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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: We can allow the Deputy make that comment at that time if she wishes to do so. Does the Deputy want to comment on section 26 now?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: If I could interrupt the Deputy, we have run out of time in this particular session so I have to suspend the meeting. The next session will take up from where the Deputy left off, with a follow-up from the Minister in terms of his response. The meeting is suspended until 4.40 p.m.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I ask members to turn off their mobile phones. For the purpose of the Official Report, I have been requested to identify members when they are called to speak. I welcome the members present and the Minister and his officials. Members are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I imagine that is what will happen. If our time is at an end at 1 p.m. and there is a vote then we will have to-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Yes. We have a plan for the next few days but we may adjust that plan as we find things working and how we will proceed.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Amendment No. 1 in the name of Deputy Doherty has been ruled out of order.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I will put the question on the section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: If there are matters that need to be clarified for Deputy Doherty then I ask the Minister to please do so, but then I am to press this section.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Deputy Barry is next, and then I am putting the question.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Question proposed: "That section 4 stand part of the Bill."

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Amendments Nos. 2, 3 and 157 are related and will be discussed together.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: As it is now 1 p.m., I am obliged to suspend the meeting.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: My apologies for interrupting the Deputy but can he make that point again, please, as his connection dropped briefly during his final sentence and it may not have been heard?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: The committee will break again in 20 minutes for the next sanitation break. We will then resume at 6.40 p.m.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2020: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I propose that section 19 be postponed until after section 15 has been disposed off. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (5 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 173. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a living alone allowance will be approved and backdated for a person (details supplied). [34424/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: School Transport (4 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide school transport for up to 30 students that attend secondary schools in Kilkenny city and require transport from Thomastown, County Kilkenny in view of the fact that they have no transport due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34020/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Contracts (3 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 454. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of the procurement process for the maintenance contract relative to Government Buildings, Hebron Road, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33254/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Honours (3 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 678. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the members of the 35th Battalion of the Army that fought at the siege of Jadotville will be awarded a medal for their bravery: if he will respond to Kilkenny County Council and other local authorities that passed a motion in the name of a person (details supplied) unanimously calling for action in this regard; his plans for same; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (3 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 788. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will approve funding as a matter of urgency for the provision of universal access at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33252/20]