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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: However, you did not write that down.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: You did not tell Martin Fraser. You did not tell the then Taoiseach, the Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin. You said you told Deirdre Gillane; you did not tell Deirdre Gillane.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: You have, but I have to say-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: Let me finish. Your answers fall way short of the standard I would expect from a senior civil servant. I am sorry to have to say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: You are not answering them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: To quote you-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: -----I am entitled to my opinion, am I not?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: I am doing that too.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: Am I not doing that too?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: I am not criticising you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: I am telling you what I feel about the standard of answers you are giving to this committee. It is my duty as Chairman to insist that you give comprehensive answers. You failed to answer Deputy Doherty.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: Mr. Watt, you have answered a question to the extent that you are arrogantly dismissive of the report, which I find shocking. Your answers are "Well, that is my opinion." Honestly,-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: I am not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: Okay, well then-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: I did not suggest that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: I am speaking to you about the level of standard expected from a senior civil servant and the fact that Members of this Parliament have asked you certain questions that you have blatantly dismissed. In fact, at one stage, you said to Deputy Doherty that in the main you did not accept this report. Later on, you said, "Well, certain elements of it."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: Is it one or the other?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: This is my final question in this round anyway. Regarding the then Taoiseach and now Tánaiste supporting the position of Deirdre Gillane, the Minister for Health supporting the position of Deirdre Gillane in terms of her commentary, which was a pretty stiff rebuke of what you were saying, you are now accepting that she is correct in what she said and that you were wrong. Does it all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: No, what? Is it that you are not concerned?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)
John McGuinness: I know that. I am asking you. Does it mean you are not concerned about what was said today by the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, at the health committee or the Tánaiste previously or indeed Deirdre Gillane? Deirdre Gillane was pretty clear in her position. Your answer today is, "Oh yeah, I accept that". Is that an answer?