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- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Data (4 Apr 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 382. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the position with regard to assistance towards funeral expenses in circumstances (details supplied); if he will consider an exceptional needs payment towards the full funeral expenses in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16788/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Has the Chairman forgotten me? I mean no disrespect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: All right. That is fine. Deputy Cullinane can go ahead.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, I shall speak on this issue. There is no us. Deputies Cassells, Aylward, the Chairman and I do not meet upstairs on the fourth floor to decide what our angle is on any given day. I have the experience of having been a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform for quite a few years. I was also a member of the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Nobody else's contribution was circumscribed so I will say what I want to say. The person of whom we speak is box office so they had to come in, all guns blazing, to defend this and that was totally inappropriate. I would speak much more strongly if I could get away with it but I will pick my words. It is disingenuous to accept the word "advisable" while, on the other hand, going against...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I did not mention any names. If anybody feels this room has been politicised, they should resign from the committee. We do not need them here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I will not be resigning. If it is appropriate for me to criticise the actions of Deputy Micheál Martin on a given issue, I will not hesitate to do it. I did so in the banking inquiry, as Deputy Pearse Doherty and others will agree. On live television, I robustly questioned party colleagues who were also box office in my party. They would have respect at an Ard-Fheis but this is a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Was it the Clerk of the Dáil?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I have a few brief questions. On the official who involved himself or herself, was it on a specific issue? Was it on the wording of specific recommendations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Was the determination of whomever advised the Chairman to the effect that, "Look, you had better get this right because the committee can and will examine, or has indicated it may examine, it and I am just filling you in”? What was the context?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Was it in the context of a particular part of the final draft?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: So, if the Committee on Procedures and Privilege is so determined, it can delay the publication of the report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: On the NAMA interventions with the chairman, was it the case that they told him he should know they have the goods on him? Or was it a case of them telling the chairman they wanted to protect him because this was the type of stuff that they would be dealing with?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: The new old boys' club is equal opportunities.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: I welcome the professor and his colleagues and thank them for taking the time to be with us today. If the university is changing its accounting approach for the trust in order to fulfil its obligation under the new reporting standard, does it not undermine its previous case for disagreeing with the Comptroller and Auditor General's position and his resulting qualified opinion?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Does Mr. Collins think I am wrong then? I am only asking. It does not matter what the answer is. What is important is that Mr. Collins answers the question. As such, UCC is changing this. Is that not an admission that it had it wrong up to now and is going to put it right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: For clarity then, the Comptroller's qualification was wrong as far as UCC was concerned.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: How will the change be reflected in financial statements?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: The total amount of reserves relevant to the figures we are talking about is approximately €17.5 million between the trust and the foundation. Is that correct or does UCC look at it like that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
UCC: Financial Statements 2013-2014 (30 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: The new accounts under the new standard will say, "These are our reserves, but €5.5 million is the foundation so that has to be used for sports equipment, for argument's sake".