Results 11,801-11,820 of 26,589 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Why then is it stated in the briefing document?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Let me read it. Perhaps my English is not great. It states: “We believe significant value was lost in relation to this transaction.” I can only be briefed on the paperwork in front of me.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Is Ms Nolan telling me that it is wrong?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Ms Nolan goes on to refer to Blackstone. What is stated about Quinn has been completely redacted.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Ms Nolan says it resulted in high level political scrutiny and public concern which might have been avoided if the matter had been managed. She suggests it was badly managed.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Ms Nolan says in relation to Siteserv that the Department had serious concerns. What I am trying to point out is that if the Department had serious concerns, the concerns referred to something that had happened, not something that was going to happen. Reference is made to Topaz and it stated the Department was approached by it. I do not know what that means. The advice was that concerns...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Why did Topaz approach the Department and what were its concerns?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: The next reference is to Apthorp. The note states the sub-optimum communication between senior management and the board had led to misinformed decision making.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Does that not show that the Department thought the deal had been done when the note was written? There was no communication between the Department and IBRC and a lot of concern was being expressed by departmental officials.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: What were the qualifications of the officials dealing directly with IBRC?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: IBRC was still not treating them right. Did they or Ms Nolan have concerns?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: How long did it take the Department to achieve this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: The Department is happy with the outcome of the public discussion that has taken place and the commentary that there were concerns within the Department about other transactions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Is Ms Nolan okay with it now? She said it was written in a moment in time. At this moment, reflecting on it, there was no need for concern. Is that what she is saying?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Reading the document and even given the fact that it refers to what happened in a moment in time, it appears that the IBRC board did what it wanted to do and bullied the Department. It certainly did not allow the Department the scope I would have expected in the context of the Department's remit to look after taxpayers' money and examine the governance issues in a bank such as IBRC, for which...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: I accept that, but to try to minimise it by describing it as a moment in time is a bit much. I am reading the documents to inform myself and taking out of them the view that the Department was not up to taking on IBRC and its determination to run on its own without departmental interference. I take out of the documents the view that it did as it pleased to a point. They tell us it had no...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: When we look back on how the collapse happened - we all have a view on it and it is being worked out at another committee - there was a lack of information, a taking of things for granted, a bit of bullying here and there and pressing on by the banks. That culture of pushing the Department around was alive and well. We did not have enough strength from the taxpayers' and the Department's...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: The sum is €76 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: Will Ms Nolan also give us a breakdown of the number of individuals and the various rates involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015) John McGuinness: We are, but because of the time I am going to suggest that maybe on another day we can go through them in more detail.