Fianna Fáil should receive “something extra, some sort of price” from Fine Gael for their support of the Government through the confidence and supply agreement, claims Carlow-Kilkenny TD John McGuinness.
He told RTE’s Today with Sean O’Rourke show that there should be greater transparency and support for bills such as the one which could give extra powers to the Comptroller and Auditor General to investigate all infrastructure projects as soon as they go over budget.
He was responding to a report that he and party colleague Barry Cowen had clashed at a private party meeting over issues such as the extension of the confidence-and-supply deal.
Mr Cowen, a TD for Offaly, criticised some colleagues for speaking in a “personal capacity” in recent interviews on subjects such as the extension of the confidence-and-supply deal, which underpins the Fine Gael-led minority government.
Mr McGuinness insisted he would express his views inside and outside the parliamentary party room and said he would not be “bullied, intimidated… [or] embarrassed”.
There had been a complete shut down of democracy, he claimed and that was why he used the parliamentary party to raise such issues.
That was also the reason why he has no intention of running as an independent candidate, he added.
