MacSharry hitting out on costs for new Children’s Hospital
A Sligo/Leitrim TD is hitting out at the increasing cost of the new National Children’s Hospital. The board overseeing the project says they will ‘robustly defend’ extra contractor claims. Chairman Fred Barry told a meeting with Health Minister Simon Harris these costs represent the ‘biggest risk’ in the project. The…
Supreme Court rules PAC actions as ‘unlawful’ in it’s treatment of former Rehab Group chief executive
A Sligo/Leitrim TD who’s a member of the Dail Public Accounts Committee says three Supreme Court ruling in the Angela Kerins case will focus attention on how Oireachtas committees do their work. The Supreme Court found the Committee acted unlawfully in its treatment of the former Rehab Group chief executive.…
MacSharry says it’s time for Garda commissioner to go
Sligo/Leitrim TD Marc MacSharry, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, says its time for Garda Commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan to go. A report to be launched today will declare that she failed in her duty to raise concern about financial irregularities at the training college in Templemore. It also accuses…