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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, we are.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, I will give way to the Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We have no confirmation of witnesses for that day, but it is a day on which we can invite witnesses. We are working on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: A number of Departments can be invited on that day. If the Deputy has a suggestion, by all means make it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: It is a number of months.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: Okay, we can check on that. I was going to mention something for the same date. We were dealing with an issue involving Castlemartyr and NAMA, and we have not received a response on that. I am not advocating for whatever is happening there but I just want an update on it. We could get a response from the Revenue Commissioners, but not from NAMA. Should we not get a response from NAMA we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: No.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We have not been consulted.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We can schedule a meeting if you wish. We commence our next term on 21 January, but we can certainly meet a week before that. I am sure members will not mind. We can determine who is available for 21 January and we have suggested NAMA or the Revenue Commissioners.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We can.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: What else would you be doing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We have decided on that. We also decided to notify NAMA regarding that project. Is there any other business?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: It is a simpler matter in the private sector, where if the boss says an employee must do X, Y and Z and that person says, "No, I will not", then he or she will be fired.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We might all be fired in a few months time. Perhaps those who have the power and who tell us they have the power and that they are in charge of the most powerful Department within Government, should just do their job or else leave and get somebody else to do it if they cannot. That is the reality.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: Yes, that is surely the principle of it. An employer in the private sector will say how the business must be done and if that does not happen, the boss will not be too happy and will probably fire the employee in question. However, that does not seem to happen within Departments. In fact, nobody even gets sanctioned. When we raise this issue, we get all the spiel about doing what one can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: Moving on, will Mr. McCarthy comment on No. 4.4, which is displayed on the screen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: We will note all that is contained in No. 4.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: After this issue was raised again last week, we informed the Department that we expected a response by today, or we would otherwise hear directly from it at next week's meeting. As of this morning, we have not received a response. However, I am told the Secretary General was away and that we should receive a response today. If that is not forthcoming before the close of business, which is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: Is that agreed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Dec 2015)
John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 3 December 2015 agreed? Agreed. We have received notification from the HSE that sections of the Conal Devine report will be released to the requestor today. The minute of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, which is the formal reply to our report on the wards of court is still being worked on in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform....