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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on priorities for her term of office and EU Commission matters (9 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: I wish to add my voice to the voices of previous speakers when they spoke to the Commissioner about the activities of vulture funds in Ireland, and to underline the fact that they are causing devastation in society. Her last point relating to financial literacy is central to what is happening. The borrowers are now faced with dealing with a vulture fund and the language being used by the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Commissioner Mairead McGuinness on priorities for her term of office and EU Commission matters (9 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: I thank the Commissioner and hope that we can engage again over the coming year. I wish her well with her objectives in the course of carrying out her work and wish her the best of luck.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Election of Vice Chairman (9 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: Deputy Durkan has been deemed elected as Vice Chair of the committee. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (9 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: We will deal with EU matters, Schedule A and B on legislative proposals. Consideration of Schedule A, EU legislative proposals, were previously undertaken on 25 November 2020. While it was agreed that no subsidiarity issues arose, it was agreed to undertake further scrutiny of the following COMs by asking the lead Department for additional briefing information: COM(2020)403, COM(2020)408,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 245. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 946 of 15 January 2019, if branded unused cycling kit relating to a cycling event to the value of €67,000 is now in storage at a cost to Fáilte Ireland and the State; if so, if the arrangement is to continue indefinitely; if so, the cost; if she has examined the procurement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (details supplied) to provide a co-educational facility from junior infants upwards; and if she will outline the process and time frame involved. [41246/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if approval will be granted as a matter of urgency for a major building project at a school (details supplied) to include funding to cover all of the extra costs relative to the conditions attached to the planning permission granted by An Bord Pleanála; if a positive and early response will be expedited given the existing building and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 561. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to reduce the waiting time for appointments to see a paediatric rheumatologist; the number on the waiting list for such appointments in each of the past five years; the number of children with Down's syndrome on the waiting list for the same period; the efforts made by the HSE to recruit paediatric rheumatologists; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services Reports (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake a review of the treatment of cataract patients throughout the HSE to determine the reason the system has failed patients; the number of patients on the waiting list; if the cost of the HSE scheme model of treatment for cataract patients has been considered by his Department or the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Home Help Service (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 595. To ask the Minister for Health if half an hour's home help per day will be provided for a person (details supplied). [41248/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 825. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay of almost 20 years in acknowledging the error by his Department in not including two reference years relative to area aid in the case of a person (details supplied); the number of meetings held during this period with the representatives of an association regarding the issue; if the submissions from Teagasc...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: I ask members and witnesses to please turn off their mobile phones. I ask those who are using seats that are non-microphoned to speak towards a microphone from their seat and I ask everyone to unmask as they make their contributions for the purpose of the Official Report and recording. Today we are engaging with representatives of the Financial Services Union, FSU. I welcome Mr. John...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. O'Connell. By way of information, at our meeting this morning we noted that Ulster Bank and the Central Bank refused an invitation to come before the committee, pointing to commercial sensitivities and so on. I do not accept that, and neither did the committee. We will write again to the Central Bank asking that it appear before the committee to hear directly from us our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: For clarity, if a branch is to close, the bank simply informs the Central Bank two months before a closure and that is noted by the Central Bank and there is no other part of the process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: Did Deputy Barry have another question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: Would Mr. McDowell like to comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: Can I recap? Did Deputy Farrell have a question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: We have to be perfectly clear about this before we leave the meeting. I chaired the committee for the entirety of the previous Dáil. We discussed vulture funds and their activities throughout the country at length. We discussed community banking and the issues around the pillar banks and other banks, issued some final reports and had the report on vulture funds debated in the House. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: -----involving 1,400 jobs and 3,000 jobs in Ulster Bank. That is before we include the workers, customers and all of the rest. Quite frankly, I saw enough of the banks for five years to understand that one simply does not believe them. Whatever they might say in regard to re-engaging, all it is is soft talk. We have to be very strong politically and demand some action on this; otherwise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Financial Services Union: Discussion. (8 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: Are we all in agreement with that, if what I have suggested is technically correct?