Results 6,021-6,040 of 26,534 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (25 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: 105. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if disability allowance will issue in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [39896/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Appeals (25 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: 106. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an appeal relative to the rate of jobseeker's being paid to a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be expedited; if the maximum benefit will be approved. [39902/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if a medical card will be approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [39894/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (25 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: 185. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for a medical card in respect of persons (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if he will expedite a response. [39897/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (25 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: 186. To ask the Minister for Health if he will insist on an early date for a cataract operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny [39901/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: 14. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the Health Service Executive’s plans to provide cochlear implants to children who need them. [39986/13]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 19 September 2013 agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising from the minutes? No. Correspondence 3A.1, dated 24 September 2013, is from Ms Niamh O'Donoghue, Secretary General of the Department of Social Protection, providing additional information requested at our meeting of 18 July, to be noted and published. Correspondence 3B.1, dated 10 September...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: We do not know. The CPP is drawing up the procedural framework for the inquiry and I believe we should send our report to it. I do not believe it will consult us. It will probably set down guidelines.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: No. The Committee of Public Accounts has indicated it wants to conduct a bank inquiry and we have set out, through our report in 2012, how this could be achieved. This remains the case. To inform the CPP, we will forward our report, indicate our interest and indicate how we perceive the inquiry can be carried out. It will then be up to the CPP to decide how to carry it out.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: We are making every effort and taking our position from our 2012 report, which states clearly not only our interest but exactly how we feel it could be done. The legislation was enacted yesterday and it is up to the CPP to decide. I understand it will be some time before this happens.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: We have waited for the legislation to be enacted because it is on this new legislation we want to act. It was enacted yesterday and we have applied to the CPP for compellability. We had to wait for the Act.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: It is a different part of the same Act.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: That is a fair point. Be it NAMA or any other body that appears before us, I will be guided by members if they believe that additional time or meetings - or even a full day meeting - are required. I take the Deputy's point on the number of hours that we sit with witnesses. If he believes that a further session is necessary after today's session - he is right that there is a great deal of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: The Deputy stated that NAMA was finalising a report for the Minister.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: If the Deputy feels that this meeting does not cover the ground sufficiently, we can have a further meeting on today's business as well as the report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: That is fine. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: Yes. I shall ask the clerk to inform NAMA that that is our intention. Are there other matters arising? Is our agenda for Thursday, 3 October 2013 agreed? We will meet the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The agenda consists of the 2011 appropriation accounts: Vote 7 - Superannuation Retired Allowances, and Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform....
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and those in the public gallery to turn off their mobile telephones as they affect the sound quality and the transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they are to give this committee. If they are directed by the committee to cease giving evidence in relation to a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012: Discussion with National Asset Management Agency (26 Sep 2013)
John McGuinness: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to introduce the accounts.