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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Are there any questions in relation to the Estimate?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I support the remarks made by Deputy Mairéad Farrell. We will have a special meeting on insurance. The amount of money being refunded by insurance companies to those with policies is miserly, particularly given that they are not on the road and so on. Perhaps the Department will ask the companies to reconsider, particularly in the run-up to Christmas. Issuing €20, which some...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I suggest that there should be a rolling maintenance programme to ensure the scanners do not break down. Obviously, the authorities will be under pressure for time owing to Brexit. From the beginning of the Covid pandemic, many of the staff who normally travelled from the country to Dublin found themselves working from home. I understand that, for the Revenue Commissioners, this has been...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: It would be interesting to get a note on the number employed, particularly to deal with Brexit, and, of those, the number who were working from home. How many of those who worked from home during the Covid pandemic will be allowed to continue to do so where there is a proven success rate?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: One of the biggest delivery companies in the country that will find it is a customs clearance expert after all this is DPD. I declare an interest in that I have an involvement with it. The fact is that it will be the biggest customs clearance company in the country. Last night, for example, 210,000 parcels passed through its system. I am not taking into account DHL, An Post and all the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I stated that one of the bigger companies dealt with 210,000 consignments last night. If one extrapolates from that, taking into account all the other companies involved in express delivery, one will find massive numbers of transactions going online. It is only when the amount of sorting is seen that one realises the volumes involved. If there is a problem at small business level in this...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: It will start from 1 January. A massive number of smaller companies will be confronted by this issue.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I thank the Minister of State.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Members should note that the Clerk will circulate information received in response to any other queries raised. The select committee will adjourn now until 2 p.m. on Wednesday, 2 December 2020 to consider the Committee Stage of the Investment Limited Partnership (Amendment) Bill 2020.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and the Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2020: Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in County Kilkenny that have qualified for support under the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39209/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Sector (26 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if the requested level of funding will be approved to secure the future of a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (26 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1019 of 29 September 2020 and other parliamentary questions on the same issue, the progress in completing DNA tests and registration of animals under herd number (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39445/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to an application submitted to her Department by a school (details supplied) to separate the junior and senior schools, a position brought about by the lack of Department support and engagement on a better alternative; if she will engage directly with the schools to bring about the best outcome for the school...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Qualified Child Allowance (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will backdate the award of an increase in qualified children benefit to March 2018 in the case of a person (details supplied). [39954/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Guardian's Payment (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-examine an application for guardianship payment that was refused in the case of a person (details supplied) with a view to allowing the claim; and if she will take into account that the grandparents were under extreme pressure at the time and had no assistance to deal with the issues even though Tusla was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increased pandemic unemployment payment benefit will be paid to a person (details supplied); and the reason their claim was rerated given they have not worked since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. [40418/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 705. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange a waiver of the annual registration fee of €100 for nurses and midwives as a gesture of thanks for their efforts during Covid-19. [39959/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 710. To ask the Minister for Health the status of applications for financial assistance under section 39 funding for an organisation (details supplied); if the HSE will engage directly with the care home to assist with the shortfall in its finances of €50,000 due to the inability of the organisation to fundraise due to Covid-19; and if he will expedite the assistance from the HSE that...