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- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Will the Taoiseach ask the Business Committee to meet today?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I thank the Ceann Comhairle.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (30 May 2018)
John McGuinness: It is a cover-up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: The committee has agreed that Schedule A - COM (2018) 218 warrants further scrutiny and COM (2018) 227 does not warrant further scrutiny. Further details will be published on the committee's website.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: The next item is further scrutiny of the EU legislative proposals COM (2018) 134, subsidiarity deadline, 5 June regarding minimum loss coverage for non-performing exposures and COM (2018) 135, 11 June, on regulation of credit services, credit purchases and the recovery of collateral (resumed). Today, we are joined by officials from the Department of Finance and representatives from the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I thank Ms McEvoy. I invite Mr. Tobin to contribute.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Tobin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I remind the officials that the committee has contacted the Department about the Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2018, in the name of Deputy Pearse Doherty, and about the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018 in the name of Deputy Michael McGrath. The committee last wrote on 9 April seeking the assessment of Deputy McGrath's Bill in order that we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Could Mr. Tobin get a general assessment done so the committee can continue on with its scrutiny of the Bill? Perhaps he could expedite that, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: Taking up from where Senator O'Donnell left off, the current arrangement, reflected in some of the proposals for the future, is not working. I make it clear to the Department of Finance and the Central Bank - I take the opportunity every time representatives are before us - that vulture funds are running rings around the legislation. The credit servicing firms are doing the same thing. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I am talking about people from the Department in general.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: You can check it and come back to us about engagement with service agents.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: You will check on that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I will be passing on correspondence to the Central Bank.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I ask Ms McEvoy to ensure it is acknowledged in some way in each case.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: I want to let people who have written to me to at least know that I have passed their correspondence on to the Central Bank. On the future and the EU proposals, whatever proposal is made must be based on the regulation of agents and funds. The central piece for me must be that whoever gets caught up in a difficulty like that is protected. The citizen must come first and not be blackguarded...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: We move now to deal with item No. 9, which is the update on insurance matters. I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy D'Arcy, and his officials to the committee. I ask the Minister of State to make his opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Update on Insurance Matters and Implementation of the Report on the Cost of Motor Insurance: Discussion (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: The system is creaking, or it is the Government that is creaking. I am not quite sure.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: 87. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the substantial increase in overcrowding in the emergency department in St. Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny over the first four months of 2018 relative to the same period in 2017. [23539/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Abolition (29 May 2018)
John McGuinness: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on reinstating tax relief on union subscriptions. [23631/18]