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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (28 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action that he is taking to provide wheelchair access at the railway stations in Carlow and Kilkenny by way of the use of the existing lifts to the platforms which are not operating currently or in any other manner; if the lifts are in the ownership of another party if he will negotiate a permanent solution for each site; if he is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scoileanna DEIS (28 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: 597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if DEIS Band 1 will be approved for a school (details supplied); and if she will expedite the matter [33725/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: 828. To ask the Minister for Health the services and supports that are available in counties Carlow and Kilkenny to parents that have a child with Down's syndrome; if he has plans to expand the services available and improve existing services; if funding is in place for the next three years to achieve the improvements and expansion necessary; the funding that was provided over the past three...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Immigration Support Services (28 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: 954. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to the possibility of the closure of immigrant services (details supplied) due to the lack of funding for the support officer; if the funding required of €20,000.00 will be sanctioned as a matter of urgency given the importance of this work and the new challenges arising from the intake of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a place will be provided at a school for a student (details supplied); and if speech therapy, occupational therapy and other services will be provided for them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34785/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: I remind members of the note on privilege. Those on the Leinster House campus are covered by full privilege and those who are not have limited privilege. I remind them of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not criticise or make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him, her or it identifiable. The minutes of out last meeting held...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: Does Deputy O'Callaghan have a question around the Members and their retirement? Where do Members go when they retire?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: I think so, yes. It is unusual that there would be all these concerns expressed about Secretaries General, who are reasonably well-paid and so on, but no one is concerned about the future of the Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas who make, or are supposed to make, the policy. I thought Deputy O'Callaghan might have raised that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: In terms of the public service versus the Civil Service, Mr. Moloney said the circular letter of 2021 relates to the Civil Service only. What is the process for ensuring there is a similar type of policy shared by the public sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: These public service bodies are generally agencies of a Department. In terms of the circular letter that was issued, it is interesting to hear the explanation being offered that it applied only to civil servants and, therefore, the public service was left to one side. That is not good practice. If we are expecting one policy to be followed by a civil servant, any agency that comes under a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: In this case the hope has not succeeded because this has now been put forward as a distinction. The circular applied to a civil servant but it does not apply to a body that is part of the public service. What process is in place to make sure the hope Mr. Moloney has that the public service will follow the line of the Civil Service in respect of the policy, and the letter that was issued in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Secondment Policy in the Civil and Public Service: Engagement with Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2022)

John McGuinness: Would Mr. Moloney cover such matters as the salary for the person?