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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: It follows that agents and loan owners are not obliged to appear.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: Is there a way to insist upon their appearance before the committee? May a party who deliberately avoids coming before the committee be obliged to appear under legislation, regulation or another method?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: Is there another way to compel a witness to appear?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: I ask that the Minister of State arrange for a note on the matter to be prepared for the committee. I do not understand how these companies and funds do not honour their obligation and responsibility in terms of transparency and accountability by appearing before the committee but still have access to the Department of Finance on a regular basis. I am trying to find out how that can be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: The refusal of such companies to appear is an insult to the committee and the Oireachtas. Is there a way for the Minister of State and the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, to make clear that that is not acceptable?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: If such companies refuse to appear before the committee for the purposes of transparency and accountability, the only option is to use a Bill such as that put forward by Deputy Michael McGrath to ensure that the highest possible level of scrutiny is applied in terms of regulation.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: The companies have a choice.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: The committee also has a choice.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: I hope that we will reflect on that, perhaps with the assistance of Deputy Michael McGrath, on Report Stage. I am deeply unhappy that these entities have total disregard for the Oireachtas in spite of the changes that might arise from the Bill. We make the laws. If the companies refuse to be accountable to the committee, I firmly believe regulation should make them far more formally...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: I hope it will put manners on the vulture funds. The Minister of State was a member of the committee but now holds a very important position in the Department of Finance. I strongly encourage him to remember the people he represents and the damage done to many of them by vulture funds which completely disregard any form of consumer protection we put in place. It should be made clear that...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Select Committee (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: Deputy McGrath raised a very important point. Does the Minister of State think we will be here in the autumn?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: 438. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the consultant paediatrician, senior dietitian and diabetes nurse at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny, issued a letter to the parents of those attending the services outlining restrictions to the services and stating that there is a severe lack of resources available; the reason this situation arose; the steps he plans to take to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Non-Contributory) Applications (12 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: 698. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied) for a State pension (non contributory); and if the appeal will be expedited. [31981/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Protected Disclosures (10 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: I respect the Minister of State's intervention; however, it is clear from the response that neither she, CIT nor the Higher Education Authority, HEA, is dealing with the reasons the whistleblower made the protected disclosure in the first place. It is because she was treated badly having made the disclosure. The whistleblower needs to be put back in employment and there must be recognition...

Topical Issue Debate: Protected Disclosures (10 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: Only now; they covered it up.

Topical Issue Debate: Protected Disclosures (10 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: They have them.

Topical Issue Debate: Protected Disclosures (10 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: I have read over the minutes of the meeting at which this was raised. My experience of this case informs me that the Committee of Public Accounts was grossly misled, perhaps deliberately. I can say as much from my experience of the case and from reading the minutes. The vice president of this particular institution is responsible for finance and human resources. He acknowledges receipt...

Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill 2018: First Stage (10 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to highlight the State's adherance to EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights in regard to the present emergency in the housing sector and, in particular, in dealing with mortgage arrears; to provide for a platform for an open market - “the national affordable cooperative housing exchange” - in which...

Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill 2018: First Stage (10 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: What is happening has to stop. As parliamentarians, we have a choice. We can go down the tired old political route, which is stale and out of date, and protect the status quo. We can ignore all of what is happening in our courts. We can ignore all of the evictions and repossessions. We can ignore people that are in distress with their mortgage and living with a very poor quality of life....

Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill 2018: First Stage (10 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: I invite Members to go to any of the courts or to attend any meetings involving the vulture funds. One can see how arrogant and aggressive they are, and how their lack of understanding is pitted against ordinary individuals and gives them no chance whatsoever. The people have turned to us and to this House. Mr. Edmund Honohan and Right2Homes have given us the option to take this Bill on...