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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Where no defence is lodged, a plaintiff can take a case to get the judge to rule that one must be put in or the case settled or whatever. The bottom line is that this is all noise and scenery. All we are interested in is the oversight and how we get there as quickly as possible. The Department using us as a tool in its arsenal without consulting us is a matter for a slap on the hand...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The Chairman should get the clarification and, I suggest, ask why, a statement of claim having been served, the Department has not lodged a defence, where matters stand and whether the committee has a role. I asked Mr. Carville the last day what the Department's position was on the formal recommendation of this committee in its report in January on the establishment of a committee of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes. It is a recommendation of our report from January.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It will indeed. It is in the published report which we launched in January.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: On Transport Infrastructure Ireland, an issue that came up at a previous meeting was to do with people who, for convenience, put in a large amount of money when travelling through a toll but do not wait for their change or whatever. That amounts to a significant sum. I do not know whether we were in correspondence about this after the question was raised or whether I read it in a newspaper...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is the surplus-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is VAT returned on the surplus?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We might see it if has a handle on that. We might have correspondence on it. What is the total amount involved or is such data available?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I suppose we could appeal to the conscience of these companies that they might like to make a charitable contribution-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: -----equal to that amount.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That might solve the problem.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am not happy, anyway. I do not know if other people have read this. It is going on for a number of years now. This letter is as if they were not here at all. That is my view on it. The issues we have are as follows. We have disclosures, and the people mentioned in the disclosures were responsible for providing legal briefs to companies to come up with terms of reference for what,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: By their own admission, governance and risk management were non-existent.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Twelve months ago last June there was a corporate and ice sculpture day. The whistleblowers were more recent - May or June.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We can all give some thought as to recommendations we could make. That is all we can do and it is for others to enforce them. Between now and the next meeting, we could explore the options. Could we recommend that a senior counsel goes in and looks at this stuff? Should we recommend another inquiry or investigation? At the moment, everyone is claiming plausible deniability based on a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I listened to Mary Wilson on RTÉ's "Drivetime" the other evening talking to an expert about how we should not allow people get away with saying "the culture", because it lets individuals away with wrongdoing, and I do not mean the Deputy. They blame the culture, the system, the policy and so on. It is about individuals as well. It is not about an ice sculpture or a portrait, which is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Dr. Love's availability will also be pertinent presumably.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: When we have the State Claims Agency in again before the committee there will be an opportunity to raise the issue and some other matters as well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is important to give Mr. McCarthy the opportunity to let the public know. I went through the banking inquiry, where these issues came up frequently. She refers to the Central Bank and Anglo Irish Bank and her view of the proximity of the regulator and all those people. I do not disagree with her on that particular issue. It would be good for the Comptroller and Auditor General to state...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely.