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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (11 Jun 2019)

John McGuinness: 909. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if disability allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied). [23816/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a comprehensive reply will issue to all of the matters raised by a person (details supplied); his views on the detailed allegations made of criminal and inappropriate activities within the Irish Prison Service; the action taken to investigate the allegations; if a person or persons have been held responsible for such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 228. To ask the Minister for Health if an early assessment for a hip operation will be arranged for a person (details supplied); the reason the person has been waiting three years to date for the assessment; the number on the list waiting at University Hospital Waterford; and the waiting time for the operation. [22412/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Employment Rights (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: 290. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 19 January 2011 and the response of the HSE, the actions taken by his Department and the HSE to resolve the issues raised; if he is satisfied that the investigation undertaken that the employment rights of a person (details supplied) were honoured and protected by the HSE; if his Department reviewed the findings;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: We are dealing with matters relating to the banking sector. We are joined by Mr. Cormac Butler, who has been before us previously, and Mr. Tim Bush. They will give their opening statements, after which we will be in a position to raise various matters with both. I advise the witnesses that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Bush.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: Arising from the exchanges up to now, it is clear that we would like the banks to respond to this debate. We might send them the transcript of the meeting and ask for their response. With the support of members present, I invite the witnesses to set out the type of questions they believe we should ask the banks. They have done so in their evidence to the committee but they might formally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: The conclusions of the banking inquiry, therefore, were incorrect, if, in fact, the banking inquiry drew conclusions, because they were basing it on incorrect information from banks and did not take that into consideration. Perhaps they could not have on issues that only came to light recently, in the last -----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: They were wrong about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: Did they mislead the inquiry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: Does Mr. Bush have a view on the banking inquiry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: They were hoodwinking us, basically.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: Then we come to today's evidence. I am not an accountant. I have been in different small businesses all my life and it angers me greatly to hear the witnesses' account of things. While they might think it is technical and so on, it is easily understood. When people are robbed, they know they have been robbed. To be robbed over and over again is utterly incredible. The banks can hide...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: We are paying back a debt that we should not be paying back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: And we are imposing austerity on people in the pursuit of repayment of that debt that we should not do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: It is certainly not an option in the Irish courts anyway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: They seem to have a particular view of the banks. We are not supposed to comment on the courts but that is my view. Mr. Butler and Mr. Bush will provide us with the information and perhaps a roadmap as to what direction the committee should take. Is the letter they sent to the late Deputy Brian Lennihan something the committee should have?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: Yes. We might be looking back but I am afraid that we have to learn. The other issue is that we are paying for it still. The committee is aware of most of what Mr. Butler has been saying in the context of the general thrust of his submission, and similarly with Mr. Bush. We should meet the committee in the UK and see if we can perhaps further a joint approach. I will finish on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: Yes, it is not just as the auditor sees it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: They too were wrong.