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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.
- Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I realise the line Ministers are not here because everyone is taking their turn to lay out their own Department's position. My party's position was well articulated by our senior spokesman, Deputy Lisa Chambers, and I do not want to go over that. Obviously, we will support the Bill. I think everyone in the House is donning the green jersey in that regard and we all hope none of this ever...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Does that relate just to CIT?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I have an interest in pursuing the companies in the University of Limerick, UL.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: What is the situation with UL? Are we going to have a further discussion with it? One of the companies has jumped out at me, as it were.