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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (2 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: Not at all. It might be the best way to do it.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (2 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: Repeating "That the section stand part of the Bill" 64 times reminded me of being in school. Not a day passed without me getting 100 lines for doing something. I was going to say it was for doing something extraordinary.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (2 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: It stood to me. On the remarks of the Minister of State, I did not intend to raise this matter but he mentioned it. The Central Bank over-regulates credit unions. It should not be the regulator of credit unions. It should not be the agency to operate protections for consumers. That really has to be considered and judged. As far as regulation is concerned, I think the vulture funds...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (2 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: In according with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has considered its consideration of the Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020 and has made no amendments thereto. Under Standing Order 100(2) this shall be deemed to be the report of the select...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Administration (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to an application submitted to her Department by a school (details supplied) to separate the junior and senior schools, a position brought about by the lack of Department support and engagement on a better alternative; if she will engage directly with the schools to bring about the best outcome for the school...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Qualified Child Allowance (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 487. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will backdate the award of an increase in qualified children benefit to March 2018 in the case of a person (details supplied). [39954/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Guardian's Payment (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 488. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-examine an application for guardianship payment that was refused in the case of a person (details supplied) with a view to allowing the claim; and if she will take into account that the grandparents were under extreme pressure at the time and had no assistance to deal with the issues even though Tusla was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an increased pandemic unemployment payment benefit will be paid to a person (details supplied); and the reason their claim was rerated given they have not worked since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. [40418/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 705. To ask the Minister for Health if he will arrange a waiver of the annual registration fee of €100 for nurses and midwives as a gesture of thanks for their efforts during Covid-19. [39959/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 710. To ask the Minister for Health the status of applications for financial assistance under section 39 funding for an organisation (details supplied); if the HSE will engage directly with the care home to assist with the shortfall in its finances of €50,000 due to the inability of the organisation to fundraise due to Covid-19; and if he will expedite the assistance from the HSE that...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (1 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: 821. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of applications for financial assistance under the Covid stability fund and Pobal for an organisation (details supplied). [40024/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in County Kilkenny that have qualified for support under the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39209/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Sector (26 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if the requested level of funding will be approved to secure the future of a nursing home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39444/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Livestock Issues (26 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 417. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1019 of 29 September 2020 and other parliamentary questions on the same issue, the progress in completing DNA tests and registration of animals under herd number (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39445/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: 259. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the reason a person (details supplied) was charged by a private ambulance company to be taken to hospital to attend appointments; the reason the public ambulance service failed to collect the person; if the charge will be paid by the HSE, given that the documentation states that the HSE and not the person availed of or booked the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: We are in public session. Members may participate remotely in proceedings held in public only from the locations listed. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, and his officials. We will now deal with Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2020, Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: Are there any questions in relation to the Estimate?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I support the remarks made by Deputy Mairéad Farrell. We will have a special meeting on insurance. The amount of money being refunded by insurance companies to those with policies is miserly, particularly given that they are not on the road and so on. Perhaps the Department will ask the companies to reconsider, particularly in the run-up to Christmas. Issuing €20, which some...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: I suggest that there should be a rolling maintenance programme to ensure the scanners do not break down. Obviously, the authorities will be under pressure for time owing to Brexit. From the beginning of the Covid pandemic, many of the staff who normally travelled from the country to Dublin found themselves working from home. I understand that, for the Revenue Commissioners, this has been...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Supplementary) (25 Nov 2020)

John McGuinness: It would be interesting to get a note on the number employed, particularly to deal with Brexit, and, of those, the number who were working from home. How many of those who worked from home during the Covid pandemic will be allowed to continue to do so where there is a proven success rate?