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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: I ask because I want to determine the amount of information shared across Departments. I take it from this that in conversations information is shared.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: In some of the questions he was asked Mr. Griffin said he was not sure where individuals were or whether they had been promoted, not that I expect him to know offhand. These instances and issues are shared. Has Mr. McCarthy ever addressed a meeting of the Secretaries General?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: They meet after the Cabinet meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: Mr. Griffin and his officials are here today because of something that happened in the past in which he was not involved. In the various statements he has made today he spoke about now and then tried to reflect as best he could and defend the Department in the best way he could in terms of what happened. As Mr. Colgan stated, the facts are being presented here and being put on the table....
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: I do not know whether Mr. McCarthy would like to go to the meetings of the Secretaries General.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: I would have a fear if I were asked into that room that I might not get back out of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: The Department is before us in three weeks' time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: Was €48 million allocated to the ESB some years ago to provide broadband services? They were going to use the ESB and then deal with the last or first mile, whichever one Mr. Griffin wants to talk about.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: Will Mr. Griffin check it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 90 of the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General
The Bytel Project (16 Apr 2015) John McGuinness: As that was years ago, will Mr. Griffin check that allocation? I want to find out whether it was taken up and used and where it is now, because it was and still is a significant amount of money. I want to find out where it went and if it went anywhere. We will now dispose of that report by agreement.
- Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: On a point of clarification, the matters raised by Deputies Ó Fearghaíl and Mattie McGrath are in the context of gardaí protecting the other citizens who were not involved on that night and the deep concern that has been expressed by them that they would be exposed to such thuggery and activity. In the legislation quoted by the Deputies, perhaps the Government might consider...
- Order of Business (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: Nobody wants to see that happening. That was the issued that was raised by the community and by the Oireachtas Members who were present at that public meeting. On a second issue, on the discussion that the Government seems to be having about promised legislation in the area of bankruptcy and in the context of the spring statement, is it the Taoiseach's intention to bring forward...
- Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossession (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: On a point of order, the Ceann Comhairle suggested that we should complain if a Minister comes to the House and does not address the topic raised. This is not this Minister's fault, but the question raised by Deputies Wall and Heydon has not been addressed. We are not talking about the Garda but about a private company which came in the dead of night. We are asking that such actions be...
- Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossession (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: Did the Minister of State not hear what the Deputies said?
- Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossession (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: The Minister of State has not responded-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossession (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: He has not.
- Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossession (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: It is outrageous.
- Self-Employed and the SME Sector: Motion [Private Members] (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: I spent most of my life being self-employed before I was elected to this House in 1997. During the course of that time and my involvement in several businesses, which employed 30 people, there was little support for the SME sector. I consider myself to be very much part of the micro-section of that sector. Nothing much has changed. If anything, it has got worse. For example, I believe...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Appeals (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: 233. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will expedite an appeal for jobseeker's and supplementary allowances in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny. [15166/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (21 Apr 2015)
John McGuinness: 236. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if carer's allowance will be approved in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if the application will be expedited. [15247/15]