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- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: The Taoiseach.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I am perfectly willing to accept that is the Deputy's opinion.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: My opinion varies slightly. Ministers should pay if their spouses are travelling with them. There is no case to be made for a spouse going on a trade mission. We have established all of that. In general terms, the circular states a seriously exceptional position may be established. That is the only point I was making in 2007. I said already that if that were in today's terms, the answer...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: In the interview to which Deputy Harris referred, I was talking in terms of the spouse of the Minister travelling where the Minister would be asked to pay. I then said "in exceptional circumstances" and referred to that in the interview. I gave the example of poor health on one side or the other. I said it was not for the Minister to decide. In some regulations it states it is for...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I have many other opinions and I do not push them. There are other opinions I try to push.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Deputy Ross does not have to ask me that. He has been a member of this committee since 2011. He could easily establish from my contributions to the committee that the opinions I hold do not cause me any difficulty in undertaking my task as Chairman. I want to take up the Deputy on one point. He stated that the McGuinness family did well. I reject that comment completely. He has no...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I have said publicly on radio when I was interviewed on this subject that I have no difficulty with the media, whether television, radio or newspapers, using FOI provisions to get information. I never complained about such practices and do not know where the Deputy got that from.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: That is not a criticism.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I want to correct Deputy Ross because he cannot be allowed to get away with remarks either. He might write about them on Sunday. To be clear, that was not a criticism. I have said that to the journalist, who is sitting in the Gallery. I told him he has to do his job. Let us not speak about him as if he was a shadow behind Deputy Ross. He submitted the FOI requests and he knows whether...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: That would not be the journalist.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I will do my best.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: The question he is putting is in relation to the pattern -----
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Sorry, I will answer the question if the Vice Chairman allows me to do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I know it does and that is what I will try to do if I am permitted. I said that I was wondering where it all came from. I was referring to the information that came out after the FOI request. The FOI request was submitted and the information came out. I do not know why he submitted that particular FOI request. I think Deputy Ross is asking me whether he was prompted to do so by somebody.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: That is the area he is encouraging me to enter. Perhaps he was. I do not know. The Deputy is asking me to develop conspiracy theories. I am here to answer questions on the information these FOI requests brought into the public domain. I am not here to answer the Deputy's questions about conspiracy theories.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: There is a pattern in putting this information into the public domain which, in the minds of some members, leads to damaging the Committee of Public Accounts. I can surmise as to where that may be coming from but I would be entering into the conspiracy theory.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I am offering nothing but facts to this committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I am not going to offer any blame because I am not here to do that. I am here to answer questions on the specific issues raised and what has been said about me in respect of the information revealed under FOI. I have no difficulty in doing that. I am not going into conspiracy theories. Deputy Nash used the expression "more sinned against than sinning". I do not consider anything I did to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I was not sinning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: It is a fact. We have important work to do and we should focus on banking and the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.