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

John McGuinness: I will finish on this point.

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

John McGuinness: Local authorities should be made accountable to the Committee of Public Accounts as a first step. If the Government stops the amount of money being wasted, it might not need to take so much in taxes.

Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: The Tánaiste commented on the universities Bill and mentioned specifically Waterford. Will she ask both the Institute of Technology Carlow and Waterford Institute of Technology about the current developments where Waterford will now go its own way in the amalgamation?

Order of Business (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Will the Tánaiste comment on that? She commented specifically on Waterford and I believe Carlow should be mentioned in the context of what is happening now and the report in the newspaper.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Before the Order of Business, the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, made the remark that most of what was being said on this side of the House about Irish Water was ranting and raving.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: There are plenty of solutions over here.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: The Minister of State does not have a solution. The Government brought forward Irish Water.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: It is the Government's policy. If the Minister of State read the motion, he would find out exactly what is in it. Throwing his eyes up to heaven will not get the Minister of State anywhere and will not get him the answers he needs-----

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: -----to get out of the serious difficulties the Government is in.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: It was wrong of the Minister of State to say what he said because we have the right, in terms of the result of the previous election, to provide him with an opposition, about which he does not seem to worry too much in spite of the fact the Government was advised by professionals and the Opposition that Irish Water would not work. The Tánaiste, in the course of the Order of Business,...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: No.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: In answer to Deputy Durkan who seems to want to interrupt everyone, the Secretary General of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform suggested in relation to Irish Water and the Poolbeg incinerator that the Committee of Public Accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General should have a role in looking at the set-up costs. If the Government did that, it would take all the argument...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: I have read it. They were before the Committee of Public Accounts. I challenge the figures.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 16 October 2014 agreed? Agreed. Are there any matters arising from the minutes? Last week, the Comptroller and Auditor General was asked to provide a note on the number of audits that have been completed within the six-month timeframe recommended in the code of practice for State bodies, and within a 12-month period. We will start the meeting by asking...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Last week, Deputy Ross commented on bodies publishing unaudited accounts with their annual reports. He raised that matter last week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: It concerned bodies publishing unaudited accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Would the fishery harbours be unique due to the fact that they did not keep proper accounts? That came across last week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: In terms of the audit committee itself in a lot of these places, does Mr. McCarthy get copies of the internal audits?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: Just to conclude on this point, I thought what happened last week was extraordinary because so many items within an audit were ignored. I am not talking about Mr. McCarthy's audit, but their audit in fisheries. Leases were not being put in place and money was not being collected - the basic management of all the harbours. Last week, I asked them to give us a copy of their internal audits...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Oct 2014)

John McGuinness: They did not just fail in one year. They failed in a number of years.