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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: 92. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a company (details supplied) has terminated its contract, effective from 3 September 2015, with the Office of Government Procurement for OGP Group 4, awarded under the supply of stationery and office supplies, as set out in the request for tenders to establish a multi-supplier framework agreement dated 9 August 2013; if he...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Training (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: 93. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of all third level courses and training programmes provided for employees of his Department, and the accompanying cost, for the 2014-2015 academic year from 1 September 2014 to the end of June 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26797/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: 108. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will provide, by county, a breakdown of the number of Industrial Development Agency sponsored visits for each year since 2012 and to date in 2015; and if he will explain the agency's strategy to ensure there is an equitable distribution of visits among counties. [26782/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: 109. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in the context of the Industrial Development Agency's Horizon 2020 strategy and the target that 50% of investments will be located outside Dublin and Cork, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of the agency's sponsored visits to Dublin which also visited Cork; and the number of the agency's sponsored visits to Cork which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: 183. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has, both prior to and since centralisation of medical card administration, assumed responsibility for all operational decisions taken in regard to medical cards; if, in a case where a decision is taken to withdraw a person’s medical card, that person should receive prior notice in writing setting out the reasons...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the number of cases received by the Health Service Executive where a doctor certified that a person should be granted a medical card on discretionary grounds, since the Taoiseach’s comments in Dáil Éireann on 18 June 2014, and where a doctor certified that a person should be granted a medical card and home...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Languages Programme (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy at primary level and at secondary level education concerning the granting of an exemption from learning Irish to children with autism spectrum disorder; her views on a situation where an application was not sought at primary level and is now being sought at secondary level for a child; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, Mr. Cowen. You had an exchange with Deputy O'Donnell earlier on about the Indecon and Goodbody reports that you commissioned following the review you announced in your first budget in December '04 into property-based tax incentives. When you commissioned these reports, had the Department of Finance carried out their own assessment at that stage of the...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Internal or external or from Revenue or ... not that you're aware of?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: So did you feel, in bringing your first budget, that you didn't have enough information on your desk to make a final decision on the future of those incentives if there was no assessment?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Chair, can I ask that core booklet, Department of Finance, Vol. 1, page 1 would be put up on screen. And this graph, Mr. Cowen, highlights the extraordinary growth in credit during your tenure as Minister for Finance and Peter Nyberg in his final report goes into this in some detail as well, that during the years in question, overall loans doubled from €200 billion to €400...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Mr. Cowen, when Brian Patterson appeared before this inquiry, he told the committee that there were concerns raised in a joint Central Back and Financial Regulator committee ... the financial stability committee, as I understand it, about the strength with which risks to the banking system should be identified in financial stability reports, in particular, as he put it, "As the clouds...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: And did you ever get a sense that the actual content of the published report had to be more benign than maybe the board collectively felt it should be because of the implications of putting some of those concerns in writing? And I'll just give you an extract from what Mr. Patterson said to this inquiry: As the pressure cooker developed more and more pressure inside it, the financial...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Now finally, Mr. Cowen, I'm not sure if you heard Mr. McCreevy's evidence yesterday when he was asked about budgets approaching elections. But I want to ask you about the approach to the 2007 general election and what impact pre-budget submissions and follow-up meetings with industry organisations and the imminent nature of an election, what that had in terms of impact on your approach to...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Thank you Chair, you are welcome back Mr. Cowen. From August 2007 there was turmoil in the financial markets. In September 2007, we had queues on the streets of Dublin as customers of Northern Rock sought to take out their money. Now, in November 2007, the domestic standing group was told, and it's on a document which is on your screen now Mr. Cowen, the domestic standing group was told of...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Can I ask that the next document would be put up, please, and this is the January 2008 paper, which is "Financial Stability Issues - Scoping Paper". And if you just look at the very top of that, Mr. Cowen, the purpose of the paper is set out, "to identify significant issues relating to the options available to the Irish authorities in the case of a systemic threat to financial stability, as...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: But the very purpose of this paper was relating to the options available to the authorities in the case of a systemic threat to financial stability. So it was very much on the table, that was the overall purpose of that document, was to look at the different scenarios around the issue of systemic threat; and it did look at banks becoming illiquid, an insolvent institution, the need for ELA,...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Mr. Cardiff said in his evidence that it was a failure not to do what I've suggested there, to have gone in at that stage and checked what you were getting into eventually. Do you accept that?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: Can I take you up an issue touched on before the break and that was the instruction to the NTMA to place deposits with the Irish banks in late 2007-early 2008, can you clarify what happened there?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (2 Jul 2015)

Michael McGrath: And how much money was lodged as a result in the different institutions?