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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (12 Jul 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 743. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average processing time for citizenship applications in Ireland at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37595/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (12 Jul 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 923. To ask the Minister for Health if the pandemic bonus payment is to be extended beyond recipients already identified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37547/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (12 Jul 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 925. To ask the Minister for Health if the action plan for the disability capacity review will be published; if it will be included in the budgetary plan for 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jul 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 363. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that social welfare recipients who are moving their bank account are required to provide a PPS number in order to receive their children’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38437/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (13 Jul 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 536. To ask the Minister for Health if the abolition of prescription charges for persons with long-term medical dependency will be considered in the forthcoming Budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38429/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will raise two issues that arose during the summer: first, the imposition of an €83 million fine on AIB by the Central Bank that was announced in June; and second, the decision that has been discussed already to propose the removal of cash services from 70 AIB branches that was announced in July. In the Central Bank investigation, AIB admitted to 57 regulatory breaches in total,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does Ms Dooley agree that this was not simply a one-off act of dishonesty by AIB but that it constituted a campaign of dishonesty against its customers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I suppose-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: This was not a mistake. We do not need to go beyond the Central Bank findings. AIB has admitted to the Central Bank to failing to act honestly in its treatment of customers. That is not a mistake. Does Dr. Hunt agree?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: When did the bank first become aware of this failure to act honestly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am not looking for names, but I am asking generally: has anyone been sanctioned as a result of AIB's admission that it failed to act honestly with customers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Has anyone been sanctioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Has the bank itself conducted any internal disciplinary actions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will move on to the second issue, which is the aborted attempted closure of the cash services from branches. The witness will be aware that, prior to the announcement in July 2022, there were other branches which were made cashless. I think it was being done on a trial basis and one of the branches was in Blackrock in County Dublin. Is it proposed to alter the decision made in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: How does a customer lodge a cheque? Do they have to go to Dún Laoghaire to lodge a cheque. It cannot be lodged in Blackrock at present, as I understand it. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I commend the witnesses institution on reversing the decision that was made. Sometimes when institutions make a decision, they feel obliged to stick with it. I do find it alarming, however, that so many talented and informed people could have made this decision without having wider consultation. I am conscious the ultimate responsibility for this rests with the board and there are a very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Are many of them based outside Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider increasing grants for the installation of solar panels in domestic settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architectural Heritage (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that he has taken to protect and restore listed buildings identified as being at risk on the An Taisce list (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44382/22]