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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number that were fully or partially granted; and the number of such requests that were refused. [51855/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number in which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number in which the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks in view of the fact that the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 537. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department to date in 2017; the number of which that were fully or partially granted; and the number of such requests that were refused. [51848/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 538. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of freedom of information requests received by her Department to date in 2017; the number of which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number of which the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks in view of the fact that the necessary...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Records (5 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 542. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to parliamentary question number 527 of 14 November 2017, the person that issued the certificate of service (details supplied); the date it was issued; and the timeframe for the certificate to be issued. [51509/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 545. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which that were fully or partially granted; and the number of such requests that were refused. [51849/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Freedom of Information Data (5 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 546. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number of which the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks in view of the fact that the necessary resources to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 68. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 29 November 2017, the process by which external members of TLAC are appointed; the qualifications and skill sets sought relative to external members; the level of professional human resources qualifications of each member; the rationale behind the decision to have two ex officio members; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 151. To ask the Minister for Health if all of the appropriate home support services will be put in place for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52416/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be considered for ill health retirement based on the person's medical reports. [52417/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for a survey of the motorway close to Shankill, Paulstown, County Kilkenny, in order to determine the works required to reduce the level of noise from passing motorway traffic at this location. [52476/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: I wish to record the decisions taken by the joint committee on EU proposals. On the EU ESA package of proposals, COM (2017) 536 and COM (2017) 537, the committee agreed to submit a political contribution to the EU institutions. It also agreed that COM (2017) 538 and COM (2017) 539 did not warrant further scrutiny. The committee agreed that the EU proposals listed in Schedule A, COM...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: I welcome Deputy John Deasy to the joint committee and wish him an ongoing recovery. I look forward to his contributions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to Tracker Mortgage Examination and Consumer Protection Framework: Discussion (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. Ger Deering, Financial Services Ombudsman, and Ms Isolde Goggin, chairperson of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the joint committee. However, if they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to Tracker Mortgage Examination and Consumer Protection Framework: Discussion (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: Thank you Ms Goggin. Deputy Doherty is first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to Tracker Mortgage Examination and Consumer Protection Framework: Discussion (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: The subject of this meeting is the tracker mortgage issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to Tracker Mortgage Examination and Consumer Protection Framework: Discussion (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: I want to go back to Ms Goggin's opening statement in regard to a number of issues. I refer to various parts of her statement. She outlined, for example, that in regard to financial services, consumers were extremely vulnerable. She then stated that it is the view of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, CCPC, that the way in which financial institutions have treated their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to Tracker Mortgage Examination and Consumer Protection Framework: Discussion (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: Can I interrupt Ms Goggin? Let us measure the very fine language that would be accepted by most in the context of Ms Goggin's opening statement and what has happened. In 2009, a customer dragged a bank kicking and screaming to the courts. Since then, under enormous pressure from all sorts of individuals and groups, the banks have been exposed as not only taking money from customers from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to Tracker Mortgage Examination and Consumer Protection Framework: Discussion (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: We had the Central Bank witnesses before the committee. I am talking about Ms Goggin and her organisation. It appears to me from what she said earlier that the commission is doing nothing for those people who have been seeking redress since 2009. The fact that we are in this space today, in terms of what the banks are now responding to, came about by way of an entirely different pressure....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters relating to Tracker Mortgage Examination and Consumer Protection Framework: Discussion (7 Dec 2017)

John McGuinness: Ms Goggin's organisation is charged with consumer protection.