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Order of Business (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Page 54 of A Programme for a Partnership Government speaks of the need to build GP capacity to respond to patients' needs. Later in the document, it mentions guaranteeing the future sustainability of rural practice. Last weekend, Our Lady's Community Hospital in Manorhamilton in County Leitrim was left without any doctor on call to service it. Last June I raised in the House the fact that...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I thank colleagues for tabling this Bill in Private Members' time. I do not doubt at all their commitment to the issue and their wish, like all of us, for a resolution. I would love if we could include this in the Constitution as a right and fulfil it but, as matters stand, we would be as well enshrining the right to the winning lottery numbers because, sadly, more would be left without...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: We do not want to create ghettos but we must take control of the matter. We cannot take decisions in here, saying we want more houses, while not putting in place the very specific and tangible things needed for this to happen. I am grateful for the opportunity to speak.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 175. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 11 September 2017, if he will provide copies of all minutes of meetings between his Department and the special liquidators in relation to the costs of the liquidation of IBRC since 7 February 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39534/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 133 of 11 September 2017, the queries in relation to costs that were raised by him with the special liquidators; the way in which these were addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39535/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 179. To ask the Minister for Finance the policies, reporting requirements and specific oversight procedures he has put in place since 7 February 2013 for the costs of the liquidation and the special liquidators of IBRC; if he has engaged an external party or other State entity to examine and challenge the invoices produced; the work upon which the costs are based; the method of charging and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 11 September 2017, the basis on which the rebate of €5 million was provided by the special liquidators in respect of their costs; if this or other rebates were requested by him; the way in which the sum of €5 million was calculated; if it related to overcharging or failure to deliver the services...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 11 September 2017, the way in which a statement (details supplied) is correct; if he will request the special liquidators to provide the information requested in view of the fact that further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 9 June 2015 he provided same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39537/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Consumption Data (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 399. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of alcohol consumption statistics to differentiate between the total alcohol consumption per capita greater than 15 years of age of the population and the total alcohol per capita greater than 15 years of age consumption in litres of pure alcohol of tourists visiting here in each of the years 2014 to 2016 respectively; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 708. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 389 of 15 November 2016, the timeframe for proposals to be made available; if entitlement to a mixed insurance pro rata pension will still be an option for persons that have employment both in the public and private sectors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39532/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I would say the Deputy sent out a few such letters himself.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I need to refresh my memory because this correspondence was sent some time ago.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: None of us likes the idea of the police or any organisation shooting fish in a barrel by setting up speed cameras on motorways and all the rest of it. At the same time, we have to look at the overall cost. The comparison between the income from fines and the outlay seems to be very significant. There seems to be no targeting where they are supposed to catch so many people. It does not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I am agnostic on the question of who should look into it. If the cost per life saved is €1 million, and that is agreeable, so be it. It is difficult to put a price on it. In the case of the cancer drug nivolumab, the cost per life saved is €50,000, unless one goes on the Joe Duffy show to harass politicians for six months and get it approved. If it is more than that, then...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I wish to put a few matters on the record in this regard. The liquidation began on 7 February 2013. At the time, control and oversight over remuneration for liquidators was governed by the Companies Act 1963, which also provided for scrutiny by a committee of inspection in the High Court. No committee of inspection has been established in respect of the IBRC or provided for in the Irish...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Sorry, the liquidator.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: It is KPMG. The target here - not that there is a target - is not KPMG. It is paying itself and doing its work as it is allowed to do. Effectively, however, it has been let off. It is paying itself from recoveries, work-outs and various things. Those fees are effectively box-ticking exercises for the Department of Finance. I worry that there is no mechanism to challenge these fees and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: In effect no money is being paid out from the Department of Finance to KPMG. KPMG is remunerating itself from recoveries-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: -----from the moneys coming in and so on. I would have to go back again to see how much we are losing on this whole liquidation and how much more are we going to lose as a result of it. It clearly has to be done but the level of oversight is much less and poorer than, as I said, if Marc MacSharry was being liquidated with nothing only a computer in his office and €50,000 in debts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I do not think so. With the best of respect to Mr. McCarthy, while that is a good body of work which will have to be looked at, this is something quite specific. From his own experience in private life or his knowledge of accountancy, because I do not recall and I missed it in the legislation, why would there be no committee of inspection?