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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (30 Apr 2014)

John McGuinness: 595. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the submission made to him relative to AdVIC; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19479/14]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Apr 2014)

John McGuinness: ...the meeting of Thursday, 3 April 2014, beginning with correspondence from Accounting Officers or Ministers. There is correspondence dated 31 March from the Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality with follow-up information requested by the Committee of Public Accounts on 13 March 2014. There is correspondence dated 28 March 2014 from the chairman of the Office of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

John McGuinness: ...are dealing with the payments made by the HSE to Rehab under section 39 of the Health Act 2004, the operation of the charities lottery scheme, payments to Rehab from the Vote of the Department of Justice and Equality, payments made by SOLAS to Rehab for the provision of special and vocational training, and payments made by other Departments to companies of the Rehab Group. This generally...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

John McGuinness: The joint committee is considering a different issue. We seek to deal specifically with the procurement and costs. Requesting such information does not cut across the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality and Defence or the commission. If it does, I am sure we will be advised by the services and the Department. We can go ahead and ask for the information and then we can determine what we...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Apr 2014)

John McGuinness: ...clerk will notify members. Is that agreed? Agreed. Correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers includes correspondence, dated 11 March 2014, from the Secretary General, Department of Justice and Equality re a follow-up from PAC meeting on 27 February 2014, to be noted and published. Correspondence, dated 13 March 2014, from the Secretary General, Department of Public...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: She has received acknowledgements from the Department of Justice and Equality. It might be worth the Minister's while to refer to the UCD Sutherland School of Law, where two barristers have stated that in this context, they respectfully request that consideration be given to including the case of Shane O'Farrell in the files to be examined by Mr. Guerin. That letter was sent to the...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: Okay, the Minister for Justice and Equality then.

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: Maybe some day the Minister for Justice and Equality is having a conversation with the Minister, Deputy Fitzgerald, he might ask her about that. Will the Minister, Deputy Shatter, apologise to the family in Wicklow whose son took his own life? There are also implications there for the Garda. What about the granddaughter and daughter of a lady, who was killed in an accident, who reported...

Garda Inspectorate Report on the Fixed Charge Processing System: Statements (26 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: ...never wrote to me about it. Did he look over the file and will he do anything with it? The O'Farrell case highlights all that is wrong with investigations, the Attorney General's office and the system of justice in this country. I appeal to the Minister to include that case for consideration. As the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, was...

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: Will he please include in that note information on whether the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, the Department of Finance or the Department of Justice and Equality were lobbied? Can he answer that question now?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: Were officials within the Department of Justice and Equality dealing with this matter lobbied?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: .... I am trying to establish if the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform would comment as to whether it was lobbied and, if so, by whom and when, and likewise, in respect of the Department of Justice and Equality if, Mr. Purcell or his officials were lobbied and, if so, when and by whom?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: So that was the only meeting that the Department of Justice and Equality had.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: -----to move on the development of the building? What did the Department of Finance say to the Department of Justice and Equality about it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: What did the Department think of the Department of Justice and Equality writing off €4 million, €3 million or whatever?

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: The Department of Justice and Equality is about to get rid of a €3 million project but his Department is not aware of it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: No, with respect to the information that the Department of Finance would have had relative to the charities sector and the handing over of that information to the Department of Justice and Equality.

Public Accounts Committee: 2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality
Chapter 9 - State Pathology Building Project (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: ...of a policy or policies of the Government or a Minister of the Government or the merits of the objectives of such policies. I welcome Mr. Brian Purcell, Secretary General at the Department of Justice and Equality, and I ask him to introduce his officials.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: The Secretary General of the Department of Justice and Equality will appear before the committee today. That Department is responsible for the charity sector. I have received numerous telephone calls from charities telling me that they respect the work of the committee and encouraging it to complete that work, but it is the charitable organisations which are holding up the process. I agree...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Mar 2014)

John McGuinness: ...the Rehab Group. The committee has taken legal advice on the statement and has decided to forward a copy of the correspondence to the Garda Síochána, pursuant to its obligations under the Criminal Justice Act 2011 and other enactments. The allegations contained in the statement fall outside the committee’s remit and could potentially involve criminal wrongdoing. In...