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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: All right, so the work programme is the appropriate place to discuss the matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I have a few points on the work programme and I have another business matter so the Chairman can tell me when it is appropriate to bring that in. I see the speaking schedule here-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Back three years ago it was the case that members could indicate and say they had done a lot of work on a particular issue and would ask if they could lead on that issue. Somewhere along the line, a good while ago, we decided that it was strictly turnabout so I sat back then and just waited for my name to pop up. Sure enough it has not been popping up and that just occurred to me but I got...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I did not finish yet.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I have no difficulty with anybody doing a report on it yet. I think one of the committees in question is the Business Committee. I understood that the Business Committee sets the business for the House and determines that there will be statements on X on such a day and on Y on such a day, that this speaker will have two minutes and lead spokespeople will have ten minutes etc. so I wonder...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Deputy Connolly regularly supports me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I myself was not asked very often.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It is not rocket science.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am very interested to know why they changed, when they changed and why, since last week, have I been relegated from 7 March to 4 April? There is obviously some reason for that and I am sure it is perfectly explainable but I am interested to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That was just one of the three issues I wanted to raise. There was that issue and there was the issue of the reports being done on us which the Chairman might come back to us on. The third issue is the Irish Prison Service. We got the response last week and I raised some issues and further issues have arisen since. I wanted to respectfully ask that we pick a date for a meeting of decent...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: With respect, we can enter into an administrative merry-go-round and we will be here until next week. People's individual styles aside, there is nothing better than a good conversation to cut out six weeks of correspondence and toing and froing. While that is the norm, unfortunately, what we know of the Prison Service so far is well outside the norm and, in fairness to the secretariat, I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I thought it would be helpful and to support-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: To be helpful, I support what Deputy Murphy has said there. This committee formally recommended the establishment of a committee of inspection in one of our work reports. To my knowledge, that recommendation has never been responded to. I asked the Taoiseach in questions on promised legislation in the Dáil if he could give an update on that and if it has happened. He said he was not...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Given the situation with the Prison Service and the busy schedule, would members be prepared to sit on a Tuesday or Wednesday, for example, to deal with such issues if it helped with the schedule?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am conscious that the Comptroller and Auditor General might intend to start carrying out audits, for example, and that some work we could do as a committee might assist in focusing those audits.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: When will we decide on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Do we need a week to mull it over or are people in a position-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I did not say it must be Tuesday specifically. Rather, we should have the witnesses appear as soon as possible. Is that agreed? Are there any dissenting voices?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Last week, I noted that one specific aspect of the correspondence was not credible. How many weeks do we need to mull it over? If we write back indicating we do not believe it is credible and asking the Prison Service to expand further, it will take another two weeks and we will receive a reply explaining that this is the information that was received.