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- Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: The bucks stops with the Minister. That is the way it stands. The Minister is here to answer various questions, not about his role in terms of the Department but for the HSE. The House passed €14 billion worth of a budget and yet the body or agency getting that funding is totally chaotic. It is dysfunctional. I want to know whether the Minister has scrutinised the management of...
- Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: If these managers are worth their salt, why do we have a waiting list? Why are we poorly managed? Unless we continue to focus on the management of the HSE with the Minister accountable, we will continue to have this debate year in, year out.
- Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: I have two questions that support this. St. Luke's General Hospital is held up as one of the best examples in the country and yet there is not enough funding for either the medical assessment unit or the step-down and discharge unit.
- Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: That is the fault of managers not spending the funding properly. It is the same in Galway. Why is it that a proposition given to the Minister and talked about-----
- Hospital Waiting Lists: Statements (9 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: -----cannot be acted upon when patients are suffering on the corridors and cannot get in to care? I support my colleague who raised the issue of mental illness. It is simply shocking that patients have to pay before they get in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Investigations into Tax Rulings (resumed) (7 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: Today the joint committee is continuing its consideration of the EU state aid investigations into the Apple tax ruling in the wider context of global corporate taxation structures. I welcome our witnesses today, Mr. Mark Redmond, American Chamber of Commerce Ireland; Mr. Brian Keegan, Chartered Accountants Ireland; Mr. Jim Clarken, Oxfam Ireland; and Professor Jim Stewart, Trinity College...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (7 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: 118. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made in establishing a statutory inquiry relative to complaints made by a person (details supplied); the timeline for the inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5505/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: 387. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the matters raised by a person (details supplied) regarding their employment with the HSE and the care of a patient; if he will bring about a resolution to the issues raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5504/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Reports (7 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: 388. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE report relative to a care home in the south east and a case (details supplied) will be published; when the inquiry into the same matters will commence; the timeline involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5506/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: 512. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farm entitlements due to a person (details supplied) have been paid in full and up to date; his Department's plans to pay the person for the animals slaughtered by his Department as part of a farm inspection and investigation some years ago; the terms of reference for the report into the case and the comments of a person...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ministerial Correspondence (7 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: 684. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she has responded to all of the correspondence received from a person (details supplied); if the issues raised by them in this correspondence will be addressed as a matter of urgency; if information requested by them relative to their case will be granted; if the correspondence from persons (details supplied) will be addressed;...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: We will resume in public session. This is item 7 on our agenda, EU state aid investigations into tax rulings, with Deputy Michael Noonan, Minister for Finance. It is to conclude by 11.30 a.m. Today, the joint committee will continue its consideration of the EU state aid investigation into the Apple tax rulings. In our first session, we will hear from the Minister for Finance, Deputy...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: It is not a deposition.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: The Minister's position is clear from his response and there is no point pressing it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: Deputy Doherty has made his point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: We are getting into detail here. The Minister is not here to------
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: The Deputy's time is up. The Minister has responded and I have to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: Could the Minister provide clarification on a question asked by Senator Conway-Walsh? We were talking about the cost to date of €1.8 million. If it is to take some years to deal with this case, that figure will obviously increase year on year. Are there any circumstances in which the State could get back that money, depending on the outcome?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: Could I also have clarification on the methodology the Commission is asking us to apply in the calculation regarding the €13 billion? Is that, in itself, not interference in the role of the Revenue Commissioners in that it is dictating what they should do?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU State Aid Rules - Investigation into Preferential Tax Rulings: Minister for Finance and Office of the Revenue Commissioners (2 Feb 2017)
John McGuinness: Who is going to calculate that figure?