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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: He skilfully avoided it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: Has the Commission provided reassurance regarding its expectations of what Ireland would need to do in a disorderly Brexit scenario?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: Moving on to the matter of the children's hospital, the Minister is the guardian of the public purse when the Cabinet is sitting around the table. In April 2017, the Cabinet signed off on a tender of €983 million for the build cost of the national children's hospital. It would appear that, at some point around June 2018, the statutory board set up with responsibility for delivering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: I will cut to the chase. Should the Minister not have been told much earlier that this cost overrun was emerging and would have real implications for the Exchequer?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: Is the Minister telling this committee that, as the Minister with responsibility for public expenditure, he has no problem with not being told, for several months, of an overrun, let alone one of hundreds of millions of euro? The Minister introduced a budget last October with no knowledge of an overrun of the order of €450 million, while his Cabinet colleague, sitting at the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: No one is saying the challenge would have changed but the Minister was the one writing the cheque. I would be furious, if I was sitting in his seat, that it took months to be told of this overrun. Perhaps the full scale of it was not known in June or July but it was serious enough to be brought to the attention of the Department of Health, the Minister, and the HSE in August. Issues are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: The Minister said that a few times but would he not have wanted to have known earlier on that there was an emerging issue even if it was not possible to quantify it precisely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: With respect to the Minister, I know he is not going to throw his colleague under the bus, but it was also his job to keep him informed and to let him know of this emerging issue. The Minister brought a budget into the House without any information in his Department of a very significant escalation in the cost of the national children's hospital. The Minister was in the dark.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

Michael McGrath: I will leave it there for the moment in order to be fair to colleagues.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (31 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance when he expects to introduce the investment limited partnership and Irish collective asset-management vehicle (amendment) Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4895/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (31 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 194. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the full appointment of the counsellors and psychotherapists registration board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4894/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (31 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 258. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of open applications for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan by local authority area; the length of time applications have been open (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4896/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (31 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 259. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of open applications for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan that are with local authorities for processing and decision; the number of open applications that are with the Housing Agency for processing and decision; the breakdown by the time they have been with the local authority or Housing Agency; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (31 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 260. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons working in the Housing Agency on applications for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4898/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (31 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 261. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of persons working in each local authority on applications for the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4899/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (31 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 263. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 13 November 2018, the position regarding the extra public funding for the project; if the extra €10 million is a grant or loan; if it is a loan, the terms and conditions attached; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4901/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Data (30 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value of pay-outs owed to policyholders retained by insurance companies in each of the years 2016 to 2018, for example, in the form of the typical 20% being withheld; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4483/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (30 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 91. To ask the Minister for Finance the requirements banks must follow to fully inform customers of the true cost of cashback and other offers when it comes to mortgages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4538/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (30 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 92. To ask the Minister for Finance the types of bank accounts that are prevented from being shown on such platforms; the reason for these types of bank accounts being prevented from being shown on electronic banking platforms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4539/19]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Regulation (30 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of banks in the market that enable customers to view accounts from other banks; if the European payments services directive compels banks to provide this service; if so, the way in which the directive will be enforced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4554/19]