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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: That is the best that can be done, Deputy Dowds.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: I call Deputy Nash.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards (14 Nov 2013) John McGuinness: We will resume our meeting. Deputy Harris is next.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: The Minister of State, Deputy Tom Hayes, should ask Sue Nunn.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: She has it well recorded. It was said that the process will go ahead. How can it be an independent process when the Minister who is responsible for local government and An Bord Pleanála say that it will go ahead at a time when the ESB-----
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: No-----
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: I will tell the Minister of State what has happened. The Minister of State does not listen to the people. That is what is wrong with him.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: The Minister of State is becoming as institutionalised and as arrogant as the rest of them.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: The Minister of State has to accept that people up and down this country are stating clearly-----
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: -----that they want the independent process to be just that - independent.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: That is what the Government needs to ensure happens. A decision might have been made in the last Government but the decision was that there should be an independent process and that is not the case.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: A decision might have been made in the last Government but the decision was-----
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: -----that there should be an independent process and that is not the case.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: Furthermore, the company that is essential to it is not giving out the information that the communities are demanding, and that is all they are asking. They are asking that their voices be heard. The Government is not willing to let that happen, just as it put some of its members over here on the backbenches because it would not listen to them either. That is how arrogant it is. In terms...
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: -----and the cable has been put under ground.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: As arrogant as the Minister of State is, he is entering into a process where he is refusing to listen to the people. He is attempting to talk me down in this House where I have a right to speak and a right to my opinion.
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: I am telling the truth-----
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: -----but the Minister of State and his colleagues do not like the truth over there. They are used to twisting and turning it------
- Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)
John McGuinness: -----and putting it out into the public domain. They are failing to get that message across and that is why the public are outraged with what they are attempting to do in regard to this issue. They are a disgrace. They should listen to the public.