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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (14 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way in which the recent recruitment process for the vacant position of Secretary General of the Department of Health was advertised; the number of advertisements placed in publications and through social media; the number of applicants for the position; the number of international applicants; the number of persons on the interview...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: Members are all welcome. I welcome the Minister to the meeting. Members will understand that people attending from Leinster House or the convention centre are covered by privilege. Those who are not at those locations may not be covered by full privilege. Today we are dealing with doubly taxation agreements with Germany and Kosovo. I ask the Minister to give his opening statement.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: I will ask the Minister to respond and then you can come back in again.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: I want to ask the Minister about Taiwan. I am chairman of the Ireland-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Society. I am also associated with and vice chairman of the European group in support of Taiwan and our engagement in terms of trade, culture and so forth. Under Michael Noonan when he was Minister, efforts were made to put in place a taxation agreement. It was suggested at that time,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: Is that directly with the representatives of Taiwan?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: As I said, this has been a campaign going back to the former Minister Noonan's time. We have a very strong connection with Taiwan. I believe a measure of this kind would be beneficial. I urge the Minister to look at it and try to bring it to fruition as quickly as possible. I am delighted to hear the engagement is ongoing. I thank the Minister for that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Double Taxation Agreements: Minister for Finance (14 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: Does any other member wish to ask a question before I close the meeting? No other member wishes to pursue any of the other matters we were discussing. The committee has now completed its consideration of the motions, and the clerk to the committee, in accordance with Standing Order 101, will send a message to that effect to the Clerk of the Dáil.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (14 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the draft orders for double taxation agreements with Germany and Kosovo for the Department of Finance. Under Standing Order 100(2), the message is deemed to be the report of the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 112. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which the Covid-19 pandemic has had a negative impact on the provision of cancer care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37730/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (13 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 121. To ask the Minister for Health the number of homecare support hours being provided in counties Carlow and Kilkenny in 2021; the way this compares to 2020; the number of persons currently waiting for homecare in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37731/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 438. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application by a person (details supplied) will be expedited and approved. [37278/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (8 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 149. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider changing the date for commencing the period of employment on permits for persons (details supplied) to the date the persons arrived in Ireland to work given that both persons arrived after the commencement date due to the difficulties they had due to Covid-19 in travelling to Ireland. [36977/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 187. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will bring forward a restart grant scheme to facilitate working musicians and entertainers to get back to work, recognising the fact that they are small businesses that have been closed down and have not been offered any restart assistance (details supplied); and the way in which she plans to facilitate this section of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the application to transfer the carer’s allowance payment to a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [36950/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a child benefit and family benefit application dating back to 2014 which is now under appeal with a request for an oral hearing will be expedited and approved in the name of a person (details supplied). [36951/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (8 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer's allowance now under appeal will be expedited and approved in the case of a person (details supplied). [37026/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: In 2018, the Dáil dealt with two very significant issues. One of them related to the calls for a public inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell. It is the tenth anniversary of the death of this young man and two and a half years into the promised scoping exercise being carried out by a judge. At the time, the Dáil voted overwhelmingly to support a public inquiry. In 2017, I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: -----of the suspension of John Barrett. Where does that stand?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Broadband Infrastructure (7 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: I appreciate the work that has been undertaken by the Government in terms of funding and the private sector in terms of the delivery of broadband. I encourage the Minister of State to look at the country as a whole, draw together all of those that are providing broadband and ensure that the gaps in the make-up of each county are delivered on and there is a plan. When people make inquiries...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Broadband Infrastructure (7 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: I want to draw the Minister of State's attention to the fact that rural Ireland is still being left behind in the provision of a proper broadband network. In doing so, I recognise the amount of money that has already been invested by Government in this area but a far greater efficiency in delivery has to be achieved. Beyond Covid, people will work from home a lot more, bigger companies will...