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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Is the plenary in Washington DC?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: What I am trying to clarify here is that the two standing plenaries per year are attended occasionally by ministers and, in particular, heads of delegations, such as Ms McVeigh.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Decisions are taken at those plenaries.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: What happens at the Washington DC one?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Is that a separate one once a year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: They are not dealing with the micro end of it but are dealing with more the macro.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Is that plenary attended by the Minister separate from the two Ms McVeigh described?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: There is a ministerial meeting once a year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: That is generally attended by ministers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: I am sorry. Is it attended by our Minister?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Okay. Take me through how we move from there to an EU directive.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Okay, so the directive is arrived at in that way. When does it get approved by elected Members of Parliament?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: In the trilogues.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Where is the input before that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Okay. That is fine. I just wanted to get to where we are at with all this stuff. Then there is the legislation, which we will take as a given. These directives are then transposed into legislation and that is how we arrived at the PEPs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: When you are a PEP, then comes the definition Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked for. The question arose in some of these meetings - do not ask me which layer it came up at - but certain civil servants were excluded from being considered as PEPs. It is in the minutes of those meetings. It was civil servants who made the decision around that. If I wanted to found out how that arose, why it arose...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Will you check?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Are the minutes of these important plenary sessions and of the task force itself available?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Why are there closed sessions?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Politically Exposed Persons: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)
John McGuinness: Why have secret meetings?