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- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: There is a four-stage process involved. A county manager makes contact with the Department and tells it that there is a site in his or her county with sufficient space for 50 units. Mr. McCarthy will probably throw statistics at me and talk about 59-week turnarounds and so on. In practice, there is an administrative merry-go-round that somewhat baffles me. If Developer A goes to Meath...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: I experience it from where I sit and in terms of value for money and costs of course we want adequate oversight. We are speaking about local authorities and people of integrity. I will come to auditing local authorities in a second. It is not rocket science that the cost per building we expect in Sligo is X per square metre which it might be different in Dublin. There are broad parameters...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Am I correct that it audits a sample each year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Does the Local Government Audit Service go to the Department with the results?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: But not to the Department?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Theoretically, and I am sure they are all excellent, if there was a basket case, we would not know.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Who has competence to tell the local authorities they would want to sort themselves out?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: It is up to the local authorities to sort themselves out.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: We have no function with regard to Irish Water and neither does the Comptroller and Auditor General - more is the pity. Last year, did the Department have to give €291 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Irish Water was set up as and is a semi-State company.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Therefore, it has a commercial mandate, albeit there are no charges to be paid by households or whatever else.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: I seek guidance on the following. Is there a legislative angle or current legislation that permits the Comptroller and Auditor General to play a role in considering the accounts of Irish Water? Obviously, there is a huge amount of money involved. There are lot of rumours that many millions of euro of our money go into Irish Water which certainly is doing excellent work. In the Secretary...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: No, it is okay. I apologise.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: Has the Department established metrics to show that the four-stage process had led to a saving of X or Y amount of money and an increase in the number of units available, or is there any such analysis available?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government (28 Feb 2019) Marc MacSharry: I thank the Secretary General.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Invalidity Pension Applications (5 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 528. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive a decision in relation to an application for an invalidity pension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10220/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Benefit Eligibility (5 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will be reviewed; if this condition can be waived in the circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10413/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I agree 100% with Deputy Cullinane. We have reached a stage where the level of contempt with which Oireachtas committees in general are being treated is unacceptable. The notion of pesky politicians having the effrontery to ask questions in the public interest when it comes to the expenditure of public of public money and how that is being treated is wrong. We had correspondence from Mr....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I know that.