Results 4,401-4,420 of 26,705 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (3 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: 452. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) qualifies for the household package scheme. [5886/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Inquiries (3 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: 594. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for the decision taken on five different occasions to extend the scoping exercise being undertaken relevant to the inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied); if she will request that the exercise be completed by 1 March 2021; if she will give consideration to the demand for a full, wide-ranging...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: We are joined by the Minister, Deputy McGrath, from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and Mr. David Moloney, acting Secretary General of that Department. I ask members to turn off their mobile phones. I remind them that for identification purposes and for the recording of the meeting that they should remove their face masks when making a contribution. The purpose of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: I will call Deputy Mairéad Farrell first. I ask members to address the first item on the agenda, which concerns the Department of Health and the salary of the Secretary General.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: I remind Deputy Farrell of her time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: Your time has concluded Deputy Farrell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: Deputy Richmond is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: Yes; the Secretary General only please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: I thank the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: I think we can take that as read.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: I thank Deputy Barry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: In short, and for the information of members, the Minister might just confirm, arising from the minute of 30 October 2020, that the suggestion on this presumably came to him from the Minister for Health and that this triggered the meeting we are speaking about in October. How did the selection process for the interim Secretary General of the Department of Health work? Who approached Mr....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: Could we move on rather than getting into a scrap?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: Could we move on?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: Most of the correspondence thereafter to and from officials within the Department would have been copied to Mr. Watt and the various officials there are also attached to the TLAC secretariat. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: It is just to confirm it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: We are not dealing with the salary. I am just asking about the process. We now have it down to the point where Mr. Watt was asked by the Taoiseach to take the role. That is how it happened. Did a memorandum have to go to the Government then?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: A memorandum did go to the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: That is based on the memorandum to the Government.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Salary Increase for Position of Secretary General at the Department of Health: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (2 Feb 2021)
John McGuinness: I understand that. It was based on a memorandum to the Government.