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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: We might postpone discussion of the matter until Deputy Connolly returns, given that it is her area.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Deputy Connolly has an interest in the matter, like the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: A number of Deputies, from all parties and none, and members of the public have raised the announced closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday Resort. It is a very important part of Irish Wheelchair Association infrastructure that is available to wheelchair users throughout the country but it is to close imminently. We all know the association is an important organisation and that it does...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: A number of weeks ago, I wrote to the committee or suggested at a meeting that we invite the chief procurement officer to join us. I wonder whether there is an update on that.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: We will discuss it in private session. The other issue concerns business cases for infrastructure. I saw on the eTenders website at the weekend that Irish Rail called for a consultancy to develop a commercial business case to secure support for the expansion of the DART. I am not getting into policy areas. The issue was announced about three times. On the record of the Dáil in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Irish Rail.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I just want to add to Deputy Murphy's remarks. Perhaps circumstances are changing and there is a need for more planning or whatever but we have legislative powers. Section 181(2)(a) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 empowers the Minister to gazump the law in an emergency, but when is an emergency an emergency? There is no doubt that if we want to continue to obsess about covering...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: First, I want to know why do we not have the expertise. Does no one in Irish Rail have the expertise to make a commercial business case?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am also on that committee, as is Deputy Catherine Murphy. We can also ask there but I think it is an issue of public expenditure. This is going to cost money. Let us ask the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport why agencies under its remit do not have the expertise to make a commercial business case. If the answer is that they do not have the expertise, then there are recruitment...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: In 2013, the then CEO, Mr. David Franks, sought the support of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications for that project. It is now sever years later. I agree with everything Deputy Murphy said but a couple of deadlines should be set and stuck to. Let us get on and do these projects. Congestion costs the State a lot of money in lost time, accidents and so on. By the time the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, we will do that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Marc MacSharry: I welcome our guests and I offer my best wishes to Ms Denning in her new role. The Courts Service has a number of valuable properties but no valuations were carried out in 2018 according to paragraph 2.2 of the chapter in the Appropriation Accounts 2018 relating to Vote 22. The paragraph states, "40 buildings and four sites have been revalued". When were they revalued?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Marc MacSharry: It is every five years. The valuation for the seven public private partnership properties are to be considered this year. What is the nature of those? Are they built for the service, owned by the developer and leased by the service?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Marc MacSharry: Ms Denning mentioned jury minding. What is that?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Marc MacSharry: Are such staff members law enforcement officers?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Marc MacSharry: What training do they undergo, where do they get it and what qualifications have they?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Marc MacSharry: Where are the four sites?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Marc MacSharry: I am looking at the notes to table 2.2 on page 11 of the appropriation account. They refer to 40 buildings and four sites that have been revalued. One of them is on Church Street, Dublin.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 22: Courts Service (14 Nov 2019) Marc MacSharry: We will get to that, but where are the others?