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- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, but it is aviation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I know that but I am not asking for the answer in Chinese.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is there someone here from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: My understanding is that the Department is not responsible for aviation services to the islands, including Tory Island and the Aran Islands. Why is that not the responsibility of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is it the Department of Rural Affairs and Community Development?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: In terms of the principle of subsidiarity and the Department's expertise in transport and aviation, would it not be better for the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to be responsible for it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If we wanted, as a committee, to see transport to the islands under the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport's remit, we should approach the Taoiseach. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is a good answer although I respectfully disagree. As a committee, we should ask the Department of the Taoiseach to move this to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport because the Department of Rural Affairs and Community Development is not overrun with avionics engineers. How many legal cases have been taken against Bus Éireann by children or their families?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If there was an accident or if a child slipped, who would be liable?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Are there cases involving Bus Éireann?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It would be interesting for us to know whether there are cases and to get an idea of the legal costs associated with those cases. Are they handled in-house, by a legal firm or is the State Claims Agency involved?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The Comptroller and Auditor General does not audit Bus Éireann. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I appreciate that is not up to the Comptroller and Auditor General to decide which bodies he audits but would it be better if he audited Bus Éireann in the context of providing oversight in this area?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I know that the Comptroller and Auditor General is not looking for extra work. Indeed, he has enough to do already but I ask the question in the context of his office being able to provide this committee with the picture that it needs. In the context of the commercial mandate of Bus Éireann and so forth, is the Comptroller and Auditor General in a position to give us the picture that...
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am told that the accounting arrangements between Bus Éireann and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport have been in place since 1975 and have not been updated.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What are the implications of that? I am not fully up to date with international accounting standards but are there any implications of which we should be aware? Do the accounting arrangements need to be updated? Are there systems that have moved on since then? Are we behind the curve with anything?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: A review is under way. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Great. Happy Christmas and thank you.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018) Marc MacSharry: I welcome the witnesses. At the beginning of November The Irish Timesprinted figures that it obtained showing that 28,000 homes or as few as 14% of homes availed of Eir broadband out of a total of 200,000 homes. If the cost for the national broadband programme ranges between €1.5 billion and €3 billion then that suggests the cost of connecting each house would be at best...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Chapter 8 - Measures relating to Cyber Security
Chapter 9 - Energy Efficiency National Fund (6 Dec 2018) Marc MacSharry: Is that the Department's outlook? Are we saying we are happy if we get 20% take up for our investment of between €1.5 million and €3 billion? Mr. Mark Griffin:Not at all. Absolutely not.