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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (27 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 339. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if SNAs can be secured under the access-and-inclusion funding model in Montessori schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46579/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (27 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 368. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of citizenship applications that are in hand currently; the number of staff that are assigned to the processing of citizenship applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46577/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Judgments (27 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 418. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions before the Children's Court in 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of orders for fines against the child, compensation orders against the parents, guardian and or detention that were ordered in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47195/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for the cystic fibrosis drug kaftrio will be made available for children once they turn six years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46630/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (22 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 236. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will address a matter concerning civil service pensioners (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46408/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will raise two issues that arose during the summer: first, the imposition of an €83 million fine on AIB by the Central Bank that was announced in June; and second, the decision that has been discussed already to propose the removal of cash services from 70 AIB branches that was announced in July. In the Central Bank investigation, AIB admitted to 57 regulatory breaches in total,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Does Ms Dooley agree that this was not simply a one-off act of dishonesty by AIB but that it constituted a campaign of dishonesty against its customers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I suppose-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: This was not a mistake. We do not need to go beyond the Central Bank findings. AIB has admitted to the Central Bank to failing to act honestly in its treatment of customers. That is not a mistake. Does Dr. Hunt agree?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: When did the bank first become aware of this failure to act honestly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I am not looking for names, but I am asking generally: has anyone been sanctioned as a result of AIB's admission that it failed to act honestly with customers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Has anyone been sanctioned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Has the bank itself conducted any internal disciplinary actions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will move on to the second issue, which is the aborted attempted closure of the cash services from branches. The witness will be aware that, prior to the announcement in July 2022, there were other branches which were made cashless. I think it was being done on a trial basis and one of the branches was in Blackrock in County Dublin. Is it proposed to alter the decision made in respect of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: How does a customer lodge a cheque? Do they have to go to Dún Laoghaire to lodge a cheque. It cannot be lodged in Blackrock at present, as I understand it. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I commend the witnesses institution on reversing the decision that was made. Sometimes when institutions make a decision, they feel obliged to stick with it. I do find it alarming, however, that so many talented and informed people could have made this decision without having wider consultation. I am conscious the ultimate responsibility for this rests with the board and there are a very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: Are many of them based outside Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 115. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider increasing grants for the installation of solar panels in domestic settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44977/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architectural Heritage (14 Sep 2022)

Jim O'Callaghan: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the action that he has taken to protect and restore listed buildings identified as being at risk on the An Taisce list (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44382/22]