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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: If I gave Mr. Molan the names of the ten people I got the money from and asked him to put it in a specified account for that purpose, is that sufficient for the bureaucrats and the regulators?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Those people are not members at the moment, are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Mr. Farrell will be able to tell us where that regulation is written down; it would benefit the members of this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I understand that, but I just want to get to the bottom of this. Does Mr. Molan believe his sector is over-regulated by the Central Bank?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Mr. Molan might put that word into his report and see if the issue can be explained to the powers that be. Senator O'Donnell referred to micro-finance. The credit unions were set up for that purpose in the first place. I call it the penny bank. Do the witnesses feel that there is an obligation or a corporate social responsibility to carry some of those accounts? The credit unions might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I want to make that point clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Mr. Molan mentioned the ability to recommend business to another credit union. Are credit unions not allowed to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Why is that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Whatever Mr. Molan does he should not do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Did Mr. Molan say that issue arises as a result of the common bond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Is that a Department of Finance issue? Can that be changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: No, I do not mind a recommendation if something is going to be done about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Is the Senator saying that the credit union can do a referral?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Would Mr. Molan agree that a referral would be a case of a credit union muttering under their breath, "We can't do it but yer man------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I must go to a vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: In our discussions this morning, we must also consider the staff on the front line. Some of them are terrified that they will do something wrong in relation to the regulation. I am not talking about every credit union or my own credit union, but sometimes if members ask a question they might be met with a period of silence where one can almost hear the cogs rolling as the member of staff...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I know that is what the credit unions want to do but consider their members. They find it so difficult to understand all this nonsense when all they are trying to do is keep their head over water in terms of getting a loan, paying it back and so on. My own credit union was fined recently. It was horrendous. What the Central Bank did was nonsense and it should be ashamed. It should be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (30 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) was entitled to pay increments from 1983 and pension entitlements arising from the increments in view of the fact the person was a full-time employee; and if the record of payments and entitlements will be made available. [4452/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (30 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: 159. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 7 November 2018, the progress made in providing the level of care urgently required by a person (details supplied); if the HSE has had discussions with an organisation in County Kilkenny; if so, the outcome of the discussions and the decisions taken; his plans to provide respite services in counties Carlow and...