Results 3,981-4,000 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- 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: He was there all along; he was in-house, as it were. 
- 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: Okay. He was part of the process then. 
- 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: He was on the books to do with the national broadband plan, NBP. 
- 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: Was he at any of the meetings the former Minister had with the tenderer? 
- 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: Did Mr. Smyth, as part of his investigation, interview, for example, the diary secretary? 
- 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: No. From a basic governance point of view, I am interested to know if Mr. Griffin would have advised a Minister to meet a tenderer for a contract? 
- 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: Yes. 
- 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 understand that, but does Mr. Griffin consider that represents good governance? 
- 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: Did anybody say to the former Minister, "I must advise you - although it is entirely up to yourself, you make your own decisions - that it is not good governance to meet the bidders in the process"? 
- 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 did not ask Mr. Griffin about that. I asked him would he, as Secretary General of the Department, from time to time not say to a Minister:I think it is unwise for you to take that course of action. I think it is unwise for you to take the other course of action. I think it is unwise for you to meet this person because they are tendering to provide a paper to the Department, broadband to... 
- 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: Did it arise in this instance? 
- 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: Did the diary secretary consult the division or Mr. Griffin, as the Secretary General, and say, "the Minister is meeting the bidder here, what do you think? 
- 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: Okay, but some were in it. Would any advice have been given that this was unwise? 
- 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: Was there a point at any stage, that Mr. Griffin advised the then Minister that he should not----- 
- 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: Mr. Griffin does not recall that. 
- 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: With the benefit of hindsight, would Mr. Griffin be advising him of that now? 
- 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: Does Mr. Griffin think, in the main, it is good governance to meet with bidders in a process? 
- 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: Does Mr. Griffin think, in the main, it is good governance to meet with bidders in the process? 
- 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: We all know what we are talking about. 
- 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: Right. 
