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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: He said he was not there but that was part of a broader situation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The party was hopped on as the big thing. It was suggested that it was all about the party but it was not all about the party.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I would like to come back in first.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I understood from the meeting the last day that costs for repairing the building would stand to the company and not the Exchequer but that is not the point, quite frankly. It is important that we have the right expertise in the right place doing the right job. I have nothing personal against this individual. Clearly his qualifications are there, as a first-class academic. We did establish...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: At that time he would have had 37 years' experience but he was appointed in 2004, when he would not have had that amount of experience. The description contained in that document, which I read carefully today, includes everything that he was involved in and undertook as contract manager. It does not refer to any experience before his appointment as contract manager. I am just saying that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I know he did not say that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: People who are employed by the State in this context have to come in here if they are called in here. I will not be adjusting my style of questioning people. I invite anybody who wants to visit my Facebook page to view and read this. If this is unfair and is going to procure or invite complaints from precious individuals in the public services, we are going to be putting the bar very low...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am talking about something that might influence the Chairman's handling of a meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I do not see CIT there. We were anxious to deal with that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I have concerns because various Deputies have raised important issues on the education sector. To the greatest extent possible, we should not stuff it all into one day. Certain colleges need a session on their own while others which are less problematic could be taken together.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: On that point, are there grounds for changing the fiscal rules to take account of this?
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: As Deputy Cullinane stated, that has implications for our borrowing and expenditure decisions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: There probably should be some cognisance taken or an adjustment made to the rules to permit it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: Is Ireland advocating that position?
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: While I want to focus on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, I am interested in one figure that jumped out at me, namely, the €1 million provided for the secret service. I did not know we had a secret service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: For what is this allocation used?
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: I do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: We clearly have a secret service.
- Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018) Marc MacSharry: Maybe I watch too many box sets but is it spent on men in dark suits and glasses, moving packages and so on?