Results 21,101-21,120 of 26,624 for speaker:John McGuinness
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: His first employment would have been in the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: He was not with the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: The Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: These positions for appointees are for the period of the office-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Yes, absolutely. It was a seven days a week job.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: That matter was handled by the Department. I do not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I am not quite sure whether these posts are advertised. I do not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: It was what?
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: There was no internal process. It was a matter of people being obliged to cover for individuals who were absent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I presume I did or they did. The work - departmental, local and so on - had to be done.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: Anything to do with the claims made by my son during that period was done in accordance with the rules of the Department. In other words, he would have had to have made submissions on his claims and had these signed off on within the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I have all day.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I am happy to stay here as long as you like.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I do not accept that there was pressure in it. There was not. It was like anyone going into a job. In my case I could say I was trying to get my feet under the table and get on with it, but there was no table. There was no office.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I was trying desperately to get along with it. I asked that my wife could travel but I made it clear that I would pay. I stated this in my e-mail of 29 August as well. There was no pressure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I accept that. Deputy McDonald will have to take my view on this, that is, factually it was put casually. Bear with me for a minute. I was in the Department and attached to it and so on but there was no office for me and therefore I was not there. Then the officials went into what is almost an overdrive of correspondence. I find it hard to believe that a simple question triggers that,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I cannot answer differently. Let us bring it to the end of the correspondence because it may help in understanding what went on. They went into this overdrive of correspondence. Apparently, that is what civil servants do. They check things out and go from HEOs to APs up along the line. That is fine. I only discovered that at the end of August and therefore I cannot say how they felt...
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I am simply saying he was particular about his work.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I can clearly say that was the case.
- Public Accounts Committee: Statement by Chairman (13 Jun 2013)
John McGuinness: I will make the point to Deputy McDonald again. I said it earlier several times - Deputy McDonald has acknowledged as much - that perhaps in the context of the reply at that time one might have done differently. I did not expect the flurry of e-mails. My life beforehand was about one-to-one and "Yes" or "No".