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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: I will touch on the Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Act 2015. One of the modules we intend to touch on will be on how banks and vulture funds are dealing with loans in the SME sector. The financial ombudsman is prohibited from dealing with a case which involves an SME with a turnover of more than €3 million. In Europe, an SME is considered to be anything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: I am suggesting that the cap be changed because the Central Bank cannot deal with individual cases and the ombudsman is confined to dealing with cases where the amount involved is under €3 million. Where a business that is thriving and repaying its loans finds itself tied up with a vulture fund, there are often competing organisations in those vulture funds. In other words,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: I understand that and so does the SME sector. Those involved are well able to have those conversations. I am talking about the difference between a massive vulture fund that can almost treat the likes of those agencies here, in terms of the regulation of credit servicing, as puppets. They just move them around. Within their organisations, as they describe it, they have Chinese walls but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: Thank you very much. On page 29 of the programme for Government, there is a commitment on protecting small and medium enterprises, SMEs, and those with loans transferred to non-regulated entities. There was a commitment given regarding the first year of Government, with certain matters to be dealt with in that context.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: What progress has been made on that commitment in the programme for Government? If the Minister does not have the answer today-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: You might come back to us on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: Loan owners are not directly regulated. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: It is the credit entity. What about regulating the loan owners? Why was that wording in the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: I am referring to the Act of 2015.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: I do not want to be unfair to the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: I will furnish the questions to the Minister. We have come to the end of this session, unless there are any other matters relating to tracker mortgages. We will reschedule the reform end of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Discussion (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: That is grand and good to hear. We will leave it at that. I thank the Minister and his officials.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied). [1036/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Provision (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 941. To ask the Minister for Health if further home care hours will be provided for a person (details supplied) as a matter of urgency. [1034/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 944. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide the funding necessary for the full-time appropriate day-care services required in the case of a person (details supplied); if he will investigate the matter and provide a lifelong care plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1048/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 950. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding was not provided to an organisation (details supplied) for the appointment of an education officer and information officer; if a recent application from this organisation seeking support for two additional full-time positions will be reviewed; the level of funding received by the organisation in each of the past five years; if there is an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 1007. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the funding of the drug Vimizim; and the detail of his reply to the families he met recently on the issue. [1325/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Reports (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 1008. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 453 of 4 April 2017, if the HIQA report submitted in November 2015 by a person (details supplied) will now be made available to the family; his plans to take action arising from the report; if the HSE and HIQA representatives will meet the family to discuss the report's findings; if the full medical records have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Applications (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 1578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application for a State pension (non-contributory) by a person (details supplied). [54487/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Eligibility (16 Jan 2018)

John McGuinness: 1611. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for an invalidity pension now under review will be expedited and approved in the case of a person (details supplied). [1035/18]