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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: 272. To ask the Minister for Health his plans regarding a project (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; if the recent meeting in Kilkenny with the Minister of State for disability has brought a solution to the various issues including funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40183/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: 281. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) is in receipt of Government funding; the financial support received by the organisation in 2015, 2016 and to date in 2017; the funding granted to persons by the organisation; the assistance that is given to persons who have poor or no sight to assist them to read; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40206/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: 313. To ask the Minister for Health if a person under 65 years of age with a medical card can be charged for the flu vaccination. [40349/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: 486. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if approval will be given to an independent mechanism by which members of Dáil and Seanad Éireann can register the complaints or concerns received from persons relative to Tusla; if such a mechanism or process will be empowered to issue an acknowledgement of correspondence received in this regard; if her attention has been...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (26 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: 493. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when village schemes will be announced. [40348/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Before we proceed with the session on the banking sector, I record the decision of the committee on COM(2017)335, proposal for a Council directive amending EU Directive 2011/16 on mandatory automatic exchange of information in the field of taxation in relation to reportable cross-border arrangements. The committee agreed that the proposal does not warrant further scrutiny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. Liam McLoughlin, chief executive officer of the Retail Ireland division of Bank of Ireland. I also welcome his officials. I draw the attention of witnesses to the fact that 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 committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: The witnesses can come back to the committee in detail on that point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: The Deputy is exactly on the spot. He has had exactly 15 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: The Deputy should not waste it or he will find himself being cut off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: I have checked. I was informed by the clerk.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Yes, it is at my discretion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: I can come back to the Senator. I have some questions and Senator Horkan wants to comment. On the comment made by Deputy Paul Murphy about the ad that was withdrawn, I must be the odd one out because I did not see much wrong with the ad. That is informed by the fact that my son and his partner came home to live because he felt it was cheaper and prudent to do so. He told me he would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: The loan scheme is fine but I would like to see banks deal with the other issue, which is people who want to get into the mortgage market and cannot do so. Young couples are watching property going up in value and watching the difficulties for them increase. The bank must meet them in some way in terms of how to get them onto the property ladder. That is the issue. People are trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: I understand that, but that is the excuse used by everyone. The fact is that houses do come on the market and some of them are the right price. There are difficulties for people who qualify for social housing and also for those who fall into the category where they have too much income to go onto social housing lists but too little to qualify for a bank loan. That is how they are being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Turning to customers who have found themselves in difficulty in terms of lending from the bank, according to the table supplied, the bank has sent 47 letters advising of legal action. Is that right? I refer to the answer to question No. 8, which refers to the solutions used. Is Mr. Mason saying that there are only 47?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Forty seven only?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: Is that what that describes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland: Bank of Ireland (21 Sep 2017)

John McGuinness: The volume of the correspondence members, I as Chairman and the clerk to the committee receive generally peaks following a meeting such as this. I was trying to find a way of dealing with the queries that arise. It is with great disappointment that I have to report that there has not been a single response from Bank of Ireland. On 19 June 2017, I sent a batch of those letters to the bank;...