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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: It would not have been €4.1 million.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: How does one contact SUSI's humanity section?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: How would I contact the section? When Deputy Gabrielle McFadden raised an issue, Ms Stewart said she had a section that dealt with exceptional circumstances.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Will Ms Stewart give me the e-mail address and telephone number or tell me the name of the person we can contact?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: How do I contact the service?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Will Mr. Ó Foghlú tell me about the process from 2012 onwards? He has the figures and is examining them and Mr. Burke is assisting. Has he identified where it all went wrong?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Has a section, an individual or a system that failed the service been identified?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Can Mr. Ó Foghlú identify any one person, or group of persons, within the Department of Education and Skills or the VEC who should have at an early stage cried "Stop" and said the business plan would not stand up because it was not based on real figures and that there would be difficulties down the road? Is there any person or group that should have had responsibility to state the...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: What about the three outsiders? Did they not spot the difficulties? They were very senior people.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Did they have the option of saying after they had interviewed everybody that they had not found a group that could do it?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Has Mr. Ó Foghlú spoken to them recently about what has transpired?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Does Mr. Ó Foghlú think he should?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Were they paid for their work?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: They were given a very serious responsibility to make a selection and given the fact that they knew what was happening and as insiders would have known even more, they should be spoken to in order to learn where they believe they went wrong.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 88 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Restructuring the Administration of Student Grants (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: I thank the witnesses. I will conclude this session as we have a second meeting to conduct. We will deal with the report at next week's meeting again.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Sales (11 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings he and his Department have had with the Solid Fuel Trade Group; if his Department has concluded an impact assessment of carbon tax on the fuel industry and on the cost of fuel to the end user; if there are cost forecasts with regard to regulation and the impact of such regulation on costs; his plans to establish a register of coal...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (10 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the funding available for the refurbishment of a house made available by a local authority in Kilkenny to the Thomas Hayes Trust, County Kilkenny, for its use in promoting services for the prevention of suicide and for families affected by suicide; if applications for such funding are dealt with by the local authority or...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: It is within them. Another issue I have concerning the inquiry is that while it is ongoing - it is not that I want to have a number of inquiries under way at the same time - this House should not be shut down because it is ongoing. Parliamentary questions and the work of committees should be allowed to continue. If material is uncovered by them that is relevant to the inquiry, by all...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: Listening to the debate, I cannot help but think of that quotation:Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive!Many of the Members in this debate have put forward their take on why we are here this evening debating this, how it happened and what the response should be. My take on it is that we are here because there is no political leadership. The Government was...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (9 Jun 2015)

John McGuinness: 246. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a disability allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if a positive outcome will be expedited. [22161/15]