Results 4,881-4,900 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I concur with the other members on this. Apart from the issues we have in correspondence that we wish to pursue and raise again, and there are other items in correspondence that may relate to him that we will come to later, the committee would do the State a service by having exit interviews when somebody is leaving an organisation such as this. Obviously there might be personal reasons...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I agree with Deputy Cullinane. The issues in the UL report and the Sligo report relate to unapproved payments to exiting staff.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That might require a single hearing. There is probably a list of things relating to both colleges in the third level sector but because of the nature of the report, and I am not judging it before it is released-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The report relates to that and it would be important that it have a hearing by itself.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is short, but there is an evocative tone to the letter. The letter says the ETB does not do this, but it does and did do this. The tone of the letter implies to me that the ETB viewed this person as troublesome. Whether that is right or wrong, the ETB inserted a clause in a contract that the person would never again apply in the ETB sector. It is obliged to answer questions about that....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I appreciate that, Chairman, but are we going to invite Mr. Owens to appear before the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: My point is that there is obviously a level of plenipotentiary status and authority in the ETB sector that allows people, willy-nilly, to adopt a policy on an individual basis. The issue here is that I hope we do not live in an authoritarian state where if I decide that somebody is troublesome, a thorn in my side and not capable of job A, I have a right to exclude the person from applying...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Not the person but whoever is in charge-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There is a bundle of three new Garda stations in Clonmel, Sligo and Cork. I gather progress is being held up on all three. Could we get a note on the matter in advance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: No, it is.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Could we get a note on the issue of site acquisition and so on? Have sites been acquired? What progress has been made in that regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is the bundle of three Garda stations in Cork, Clonmel and Sligo.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I read it back in July. They are taking issue with correspondence between parties in a case and that is a matter for them. We have to play with the deck that comes our way and some of those cards did come to us. The only interest I had - and the committee was in general agreement - was in whether there was a role for us there to prevent a court case being taken and for us to ultimately get...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If we go back through the last day, I know I went hard on the individual but he-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Carville said the advice from the Attorney General was that he could not answer any of those questions. Fair enough; that might be the advice he had received. I ambushed him somewhat. He was not expecting those questions as he was before the committee on other business. However, I wanted to use our time efficiently when he was here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It was last September.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: To be helpful, my recollection of the meeting was that the papers had been served the Friday before, which prevented us having a wholesome discussion on the Tuesday. That was the official position. The discourse of the day was very much that the Department had a great story to tell but was not allowed to tell us it. Of course, we were frustrated with that and pointed out that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Where no defence is lodged, a plaintiff can take a case to get the judge to rule that one must be put in or the case settled or whatever. The bottom line is that this is all noise and scenery. All we are interested in is the oversight and how we get there as quickly as possible. The Department using us as a tool in its arsenal without consulting us is a matter for a slap on the hand...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The Chairman should get the clarification and, I suggest, ask why, a statement of claim having been served, the Department has not lodged a defence, where matters stand and whether the committee has a role. I asked Mr. Carville the last day what the Department's position was on the formal recommendation of this committee in its report in January on the establishment of a committee of...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (27 Sep 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes. It is a recommendation of our report from January.