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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Transport Authority Staff (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The NTA has 114 staff who are being paid an average of €73,000. By the Minister's own admission, a further 148 staff are being paid €140,000, or twice as much. This is the organisation we charge with looking after major public transport schemes and we are throwing good money after bad. Earlier we discussed the commute misery out to Fingal. The Minister actually said that...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Roads Maintenance Funding (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: One answer will do.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Roads Maintenance Funding (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 1. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether there is sufficient funding provided for maintenance and improvement of local and regional roads in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48417/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Roads Maintenance Funding (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Does the Minister believe there is sufficient funding provided for maintenance and improvement of local and regional roads and will he make a statement on the matter? As he is aware, successive years of under-investment have left Ireland's regional and local roads at crisis point. Average spending in the last six years shows a deficit of nearly 40% in terms of the Department's own estimate...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Roads Maintenance Funding (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That really does not answer the question at all. We are currently spending €483 million per annum. By the Minister's own admission the updated figure for what we need to spend is €630 million. I do not like the air of passing the buck yet again, as if this was a matter for somebody else and the Minister was just a non-executive director for transport and really it was the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Roads Maintenance Funding (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: We had a motion down last February calling on the Government to take urgent action to respond to the National Oversight and Audit Commission, NOAC, report. Has the Minister identified any change in the data that is collated by the road asset management system his Department uses to track the condition of the roads? We need to come up with a strategic plan that will increase this work to a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: My apologies, as I was in the Dáil Chamber and was not here for the witnesses' presentation. If I cover ground that has already been dealt with, the Chairman might stop me, because I do not want to repeat material. From a governance perspective, who appoints people to the Charities Regulator's board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I did not hear that. The mike may be off.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is public procurement. If the regulator's office has a slot on the board, it advertises, and I or anybody else can apply, and the usual process follows. Are there any prescribed appointees or appointments?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Does the Minister appoint people?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Ultimately, the Minister appoints the members of the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The Charities Regulator is the regulatory body for all charities in Ireland. Is that right?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Are there any CEOs of charities on the regulator's board?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: What is she CEO of?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Is there not a conflict of interest there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Was it an appointment with applications where people applied, including Ms Keogh? Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am just trying to think. If it was the banks, would the CEO of AIB be on the regulator staff? Does Ms Martin think that would be good governance? Without prejudice of the person's qualifications, I am talking about optics at the absolute minimum. In terms of best practice in governance across any organisations or any regulated activity, how appropriate is it to have an operator who is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: As the CEO of an organisation, if the recruitment was up to Ms Martin and she sought to recruit the board, would she recruit people who were active from the sector? Does she think that would be good practice?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I have no doubt that they have specific expertise but it is a clear conflict.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the Charities Regulatory Authority (21 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: What is the Comptroller and Auditor General's perspective of the regulated being board members of the regulator from a governance perspective?