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Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 872. To ask the Minister for Health the duration a child (details supplied) in County Cork will be waiting for an ASD assessment; if they can benefit in the meantime from HSE intervention services in the community such as speech and language and occupational therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13811/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 891. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of multidisciplinary intervention services to the pupils of a school (details supplied) in County Cork; the multidisciplinary supports available; his plans to increase these supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13863/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 902. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) is provided with transport to enable the person to attend an adult day service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14019/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Traffic (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 1113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the decision by Dublin Port to restrict the number of cruise ships visiting from 2021; his views on the fact that implementing this policy will have a negative impact on the tourism offering not just in Dublin but also will have knock-on effects elsewhere due to a reduction in the number of cruise ships visiting ports...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Architectural Heritage (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 1206. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the partial demolition of a historic 19th century stone folly on the grounds of the former Bessborough Mother and Baby Home in Mahon, Cork; if her Department is taking action on the issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13713/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 1248. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to move to a total contributions approach for the State pension (contributory) for all pensioners in the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12985/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance Rates (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 1250. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of hours per week an employee works in order to receive a full class A stamp; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13019/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 1352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether changes are needed to the strategic infrastructure planning process in order to prevent applicants applying for planning permission for the same project on multiple occasions in view of the difficulties faced by local communities in mounting opposition to an application on repeated occasions; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Rates (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: 1370. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether local authority archives services should be exempt from paying local authority commercial rates; if provision will be made for same as part of the Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12876/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: Professor Lane and his colleagues, Mr. Sibley and Ms Rowland, are very welcome. I congratulate Professor Lane on his appointment as chief economist at the ECB and wish him luck in his new role, the starting date for which is some time away.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: I wish Professor Lane congratulations and the very best of luck.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: I will begin with Brexit. The most recent estimates relating to this matter are from the joint paper on the impact of Brexit on the Irish economy in three different scenarios issued earlier today by the ESRI and the Department of Finance. While these estimates are pretty stark, is it not fair to state that they are in the aggregate and that if we drill down into the detail, as Professor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: Is it important to emphasise that there is no cost-free Brexit? One point that people may not have fully grasped is that even an orderly Brexit with a transition period followed by a free trade agreement still results in a very significant economic cost to Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: Moving on to the ongoing tracker examination, Professor Lane likes to refer to those affected as cohorts of customers. Is it fair to say that there are no major outstanding issues from the Central Bank's point of view in relation to the handling by the banks of different groups of customers, in particular the large group in AIB of 6,000 customers whom we can refer to as the "prevailing rate"...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: If I interpret Ms Rowland correctly what she is saying is that at the level of groups of customers, where overall principles have to be decided and adjudicated on by the Central Bank, it has made the calls on those at the level of principle at this stage. Customers are included as being impacted and then have to take it through the system themselves, through appeals, the ombudsman and,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: On mortgage interest rates and the issue of risk-weighting capital - I know the Department of Finance published a paper and I have been in correspondence with the deputy Governor, Mr. Sibley, on it - I am trying to fully understand that. It seems to me that a new entrant coming into the Irish market is very disadvantaged in that it has to use the standardised approach. Even for a low...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: I do not mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: I asked about risk-weighting and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank of Ireland: Discussion (26 Mar 2019)

Michael McGrath: I will ask a final question because I am conscious of the time. We have discussed the issue of cash-back incentives a number of times. I think we have somewhat different views on them. Has the Central Bank reached a conclusion as to whether such incentives should continue to be offered and whether consumers are well-served by what Professor Lane would regard as product differentiation and...