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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Whatever Mr. Molan does he should not do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Did Mr. Molan say that issue arises as a result of the common bond?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Is that a Department of Finance issue? Can that be changed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: No, I do not mind a recommendation if something is going to be done about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Is the Senator saying that the credit union can do a referral?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: Would Mr. Molan agree that a referral would be a case of a credit union muttering under their breath, "We can't do it but yer man------

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I must go to a vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: In our discussions this morning, we must also consider the staff on the front line. Some of them are terrified that they will do something wrong in relation to the regulation. I am not talking about every credit union or my own credit union, but sometimes if members ask a question they might be met with a period of silence where one can almost hear the cogs rolling as the member of staff...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Union Advisory Committee: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: I know that is what the credit unions want to do but consider their members. They find it so difficult to understand all this nonsense when all they are trying to do is keep their head over water in terms of getting a loan, paying it back and so on. My own credit union was fined recently. It was horrendous. What the Central Bank did was nonsense and it should be ashamed. It should be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: 262. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 911 of 3 November 2018, the usage to be made of the vacant site at Gaol Road, Kilkenny, once occupied by a school (details supplied); the length of time the site has been vacant; the reason therefore; if the site can be leased to an organisation that wishes to provide training courses for volunteers at a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Payments (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: 484. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if payments relative to commonage in County Kilkenny will be paid to a person (details supplied). [5040/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: I welcome the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, and his officials to the meeting and ask him to make his opening remarks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: I am aware that the officials were informed of the possible questions on the national children's hospital and the nurses' strike. I do not know whether the Minister wants to add anything to his statement at this stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: The Minister may wish to comment later on Deputy Howlin's statement that in the 31st Dáil, when he was the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, he received weekly and monthly reports on sensitive projects that may have overrun.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: There is a vote in the Dáil if anybody wants to attend but I will continue with the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: After his opening statement, I asked the Minister to comment on the remarks made today by Deputy Howlin. He said that he helped to design that Department and that the purpose of it was to be sanctioning authority. On a weekly or monthly basis, depending on how sensitive a project would be in terms of issues arising, the Minister would be informed. The Minister needs to clarify his position...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: Nobody told anybody from August. Is that right? I am trying to pick up on the timeline Deputy Michael McGrath set out. It would seem to me that there was a total collapse in the sharing of information in the context of the significant overrun. There was a problem within the Department of Health, the Minister's Department and this board in the context of informing the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: I have no doubt about that but I would seriously question that an official from the Minister's Department would not see the political or budgetary consequences of what was going on and the fact that there seemed to be no real engagement on the overrun with the Departments of Public Expenditure and Reform and Health. It raises the question as to how Government managed this system of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach (5 Feb 2019)

John McGuinness: Can I clarify something raised by Senator Conway-Walsh relating to procurement and the ability of Departments and so on to deal with procurement issues and overruns? It appears to me from listening to the exchanges here that the Department of Health was the bad apple in this barrel. It has a history of overruns. It cannot live within its budget year to year. It seems to have contaminated...