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- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: -----to give us an opportunity to deal with the confidence issue raised in the process? The Taoiseach raised the issue of Irish Water and discussed it earlier. Will he amend the legislation to ensure-----
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: -----Irish Water comes under the control of the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: It requires legislation.
- Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: It requires legislation.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (6 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: 194. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for a payment of jobseeker's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [34291/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (6 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: 196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the issues raised by a person (details supplied) in County Carlow in correspondence sent to her regarding that person's means test, property tax, water charges and other taxes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34313/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance (6 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: 231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection further to Question No. 267 of 22 September 2015, if she will outline the issues raised by the Social Welfare Branch Managers' Association and her response to these; if the Revenue Commissioners have given their opinion, or if it has been sought; the number of times her Department has met the representatives of the association;...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Staff (6 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: 297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 25 June 2015, the reason for the delay in responding to employees (details supplied) of the Office of Public Works who are based in County Kilkenny in their claim of bullying; the cost of the Baker, Tilly Ryan and Glennon report; the reason it was not acted upon; his views that the Office of...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (6 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: 492. To ask the Minister for Health if a payment made to the Health Service Executive by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will be refunded, as the medical fees are covered by the person's medical card; if the explanation provided by the person's general practitioner that, while under the influence of medication, the person completed a form incorrectly will be accepted; if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: 646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 467 of 17 February 2015 regarding a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary and the provision of a new school building, whether a site has been identified; if so, the timeframe for the provision of a new school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34334/15]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: We will deal with the minutes of our 24 September meeting first. There are no matters arising. There are a number of items of correspondence from our last meeting that I would like to address separately, but today is not the day for that as we have a busy agenda. With agreement, we can consider them at a future date. Regarding our last meeting, we have asked for certain information from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: The decision has not been made. We will make the decision. Today's meeting will be the statement from the chairman of the Northern Ireland finance committee to give us an overview of its hearings to date, after which we will hear directly from NAMA. We will now deal with correspondence from Accounting Officers and Ministers. Correspondence dated 18 September 2015 has been received from...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: No. 3B is individual correspondence. Correspondence dated 14 September 2015 has been received from Mr. Joseph Hehir on the cost of prescribed drugs on State schemes, to be noted, published and forwarded to the HSE for a note on the matter. I asked the HSE to respond to it in time for our meeting on 22 October, given that controlling the spend on drugs is central to budgeting at the HSE. ...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: I will undertake to do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: He has been working on it and we can take it that the Deputy's wishes will be followed through.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: We must get the information before us. All the information we have to date is pointing in that direction.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: We want to get further information to ensure we are on the right track and then make the recommendation clearly to the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, and the sooner we make the decision, the better.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: No. 3C is documents related to today's meeting. Nos. 3C.1 and 3C.3 are the opening statement and presentation for today's second session. All of these are to be noted and published. Regarding No. 3C, the documents for today's meeting, at 9 p.m. last night, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, wrote to the committee and presented 41 documents running to hundreds of pages, which relate...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (1 Oct 2015)
John McGuinness: The meeting today was to deal with the hearing of evidence or rather, a statement from the Northern Ireland committee, to get an overview of its work to date and to get its input into our hearing with NAMA. That was very constructive and the right approach to take. What happened this morning in private session is that we were cautioned as to how we conduct our business. As I said then and...