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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Revised) (24 Apr 2024)

John McGuinness: ...the tribunals, but it applies to the Charleton tribunal in particular because of what happened during it. Will the papers for all those tribunals be stored? Will they be kept for reference? Are they destroyed or what happens to them? There are particular examples within the Charleton tribunal that point to back channels into and out of Government and so on, which I would love to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGuinness: The unfortunates caught in this cycle at the bottom of all this are the ones whose lives are being destroyed by all this greed and grabbing by those funds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Credit Servicers Directive: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

John McGuinness: I have heard about people who have lost their lives because of this. I have heard of people who have taken their own lives because of it. I have heard of families being destroyed because of it. I have heard of individuals, families and businesses who have gone to the courts and have not gotten the appropriate redress. In terms of the quotes Mr. Honohan has given us from the various...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2022)

John McGuinness: ...;119 million but they got a discount of 30%. I do not know anyone who gets a discount like that when they have done so much damage. A number of houses were repossessed and a number of families were destroyed - the litany of errors goes on and on. Now we are asking that same bank with that record to treat fairly the EBS tied agents. I am not making little of the customers that were...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (14 Jul 2022)

John McGuinness: ...has not been fully assessed or factored into budgetary plans. They are daft not to do that. Everything should be factored into a budgetary plan. Looking at agriculture and the 22% target: if it goes beyond 22% they will destroy rural Ireland. Maybe that is their mission. I do not know. Certainly, in policy terms it appears to be their mission. We have tried time and again at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Ombudsman and Information Commissioner: Commissioner Designate (9 Dec 2021)

John McGuinness: ...questions and her efforts to get at the truth and get a decision have been nothing short of deplorable. Sean O'Brien's case with the Prison Service again involves a family and individual destroyed by the inaction of the State. It is the same for Noel McGree. He won his case but the Department has refused to honour the outcome. John Wilson was destroyed within the Garda. Jonathan...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

John McGuinness: ...to the State itself. One of our guests mentioned power and authority. That power and authority is seen to the greatest extent in cases involving the State. It has the ability to stall the case, destroy an individual or hide the consequences of actions. It appears to me, from the concerned citizens acting in the public interest who have come forward to date, that all of them have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

John McGuinness: In terms of the experience to date, if one asks most whistleblowers if they would do it again, without hesitation they will say "No" because their families have been destroyed, they have been destroyed, their careers and their mental health have been destroyed while what they reported, particularly within Government agencies, is still ongoing. That is a terribly bad example to set. We have...

Garda Siochana (Functions and Operational Areas) Bill 2021: Second Stage (22 Sep 2021)

John McGuinness: ...and ensure that legacy issues such as those of Maurice McCabe and John Wilson are addressed. There are many more gardaí who have made complaints and are waiting for results and whose lives are being destroyed, yet their cases are not being dealt with. If one looks at the complaints made by citizens of this country about the treatment that some gardaí have meted out to them,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: General Scheme of the Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (22 Sep 2021)

John McGuinness: ...accountability, then we will continue to have this ongoing issue. I would also draw attention to the fact that there are numerous other unnamed whistleblowers, who are currently having their lives destroyed by a State that believes it can kick individuals around using, as Mr. McGree said, taxpayers' money to do so. Where decisions have been made and results have been arrived at, again,...

Future of Banking in Ireland: Statements (1 Jul 2021)

John McGuinness: ...credit unions. It should also offer greater protection to risk managers within banks or financial institutions in order that we never again have a case such as that of Jonathan Sugarman, a man whose life was destroyed just because he came forward in accordance with legislation and made a case to the Central Bank. Now, rather than the offending bank being in difficulty, the employee is in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Issues in Ireland: Central Bank (15 Dec 2020)

John McGuinness: ...bank. Money was borrowed from Anglo Irish Bank, most of which was paid to an associate of that bank and ended up in an Anglo Irish Bank deposit account. Over time and through the process, this destroyed the individual's business. What is the response of the Central Bank to cases of serious money laundering such as this? Who deals with it? Is it Ms McEvoy or somebody else? Is it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector (Resumed): Pensions and Investment Research Consultants Ltd (28 May 2019)

John McGuinness: ...losses, they can get away without paying taxes, they can use vulture funds to do all sorts that they cannot do, and treat people badly and so on. Then there is the GRG issue where businesses were destroyed which should not have been. That is essentially what Mr. Butler and Mr. Bush are saying. Mr. Butler, in particular, has set out in stark terms the wrongdoings of the State and the...

No Consent, No Sale Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jan 2019)

John McGuinness: ...Mr. Honohan did. Then, to try to compound the problem for the Master, certain comments were made by other judges and put out into the public domain to discredit him, a typical act of trying to destroy the messenger.

Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2018)

John McGuinness: ...State should not beat up families or ignore them. The State should do the opposite; it should show compassion, humanity and an attempt to deal with the reality of the lives of the people who are being destroyed by the inaction of the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Behaviour and Culture of the Irish Retail Banks Report: Central Bank of Ireland (4 Oct 2018)

John McGuinness: ...something about the Central Bank. In a case similar to EBS agents, GRG personnel have gone halfway around the world to try to get their case heard and something done. Lives and families have been destroyed. It is the same with the banks but it appears there is a softly-softly approach to the banks. There are voices out there shouting about particular cases of wrongdoing but they are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: KBC Bank (10 Jul 2018)

John McGuinness: ...and the outcomes. I will not go through them all but I have one example from an individual who accuses the bank of ruining her life. It took away the joy and wonder of a mother's first years, destroyed her son's right to be raised in a home and goes on to discuss the possibility of a better family life and so on. It goes through a litany of the ways the tracker issue affected an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

John McGuinness: ...jobs. They were ignoring the plight of people. The evidence given to this committee, in writing and by the four people, was so exceptional that it told all the hard facts about how lives can be destroyed by banks that could not care less for people. That was the issue that day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: EU Proposals on Taxation of the Digital Economy: Discussion (26 Apr 2018)

John McGuinness: What can be done to assist Mr. Jonathan Sugarman who seems to be the only one who told the truth? It can be said his life has been destroyed by the fact that the Central Bank of Ireland did not respond and does not seem to care about the fact that there was more than one.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (15 Feb 2018)

John McGuinness: ...OPW spent some flood protection money on it. I understand that some money was given to the business-owner to assist with flood protection. The flooding that occurred before the last major flood destroyed the house again and put the man out of business. He spent his money, restored the premises and got on with it, but the same thing happened again. Is there any relief for someone like...