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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: As stated at our previous meeting, I sent a detailed letter to that guy.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: We should accede to his initial wish.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I second that request. As members are aware, the refurbishment of Leinster House is ongoing. As a former member of the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, I can testify that the refurbishment is many decades overdue. I am sure all members support it and look forward to its completion. Regardless of the cost involved, the work is vitally important, given that Leinster House was built in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Yes. Mr. Peter Finnegan would be the appropriate person to contact.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I was a member when the project was first mooted.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am sure all members agree that the refurbishment is necessary and must be completed regardless of the cost. However, against the backdrop of everything that is going on with the hospital, we should ensure that there is transparency on this matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Not, as I said at the meeting before Christmas, if 5G and the wireless developments are such that it is going to cost us and be a lot better value for money to do it. I know this was dismissed earlier but we did determine with the Secretary General that they have no analysis done of that. They do not have sufficient analysis. There was a kind of desktop judgment made, if we go back to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: If the objective can be achieved by doing the appropriate research into 5G - no doubt 6G is not too far down the line-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is Deputy Farrell's view. Hands up who thinks this is-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It is not Deputy Farrell's individual decision either, with respect to him.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: What I would say is if there is technology available that we have not investigated-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: -----as was established with the Secretary General-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I do not remember you being at the meeting, to tell the truth.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am speaking through the Chair. Even when the Deputy does not like what I say, I am still allowed speak.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Sorry, I did not know I was in school. Mea culpa. How should one conduct oneself? Do not be guided by the Miriam Lord view of how we conduct ourselves at this meeting and just shut up and listen when people are talking. That is what I would suggest. There was a Secretary General here before Christmas. We asked him whether the Department looked at 5G and he said it did. When we got in...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: I welcome Ms McCaffrey and Mr. O'Driscoll. They say that a new broom sweeps clean even though I know that both of them have been involved in the service before and at the outset I pay tribute to the hardworking prison staff that we have in the service all over the country, be they administrative staff, officers or otherwise. I apologise in advance because people - particularly journalists -...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Would they not be matters relating to personal injury?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Is it okay quote from things that are in the public domain?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Will we do it case by case so and if our guests feel they cannot comment, they can say so?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019) Marc MacSharry: Yes.