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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

John McGuinness: I want to bring in Deputy Verona Murphy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

John McGuinness: I call Deputy Verona Murphy. I am sorry, we have only two minutes left.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Remuneration of Senior Civil Servants: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

John McGuinness: I thank the members for their input and Mr. Fraser for his attendance. As I said, at least he attended. He did not avoid the issue. We may not have liked some of the answers we received from him but at least he accounted for himself. Regarding the issue itself, I believe reform is necessary. His Department and the Taoiseach must drive that reform. This was not a transparent process....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (1 Jun 2021)

John McGuinness: 443. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if all payments and arrears due to a person (details supplied) will be expedited. [29180/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (1 Jun 2021)

John McGuinness: 552. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if a request for CSP funding in the name of a group (details supplied) will be reviewed as a matter of urgency; and if the funding requested will be approved given the significance of the project to the local community and the enormous contribution being made by volunteers. [29127/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I welcome members and our guests. We are joined by Mr. John Devitt, Ms Stephanie Casey, Ms Lorraine Heffernan and Dr. Lauren Kierans. Mr. Michael Clifford, the journalist, is also attending. He has experience and plenty of knowledge in this area. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and set the backdrop to the protected disclosure legislation review that will take place shortly....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. Clifford. Apologies have been received from Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I suggest that the Deputy continues with her questions and we can come back to the issue again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: These questions are open to all our guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Does that answer Deputy Farrell's questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: What is the Deputy's question that was not answered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I understand Ms Casey wants to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Short question, short answer. Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: I ask the Deputy to ask his questions. Has he two questions to ask?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Before our guests answer that question, I will add a similar question. In the recent judgment delivered by Mr. Justice Richard Humphreys in the case of John Clarke v. CGI Food Services Limited, and I hope I have read this right, the judge said that the financial repercussions in the case were significant for the employer because the employer must now continue to pay the former employee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: It applies to a particular case rather than a judgment that can be broadly applied.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Is there no law to ensure that a person is paid? A person may have made a protected disclosure and be out sick afterwards. Is the organisation or enterprise not obliged to pay such a person during that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Will such a person not be paid when they are out of work? Is it the case that such a person could be paid? Will it be settled at the end? I am talking about the current legislation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: No, I have moved away from the Clarke case. I am asking about what Mr. Clifford said earlier. It appeared as if the individual in the Prison Service was awarded a sum but that was challenged later. It just begs the question in all of this of the cost to the whistleblower of having to stay in the process while, at the same time, being penalised and, in some cases, out of a job while the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Protected Disclosure Legislation: Discussion (27 May 2021)

John McGuinness: Earlier, Mr. Devitt was giving analysis of what whistleblowers in the private sector thought of the process and how satisfied or not they were. In the public sector, it seems to be quite different, in that there is free use of taxpayers' money and money paid into the State to defend the entity, whether a Department, an agency or a third level institution, whatever it might be. It is this...