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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: No, it is my view.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: It is not a view; I am asking a question. I am not representing them in any way. I am just asking a question about them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: This issue is now in the public domain. In the correspondence, one of the whistleblowers writing to us today states: "I discovered over 200 senior Garda officers terminating fixed charge notices inappropriately and, in most cases, corruptly." This is going to appear as part of the documentation submitted to members of the committee. I would have thought the reaction to something like that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: In April of what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: The two whistleblowers are known. They have been for some time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: Mr. O'Mahoney did not know who they were.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: Does Mr. O'Mahoney believe that, even now, he will call in the person who is still serving and discuss all of this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: In terms of the line of command and the fact that Mr. Callinan is the Accounting Officer and the person's boss, why would no one telephone him and say that he or she needed to see him?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: Why is it that no one can ring him and say, "You are a serving garda, you are doing something that I do not agree with [the Commissioner described it as disgusting] and come into the office because I want to talk to you"?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: I have indeed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: I am approaching this from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: -----the point of view of an employer. If something goes wrong on the floor of my factory, I find out the name of the person who might be involved and ask him or her into my office for a discussion, particularly when the information being put into the public domain is damaging my company. I am not telling Mr. Callinan how to do his job, as I would not dare do that, but this would appear to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: We need to bring him in and ask him.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: We have asked.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: No, we are going to give Mr. Callinan this material.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: This book of analysis. All I am asking is whether Mr. Callinan, as the Accounting Officer, can ask the man whether the latter's claim of a cost to the State of €720,000 is true or false.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: I will.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: That is what I would do.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: Mr. Callinan has a different style than mine. I would pick up that telephone and ring my employee. I am entitled to put my view to Mr. Callinan because that is what everyone would say to me. I do not want to have an argument about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: It is commonsensical to pick up the telephone and ring the man. All of this stuff is leaking out all over the place.