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- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Is GDPR hanging us on this or is it a convenient life jacket?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. Will the witnesses provide us with a note on that from the legal advisers indicating the reasons the information cannot be gathered? In the Comptroller and Auditor General's experience of private accountancy, if a company sought a value-for-money report, what would be the typical timeframe within which a result would be expected?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: If I asked somebody to undertake a value for money report for a company, agency or Department, notwithstanding the huge nature of this topic, what would be the typical timeframe in the private or public sector for it to be completed?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Sure. Could Mr. McCarthy define "lengthy" in this case? What would be a ballpark time?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Right. How long are we into this process now?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: It is a couple of years. We are talking Unilever proportions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Discussion (1 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: The GDPR aspect or the lack of data is difficult but it will not wash with the public. If blame is be apportioned, we do not want to inadvertently point it at the Department, the HSE or any individual. If there is a flaw in the legislation, the committee needs to know in order that we can make recommendations accordingly.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (6 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 250. To ask the Minister for Finance when the decision was taken to suspend processing all primary medical certificate applications by the HSE; if applicants have been informed that the scheme has been suspended; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some areas of the HSE are refusing to issue application forms for primary medical certificates; and if he will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (6 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 277. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that have been taken to determine the case of the two children named in the recent judgment of the Supreme Court to quash the decision of the disabled drivers board of appeal not to grant a primary medical certificate (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28707/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (6 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 278. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applications for primary medical certificates that have been granted and refused since the Supreme Court decision (details supplied); if the scheme has been suspended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28708/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (6 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance the position on continued processing of applications for a primary medical certificate in view of the Supreme Court decision (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28709/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (6 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has suspended processing all applications and appeals of primary medical certificates; the date the scheme was suspended; the reason for same; when the scheme will be resumed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28711/20]
- Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Acting Chair. I ask him to remind me when I have spoken for six and half minutes. I am glad to have an opportunity to make a few points on Brexit and business. I am from the north west of the country, as the Minister knows. Sadly, many businesses in my region are concerned about whether they will make the Brexit deadline in business such is the impact of Covid and our...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020) Marc MacSharry: I welcome Mr. McDonagh and Mr. Williams. I was involved in the NAMA debates when the legislation was before the Seanad. As I have said, I envisaged that there would probably be a second or third NAMA Bill and, with the benefit of hindsight, there probably should have been. On a macro level, Mr. McDonagh and the former chairman, Mr. Daly, deserve great credit for achieving what they set out...
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020) Marc MacSharry: Mr. McDonagh is referring to the €9.7 million in personal loans to the director of Quinlan.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020) Marc MacSharry: Theoretically, the target recoverable may have been as high as €154 million, as the Comptroller and Auditor General has determined.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020) Marc MacSharry: There is a notional loss in that because of that mistake.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020) Marc MacSharry: It arose through our deliberations on Project Eagle that there was a decision not to carry out current valuations, which had been a requirement from July of that year in the code the Minister had set out for disposals. We relied, therefore, on a 2009 valuation as opposed to current ones. Can Mr. McDonagh recall why that was done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020) Marc MacSharry: Yes, that is an interest declared before the Committee of Public Accounts of the previous Dáil, which I will come to in a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report 109 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency
National Asset Management Agency - Financial Statements 2019 (8 Oct 2020) Marc MacSharry: The argument is it may have been valued as less, in any event.