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- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Station Refurbishment (27 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if provision has been made in budget 2018 for essential renovations to a Garda station (details supplied) in County Sligo in view of the fact that funding was originally allocated for the renovations in the budget 2017 and the work did not commence that year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9908/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Just a moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The Chairman is booting along there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is this an appropriate time to raise the issues I have with valuations of State properties, which I raised at previous meetings?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General doing any work on that? Does he recall that I raised the issue of no valuations, or historic valuations, of State properties?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Are we doing anything?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I would respectfully recommend that this consideration should turn into one of the approved items.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The Chairman is moving so fast. Did we pass the response from the National Shared Services Office or is this the same one?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: On the same correspondence, but a different issue perhaps, we asked for a breakdown of the €812,000 training and development costs. I do not know whether this is an accountancy standard, but there is an awful lot of-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Page 4.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I think I said at the meeting that training and development is a great place to stuff things.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Sure enough, the document shows that €2,500 was paid for drinking water. Was that paid to Irish Water or-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: -----to Ballygowan?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Or Tipperary. Does the reference to "Professional / Corporate Subscriptions" relate to the chamber of commerce, to a golf club, to IBEC or to ISME?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Why would anybody be paying corporate subscriptions? If it is for the chamber of commerce, maybe it is reasonable enough. Who is getting their third-level fees paid? The relevant figure is €47,000. The figure for training - €270,000 - is still huge. Are we employing untrained people to the extent that such a significant amount of the budget needs to go into training? I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: No doubt.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is definitely between the two canals in Dublin anyway. I suggest it is not Gilroy Gannon in Sligo.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: As a matter of form, I think we should be looking at the training and development cul de sac that stuff gets stuffed into so that we do not know for everybody.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Does the Comptroller and Auditor General routinely look for that breakdown?