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- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: I am approaching this from-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: -----the point of view of an employer. If something goes wrong on the floor of my factory, I find out the name of the person who might be involved and ask him or her into my office for a discussion, particularly when the information being put into the public domain is damaging my company. I am not telling Mr. Callinan how to do his job, as I would not dare do that, but this would appear to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: We need to bring him in and ask him.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: We have asked.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: No, we are going to give Mr. Callinan this material.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: This book of analysis. All I am asking is whether Mr. Callinan, as the Accounting Officer, can ask the man whether the latter's claim of a cost to the State of €720,000 is true or false.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: I will.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: That is what I would do.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: Mr. Callinan has a different style than mine. I would pick up that telephone and ring my employee. I am entitled to put my view to Mr. Callinan because that is what everyone would say to me. I do not want to have an argument about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: It is commonsensical to pick up the telephone and ring the man. All of this stuff is leaking out all over the place.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: As to the person who is still employed, we have discussed whistleblowers and so on. Is it the fact that he continues in the service in the normal way without being intimidated? Is he carrying out the full range of his duties and that sort of thing?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: As a normal serving garda sergeant.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: His claim would be-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: He does not have that view. Needless to say-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: Do members have other questions? We will draw the meeting to a close. I thank the Commissioner and his colleagues for attending today's meeting. We very much appreciate their being here since 10 a.m.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: That is pretty straightforward. We can just leave it at that. I will put one or two questions to the Commissioner. I will not delay because we have had a long session. I made a public statement about whistleblowers and how they are treated and so on. I, therefore, feel obliged to address it in this forum before we end the meeting. Both whistleblowers have approximately 30 years...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: No, it is my view.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: It is not a view; I am asking a question. I am not representing them in any way. I am just asking a question about them.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: This issue is now in the public domain. In the correspondence, one of the whistleblowers writing to us today states: "I discovered over 200 senior Garda officers terminating fixed charge notices inappropriately and, in most cases, corruptly." This is going to appear as part of the documentation submitted to members of the committee. I would have thought the reaction to something like that...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Management of Fixed Charge Notice System (23 Jan 2014) John McGuinness: In April of what year?