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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: I am concerned about the legal division in your Department. I have encountered several cases. They are not relevant to this morning's meeting but to another meeting. I have met a considerable number of people who have expressed reservations about the manner in which the Department takes legal action. In fact, Judge Reynolds made a statement in a particular case, although we will not go...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: No, not that case but more generally. Is it okay to get that?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: We do not need that. We simply want a list of the figures and the properties without legal agreement, a list of those in respect of which the Department has secured legal agreement and leases and those still outstanding. Again, Mr. Moriarty, no names are needed. What were the rents involved and the arrears in respect of these properties? We want some explanation of how it emerged in this...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: How was that made up? Was it an internal arrangement?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Can Mr. Beamish give us the audit reports for the period prior to 2007?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: When transfers like this occur, does the relevant paperwork also get transferred or would it be a question of a balancing figure being passed on?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: I ask the witnesses to let us have a copy of the internal audit reports pre-2007 and thereafter and details on the members of the audit committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Can we get a copy of those reports?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: I thank our guests. We have reached the end of our hearing and I ask that members agree that Special Report 82 be held open until such time as we receive a full response from the Department. It appears that some people who examine the position in respect of this matter might consider the organisation to be something of a charity, particularly in light of the scope given to it in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Clearance Certificates (21 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance if a tax clearance certificate has been issued to a community group taxpayer (details supplied); and if correspondence issued to the Revenue Commissioners will be responded to. [40217/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (21 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: 244. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a tax refund in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny has not been paid; if he will expedite the matter. [40419/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (21 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: 311. To ask the Minister for Defence if the agreement to reimburse 10% of basic salary to contract soldiers will be honoured; if the payments will be backdated to 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40202/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: UN Missions (21 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: 312. To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the proposal to erect a monument to acknowledge the service past and present of Irish UN peacekeepers; his views on the project; if he will meet with a person (details supplied) as requested in an effort to progress the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40225/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Procurement Contracts (21 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: 346. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the last time a tender was sought through the Garda tender system for towing and management services; the number of those that participated in the process; the timeframe for such a tender process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40412/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: 488. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 1 October 2014, if he will review through the Turkish authorities the reasons a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny was refused entry to Turkey on an Irish passport on 5 November 2014 and was forced to return here; his views that a person holding an Irish passport could be treated in...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: I compliment Deputy Neville on his contribution. The work he has been doing in this House and around the country to highlight the issue of suicide is to be commended. Since the Deputy first raised this issue, the number of people committing suicide has grown to a frightening level. It is correct to say we are not investing sufficient funds in mental health to deal with all of these issues,...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: They know the various programmes the Government is promoting within the social welfare system are not working to the benefit of the hardcore 12% of people who are unemployed. Individuals are being let go from jobs, only to be replaced within weeks by people on the JobBridge scheme. Real courses for real jobs are not being implemented. The Government is messing around with the statistics....

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: The Deputies opposite promised new politics, but that is not new politics. None of what they have said today is new politics. Can they tell people involved in the SME sector that austerity is over? That might apply to some businesses in urban centres, but it does not apply to family-run SMEs all over the country that have been in business for generations. These families have spent all...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: The Government has a leadership role. It should insist that the original plan to bring Carlow and Waterford together to form a new university be executed. It is about time that the vested interests, including those in the education sector as well as the Department who probably do not want a university anyway because it would cost money, do what they are told. If the project is good for the...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: -----and does not answer to the Dáil because it is supposed to be separate.