnson, Mr. Molan and then Mr. Farrell.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: We will conclude on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I thank the Deputy and Mr. Molan. I refer to Mr. Corr's opening statement. He said he submitted a final report to the Central Bank and that three papers were completed by the implementation group on lending, engagement and tiered regulation to the Central Bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: When were those documents submitted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: So it was 2017.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Again, in his opening remarks, and I do not know why this happened, as Mr. Corr was speaking he left out part of his speaking note.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I thought it was an important part because it points out that the document does not bind the Department of Finance, the Central Bank or any other members of the implementation group in advance of any public consultation carried out by the Central Bank in accordance with its statutory mandate or any legislative process commenced by Government.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Mr. Corr is acknowledging that it is simply the group's opinion and they could take it or leave it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: They could take it or leave it. It is a committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Another section of his speaking notes which Mr. Corr did not read out, states: "[...] and we must remember that the Credit Union Act 1997, as revised, prescribes in many cases that the Central Bank ensure that its regulations "are effective and proportionate having regard to the nature, scale and complexity of credit unions, or the category or categories of credit unions, to which the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: As we go through this I have to continue to remind myself that there is the CUAC implementation group, which is another layer of bureaucracy, and then Mr. Corr's group assists in the implementation and advises the Minister. That is what it was set up to do, and of course the Central Bank.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Recommendation No. 1 states: "Detailed scoping paper submitted to the Central Bank [...] for consideration". Mr. Corr has done all his work. He has done his recommendations. This committee did recommendations, so the Central Bank now has to think about it. Recommendation No. 2 on the lending limits states: "Detailed scoping paper submitted to the Central Bank in November 2017...". With...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Can we hear from the credit union movement? What I am hearing, and what we have heard all along in this regard, is one body blaming another or spreading the blame, as it were, for poor delivery on the recommendations either by this committee or by CUAC. As Senator Kieran O'Donnell asked, in the face of all of the business model changes that are taking place in banking, in particular digital...