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- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Some evidence that has come to the committee in this regard suggests that the elected members were not asked to sanction this until such time as the process was agreed and the price was agreed. Would the Secretary General be aware of that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: The practice has become that the executive decides what to borrow, what to buy, it does the deal and if it can be dragged cross the line at a council meeting, we are out the gap. Is that the type of process we have?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: No, and nor am I doing so, but it seems unusual that the origin of land acquisition, housing and so on would not originate with the elected members, as opposed to them engaging in a rubber-stamping exercise. Would the Secretary General be aware, surprised or concerned that the valuations that informed this purchase were prepared by the vendor?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Was the Department aware that these lands were purchased in November 2008 by the council for €10.5 million and then were purchased by the vendor five months earlier for €6.4 million?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: As an example, would that cause concern?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: This was not an increase in valuation. It was an increase in the price.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: A price was paid.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Would the Department be concerned that the city's internal valuation, presumably by the professional valuers they have on staff, was approximately €2 million higher than the valuation the vendor had provided?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: That is right with regard to the number of units, but I am referring to the highest number of units with the maximum return to the council. That internal valuation was €2 million higher than the valuation provided by Rooney Auctioneers and Chartered Surveyors, which is a very reputable and well-known valuer in Galway that does good work. They provided a valuation for the vendor who,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Would this example not highlight to Mr. McCarthy that there is a need to define a process that is stuck to and overseen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: I know that I am running out of time and the other members have a lot to say, but it is an interest-only scenario so who is paying the interest on that at the moment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: From its own resources?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Is it fair to say that it is coming out of people's services?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: While nothing has been done with the site so far, is it true that it has been considered for Traveller accommodation?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Before I hand back, can I formally ask the Secretary General to consider instructing the local government audit service to do a value for money audit on this particular transaction?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: Will Mr. McCarthy have a word in his ear on the basis that it is a pressure now?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (2 Mar 2017) Marc MacSharry: I thank Mr. McCarthy.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: With respect to the Taoiseach, in his wisdom he did not make me Minister for Health. If he had, we would not be waiting around for six months to get answers.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Mar 2017)
Marc MacSharry: No contact has been made since February.