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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Deputy Kelly is stealing my notes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I would like to put a couple of things on record about this. The gentleman in question also wrote to me requesting that I recuse myself because of what he determined as my long association with the college. To me, the implication of his correspondence was that a partiality or conflict of interest might impair my fair adjudication of any evidence or correspondence that this committee might...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely. Potentially and depending on the reply, we could have the college representatives in to the committee, with the gentleman, to give an account of these matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: There was a court case with an outcome. It seems to be suggested in this correspondence that the outcome of that court case may be being interpreted differently by NUIG than the authorities at St. Angela's College and by this gentleman. The suggestion in the correspondence is that up to €1 million was potentially spent in legal fees which, without prejudice to any of our own...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: St. Angela's is in Sligo, and while it was a constituent college of NUI, it is now merging with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: NUIG, yes.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: The programme for Government refers to breakthrough treatments, the availability of new drugs and their cost. The previous Deputy mentioned that Kuvan is the only treatment for PKU, a disease that is prevalent in Ireland. Ireland has the highest incidence in the world at one in 4,500. Many countries throughout Europe have already approved this drug for supply. We have not done it here...
- Other Questions: Garda Station Closures (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 7. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when Stepaside Garda station will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44071/17]
- Other Questions: Garda Station Closures (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: When will Stepaside Garda station be reopened? It follows a decision that caused much public controversy. Let us contrast this decision with the tangible lack of action in the advancement of work on a new regional Garda headquarters in Sligo where there is no running water and no shower facilities in the Garda station. The cells have been condemned to the extent that members of the Garda...
- Other Questions: Garda Station Closures (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: The acting Garda Commissioner recently told the Committee of Public Accounts that the decision on Stepaside Garda station had already been made, that the OPW was pressing ahead and at an advanced stage with the project. The Minister might want to tell his colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, to send a tweet that perhaps it might never happen, certainly...
- Other Questions: Garda Station Closures (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: That is for sure.
- Other Questions: Garda Station Closures (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I am available to help, not that I have a site, but as a former practising auctioneer in the area, I know that there is no shortage of potential sites and that people made submissions following the call and the placing of adverts. Perhaps, in order to progress the project, the relevant parties in the OPW might like to contact me, as well as Deputy Eamon Scanlon, Deputy Tony McLoughlin of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Theoretically, 100 companies could dissolve and 100 sets of assets would transfer to the State, but the State would know nothing about them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: From a value for money point of view, should this not be an issue that the committee pursues separately?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Even to register or log?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: As an aside, apart from referring this company to the Department should we not write to the Department asking for a report on this with a view to it establishing such a measure?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: If it is a case that there are properties that, theoretically, are owned by the people then they are wide open, if there is no register, to squatters' rights and are lost to the State, in any event. It is an important issue to raise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Can the Comptroller and Auditor General give us the name of the account again?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Can I have the name of that account again?