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Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: There are many other issues we have not dealt with, and I would be open to setting another date for a meeting with the Department at which we could take them up.

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: We can take the issue up again. Earlier I suggested that we would review it today and determine whether we have to ask the officials to come back in when discussing the general Vote. In the meantime we might take up the issue raised by the Deputies. We can also write to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government about the issue, if necessary. I must leave to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2013
Chapter 2 - Government Debt and Finance Accounts 2013 (14 May 2015)

John McGuinness: It concerns Belfry investments and AIB.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (12 May 2015)

John McGuinness: 354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out the number of complaints received by his Department relating to a pupply farm in County Carlow that are being investigated; the date each complaint was registered with his Department; the action taken on each complaint; if the complaints were forwarded to An Garda Síochána for investigation; if his Department...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 23 April agreed to? Agreed. We will move to correspondence received since the previous meeting. No. 3A.1 is correspondence, dated 1 May 2015, from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It follows up on the committee's meeting with officials of the Department on 5 March. The correspondence is to be noted and published. No. 3A.2 is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Perhaps we should set out the differences the Deputy has outlined by sending a copy of the transcript to the Department to seek clarification on the matters raised. We should also state that if they are not clarified in a satisfactory manner, we will invite the Secretary General and the relevant officials to appear before the committee. I suggest this as a first step.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: No. 3C is documents for today’s meeting and comprises Nos. 3C.1 and 3C.2. They are to be noted and published. No. 4 is reports, statements and accounts received since the meeting of 30 April. All four documents have a clear audit opinion and are to be noted and published. The work programme is on screen. The next meeting will be with officials of the Office of the Minister for...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: To make it clear as I understood it from the members last week, what we want is the information relative to the different businesses that were sold in respect of what the officials thought and what were their concerns that we read about every day in the newspapers and the media. It is our responsibility as the Committee of Public Accounts to have that information and to analyse it. That is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: We will come back to that. I call Deputy Costello.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: To be clear about the committee and where we are going, next week the Department of Finance officials will attend the committee. We have indicated to the Department that we will ask questions about its involvement and whatever concerns it might have had, not only with Siteserv but the other companies and transactions that have been brought into the public domain by way of general comment....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Will the special report come up later on then?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: There is just one other item then under the work programme. We had a meeting yesterday - a briefing session - which went on for two and a half hours. I thank the members who were present and who listened to what was said. It was a shocking story of events and abuse of power by the State in relation to a number of individuals and companies. The need for investigation is quite clear. In...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: We will request that they be here. It is important too that the Chief State Solicitor's office would be represented as well at the meeting, because then all the players responsible for the expenditure and governance issues will be present. The members can decide for themselves then what questions to ask from the report the clerk will provide for us. We will have a dossier of information.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Once we examine the dossier of information, members can decide what questions to ask and what information we should seek from the Department, or what indication we should give the Department as to what questions might be asked so that officials are prepared before they come to a meeting. All that can be worked out prior to 18 June.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: I share those views. Aside from the work we can do on this committee, I would recommend to members that they might consider fully what we heard yesterday and perhaps use the floor of the House to raise this issue in the context of a debate, which I believe is absolutely necessary given the evidence we heard and the documents that are available.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Yes. Once it is a cost to the State, and it is within a Department and it is relevant to what we heard yesterday, based on the dossier of information the clerk will provide to us, we can then decide that we should also invite others to attend our meeting on 18 June. We will meet prior to that and members can contact the clerk and make their suggestions. From what we heard yesterday, it is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: No, it came forward through other Members. Those concerned were in contact with other Members of the House, including previous Ministers, some who are still Members of the House. That is the way they tried to highlight their issues. We heard about the totality of issues yesterday, but when one separates them out, some issues are relevant to this committee and others are more suited to the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: We are working with the Chief State Solicitor's office and other Departments in order to get them all in together. We will set a date for a meeting in due course that suits all parties. We will give the matter priority.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 May 2015)

John McGuinness: It is not audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General.