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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (13 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 62. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to ensure that insurance cover is made available to businesses in the wider leisure sector at affordable rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46671/19]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (13 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of a flood relief scheme in Ballinhassig, County Cork; the funding committed; the next steps in the process; the timeline for the completion of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46726/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (13 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 155. To ask the Minister for Health if assistance will be provided to a family (details supplied) in County Cork to secure additional respite overnights for their child in view of the circumstances that apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46732/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (13 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 193. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to support various community initiatives around the country to roll out reverse vending machines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46716/19]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 97. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland supports the development of a legally binding international treaty on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46128/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance the manner in which the standard fund threshold limit of €2 million applies to persons employed in the public sector; the way in which the fund is calculated in the context of a public servant who is a member of the unfunded public service pension scheme; the taxation treatment that applies in respect of a pension fund amount in excess of €2...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter raised in correspondence by a person (details supplied) regarding a proposal for the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46596/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Data (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 276. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the information requested in Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 3 October 2019 will be furnished; if he will intervene to ensure that information is provided by the Courts Service in response to parliamentary questions in a more timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46695/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Cigarettes (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: 302. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to regulate e-cigarettes; his further plans to restrict the areas in which they can be used; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46056/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: I welcome Ms Rowland and her colleagues and thank them for coming before us. Just to get the terminology right because terms like price optimisation, dual pricing, differential pricing or price differentiation are used broadly to describe the same thing, what is the correct term as Ms Rowland sees it? Can she define what it is that the Central Bank is conducting its review into?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: So "differential pricing" is the term the Central Bank is working to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: How long as the Central Bank been examining differential pricing? When did it decide to do a formal review?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: When did the Central Bank decide that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: How long will this take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: When will we and, more importantly, consumers hear outcomes from what the Central Bank is doing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: When is that likely to be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: Will it be towards the end of next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: It will be towards the end of 2020 before we see any outcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: Not right now, if Ms Rowland does not mind. I just want to get through a few questions first. The Central Bank was also the regulator of banks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Dual Pricing for Insurance: Discussion (12 Nov 2019)

Michael McGrath: We have banks operating in Ireland that use differential pricing. The Central Bank does not need any big investigation. It can go online and see there are better deals for new customers than they are willing to offer their existing customers. Why is the Central Bank not dealing with that issue?