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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Applications (18 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: 1572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the refusal of mobility allowance to a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38588/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: I am sorry; I must finish this section. I will let Ms Irwin contribute first on the next segment, if she does not mind. I will move on to Senator Hayden.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: On behalf of the joint committee, I express my appreciation to the OECD for facilitating this meeting which is the second engagement we have had with the organisation. At the start of the summer we had an engagement with Mr. Pascal Saint-Amans on global taxation and he gave us great assistance on the issue. Mr. Bertók and his colleagues have been generous with their time. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Will Senator Barrett summarise his question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: On a supplementary, I call Senator Barrett.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Does Deputy Boyd Barrett want to ask a supplementary question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Mr. Bertók, we seem to have a slight technical difficulty. We can hear you, but we only have a freeze-frame photograph. Despite your many skills and qualifications, I doubt you are a ventriloquist or that you can talk to us from a frozen position. As we may have a technical difficulty, I propose that we suspend for one or two minutes in order that we can connect a proper live visual...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: My apologies for the technical difficulty. I invite my colleague, Deputy Mary Lou McDonald, to ask Mr. Bertók some questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: On the issue of current standards, some rules and regulations governing lobbying are in place in the European Union. Do these provide the standard to which the Irish Parliament should operate or should we use them as a benchmark on which to build?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: At a global level, lobbying is also subject to cultural influences in different countries. It is, for example, of a different nature in the United States and Europe. Does Mr. Bertók distinguish between different types of lobbyists or organisations engaged in lobbying? For example, one has national organisations representing trade unions and employers which engage with government or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: To give an example, as I indicated, we have major organisations involved in the areas of trade union activity, business, agriculture, sport, the charitable sector and so forth. On record keeping and how politicians and the public service engage with such organisations, if I am asked by an organisation when the budget will be introduced and whether the joint committee intends to engage with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: That answers the next question I intended to ask, which was to define the difference between the disclosure of factual information and engagement on what direction particular legislation is taking. I now invite members of the joint committee to put questions to Mr. Bertók.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2013: Discussion with OECD (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: No. 7 on the agenda is consideration of the draft heads of the general scheme of the regulation of lobbying Bill 2013 with representatives of the OECD, through the use of video conference facilities. I welcome Mr. János Bertók, the head of the public sector integrity division of the OECD; Mr. Julio Bacio Terracino, a policy analyst with the OECD; and Ms Ulrika Kilnes, a junior...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Does Deputy Higgins have a question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: With that said, I will bring matters to a conclusion. I thank Mr. Masding, Mr. O'Sullivan, Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Groarke. That concludes this module of meetings with the banks. We will meet the Governor of the Central Bank on 25 September. As other members said, I appreciate the modelling of how these witnesses laid out the resolution process. It was helpful. We will communicate with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Senator Byrne can do whatever he wants but I am speaking as the Chairman. I wish the bank success in finding sustainable, long-term solutions to people trying to meet their debt obligations and, in doing so, working their way out of the debt burden. The committee has been focusing on how financial institutions have achieved it. When we meet with Permanent TSB and other institutions in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: Deputy Mathews, I will have to ask you to leave if you open your mouth once more. I call Deputy Donnelly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: The Deputy should ask a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: No statements. The Deputy must ask a question. I am not taking statements, only questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of Financial Sector: Discussion with Permanent TSB (5 Sep 2013)

Ciarán Lynch: You can make the statement when we are summing up. I am moving on.