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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: I commend the work the Minister of State is doing. We constantly need to change and be aware of everything.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: There is a big change in society. The Minister of State witnessed it on her visit to Kilkenny. I was impressed by what she had to say in her interactions with local communities down there. The delivery of online services in areas such as mental health, addiction and all of that is a huge change which needs to be reflected in some way to inform the likes of the HSE and the Department of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Message to Dáil (28 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has considered the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Revised) (28 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: As such, it is only the digital end of it. I presume there is a Civil Service renewal plan across all Departments - at least there should be - and that feeds into it.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (27 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance if an application for a refund of VAT relative to the purchase of a milk tank under TAMS 2, which was rejected by the Revenue Commissioners, will be examined again and paid in full to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8832/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (27 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 309. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an application for a carer’s allowance (details supplied) will be considered in far greater detail on appeal, and if an oral hearing will be considered. [8909/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (27 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 319. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the further review agreed to by her Department has been completed in relation to a domiciliary care allowance application in the name of a person (details supplied), and if so, if the application was approved. [9210/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (27 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 388. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a payment which is long overdue under the suckler carbon efficiency scheme will be paid immediately to a person (details supplied). [8948/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (27 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 600. To ask the Minister for Health further to a previous parliamentary question, if he will provide a comprehensive update on the need for an immediate appointment with CAMHS for a child (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9213/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (22 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will explain why the Revenue Commissioners have issued tax rebates directly to taxrebate.ie in the names of individuals who clearly had not asked the company to act on their behalf; if the claims aired publicly will be investigated; the number of individuals affected, and value of the rebates issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 186. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a one-parent family payment will continue to be paid to a person (details supplied). [8428/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an application for a milk tank under TAMS 2, which was submitted in 2022, will be paid in full, including VAT, to a person (details supplied). [8469/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pensions (22 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if a retirement lump sum and pension entitlement has issued to a person (details supplied). [8429/24]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (21 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: I support the Bill and the measures contained within it. What concerns me about the development of primary care facilities and services and using the pharmacies is that, right now, they are overcome with the number of patients they have. The pharmacies are also overcome with the amount of prescriptions with which they are dealing and the amount of customers, if you like, that they have....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: It is stated in media reports this morning that almost 1,000 asylum seekers are living in tents on our streets. This is at a time when the Department that is supposed to be looking after asylum seekers is rejecting properties around the country that have gone through the five stages to qualify. Alongside that, you have the 13,000 homeless. Is it not that time that the Taoiseach would look...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 73. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide accommodation at a school (details supplied) for use as a special class for autistic students with complex and severe educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8186/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (21 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if a date will be given to a person (details supplied) for an eye operation given that the person has been waiting an inordinate length of time to be called to either WUH or Whitfield, and if the matter can be expedited. [8230/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 165. To ask the Minister for Health if free HPV vaccine is available for first-year students only; if funding for this measure ended in December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8236/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 165. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if agency nurses working in the Defence Forces without a contract will be given the same privileges, pay and conditions as those that have a contract; if the issues of pay and conditions for all the affected nurses will be harmonised and backdated; his plans, if any, to offer serving nurses full-time positions within the Force thereby...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Policy (15 Feb 2024)

John McGuinness: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 836 of 18 April 2023, if he will comment on the stated position of Kilkenny County Council that the wind map from the Kilkenny County Development Plan 2014-2020 does not remain in force; if wind energy developments in County Kilkenny must now be considered on a case by case basis having...