Results 14,021-14,040 of 26,653 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Is there anyone on the board or the control committee who is connected to or benefitting from any of these sub-companies? Are they all very different companies or is there a crossover in any way?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: All I want to know is that you are happy with the construction of all of these different entities, that there is not a crossover of directors here, there and everywhere.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: You will confirm that to us in writing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: To go back to the court cases, I do not want to get involved in the settlement in each of the three cases, but I want to say to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine that some of these arrangements that are reached out of court have this confidentiality clause and it is a bit of a nonsense because the C&AG is going to see the figures at some stage. They will go into the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Stop. That does not come into this. I am talking about-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I am talking about the general approach to this. It does not have anything to do with that case. It is done and dusted, it is sorted. There is confidentiality; he will not even tell us, he is standing by the courts. Great. Are you satisfied with that and the nonsense that 12 months down the line, when a little time has gone by, all the figures become known anyway?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: It is a farce that you enter into a confidentiality agreement knowing that within 12 months the information will be in the public domain. How can you enter into a confidentiality agreement when you know you cannot have confidentiality? You are breaking the law and telling them lies, because in 12 months' time it will be in the public domain. Not you, but whoever gets involved in it....
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: That is fine. Can you give us the overall legal figure in any of the last three years, a global figure of how much you paid on legal fees in the last three years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I accept that you cannot do that, but can you give us the legal fees for the last three years?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: There is no provision in your financial statements for these settlements, is there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: To keep us in the dark until you finally report.
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Where do you take that money from? Is there money set aside or will it come out of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: How much did the Indecon report cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: By the Department? How much did it cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: I am going to interpret and I want the opinion of the witness, that is all. If one looks at the Indecon report it reads like something that should be done in business anyway and there is nothing in it if you had a company that acknowledged how business should be done, how one would want to do it and was open and transparent and so on. The Indecon report sets that out. What was it within...
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Who are Bord na gCon's internal auditors?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: Who were the auditors back then?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: And during those years when Bord na gCon had an internal auditor and a full-time employee, did they not raise these issues at the end of year, every year?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: And they did not get into governance in any way?
- Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon Financial Statements 2014 (26 Nov 2015)
John McGuinness: All right.