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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Disbursement (20 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and-or the HSE are accepting applications for national lottery grants administered by his Department and the HSE; and his plans in this regard. [11885/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (20 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: 443. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre system will be made available to all persons with type 1 diabetes on the long-term illness card based on clinical need and not on age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11890/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (20 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: 664. To ask the Minister for Health if full 24-7 care will be recommenced in the case of a person (details supplied); and the reason they are without a care plan. [12880/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if a bed will be provided at Beaumount Hospital for a person (details supplied). [12881/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (20 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: 933. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a payment of benefit has been approved in the case of a person (details supplied). [11886/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Court Judgments (20 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: 934. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the outcome of the High Court case which found her Department to be acting illegally in sanctioning persons for refusing to sign a contract with a private company, namely Turas Nua and Seetec. [11892/18]

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: -----that seems reluctant to assist a co-operative movement that deserves the support of the House, based on the many contributions we have heard here today.

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: Here is what is happening. Over the last ten years, the banks have caused a major problem with tracker mortgages.

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: The Minister of State's Department and the Government did nothing to rectify the situation in regard to those tracker mortgages.

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: If it was not for the four brave people who came forward and highlighted the issue through the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach, nothing would have happened.

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: In the future, as Deputies McGrath and Murphy have said, the committee will have to take on the Department and the Central Bank by bringing them in so that they can account for their actions and explain their inaction in public. The Government must be forced to explain the lack of public policy, and implementation thereof, in support of the credit union movement. That is what is going to happen.

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: I urge the Minister of State to avoid all that, to take the committee's report on board and to implement the recommendations the committee made to him in good faith.

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: By the way, the Minister of State should have some manners and listen to the debate.

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to debate this. I encourage the Minister of State to put his money where his mouth is and to support the credit union movement with appropriate implementation of the recommendations made by a cross-party committee of these Houses.

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: In my opening remarks I was fair and balanced to reflect what is in the committee's report. As was said by previous speakers, the report is an all-party report provided by the members of all of the parties in the House, including that of the Minister of State, and it reflects what is needed for the credit union movement now and for the future. I have to say I am deeply disappointed by the...

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: Yes. He spoke about the €1 billion and about the other issues in the credit union. He spoke about having to streamline them and amalgamate some of them, but they were willing to do that anyway. It was not as if they were being forced into doing it. There is not an institution or individual in the State that has not been affected by the financial crash, but one that has been least...

Credit Union Sector Report: Motion (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: I move:That Dáil Éireann shall consider the Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach entitled Report on the Review of the Credit Union Sector with specific reference to the Credit Union Advisory Committee Review of Implementation of the Recommendations in the Commission on Credit Unions Report (June 2016), copies of which were laid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Joint Committee (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. Padraic Kissane. By virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009, witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of their evidence to the joint committee. However, if they are directed by it to cease giving evidence on a particular matter and continue to so do, they are entitled thereafter only to qualified privilege in respect of their evidence. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Kissane and call Deputy Pearse Doherty.