Results 10,021-10,040 of 26,465 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: A briefing was requested to be held in the audiovisual room for Members of the House, is that right?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: Separate from that, I think one of the members suggested that maybe the Department would brief the Members of the Dáil and Seanad. Is that correct?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: Will that be before Report Stage?
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: I am sure the Minister will peruse the transcripts to identify all of the queries. Deputy Calleary mentioned that the balance of rights in this Bill is heavily in favour of the commissioner. I ask the Minister to consider the matter.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: Yes.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: On a point of information, we will resume on section 43 on the next day the meeting is scheduled for. Members will have plenty of time to table amendments for Report Stage.
- Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Public Sector Standards Bill 2015: Committee Stage (6 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: I thank the Minister and his officials for their attendance and assistance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: Senator Fintan Warfield is attending in substitution for Senator Rose Conway-Walsh. I remind members and everybody else present to turn off their mobile phones as they interfere with the broadcasting of the proceedings. We will proceed with our quarterly engagement with Professor Philip Lane, Governor of the Central Bank, on a number of issues we have discussed previously. By virtue of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: Deputy Doherty can ask one final question.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: We will come back to it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: I remind the Senator of the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: To follow on from Deputy Burke's point and Ms Rowland's reply about the bank dealing with a query at first hand, the context she outlined is not happening in many cases. That is where lies the difficulty. As a result, we have received volumes of correspondence from clients of banks that have been badly affected. I will deal with some of their cases. For example, clients may have written...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: I apologise for interrupting Mr. Sheridan. This is just an example of how people are being treated by a bank that is becoming more arrogant by the day, and most banks are. I wish to put on the record that I see a significant difference between the manner in which banks previously treated their customers and the manner in which they are doing so now. This customer I referred to says there...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: When the Central Bank gets a letter like this, where does it go? What happens after it gets a letter of complaint from a couple in such a situation? What is the process after they outline to the Central Bank what the issues are?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: This couple wrote to the Central Bank on 20 March 2017. The witness might check the correspondence because I believe the couple have been treated badly by the bank and they are desperately looking to the Central Bank for assistance. Having read the documentation, they have what I would consider to be a fair case. In another letter, the correspondent writes that Ulster Bank, which gave us a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: This person has been in the system for 18 months, getting regular letters from Ulster Bank. Having read much of this correspondence, it might be time for the Central Bank to call out some of the names of the banks that are simply falling behind, because it is not acceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: I am asking the Central Bank to use its powers to hold these institutions to account. There is another letter where the correspondent has been waiting for seven years. Looking at the correspondence and what is going on, it is shocking that banks do not even reply to these people. The answer is, of course, to bring back in the individual banks, and I am afraid it is something we will now...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: I will read the following paragraph into the record because it tells one everything:As one of the original PTSB 1,372 it would be hard for me to portray in words the effect that the past eight years have had on my life. Rather than being of help the past two years, since my account was identified as part of the redress scheme, have left me drained. The fight has all about but gone from me....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: Get the banks to do it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Quarterly Engagement with Central Bank of Ireland (4 Apr 2017)
John McGuinness: I have to pass on two comments to you. The first relates to Ulster Bank and, again, I do not expect you to comment on an individual bank. The lady concerned had to use her solicitor to get the documents she was entitled to from Ulster Bank. That is not right. The second relates to AIB. The person says that AIB refused to supply them with details on their various accounts and that there...