Results 9,201-9,220 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If, for example, I am the head of a State body, can I say to the Comptroller and Auditor General's office that it has been a rough week and ask for a few weeks so that we can work it out? Does that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Has the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General ever experienced strong push back from organisations that were giving them grief?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: When that happens-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is important to get the issue on record. When push back arises and the Comptroller and Auditor General decides to push back again, does anybody at a higher level lift the phone and say to him or her, "Look Comptroller and Auditor General, you need to cool the jets there"? Does the Comptroller and Auditor General report to anybody?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: On the rare occasions that has happened, who lifted the phone? I do not need a name but was it the Secretary General or a Minister?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am sure I know the answer to this question, but again to leave this person who has written to the committee in no doubt, is there anybody who can trump the authority of the Comptroller and Auditor General?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: In respect of an audit, or of his or her work on behalf of the State. Can anybody trump the authority of the Comptroller and Auditor General and say that the office should not do such a report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: No individual, including the Secretary General of a Department or a Minister, can trump that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Good.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General get bottles of whiskey from the Accounting Officers?
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (2 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 161. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the Revenue Commissioners does not inform married couples or couples in a civil partnership on reaching 65 years of age of their possible entitlement to a tax exemption limit of €36,000 as a matter of course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39419/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (9 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 388. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce a moratorium on forestry development in County Leitrim and a rebalancing of the focus on forestry throughout other counties to include regulations that will require full planning permission for the planting of forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40797/18]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I know that events earlier today have determined that the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, is here to take this matter. For the record, his area is natural resources, community affairs and digital development. Is that correct?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State for coming along. The decision to close 159 post offices was taken without consultation with this House, the people's representatives, the Seanad or even county councils throughout the country. A private trade union, the Irish Postmasters Union, IPU, and An Post, a commercial semi-State company, designed a process for the closure of post offices nationwide...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I know the reply was prepared by somebody else but, quite frankly, it was shocking. It is a rigged process. The independent appeals process is totally rigged. An Post privately came up with the 500 people and 15 km criteria. I have proved to the Minister of State that Ballinfull was not remotely looked at. In fact, An Post's first response on Ocean FM, given by one of its senior...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It was in the speech of the Minister of State.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The record of our previous meeting does not show that. According to the record, the question was whether the IGB had a valuation, and the answer was that it did. When asked who did it, the answer was "Savills". We asked whether we could have it, but we were told "No". When we asked why, we were told it was because the deal had not been closed and it was sensitive information. That is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If this was banking, it would be called "kiting". For example, if I owe €5,000 to Bank of Ireland and I have a €5,000 overdraft in Permanent TSB, I pay the cheque off that. When that is paid off, then I start paying off the Permanent TSB one and the money keeps going around in circles. If this was a bailout for Bord na gCon, it should be called that. Do not treat the people...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is all right. A freedom of information request from a journalist trumps the constitutional committee of the State once again.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)
Marc MacSharry: In addition to the €23 million paid for the school, the Department of Education and Skills is not providing access for children in Dublin 8 or Dublin 12. A sum of €23 million was divvied out for a site and a school will be built on it. A football could be kicked to Dublin 8 or Dublin 12 from the site in Harold's Cross, but the children in those areas will not be allowed to...