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Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the witnesses.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I meant to wish Dr. Love well earlier and express regret that he is moving on. Wherever he is headed, the best of luck. A number of things arise from our last engagement that I want to put on record. On that specific disclosure, in June 2018, the vice-president said that the person did not engage. In October 2012, the discloser requested a meeting with the president, the...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: That is no bother, as I only have a different thread for Mr. Ó Foghlú and it is one that is to be the subject of a meeting so I will only touch on it.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Five minutes maximum.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I ask the chairman, Mr. Horgan to take my last comments on board on the basis that Dr. Love will be moving on, because it is important that it is reflected in the record. Turning to Mr. Ó Foghlú, we will be coming to this matter at a meeting in our work programme; we have discussed loosely here without firming it up that we are going to invite him in again with the Department of...

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: There is probably a very good explanation for everything but it is just the complexion looks a bit off.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Right.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: It is hardly going to come in and say that it got it wrong by about €11 million and that it will go with the Marc MacSharry valuation.

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: Are we going to have a meeting about that Chairman?

Public Accounts Committee: HEA Financial Statements 2017 (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I will not delay the meeting now and I want to thank everybody for their attendance.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Applications (18 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 324. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Sligo was refused the fuel allowance even though their combined income from their State pension (contributory) and disablement benefit is under the weekly income limit of €343.30 in order to qualify for the free fuel allowance; her plans to amend the operational...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I did not know the Minister would be deputising for the Taoiseach today and it is very good that he is. Deputy Scanlon mentioned page 48 of the programme for Government. I am beginning to wonder if that page is missing from the Government's copy of the particular programme because it gives this wonderful array of issues and resources and activities that will be provided in post offices...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I am just finishing. This is very important. I raised with him the fact the review process that An Post is following, in particular for Ballinfull post office, a catchment area within which the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, owns a home-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: -----was flawed to the point that the decision was taken to close that post office four days before the submission was put in. I am sure that, as Minister for Justice and Equality, he could not stand over a process that was as shabby and disrespectful to the people as that one.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: They do not speak for communities; we speak for communities. Will the Minister be saying next that SIPTU and Irish Water have decided to cut off the water in Sligo? Is that what is going to happen next? Who is driving the bus?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I have just told the Minister it is flawed. The Minister has his own summer house in Ballinfull.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (17 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 46. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí and reservists in each Garda station in counties Sligo and Leitrim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42417/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Administration (16 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the accuracy of using an application and Eircodes as the measurement benchmark for assessing eligibility for the non-adjacent rate of student maintenance grant in which the practical evidence of a clocked drive of the distance proves that the measurements by the application using Eircodes to be inaccurate (details supplied); and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Payments (16 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 606. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person who received illness benefit payments as a result of a personal injury is still liable for tax on the said payments received in circumstances in which compensation is subsequently awarded and the compensator has paid an amount equal to the illness benefit payments made to the person concerned directly to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (11 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I know the reply was prepared by somebody else but, quite frankly, it was shocking. It is a rigged process. The independent appeals process is totally rigged. An Post privately came up with the 500 people and 15 km criteria. I have proved to the Minister of State that Ballinfull was not remotely looked at. In fact, An Post's first response on Ocean FM, given by one of its senior...