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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Yes. We have a plan for the next few days but we may adjust that plan as we find things working and how we will proceed.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Amendment No. 1 in the name of Deputy Doherty has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I will put the question on the section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: If there are matters that need to be clarified for Deputy Doherty then I ask the Minister to please do so, but then I am to press this section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Deputy Barry is next, and then I am putting the question.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Question proposed: "That section 4 stand part of the Bill."

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Amendments Nos. 2, 3 and 157 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: As it is now 1 p.m., I am obliged to suspend the meeting.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: My apologies for interrupting the Deputy but can he make that point again, please, as his connection dropped briefly during his final sentence and it may not have been heard?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: The committee will break again in 20 minutes for the next sanitation break. We will then resume at 6.40 p.m.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I propose that section 19 be postponed until after section 15 has been disposed off. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 565. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a social welfare payment will be approved for a person (details supplied); and if the claim will be expedited. [36232/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if approval for carer’s allowance will be expedited in the case of a person (details supplied). [36514/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 705. To ask the Minister for Health if an early appointment will be arranged at Cappagh hospital for a person (details supplied). [36251/20]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I ask members to turn off their mobile phones. I welcome the members present and the Minister and his officials. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official either by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable. Parliamentary...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: That is correct.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: No, then we will move to section 24; we are moving ahead. We are doing section 21, section 24, then section 10.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I will now put the question on inserting the new section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Briefly.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: The only amendments I have listed have been dealt with. Those were amendments Nos. 126 and 127, the amendment in the Deputy's name of which we have just disposed.