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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: The public needs to know.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I want the legislation the Department is proposing to allow for greater exposure of wrongdoing, if necessary, without the matter being complicated in any way. That brings me to the comment on regulation being beyond recognition. Perhaps that is so, but the banks' behaviour is still the same. They have not changed beyond recognition. I bring that matter to the attention of the officials...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Mr. Tobin is saying in effect that the Department, the ECB, the Central Bank, and maybe more, were like blind mice running around the place and ignored what was happening.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: I did not say that Mr. Tobin said it but I am saying there were too many blind mice around not paying attention to what was going on. We may have had the regulation but not the implementation of that regulation and that is as essential today as it was back then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Was it Mr. Tobin who referred to mitigating against negative spillover in the future?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: Mr. Tobin referred to diversity of thought within the banks. I would have thought there was loads of diversity of thought, that they had all sorts of ways and means to think outside the box to ensure they put as much money into the public domain and into businesses as they possibly could. They probably had too much freedom of thought. I understand what Mr. Tobin meant but when we look back...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: The banks need to do more. They understand full well what happened and would also understand that many of those SMEs are not the type of risk now that they were back then, created in part by the banks. I am concerned about communities and parishes where there might be one big employer who is now struggling, not because their idea is wrong but because they cannot get the working capital they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: A Future Framework for Accountability in the Banking Sector: Discussion (12 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: We will leave it at that. I thank Mr. Tobin and his colleagues for being with us today.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Company Liquidations (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 79. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount spent on the attempted recovery of assets in eastern Europe, Russia and Ukraine formerly belonging to a group (details supplied); the value of the assets recovered to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11400/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of public works contracts since 2014 in which the final cost has been the subject of a confidentiality clause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11401/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reform (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the work undertaken by the HSE in collaboration with a group (details supplied) to examine reform of the healthcare system; if pilot programmes were set up as part of the work; if so, the details and outcome of each project; his plans to continue engagement with the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11399/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Data (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 176. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical device companies located here and supported by IDA Ireland that are doing business with the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11424/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Location (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 177. To ask the Minister for Health if a cost comparison analysis was carried out on all the proposed sites for the national children's hospital; the reason for the selection of the St. James's site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11425/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body who signed off on the cost estimates at each stage of the national children's hospital; and the budgeted projected cost of the project at each month since 2016. [11426/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body who authorised the changes to the design brief of the national children's hospital in each of the years 2016 to 2018. [11427/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if each change to the design brief to the national children's hospital was costed in advance of it being instructed. [11428/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if the consultants appointed to the national children's hospital will be held financially accountable for errors in the budget. [11429/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 182. To ask the Minister for Health if the board of the national children's hospital were satisfied the chosen tender was an economically viable tender when it was accepted. [11430/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 183. To ask the Minister for Health when an undertaking was made to underwrite the entire cost of the national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11431/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (7 Mar 2019)
John McGuinness: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the final cost of the Tralee bypass constructed by Kerry County Council and the National Roads Authority. [11380/19]