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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Meetings (3 May 2023)

John McGuinness: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Enterprise Ireland will engage immediately with a company (details supplied) relative to an urgent proposal from the company. [20541/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 May 2023)

John McGuinness: 258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) will be assigned a place on a community employment scheme arising from a successful interview and formal notification that they had been successful. [20715/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (3 May 2023)

John McGuinness: 323. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a settlement figure will be provided to a person (details supplied). [20717/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (3 May 2023)

John McGuinness: 477. To ask the Minister for Health if patients on waiting lists will be encouraged to opt for the treatment abroad scheme where appropriate; and if the scheme can be streamlined in order to make it more efficient and user friendly. [20714/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (3 May 2023)

John McGuinness: 478. To ask the Minister for Health if the use of the cross-border directive will be proactively encouraged by the HSE to try to reduce waiting lists where appropriate for patients. [20716/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: I welcome Mr. Watt. We are starting a little bit late. It just shows how one can fall in the pecking order in that we had a school in from Kilkenny and it had to be seen first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: It is a Gaelscoil. Earlier, we introduced our new adviser, Donna Maguire, who replaces Caoímhe O'Rourke. We also have a new member. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh is very welcome. We have worked together previously on committees so I am sure that she will be anxious to get into the work. I look forward to her contribution. I pay tribute to Deputy Mairéad Farrell, who fitted into the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: 156. To ask the Minister for Health what action he is considering to address the issue of core funding for the supported care homes in Carlow and Kilkenny; and if he will expedite a financial response given that some of these homes are in crisis. [18504/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: I call Senator Maria Byrne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: Can you point us to the pages that you do accept?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: Please proceed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: Let us have a copy of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: Mr. Watt disagrees with the Deputy. I call Deputy MacSharry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: Allow Mr. Watt to answer the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: I want to clarify a couple of things I have heard today and put them in the context of the meeting because they might have been lost in the course of the exchanges here. The committee wanted to get the detail of this arrangement some time ago, in 2022. We sought the attendance of various members of Government, Secretaries General and so on. We received some written submissions which have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: I am coming to that point. I have allowed you to say what you had to say. I want to clarify the facts here. We had to seek compellability, which was granted. I want those who are listening to understand that the clerk then contacted you as a courtesy to say that the committee had compellability but asking would you, understanding this, like to attend voluntarily. It is the first time I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: It is not a procedural matter, Mr. Watt. I will ask you again, and you can decide what to say or do, is it not a terribly bad example from a senior civil servant that this is the way we end up at the committee today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

John McGuinness: First of all, I did not suggest otherwise. I gave the facts as the committee members would know them and as you would know them. You have given an answer that, like the other answers you have given today, falls well short of what would be expected of the standards of a Secretary General of a Department, a senior member of the Civil Service. That is the question not answered. In the...