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- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: "High level criteria", what criteria were they? We are on different criteria.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: The assistant commissioner had to open one in Dublin and the only one he could open was Stepaside. One of the criteria which Mr. Ó Cualáin seemed to emphasise and I would like to give him the opportunity to say it was the key one, was that it was still in State ownership.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Were the other three in Dublin in State ownership?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Any of the four could have been opened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: There could be others of those four in the six. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Is it the case, as Deputy Kelly mentioned, that, with a new broom, new opportunity, a clean sheet, while the Department of Justice and Equality in some instances operates in splendid isolation, in this case it has thrown the Garda under the bus, telling it to design criteria and do whatever is necessary to reopen Stepaside because of the political expediency of facilitating members of the Cabinet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: We are concerned because following a commitment from the Garda, the then Commissioner and the witness as acting Garda Commissioner, we were to get the report, then we were not to get it and now we have correspondence – which of course is not Mr. Ó Cualáin's fault – from the Secretary General of the Department saying we may get the report in due course, with plausible...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Why was he selected?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the acting Garda Commissioner for being here. It seems to me the same criteria were used to open as to close. We are still considering which six to open although Stepaside is already agreed in isolation. The acting Commissioner was giving us a report and then he was not. The Secretary General of the Department, which is not the acting Commissioner's fault, is telling us we can...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: A tiny clarification-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I just want a tiny clarification. We can make several contributions.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I have a final question for both witnesses so I do not mind who answers it. In terms of the timing, it was mentioned earlier that with regard to Stepaside there was already a process under way. Mr. Nugent has been in contact with the OPW to advance that as quickly as possible. In terms of the timeframe following that, is it fair to say that it has taken precedence over the capital...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I ask the acting Garda Commissioner, from an operational - cops and robbers - perspective, what would be more of a priority? Would it be operating the cells at a regional centre like Sligo Garda station or re-opening the station at Stepaside, in terms of timing and priority, if the acting Garda Commissioner had a magic wand?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: It seems to be one or the other. Do we want operating cells in the north west region or do we want to open Stepaside more quickly? If it was a ying, yang question of one or the other, what would make the best sense?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I am asking the acting Garda Commissioner to consider this - is it about operating cells rather than transporting prisoners 15 miles?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: With no police training, would it be reasonable for me to assume that operating cells would be more of a priority than opening another station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Indeed they are - 15 miles away.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: There are a good few Garda stations within 15 miles of Stepaside, are there not?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. I have been in and out of the meeting. If, therefore, I cover any matters that have already been dealt with, the witnesses can tell me and I will not delay proceedings. According to the annual report, HIQA had 13,034 items under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. Did anybody cover any of this yet? Are there any worrying trends there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Health Information and Quality Authority: Financial Statement 2016 (28 Sep 2017)
Marc MacSharry: What differentiates them? Does it have to state, "This is a protected disclosure"?