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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (16 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE or a specified service provider is responsible for meeting the needs of a person (details supplied); the body responsible for meeting their needs in respect of speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy; when such services will be provided; if the person can have access to a clinical psychologist as a priority; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (16 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 608. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1435 of 2 May 2017, if she will address further queries raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22892/17]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: I move amendment No. 3:In page 4, between lines 34 and 35, to insert the following:“Amendment of section 57CI of PART VIIB of the Principal Act 7. Amendment of section 57CI of PART VIIB of the Principal Act (as inserted by section 16 of the Act of 2004), in subsection 1 of section 578CI of PART VIIB of the Principal Act (as inserted by section 16 of the Act of 2004) is amended by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister for his response. I acknowledge his core point that the rectification can be 100% of the loss and that the compensation is in addition to that. The amendment does not require the council to increase the compensation limit. Rather, it provides that there would be an annual review. The Minister has stated that his Bill provides for a possible increase in the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: I move amendment No. 4:4. In page 5, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:“Requirement to hold oral hearings 9. Where a complainant has made a request to hold an oral hearing, and where there is a discrepancy in the account of events between the parties that is fundamental to arriving at a conclusion, the Financial Service Ombudsman shall be obliged to hold an oral...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: I thank the Minister. That is quite a comprehensive response. I will not press the amendment. I would make the point that the amendment is crafted in a way that it does not make it mandatory. Even where the complainant requests an oral hearing, there is discretion on the part of the ombudsman because it only applies where the difference or discrepancy in the evidence is fundamental to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: Will Report Stage be taken during Private Members' time in the Dáil?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Central Bank and Financial Services Authority of Ireland (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Private Members]: Committee Stage (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: Does it have to be put forward by Sinn Féin during its Private Members' slot or else the Thursday afternoon lottery-----

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 71. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated net cost per annum of USC changes announced in budget 2017 in 2017 and 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22539/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 72. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department is reassessing the total cost of USC cuts announced in budget 2017; the estimated impact that this will have on the fiscal space in 2017 and 2018; if such a reassessment will impact on the State's compliance with EU fiscal obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22540/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Motor Insurance (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 73. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons that applied on an annual basis to the declined cases agreement for motor insurance since its establishment; the number of applications that proved successful; the average premium per successful application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22553/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Remuneration (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding the remuneration cap in place for bank executives; the nature of the cap; his future plans in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22648/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Investigations (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the regulatory breaches that led to the Central Bank’s recent fine of €2.275 million against a bank (details supplied), if specific breaches have been referred to An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22650/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tracker Mortgages Examination (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance the amounts paid out to date and the provisions made by each bank covered by the Central Bank’s tracker examination, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22651/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance the number and value of voluntary disclosures the Revenue Commissioners have received in respect of the offshore assets prior to the deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22652/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Money Laundering (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the level of engagement with inspectors from the financial action task force by officials from his Department and officials in the Central Bank as part of the task force’s investigation into money laundering and the financing of terrorism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22653/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Investigations (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he, in the course of a meeting he attended with NAMA on 5 February 2014, requested NAMA to consider whether it could advance the repayment schedule of senior bonds through accelerating asset disposals with a view to making bank assets more saleable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22655/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Development Lending (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of lending for development purposes, residential and commercial by regulated financial entities and unregulated entities for each of the years 2014 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [22656/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Debt (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the projected annual cost for each year to 2030 of servicing the national debt under present assumptions for each year to 2030, in tabular from; the assumptions which are being made including the interest rate; the amount by which the repayments would increase for every 1% increase in the interest rate, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Data (11 May 2017)

Michael McGrath: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of private dwelling home, PDH, and buy-to-let tracker mortgages to date and the current annual repayments for each, in tabular form; the amount by which the repayments would increase for every 1% increase in the European Central Bank base interest rate, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22658/17]