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Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Can the Minister imagine the hardship these people are going through while the banks refuse to deal with them or understand their difficulty and plight? It will take a strong intervention from the Government to make those banks come to heel. They are not assisting those families in question and have no respect for them or the Government. As soon as the bottom-lines of those banks become...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: I will not take from the fact that this budget has spread funding across various Departments and agencies and there will be a benefit from that throughout the country in the context of the manner in which the Government has approached the budget. I take the opportunity while the Minister, Deputy Reilly, is in the Chamber, to raise with him the issue of the child care package. I draw his...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: That is not good enough. With respect to that attitude from the Minister, Deputy Coveney, in making that comment about councillors, his party's councillors are in the majority.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: They want to increase the commercial rate.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: What is needed is a policy that will correct from the centre what is being collected unfairly from the people who are creating employment for 800,000 people in this country. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, was mentioned in the context of the provision of houses. NAMA will provide up to 20,000 units up to 2020, which comes to 4,000 units per year. Of these, 90% will be in Dublin...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Members are anxious to hear what the Minister has to say.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Overpayments (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be reviewed; if a full statement of the way the overpayment occurred will be set out in the reply; if deductions from benefit will cease, as the review is being undertaken; and if her Department will immediately engage with the person to resolve matters. [35207/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason a disability allowance has not been granted to a person (details supplied); and if rent support will also be approved, as a matter of urgency. [35214/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 11. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if a carer's allowance will be approved for a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny, as a matter of urgency. [35243/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: School Services Staff (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 73. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason persons who work in a private school and are not being paid by the school or the Department are included under the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Act 2013; if this anomaly will be addressed in budget 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35274/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Data (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of complaints made against the management of the special investigations unit of his Department by staff under its supervision; if the Chief Veterinary Officer and personnel division are aware of these complaints; if each complaint was investigated; if his Department accepted the validity of each complaint; if those who...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff Data (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the salary scale for the different staff grades assigned to the special investigations unit of his Department for the past ten years; the travel and subsistence expenses paid to each officer from 1980 to date in 2015; the location the officers assigned to the unit were headquartered in each case; if the travel and subsistence...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 108. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend his Department's policies and correct the anomalies therein relating to the fishing rights and licensing authority which has adversely affected individual cases, such as that of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; his views on the legislation and regulations relating to this matter; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Early Childhood Care Education (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 343. To ask the Minister for Health if a preschool special needs assistant will be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [35812/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (13 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: 413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a preschool special needs assistant will be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [35813/15]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 1 October 2015 agreed? Agreed. There are no matters arising. We will now deal with correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers. Correspondence has been received from the HSE on prompt payment compensation, to be noted and published. This is an ongoing issue, particularly within the health sector, and chapter 19 of the Comptroller and Auditor...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: We will follow up on it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: We will now deal with individual correspondence. Correspondence has been received from an anonymous source regarding funding to Mannix College, County Cork, to be noted and forwarded to Cork Education and Training Board for a note on the matter. We will now deal with documents relating to today’s committee meeting. Nos. 3C.1 to 3C.6 are the opening statements and presentations for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: Is it agreed to note these accounts? Agreed. We have received further correspondence from HL Commodity Foods regarding previous comments and hearings of the Committee of Public Accounts and I will circulate it to members. I want to have it noted and published in due course. We should get a reply alongside it. Members will not have seen it, so perhaps we should also ask for the reply...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Oct 2015)

John McGuinness: I will ask the clerk to circulate the correspondence from Deputy Niall Collins and the attachment to it, which outlines everything - as well as the correspondence from the University of Limerick - so that members are kept informed. I will also seek an up-to-date report on the position from the Department. Our work programme is on the screen. We have agreed with Inland Fisheries Ireland...