Results 5,001-5,020 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Can I request, on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, that those procedures be given to us, first, to confirm whether they are in place? Perhaps it is something the audit committee set up in 2016 can look at once it gets around to it in 2018 or 2019. What procedures govern the expenditure or use of the sum of €317,000? Perhaps we could have an indication, staying within the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: I did not ask for the-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: To clarify, in my own research I became aware of this amount of money. What statutory instrument it is, I do not care about. The bottom line is that we have established that €317,000 per year is paid to somebody and nobody has any interest in and oversight of what it is spent on. That is significant.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Does that indicate that the €317,000 can be paid per annum, accumulate and then, if there are amounts left over, as seems to have been the case in 2011, the balance is refunded to the Exchequer? Whoever was responsible at the time, we do not know on what the money was spent per year and still do not. We want to get the procedures, albeit we know that the Secretary General of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: I will ask two quick questions and then say something. Does the President's Establishment have a Secretary General?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Is it a man or a woman?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: What does he do?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Should he not be the Accounting Officer?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Is that just a practice or is it really a constitutional issue?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Could he not be here to answer the questions Mr. Fraser is answering?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: It could make it the Secretary General of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Mr. Fraser thinks it would be unconstitutional. It would be a good thing to examine, however, in terms of the future.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: On internal audit, I understand there is an accountancy code which suggests that at least one member of all internal audit committees should be an accountant. Mr. Fraser said earlier on that there are no accountants on the audit committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: I just wanted to give Mr. Fraser the opportunity to correct the record because he has said that there are no accountants on internal audit committees.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: It is certainly good practice. I think there is a code-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: So it is a case of "Do as I say, not as I do." It is something we might take on board for the future.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: On the €317,000, about which I am very concerned, I have no doubt that it is probably spent in a very good way, if it is in fact spent. It is not about what it is spent on or about the amount of money. Indeed, this allowance or whatever it is - about which none of us know anything and which is not taxable - could be €1 million. That is not the point. The point is that we, as...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: The Deputy should check the record. What did I say? I referred to the perception of a slush fund.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Marc MacSharry: No, it is not. The Chairman will have to protect me.