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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is not a criminal offence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is an administrative fine that is imposed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: That makes sense, of course. In Part 3, a different system is needed. A new statutory requirement is being placed on the CIT companies and the ATM deployers to require them to register with the Central Bank. Under head 12, it will be a criminal offence if they do not do so. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The way to pull them in, therefore, is to make them subject to registration.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Moving to head 16, in respect of the requirement to be registered, the Central Bank can impose conditions on a CIT company. What type of conditions are we thinking of here? Are we going to try to ensure a CIT company puts mechanisms in place in this regard? What is the purpose here in terms of trying to impose conditions? What type of conditions could be imposed on such a company?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Head 20 makes it a criminal offence for them not to comply with that. The reason I am asking these questions is what the banking federation has to say. In its statement, the banking federation points out: "Under the proposed provisions, it is the three retail banks that will have sole and legal responsibility for maintaining the prescribed levels of access to both ATM and cash access points...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is there substance to what they say? If Mr. Palmer is saying that only one third of the ATMs in the country are controlled by so-called "designated entities", as they are defined in the heads of Bill, is it not the case that we should be trying to put some statutory obligation on the entities that control the two thirds of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does Mr. Palmer think they would be frightened off?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am just interested to hear. I do not know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank them witnesses for that. I am conscious of time. I also thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Access to Cash Bill 2024: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: This legislation also seeks to give the Central Bank powers to impose conditions on ATM operators and cash-in-transit, CIT, companies.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (27 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will detail the number of children in each county who benefited from supports under the national childcare scheme in 2022 and 2023, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8709/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 11. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has undertaken an assessment of the impact of emissions trading system 2 on construction manufacturing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9560/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 35. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures that are employed in the public procurement process to incentivise low or zero carbon construction and to discourage demolition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9562/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 51. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills which part of the three limbs of the school profile takes specific account of children who can only access the curriculum with SET assistance, due to their complex, additional needs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9624/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 52. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how a school profile which is directly correlated to, and focused on, pupils with the greatest level of need in the areas of literacy and numeracy will ensure that those will complex additional needs are identified and assisted from the outset of their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9625/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what is the "high quality, verifiable education data" that is being used as the basis for the new SET model; if she can publish that data; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9626/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason data which was used by NCSE/Department of Education since 2017 from the HSE CDNT can no longer be routinely available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9627/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 72. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the technical guidance on building regulations will be updated to allow for timber frame high rise construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (28 Feb 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue a quantifiable standard rate to measure both the embodied and operational carbon of buildings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9561/24]