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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (16 May 2024)

John McGuinness: 162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will investigate the extent of the maintenance required to make safe the structure known locally as Ballyshaun Castle (details supplied); if information boards will be provided at each location giving a brief history of the structures; if there are grants available to local community groups or property owners for such work; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (16 May 2024)

John McGuinness: 193. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a complaint submitted to him (details supplied) relative to the purchase of 17 houses at Ogenty, Gowran, County Kilkenny, is being processed; and if he will confirm a timeframe for a response. [22241/24]

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

John McGuinness: I will focus on a number of issues that are of concern to me and paint a picture of a health service that is not responsive to the issues being faced by families and individuals. I have raised them a number of times and until such time as the services are delivered, I will not be able to say we have a functioning, efficient health service. That is no reflection on the staff on the front...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

John McGuinness: The minutes of the joint committee's meeting on 1 May and 8 May 2024 were agreed earlier at a meeting of the committee in private session. We are joined by Mr. Niall Cody, Ms Jean Acheson and Ms Leeann Kennedy from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners. They are welcome. I draw the attention of members to the notice on privilege. If they are on the campus, they are covered by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

John McGuinness: I am surprised Mr. Cody did not put Kilkenny in there. I am surprised at that decision.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Revenue Commissioners: Discussion (15 May 2024)

John McGuinness: An individual with no means has to pay his or her costs. He or she is not assisting Revenue but is the guinea pig in this High Court case and Revenue is the one that is testing it. If Revenue wins, the precedent is set and the law has been tested, but the man is broken and his family is broken. With the amount of money involved, it was not fraud or anything like that. In fact, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 May 2024)

John McGuinness: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the rationale relative to the decision to withdraw the sanction for five classrooms to accommodate special needs children at a school (details supplied) and instead to offer a standalone prefabricated single classroom, completely disconnected from the existing building; if the decision was based solely on cost and method of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 May 2024)

John McGuinness: 557. To ask the Minister for Health if an urgent appointment will be arranged for a person (details supplied) at the neurosurgical clinic at Cork University Hospital as this was requested by their GP on 9 January 2023; if he will expedite a positive response as the patient's condition has seriously deteriorated; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21271/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (9 May 2024)

John McGuinness: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline the indicative timeframe for receipt of the Attorney General’s response to the landmark High Court ruling on noise from wind turbines; if he has considered the wind energy policy outlined in the Kilkenny county development plan which was submitted to his Department and the Department of Environment,...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

John McGuinness: I first want to go back to the statement made in this debate by Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn. I support entirely the statement and the comment in relation to the European Union and the need for a common-sense approach. I do so because I often follow the seafood sector, including John Shine, of Shine's Seafood, which distributes wild Irish tuna. I watch carefully the mapping Mr. Shine...

Report on Politically Exposed Persons: Motion (25 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, and Reform, and Taoiseach entitled "Report on Politically Exposed Persons", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 13th December, 2023. I thank members of the committee and all those who appeared before us, including departmental officials, to...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: I will ask a few questions. Maybe the Taoiseach will answer them along with Deputy Durkan's. I will not delay the Taoiseach. I agree with Covid evaluation. That is necessary. However, we need to take the fear people have about vaccines and deal with that, and the issue of the numbers who died and how they died. It should form the basis of a discussion at an Oireachtas committee....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (23 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: 577. To ask the Minister for Health the number that applied for the position of ambulance base supervisors with the National Ambulance Service; the number of applicants that had a formal interview; the number of successful candidates; the number of vacant paramedic positions throughout the organisation; the plan to fill each vacancy; the budget for the service for each of the past five years;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (18 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: 298. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a new theatre at Kilcreene Hospital, Kilkenny, which was included in the HSE capital programme announced in 2023 and was granted a capital allocation in the same year; if the project review number 5, which is approved to go to tender, has been considered by the national director for capital and estates; the indicative...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: 300. To ask the Minister for Health if the urgent eye surgery required in the case of a person (details supplied) will be arranged immediately at WUH, as the surgery was to be carried out in January 2024. [17180/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (18 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: 301. To ask the Minister for Health if the urgent surgery required in the case of a child (details supplied) will be arranged immediately at St. Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17181/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: 250. To ask the Minister for Health if an early date will be arranged for the resumption of eye treatment at WUH for a person (details supplied); and if the matter will be expedited. [15878/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (9 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: 1482. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plan to provide a new ambulance base at Kelvin Grove, Carlow, if plans have been submitted to Carlow County Council; if the project includes a training centre; and the indicative timeframe for delivery of the project. [14774/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

John McGuinness: I thank Deputy Doherty. For the information of members, Senators Higgins and Davitt have indicated and then Deputy Conway-Walsh. We are due to finish this session at 3 o'clock. That is what the members agreed.