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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: It is a very serious request. It is nice to be pioneering now and again and, if it saves taxpayers' money, why not?

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 will always help.

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: That is their choice.

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: He might say "No" but I just think it is worth asking, that is all.

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: At the meeting the last day it was agreed that we would ask Mr. Carville for sight of the contract in private. The Chairman pointed out that it was possible for the committee to view things and not publish them. Mr. Carville said he would check that. We also asked for the minutes from the update meetings. He indicated that was a reasonable request and that they should be able to provide...

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: Did we not ask for the minutes?

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 is nothing personal here. If we did not ask for them, we did not ask for them.

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: Okay, that is a bit of an issue. We asked for more than that at the meeting but I would say the key question was whether we could have the minutes.

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 have a problem with that. If we need a proposer and seconder to every suggestion-----

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: Well then what is the problem?

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 think it is appropriate to have this discussion. I know we have eight minutes because the bell has just started to ring, and I will be in possession afterwards. I have a problem if, after a Committee of Public Accounts meeting, the Chair and the secretariat or whoever, another person, not me anyway, sits down and decides to cherry-pick from the transcript what we seek and what we do not...

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 thank the Chairman. Before we suspended we were talking about the stuff that came up when Mr. Carville was in the last day and I made a number of suggestions. In particular, I asked if we could see the contract with the special liquidator even in private session. The Chairman pointed out it was possible for us to view documents in private session which would not be published. Mr....

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: So we will be able to get those minutes.

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: In the contract.

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: Will Mr. Moran come back to us on that-----

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: -----even if it is not in the letter?

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: Could we see the contract in private session? It is hugely frustrating that in parliamentary questions and committee meetings two reasons are given. One is legal advice and the other is commercial sensitivity. We all have our individual definitions of commercial sensitivity. It seems to be the Department can procure whatever legal advice it is looking for. If I want legal advice to say...

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 hear Mr. Moran and I find it hugely frustrating because-----

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: -----if and when Mr. Moran is down in the Law Library having to answer that question it will cost somebody €40,000 to ask him the question and it will cost the Department €40,000 to answer 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: I genuinely mean it. I know it is highly unusual but it is not somebody looking for money or compensation. They are possibly coming from a good place in terms of public advocacy. The committee has said it would like to discuss it in private. Legal representatives talk through the back channels regularly. Maybe it is something that could be looked at. If it saves people money and leads...