Sunday 28 October 2018

McGuinness: 'Coalition has failed to keep the people safe'

PAC chairman John McGuinness tells Political Editor John Drennan that the Government hasn't lived up to promises of change

Fianna Fail TD John McGuinness at Leinster House.
Fianna Fail TD John McGuinness at Leinster House.
John Drennan

John Drennan

The chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), John McGuinness, has delivered a scathing critique of the failure of this Government to fulfil "its first duty, which is to keep its people safe".

Instead, the TD said: ''We are marginalising our people and reducing them to numbers, to make it easy to treat them coldly and impersonally. This is not how Ireland should be."

The TD was being interviewed over his experiences within the PAC where he has become the most closely watched and serially leaked-against chairperson.

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