Results 161-180 of 342 for garda speaker:Marc MacSharry

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...be very helpful. I read this in advance of yesterday's meeting in private session and gave my view of the issues arising from it. As far as I am concerned, there is wilful delay on the part of An Garda Síochána. We are being drip fed information in response to very simple questions. The letter from Mr. Nugent to do with Mr. Culhane is a kind of catch-all to cover all the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...country, the haste with which this legislation is being brought forward following the appointment of the former Attorney General is not missed in any objective analysis. One cannot do a Stepaside Garda station on the Judiciary. One must consider the particular issue in the context of the closure of Garda stations in the rural areas across the country and the increase in rural crime. In...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: The letter was provided to us at the meeting the other day. I knew there had been suggestions, somewhere in evidence, that the Garda College may have been seeking charitable status but I did not realise the magnitude of what this could mean. I asked whether there was any correspondence. There was not. During a break, the secretariat approached the CAO, who provided the correspondence,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: In the two or three pages given to us the other day there was an email thread which involved letters between Mr. Culhane, the finance director of the Garda and someone whom I assume to be a partner or senior person at PwC advising on various options that might be available. The PwC view was there was situation in the UK where there may be grounds for seeking charitable status. I imagine...

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology and Cork Institute of Technology: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...were set? There is an inherent governance problem there. Maybe legislative change is needed to ensure that when these types of things happen, they can be dealt with. Representatives of the Garda have been attending this committee this week. I am sure the witness saw some of it. Without prejudice to the outcome of the issue, there is a problem with people investigating themselves....

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Did anybody in the Garda check in the meantime, irrespective of and without prejudice to any investigation by GSOC or otherwise? As a matter of form, who signs for what account for what money?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Why not? They were serving members of An Garda Síochána and public servants. Surely the public is entitled to know who was in a position to lodge, withdraw or transfer funds from an account.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: The Commissioner can appreciate that from where I sit, the complexion is very much that An Garda Síochána decided to sit on this and contain it as much as possible. We are only here today because of the contributions of some of the Commissioner's senior colleagues on the civilian side and the work of this committee. These matters have been dragged out as opposed to being put out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...few quick questions on some housekeeping matters to which the Chairman also referred. The Commissioner told us on 4 May that the first she knew about the scandalous financial irregularities at the Garda Síochána was on 27 July 2015. Is that still her position?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: It is an email thread from Michael Culhane to Mr. Eugene Banks, the Garda HR Division, Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and it also includes emails to and from George Redden of PwC to Michael Culhane in relation to taxation matters and the potential of PwC undertaking some work on behalf of the Garda college. Does the Commissioner have the documents to which I refer before her?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...between PwC and Mr. Culhane, in 2010, in terms of matters of taxation and all of the issues before us here today. He, in turn, was obviously corresponding or in contact with Eugene Banks of the Garda division in the Department of Justice and Equality. I am extremely troubled by one of the emails dated 5 July 2010 that was sent at 17.26. It seems to be a response to Eugene Banks, in the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...I had a little more time because it was handed out before the break. My reading of it is that there was an attempt on the basis of a suggestion of a law that exists in England by PwC that the Garda may have some grounds to build a case. I see heads shaking in the background over there. I do not know whether that is relevant to what I am saying or something else. That is the letter. I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...that, when she inquired of her colleagues, she found that this account had been closed in 2010. Was the account ever in the personal name, with the personal address, of a retired member of the Garda after he or she retired?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Having read the documentation in detail, and I did not have much more time to do so than the Commissioner, I suggest that the date trail shows that, notwithstanding what the CAO has said, it was in Garda hands since 14 June. It was not given to us, even though it was suggested that it should be, until we sought it, and it was provided to us this morning by the gentleman sitting on the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: The Commissioner said that An Garda Síochána comprised 16,000 personnel. The consistent theme from all witnesses in these hearings since they began has been, "I do not know about that, I was not in the post, I was responsible for something else, and they are responsible for that." When the Commissioner is asked something, even though the buck stops with her, she says it is the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...2006, 2008, 2010. He pushed it up the line and effectively nothing happened. In the midst of that, it is against a backdrop where I am bound to say that the question of charitable status for the Garda college in 2010 was a means of muddying the waters. Is that not a real reflection of what was going on? According to Mr. Culhane, it would seem up to 2010, in effect, that it was all...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Did Mr. Waters instruct or ask that audit committee to examine any of the issues to do with the Garda College in Templemore?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Okay and I agree with Mr. Waters on that. The Garda Vote from the Department of Justice and Equality is some €1.7 billion. Once the money is handed out, is that it to the extent that "It is nothing to do with me and I hope you spend it wisely"?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Okay. Would there be an ongoing interaction between the Garda College or the financial director in the Garda and the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána - Internal Audit Report on Garda College, Templemore (Resumed) (20 Jun 2017)

Marc MacSharry: He was a principal officer in the Garda division?