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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: The Acting Leader is leaving. The Acting Leader is out the door.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Can I propose a suspension until-----

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Can I propose a suspension of the House until we find out who the Acting Leader is or until the Leader returns?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Absolutely. I am not a member of this committee. I thank the Chair for allowing me to come in. When I heard Mr. Fee was here, I decided I would have to come in and ask a few questions. Mr. Fee and I have chatted a lot about retail in Dundalk in recent years. I had a conversation with another shopkeeper about some amazing technology that I did not know existed. It is the concept of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: I was in that shop a couple of weeks ago and they showed me how it works. I thought this could go a long way. However, margins are tight enough, as they are in every sector, and in retail you are trying to make as much potential profit on everything you sell. Even though something like that will save money by reducing the potential amount of theft, it will still be quite a burden for retail...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: People you see every day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Shoplifting: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGahon: Looking the court pages in the The Argusany day of the week, all the retail theft crime is there. There are people with a litany of charges against them and who have huge rap sheets. When you see that type of stuff happening and it is there every week, what will stop someone if there is no deterrent? I thank the Chair for letting me in. I used to work for the late Senator Paul Coghlan,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: I would like to follow up on the call by Senator Warfield for a debate on emigration. The Senator and I are a similar age. When we were maybe 18 or 19, people were emigrating from this country in their droves. They were doing that because there was no employment in this country. There were physically no jobs in this country. Today in Ireland, we are at full employment. People emigrate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: I have four questions, two of which are for Mr. Byrne as financial controller and two for Mr. Tarrant. First, to Mr. Byrne, according to the opening statement, "the cause of this error was the changing of the calculation formulas in the financial model in the second year of implementation ... to one where a percentage change of total revenue was used in a calculation instead of a fixed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: Okay. What was the reasoning behind the financial controller's decision to make that switch after the first year? What was the logic behind that decision back then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: Forgive me, as I accept this is a complex financial calculation. Based on that response, the whole point of this in the second year was to make it simpler to calculate in the first place, which ended up causing this overcharge for the last decade. It was really done to try to make it simpler.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: In hindsight, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: Was that human error or an error within a financial model?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: So it was a human error making a mistake inputting data into the model. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: I accept that it was the way the modelling had been done for a considerable time before that. Paragraph 4.3, on page 3 of the presentation, states: "With the complexity of the calculations together with the way it was programmed in the financial model, it was difficult to detect the error after the second year of implementation." This mistake was not realised for more than a decade. Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Large Energy Users Rebalancing Subvention: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: My time is up and thank the witnesses.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: That was excellent timing. I thank the Cathaoirleach for letting me in at the very last minute. I do not want to anticipate what I hope to say later in the Second Stage debate on the Limerick mayor. It is very specific to Limerick, however. Therefore, I just want to talk about local government in general and the concept of mayors. First, they are a very good idea. Second, every county...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: The debate later today is specifically about Limerick. While I will chat about that, that is Limerick based. What I would actually like a debate about is the concept of directly elected mayors for every local authority. The idea of having to have referendums for them does not necessarily work because as we see with referendums, and as we may see with the referendums coming in March, people...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: As I am following Senator Byrne and the Minister of State, both of whom are from the city where this will be implemented, I make my comments with that in mind. The concept of directly elected mayors is an excellent one. It is the way forward for local government. My vision for local government would be to see a directly elected mayor for every local authority, for example, Louth, Donegal...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

John McGahon: I would like to be associated with the comments made by my colleagues on the death of John Connor. John served for a long time as a Member of Dáil Éireann and of Seanad Éireann. Indeed, when Longford was in the same constituency as Roscommon, there were some very close battles between him and the late Louis Belton. On each occasion, though, where either Louis or John lost...