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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: They were careless and bad banking decisions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: On the sale of the loans and the future sales the witnesses will talk about, if there was an ethical fund, not a vulture fund but a not-for-profit organisation that was willing to engage with the bank to have those bad loans or mortgages transferred to it to keep people in their homes, would Ulster Bank Ireland exercise a preference to deal with those rather than with the vulture funds?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: Would Ulster Bank Ireland throw them into competition with the vulture funds or would it say that the bank has a corporate social responsibility here and therefore decide to work with that particular fund because it is not-for-profit organisation and place it before its consideration of a vulture fund?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: They are specifics. The vulture will just take the whole loan for profit. It does not give a damn about regulation or anything else. The manner in which some of the vulture funds' agents are treating the people in this country is shocking and we are told constantly in these Houses and in this committee that the protection follows. It does not. They are a ruthless bunch who want nothing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: I want to touch on some of the other issues raised. On trackers, Ulster Bank Ireland says it has come to the end of that and it is dealing with it. Ulster Bank Ireland is confident that part of the history of the bank is almost over in terms of the solutions for customers and the payment of redress and so on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: What are the prospects for Ulster Bank Ireland? Does Ms Howard see it putting all this behind it, competing in the market and offering various other products and services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: What was the profit last year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: On the European Central Bank and banking in general, Ulster Bank Ireland obviously keeps an eye on what goes on in Europe in the context of banking regulation. Do our guests see new European regulation coming in and being layered over domestic regulation? Do they see any difference in approach on the part of the European Central Bank or the policymakers in Europe to do things differently or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Ulster Bank (9 May 2019)

John McGuinness: I thank our guests for attending.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the maintenance charges on the Bus Éireann school transport fleet are charged on a per mile basis in accordance with the 1975 agreement or on a per bus basis; if not, the date on which his Department agreed to a change in this per mileage charge; and the date the change was implemented. [18745/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action he is taking to provide school transport for 24 pupils who are attending schools (details supplied); if the pupils will be included in the school transport system in view of the fact that all buses from Callan to Kilkenny city are operating at maximum capacity; and if a solution for all concerned will be expedited. [19248/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 340. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a place is available at the ASD unit of a school (details supplied) for a person; and if the matter will be expedited. [19407/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 514. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí in receipt of injury at work payments; the number injured at work who have received compensation awards; the policy relative to the reclassification of injury at work payments to standard sick pay for members who are frequently out sick due to injury; the impact on the income of the members...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 621. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied); the timeframe for such treatment and the likelihood of the patient being scheduled for an early appointment; if there is a waiting list for this treatment; and if so, the action that can be taken to obtain the treatment elsewhere in view of the fact that the patient has a medical card but...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 642. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 907 of 26 March 2019, the progress being made by his Department and the HSE in their investigation into the alleged use of cannabis and-or marijuana at the DOP facility, St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; if the HSE has provided the report requested by his Department into the alleged incident or incidents; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists Data (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 757. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the four-year waiting list for ear, nose and throat, ENT, services at University Hospital Waterford; the number of persons on the waiting list; the action being taken to reduce the waiting time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18947/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 758. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will engage as a matter of urgency with persons (details supplied). [18948/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 759. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to construct a facility to house the MRI scanner at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny; if response will be expedited in view of the fact that the equipment has been purchased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18949/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 760. To ask the Minister for Health if an appointment will be arranged at University Hospital Waterford, UHW, or St. James's Hospital, Dublin, as a matter of urgency for a person (details supplied); if the correspondence from the person's general practitioner requesting urgent intervention for the patient will be considered; the reason for the delay in providing the care and treatment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services (8 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 761. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application for funding to provide a shared residential placement for a person (details supplied); when a decision is likely to be made; the cost to date of the care of the person at St. Luke's General Hospital, Kilkenny, in which the person has been a patient for over four months; the date the person was ready to be discharged; the cost of...