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Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (24 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: 501. To ask the Minister for Health if a transport solution has been put in place and agreed with the parents of a person. (details supplied). [3185/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Review (24 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: 502. To ask the Minister for Health if an appeal for review and reduction of costs under the nursing homes support scheme will be granted in the case of a person (details supplied). [3186/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: 503. To ask the Minister for Health when an operation which was deemed necessary and urgent in 2014 will be arranged for a person (details supplied); if the chief operations officer of the Dublin midlands hospital group will be requested to provide comprehensive information on the history of this case, when the person was first diagnosed and all actions after that to date including when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: Before we go into the business of the meeting, the committee has agreed that COM (2016) 709 warrants further scrutiny. It is further agreed that the remaining EU proposals considered today do not warrant further scrutiny. Details of all EU proposals considered today, and decisions made on same, will be published on the committee's website.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: We will deal with the Department of Finance's 2017 statement of strategy. I welcome Mr. Derek Moran, Secretary General of the Department, and his officials. Before we begin, I remind those present to turn off their mobile phones, as they interfere with the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I advise the witnesses that, by virtue of section 17(2)(l) of the Defamation Act 2009,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Moran. In his opening statement, he made a brief mention of the UK's referendum on EU membership. I had expected some comment to be made on the Department's preparations for Brexit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: That is a general comment. I was looking for more specific detail and comfort arising from the fact that the Prime Minister of the UK has now indicated that Brexit will possibly be a hard exit, resulting in a very hard Brexit for Ireland. Small businesses and many others affected by Brexit want each Department to spell out a response to the Prime Minister's recent speech outlining the UK's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: May I go back to my original question before calling Deputy Doherty? It is on the preparedness of the Department. Did Mr. Moran refer to an unemployment figure of 40,000?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: The national debt goes up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: Yes, this is what the delegates are saying. Exports to the UK would be down by one third and they would be down generally by 4%. This is all in regard to Brexit and it is before one factors in what Mr. Trump might say to us tomorrow. The Small Firms Association is saying 41% of its members have said they have already experienced a negative impact from Brexit. Sixty-eight percent say they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: I do not accept that. I referred to the strategy of the Department of Finance. The strategy has to take in the immediate risk to the economy posed by Brexit and Mr. Trump. The Department of Finance is the lead Department on taxation. I would have loved to hear Mr. Moran say that, within his Department, there is a model that examines the various reductions necessary in corporate taxation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: I remind Deputy D'Arcy to keep an eye on his time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: I thank Senator D'Arcy. I apologise - Deputy D'Arcy. I keep demoting him.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: A number of issues were raised about Departments and how they engage with the public in terms of the collection of taxes. Mr. Moran refers in various publications to the need to be transparent and to encourage the public to have a better understanding of how Departments work. I received an e-mail from a business person I know in which an issue was raised. I was told that since raising the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: Would the Department take up with another Department how it spent money. Where the cases-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: Could the Department not establish a role? Revenue, under the Department of Finance, is the collector of taxes. Could the Department not have a role where it sees taxes being inappropriately spent by, for instance, chasing and beating down a citizen, with a judge having to side with the citizen. Not only did the judge say that the Department was wrong, the judge said that the integrity of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: Who does Mr. Moran engage with at that level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: If my business had customers that were writing such descriptions of it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: Yes. Now that we have expressed unhappiness, can we address the matter? It is not fair that the State should use its muscle and taxpayers' money to come after a citizen in such a manner. A judge has ruled not just in that case but in other cases, yet there is no redress for the citizen and the money that is due to the citizen from the State has not been paid. As Chairman of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)

John McGuinness: I want Mr. Moran to be unhappy that taxpayers' money is being spent in that way. If I was collecting the money and I saw someone else spending it as recklessly as that, I would challenge them. That is how a business is run. One does not just walk away; otherwise one goes bust. I would love to see those who collect the money reprimanding those that are spending it recklessly. In this and...