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- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (20 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: 612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for illness benefit by a person (details supplied) will be approved; if supplementary welfare will be approved while they are waiting; and if there is an arrangement with the Australian authorities for the person to benefit from their seven years work in Australia. [47890/18]
- Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: I would consider them to be a board and they should be directing the person who is being paid by the State to do his or her job. In many counties, mayors or chairmen are down the list in terms of recognition while paid officials make it look as if it is their domain and that they have brought about these wonderful changes. Without the representatives that the public elect, we would not...
- Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: He was told to do that.
- Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: This was a day when the Minister of State could have made a name for himself for ever by including Kilkenny in the consideration for city status. I heard Deputy Grealish and others discuss the significance of the corporation, as it was then, the urban council and so on. These bodies could learn from the experience of Kilkenny city, where the destruction of local government was begun in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: No. 7 is a decision we made on the scrutiny of EU proposals. Before the committee proceeds to its business, I wish to put on the record the decision taken by the committee on EU legislative proposals from 6 November. The committee agreed that EU proposals COM (2018) 652, COM (2018) 653 and COM (2018) 658 do not warrant further scrutiny. Full details will be published on the committee's website.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: No. 8 is a discussion on the progress of the cost of insurance working group. I welcome the Minister, Deputy D'Arcy, and his officials to the meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: Deputy Pearse Doherty has the floor. When he finishes, the Minister of State can come back.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: Senator Kieran O'Donnell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: Senator Kieran O'Donnell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: Senator Kieran O'Donnell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: Senator Kieran O'Donnell.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: Does Senator O'Donnell wish to make a contribution or not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: I have called him four or five times now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: The Senator's time is up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: I would like to clarify a few points which the Minister of State has made. First, with regard to the market itself, have any new insurance companies come into the market?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: We have lost four.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: There is no interest in the market at present.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: To go back to the committee's report, at that time we were talking about the fee to access information, which was €10,000. Insurance Ireland confirmed that the full membership fee was €100,000 across all members. Has the Minister of State investigated that with the insurance companies? Have they relented on their approach to collecting these fees?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: I am not going to get into an argument with the Minister of State about the 23%. It is an average figure for increases. As the Minister of State said earlier on, he is dealing with facts. That may be a fact, but it is also a fact that insurance for taxi drivers, truck drivers, and those who drive vans for their businesses has not decreased. That is a fact relative to a real trading business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Cost of Insurance Working Group Update: Discussion (15 Nov 2018)
John McGuinness: Relative to those who are trading in business.