Results 41-60 of 342 for garda speaker:Marc MacSharry

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: To be told that after the fact is my point. If I felt the Garda was the appropriate forum to write to, I would have done that. I could then have saved us all three or four hours here last week. I am on this committee. It is the appropriate place. The Accounting Officer was here. All of these matters were relevant to loss of money potentially to the State. Did the advice come in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...fingers to see if we could get some of these matters investigated. Instead, we said it was nothing to do with the Prison Service or Department of Justice and Equality and decided to send it to An Garda Síochána. That is a total abdication of responsibility and it creates a precedent that one can bring up nothing here.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...in surveillance and intelligence gathering outside the prison environment. As a result of the nature and content of these documents, which are here, I will today forward a copy to each of the Garda Commissioner and the Data Protection Commissioner as the relevant authorities. Naturally, this is a matter of major concern to me, as I assume it is to the Secretary General. The Chairman...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...referred to, apart from my own personal and private research, relates to the previous question. I have outlined and read into the record what I will do in that regard. It will be sent to the Garda Commissioner today. The current question is not related to that documentation at all.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...responsible for stores in the Prison Service was selling items on the Internet from those stores for personal gain, and whether that person was allowed to retire or resign without the appropriate Garda investigation. If the answer is "I am not aware of that", I am simply asking whether the Department will carry out the necessary inquiries. I have a number of questions along these lines....

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...to do the best job possible. All of these issues have financial implications for the State. That is why I am using this opportunity to put them on record. I would be grateful if the Garda took an interest in the transcript of today's meeting. I would say the same of the Department of Justice and Equality. That is why I am asking whether the Department will make the necessary...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ..., which I feel prudence demands require investigation by the Department, in the first instance. I am more than happy with, and welcome, the suggestion to send a transcript of the meeting to the Garda. The Secretary General of the Department and, consequently, the Irish Prison Service will have these questions on record and I have no doubt they will be of concern.

Business Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (13 Mar 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...to establish a national claims information database, tackle insurance fraud, establish a judicial council to compile guidelines for general damages, establish a publicly funded anti-fraud unit in An Garda Síochána, establish a business insurance premium index and take any action in stabilising personal injury claims. The stones on the road know what needs to happen. The group...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Protected Disclosures (12 Feb 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 317. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to details relating to a complaint made by a member of An Garda Síochána (details supplied) providing evidence of alleged assault, bullying and intimidation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7006/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: Is it correct that it was not from the Garda, funnily enough, just from retained paid legal advice?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: Okay, but not from the Garda.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ..., I formally ask Professor Fitzgerald - in his capacity and following his stated commitment in his opening statement to making everything right - if he would, following this meeting, write to the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Harris, and ask the fraud department to examine the outcome of these reports with a view to holding a detailed investigation following which the law of the land and legal...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...of fraud because it is not within his competence to decide whether it is or not, as an ordinary 5 ft 8 in public servant acting on behalf of the taxpayer. Will Professor Fitzgerald write to the Garda Commissioner after this meeting and ask that his organisation, specifically those with the expertise and investigative ability in fraud, would look at these matters?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...in interpretations and the measures put in place. Have the Revenue Commissioners been asked to consider benefit-in-kind implications of the matters in the report? We were talking about the Garda. I made a formal request that they be invited in to consider these matters and was told it would be taken on advisement. I look forward to following how that matter will be responded to. For...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 103 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Remuneration of certain senior staff in the University of Limerick and Institute of Technology Sligo (24 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: -----it seems to me that there are a few questions flying around. It would seem to me that in the interest of completeness, while I have suggested the Garda involvement, I am sure that Revenue may have an interest if somebody was getting over and above what they should be getting, if they were having additional pay for doing a PhD. and all of this kind of thing, or were getting a contact to...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (22 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 152. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position with regard to the established need of An Garda Síochána for additional space at Tubbercurry Garda station, County Sligo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2467/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (22 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: 232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the planning construction and delivery timeline for the provision of the new Garda station at Caltragh, County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2466/19]

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: That is grand and that is 365 days a year. I will come back to that in a few minutes. I am told that there is a Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, investigation into the area of gardaí colluding with prison services in relation to prison staff. Can the witnesses confirm that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: Has the Garda ever been contacted to say, "We are concerned about prison officer A, B or C. Can you help us out?"

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...is that there is outside catering at a number of events. I know that in the normal course there might be a soccer match between one prison and another, leagues and so on, as there are in the Garda and the Army, and that there might be outside catering at some event in tennis club A or rugby club B. Is there any accounting of the term in terms of auditing to say, for example, that it cost...