Results 261-280 of 1,045,063 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker:Denis Naughten OR speaker:Marc MacSharry OR speaker:Dara Calleary) in 'Committee meetings'
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Was the €35,000 figure for the fees or the overall cost?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: That was to attend lectures and so on. The rest was probably online. Mr. Conlon said he did not want to put words in anybody's mouth. However, he ventured that this was to assist with a post-exit strategy in securing State board roles and so on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: So I am clear, is that arrangement open to Mr. Conlon if he decides he is 38 years in and might retire in two years, but before he goes will do an MBA at Harvard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: It is not even about Mr. Conlon. I am just asking.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Conlon can see where I am coming from.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: There is a threshold.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Allowed now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Conlon can understand where I am coming from.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: This is not about him or anybody here. I can understand if Mr. Casey was doing an add-on and intended to work for another 20 years-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: It is professional development. However, what has happened is taking the Michael at an extraordinary level.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I am not asking Mr. Conlon to make a comment. I am here not to defend the system; I am here on behalf of the people. As the Chair knows, we had the same in this room with Mr. Holohan at the health committee, where, in the Minister's words, "Tony wanted a new challenge". It seems Mr. Conlon's predecessor wanted a new challenge and spent €35,000 of taxpayers' money. You could not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I have other questions. There must be surface-to-air missiles over in the security hut. There is no doubt about it. We will have another hearing on that one, and I do not care how much ducting or what security concerns were involved. I had not noticed the new building and had to look it up. I have seen it, with the roof looking like Trump's hairstyle. Some €1.4 million spent on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Great. I understand that. I have no doubt that somebody tendered for the project in all the appropriate ways and the €1.4 million spent could not be better value. It is absolutely laughable in the extreme. Common sense and respect for the punter, the taxpayer, is well down the list compared to the protection of the status quo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I am not comparing like with like. This needs a meeting all on its own. Was either project entered for architectural awards and did they win any?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I have a question for Mr. Casey. All politics is local, but I am not running again. Is coastal erosion-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I am not reconsidering.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Definitely not. If you gave me 35 grand to do an aul MBA, I might stick around for a couple of years. Is coastal erosion under the remit of the OPW? The western seaboard, as we know, is rotting away because the weather is the way it is. I am in the Sligo area and there are big problems where I live in Strandhill. The fantastic head of public affairs at the OPW also lives there and I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Mooney is talking about the minor works scheme, which is still there for people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Have any applications relevant to coastal erosion in Strandhill been made by Sligo County Council to the OPW under the minor works scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Mooney would know if there was such an application. I know, for example, that Galway might make approximately 17 applications per year and Sligo might make six per year.