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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: Would the Department take up with another Department how it spent money. Where the cases-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: Could the Department not establish a role? Revenue, under the Department of Finance, is the collector of taxes. Could the Department not have a role where it sees taxes being inappropriately spent by, for instance, chasing and beating down a citizen, with a judge having to side with the citizen. Not only did the judge say that the Department was wrong, the judge said that the integrity of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: Who does Mr. Moran engage with at that level?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: If my business had customers that were writing such descriptions of it-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: Yes. Now that we have expressed unhappiness, can we address the matter? It is not fair that the State should use its muscle and taxpayers' money to come after a citizen in such a manner. A judge has ruled not just in that case but in other cases, yet there is no redress for the citizen and the money that is due to the citizen from the State has not been paid. As Chairman of this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: I want Mr. Moran to be unhappy that taxpayers' money is being spent in that way. If I was collecting the money and I saw someone else spending it as recklessly as that, I would challenge them. That is how a business is run. One does not just walk away; otherwise one goes bust. I would love to see those who collect the money reprimanding those that are spending it recklessly. In this and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: Will Mr. Moran consider some of what I have said?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: I have another example. Before Christmas, a draft statutory instrument on the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund and the allocation of the money came before the Dáil. Reports continue to come in about that fund and how it spends taxpayers' money. Such reports have been coming in for years. Earlier, Mr. Moran referred to governance. Where is the governance in the context of that fund?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: It is my intention to propose a strategy to committee members to question or investigate such issues as have been raised. I am flagging this for the witnesses because I am not going to stand by and be unhappy about a situation. The State must do something. Regarding the Central Bank and vulture funds, the witnesses are aware that we wrote to the vulture funds. Two responded - Blackstone...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: The Central Bank was dragged kicking and screaming to be "all over it".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: I am wondering about the Department's engagement with the Central Bank. In response to a number of questions that have been asked, it was stated by Mr. Horan, I believe-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: It was stated by Mr. Hogan that the Central Bank would tell the Department from time to time. Is there proactive engagement with the Central Bank to establish for the Department's own interest whether the Central Bank is on top of its game, protecting consumers and dealing with the banks? Is it a two-way street or does the Department just ask for information as it wants it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: Yes, and I respect that, but perhaps that is what got us into trouble back in 2008. What is the nature of the Department's proactive engagement with the Central Bank? Are vulture funds and how they purchase individual debt from the main banks discussed? Will there be protection for the consumer in 2017 to stop the evictions? NAMA was established to handle commercial debt. While it is a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: I understand that, but it still remains a fact that, according to the Bank of Ireland when it appeared before us, there are not sufficient repossessions to convince the market that debts or loans are safe and protected and the expectation is that there will be an increased number of evictions this year. Those people end up on council housing lists, so the whole thing goes around in a circle....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: It is not working.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: There have been just 39 applications to move to rent-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: -----at one bank. I know from local authorities, and I have heard Oireachtas Members discussing it, that the scheme is not working. Were it enhanced in some way, it could give solutions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: Okay. On the matter of tariffs, could we have a copy of the information before the witnesses go?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: It is easier to ask for a copy than it is for me to go off and look it up. Regarding HSBC, I want to return to an earlier point. We are hingeing everything on the financial services and the creation of approximately 20,000 jobs. Has Mr. Moran explored or has anybody examined why HSBC created 1,000 jobs in Paris and Frankfurt? What happened that we were not able to attract those jobs to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Statement of Strategy 2017: Department of Finance (19 Jan 2017)
John McGuinness: Does it concern Mr. Moran that this happened?