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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I disagree, respectfully, with that. I think increasingly there is a lot less shivering in one's boots at the fear of the Comptroller and Auditor General giving a note on the audit or of people being called before this committee because of the absence of sanction. I do not necessarily think we need to determine the sanction but there needs to be some fallout. In the private sector, the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am only judging it at the level of preparation and dismissal of many witnesses. That does not suggest it is taken remotely with the level of seriousness that it should be. That is based on the last two years.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: People should pay for it themselves just like we do in here. If someone retires, everybody divvies up their €20 to buy them a present, have a beer and that is the end of it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is what does happen.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What sort of plan on the strategic communications unit exists? I know the Taoiseach is in the room next door as we speak.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is about whether it does what it says on the tin.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I will outline my wish list. On the third level side, we need to have a decent engagement with Cork Institute of Technology, CIT. I acknowledge that the committee secretariat is trying to consolidate hearings in an effort to make progress, but I do not think we should meet any more than two institutions per meeting.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: For example, we might meet UCC in the morning and CIT in the afternoon. As mentioned by Deputy Cullinane, there are a lot of issues arising in terms of the UL reports which might require two meetings. I have a special interest in meeting CIT because I am focused on that area. On the Courts Service, in respect of which the Chairman mentioned correspondence this morning, we need a specific...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am not defending consultants. I am not here to do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is a consultant contract issue. There was a court case and, if I am correct, we are on the hook for a lot of money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There is a lot of money involved so it would be helpful if Mr. McCarthy would do so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The Comptroller and Auditor General might forward a note on the matter to the committee.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There are a lot of issues in regard to CIT, including protected disclosures and the KPMG report. I touched on aspects of this during the public private partnership debate last week but there are substantial issues arising around corporate governance, management, how money was spent, who is driving the bus and how it is being driven.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I would like to raise another issue before we do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We had a report yesterday and we dealt with IBRC and the committee of inspection and our recommendations around that. When we had the relevant people before us from the Department of Finance, including Mr. Carville, I mentioned that the previous week a case had been taken by a debt advocate, Mr. Hall and the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation, against the Minister for failure to ensure...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, because there a lot of hoops to go through. The report goes to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, which distributes the recommendations around the Civil Service, and this time next year we will have a response.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018) Marc MacSharry: I welcome Ms Licken. I seem to remember her from another Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018) Marc MacSharry: I would like to say well done and congratulations to her. I do not have the benefit of wonderful Irish, so I will have to converse in English. I have a number of questions. I am aware that some of these issues are inherited ones, as opposed to issues that have arisen on Ms Licken's watch. It is nothing personal. I refer to assets that are State assets in museums. Is that the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Galway Art House Cinema
Vote 33 - Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs (29 Mar 2018) Marc MacSharry: Do we value those? Do we have an indicative value of things that are in museums, or things that are not on display or are in storage? Do we have valuations on these things?