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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I would like to know because at the end of every action someone is going to have to either fight the action, present a case or do whatever. In this case, it is a business, a family and an individual. I stand to be corrected on the matter - I am asking you to check it for me - but it is extraordinary that it seems, from the information I have, that no contact has been made since then. I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I am concerned about the legal division in your Department. I have encountered several cases. They are not relevant to this morning's meeting but to another meeting. I have met a considerable number of people who have expressed reservations about the manner in which the Department takes legal action. In fact, Judge Reynolds made a statement in a particular case, although we will not go...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: No, not that case but more generally. Is it okay to get that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: We do not need that. We simply want a list of the figures and the properties without legal agreement, a list of those in respect of which the Department has secured legal agreement and leases and those still outstanding. Again, Mr. Moriarty, no names are needed. What were the rents involved and the arrears in respect of these properties? We want some explanation of how it emerged in this...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: As Deputy Deasy has finished, I will return to correspondence dated 8 October received from the Secretary General, Mr. Moran, this morning on a particular case in Killybegs, County Donegal. In this correspondence, Mr. Moran states that the Office of the Chief State Solicitor was instructed to initiate legal proceedings against the individual on 16 July 2014. What does Mr. Moran base this on?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Mr. Moran states that consequently the Chief State Solicitor's office was instructed to initiate legal proceedings against Mr. Shine, the man in question, on 16 July 2014. What is the process for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Who gave the Department that legal advice?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Does the Department have a legal unit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Is the senior lawyer a solicitor or a barrister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Does that solicitor in the Department advise the Secretary General?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Would the Secretary General then instruct the solicitor to raise it with the Office of the Chief State Solicitor?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Did the Secretary General instruct the Office of the Chief State Solicitor to issue proceedings on 16 July 2014?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: What is the up-to-date position on that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: The Secretary General has not. He has told the Office of the Chief State Solicitor.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Will Mr. Moran tell me what stage the process is at now? Does he think that having told the Chief State Solicitor's office on 16 July to take legal proceedings that the office would have informed Mr. Shine of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I have never seen so many officials wash their hands of a problem child as publicly as I have this morning.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: Would Mr. Kelly tell the Secretary General there is an anomaly here?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: That is the opinion of Mr. Moran. I was giving my opinion and I want to clarify something else. Mr. Moran said "as I am sure you will agree" in his opening remarks. For the record, I do not agree.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I understand that. What I am trying to get at is the people who worked within this system, regardless of the Department, had corporate knowledge of what was going on and surely they passed that on to somebody. When they leave, do they just leave with that corporate knowledge with nobody having a record of it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 82 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Financial Management and Reporting for Fishery Harbour Centres (16 Oct 2014)
John McGuinness: I will leave at that. The Comptroller and Auditor General's office was auditing this mess prior to 2007.