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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: Is that a private company or is it funded like Benefacts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: Is it government funded?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: When Benefacts started out first was it Ms Quinn's own idea?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: When Benefacts was established, did the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform support it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: Benefacts sat in to that space.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: As such, is it right to say that there is no competition?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: When an organisation is the source of a huge amount of information, it becomes very powerful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: We return, therefore, to Deputy Kelly's question about protecting that information and ensuring its proper use, which is hugely important. In the answer the witnesses will provide to the committee, can they indicate how, according to their projections, Benefacts will ensure the protection and proper use of that information? That will be hugely important to the witnesses' work and the issues...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: I will come back to the other question later. It is not relevant now. I would like to know more about the sale of the information. Do the witnesses see their organisation continuing to rely on being a partner of the Department in the future? Alternatively, between now and 2020, do the witnesses expect or hope for Benefacts to be a completely independent organisation generating its own funds?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: I have no objection to that but when an organisation is gathering information, it can gather all types. As such, the individuals handling the information had better know the difference between what can be made publically available and what is sensitive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: Both can be sold, as our guests know, and there is a bigger market for one kind than there is for the other.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: I would like our guests to provide that information. Perhaps Mr. Boland can give us the information when he has arrived at the point where he can share it with us. I refer to the directors.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: It is a question for the Minister.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Benefacts Project: Discussion (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: On 22 February, the select committee will be discussing the Estimates for the Department. These are questions that can be put to the Minister as well. As there are no other questions, I thank Ms Quinn and Mr. Boland.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (13 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: 364. To ask the Minister for Health if the decision to withdraw the Versatis patch from the long-term illness scheme will be reversed. [6881/18]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, and his officials to this meeting. We are dealing with the pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft general scheme of the insurance (amendment) Bill. I ask the Minister of State to make an opening statement.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: As part of this work, on 1 March we will have before the committee the stakeholders involved, such as the Central Bank, Insurance Ireland and so on, and we will continue the work we have to do on the legislation. Given there are no further questions, I will adjourn the meeting unless the Minister of State wants to add anything further.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Insurance (Amendment) Bill: Discussion (8 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: We will deal with it then and take the next step after that.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (8 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: 40. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the 96% increase in overcrowding in St Luke’s hospital, Kilkenny in January 2018 relative to January 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6436/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (8 Feb 2018)
John McGuinness: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage arrears resolved by each bank using the debt for equity solution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6559/18]