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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does Mr. Purcell think his role in all of the circumstances in this report which led to the resignation of the Minister for Justice and Equality is of public interest?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Does Mr. Purcell think his performance today is in the public interest?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: With reference to the Guerin report, the assistant secretary, Michael Flahive-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is no charge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The assistant secretary is referenced in the report a number of times. Does Mr. Purcell think it would have been useful if he were here today to answer questions also?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: In the Guerin report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Would it have been useful if he were here with Mr. Purcell?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: When the person is appointed to oversee the commission of investigation to examine the Guerin report, does Mr. Purcell think he will have prejudiced the findings by his deliberations today?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I will rephrase the question. Does Mr. Purcell think his prepared statement, which he prepared in advance of questions, will have prejudiced the potential findings of the commission of investigation? This is his line of argument.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I do not think Mr. Purcell regards our work as important at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: No, I am not finished.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: According to the Guerin report, the first correspondence came from the Department of Justice and Equality on 11 May 2009, then led by the former Minister, Dermot Ahern. What was Mr. Purcell's role in the Department at that stage?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: I would like Mr. Purcell to answer the question, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: There is a question to be answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: It is a farce.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: With all due respect Chairman, this is farcical. There is a situation in which-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: -----there will be a commission of investigation into the Guerin report.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Okay, but it is absolutely farcical.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Guerin Report: Department of Justice and Equality (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: While I have great respect for Senator Zappone, what has happened thus far is farcical.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (28 May 2014)
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The committee has had the opportunity to deliberate on the petitions before us today and I will read out our decisions. The first petition for consideration is P00009/13 from Mr. Hugh Rance, calling for an independent process of appeal in the Department of Education and Skills through which a teacher who is employed by a vocational education committee and has been refused qualified pay and...