Results 22,501-22,520 of 26,624 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 20 December 2012 agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising from the minutes? No. On correspondence received since the meeting on Thursday, 20 December 2012, No. 3A is correspondence from Accounting Officers. Correspondence received on 5 December 2012, from Ms Geraldine Tallon, Secretary General of the Department of the Environment, Community and...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: The Department of Education and Skills appointed an inspector to look at some companies that were providing services to WIT. We were looking at the report from WIT on the expenditure of the president's office and we asked the Department of Education and Skills and those involved that we would meet again to finalise the report on that, but then the inspector was appointed. The decision is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: Yes. We were told so by the Department of Education and Skills.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: It is Mr. Dermot Quigley, an external appointment. It is only one inspector. I now turn to individual correspondence. Correspondence, dated 18 December 2012, was received from Ms Clare McGrath, chairman of the Office of Public Works, providing information previously requested by the committee on a proposed courthouse for Wexford Town. I presume a copy of it will go to those who complained.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (17 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Finance if permanent interest rate reductions are actively considered by banks in dealing with distressed mortgage borrowers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2024/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Rebate Scheme (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the fuel rebate scheme to cover coach and bus operators; the reason this sector was not included in the Budget day announcement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1117/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vocational Education Committees (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the arrangements if any that are in place to accommodate staff from Kilkenny Vocational Education Committee in their daily travel and subsistence arrangements to the new amalgamated service located in Carlow; if a redundancy package will be available for those who wish to opt out; if options such as transfers to local authorities or local revenue...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a grant application submitted to Student Universal Support Ireland in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be approved and paid as a matter of urgency. [1126/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application to Student Universal Support Ireland will be expedited and approved in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny as all information requested has now been submitted. [1129/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turbary Rights (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the position regarding claims by bog owners located at the All Saints bog; if claims lodged have been processed. approved and paid; if legal and or consultants' fees have been approved and paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1121/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Motor Taxation (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the estimated number of vehicles not being taxed in any given year and therefore the estimated loss of revenue to the State; if he will consider putting in place an easy payment scheme without extra cost to those who might use the scheme to encourage greater compliance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1130/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Classification (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he or the Health Service Executive have taken relative to the care of the needs of those with Lyme Disease; his response to those involved in a campaign to have the disease properly recognised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1115/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that are in place to accommodate the transfer of paramedics within the ambulance service from one county to another; if there is a coordinated national human resource re-deployment scheme within the national ambulance service or if it his intention to establish such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1122/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Applications (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if a full medical card will be issued in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and if he will expedite the matter. [1123/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if an early date for a knee operation will be arranged in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny and if he will expedite the matter. [1124/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health if eight hours of home support granted by the Health Service Executive in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be maintained in view of the exceptional circumstances of the case and based on the many professional reports that the HSE is aware of; and if he will expedite a response. [1125/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Jan 2013)
John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Health the reason a pension (details supplied) in County Kilkenny has been waiting four years for an operation; and if he will expedite the matter. [1128/13]
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Cooney. We will be writing separately to the ambassador to express our thanks. We will adjourn the meeting until 17 January 2013.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: My next question relates to a meeting we had with the IMF. We are receiving money from the IMF and the IMF is in Mozambique dealing with the structuring of government, etc., and it was an unusual type of meeting. At that meeting, the representative from the IMF stated that we should have signed some confidentiality agreement with the IMF and arising from that type of agreement, I took it...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 19 - Official Development Assistance
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Vote 29 - International Co-operation (20 Dec 2012) John McGuinness: Does that fill gap in the Department's information?