Results 1-20 of 110 for going forward speaker:Marc MacSharry

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I think we could go around in circles here for a good few weeks. I speak as one of the four people here who spent a good few weeks going around in circles at the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis before we decided on a way forward. We could get to 29 June quite quickly and have nothing done at all.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2012)

Marc MacSharry: ...for a debate at this time, to feed into the joint committee's deliberations on the issue? While the Bill contains many welcome features, many of them were included in the Bills Fianna Fáil put forward and which were defeated. Those Bills are ready to go and could still be implemented. As the Leader of the Opposition has pointed out, the proposed Bill will leave the banks in control....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: There is a lot of tweeting going on about me from a previous witness and I look forward to hearing a defence from all of the members.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund (29 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: The Department takes every report on face value, carries out a desktop review and from that it determines whether it will go forward.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Marc MacSharry: Would it be prudent in the future to check to see if a company had any form in going to court after the fact? Can we look forward to litigation against us when this contract is finished?

Seanad: Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2007: Second Stage (25 Oct 2007)

Marc MacSharry: ...I have had to congratulate him on his re-election. I wish him well in his portfolio in the next five years. By way of rebuttal, it is ridiculous in the extreme that one should put one's name forward to speak on legislation if one is going to start by saying that, like most others, one has no interest in the legislation, but will avail of the opportunity to bash the Government.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 May 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...Kelly. It is a response to our query but it is not an answer. As Deputy Kelly has said, it does not remotely give the sort of detail required for us to say that we have no concerns regarding governance. Unfortunately, it does not provide any of the specifics that would give us that sort of peace of mind. I agree 100% with Deputy Kelly's proposal. I look forward to his analysis, and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Marc MacSharry: People have to manage their own contingency as best they can. The NTMA carries on average €10 billion of forward funding, but it is €20 billion at the moment because maturities are coming up. What happens if the wheels come off post Brexit? What if there is a major problem and something manifests itself in Italy or Portugal or elsewhere? How is the State fixed then? I...

Seanad: Order of Business. (24 Jun 2003)

Marc MacSharry: ...the Leader arrange for the appropriate Minister or Ministers to come before the House for a detailed debate on the urgent matter of planning and, more specifically, to debate the appropriateness going forward of State funding for organisations, the integrity of which must be called into question? Members know to what I am alluding in this regard. I refer to the organisations which persist...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons
Chapter 7 – Catering and Ancillary Services in Prisons (10 Dec 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome everybody and thank them for taking the time to attend. I thank and congratulate the Department and the Irish Prison Service for their efforts during Covid, which go beyond the call of duty and have kept many people safe. I want to put one thing on the record which I have forwarded it to the secretariat and the Chair. The Chair can decide on it but I want to put it on the record....

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...present a television programme, the reality is that nobody would tune in to watch it. However, bearing in mind that we will all retire at some stage, I would like to ask Ms Forbes what sort of fee I can look forward to charging RTÉ for "Iarnród Marc", which I am going to make when I finish being a Deputy?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (18 Feb 2015)

Marc MacSharry: ...by the Greek Finance Minister in recent days. They are used at state level in the United States as a kind of IOU. If a state in America is in difficulty, it can say on the basis of tax that is going to be paid in the future that money will be ring-fenced to pay that debt. I believe that was the suggestion put forward by the Greek authorities in recent days. I am not talking about the...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ..., while it is not perfect and perhaps needs work, at the guide price, plus whatever adjustments the HSE might want to make to bring it up to new standards, would be nothing compared to going to a greenfield site to build a facility. I ask the witnesses to take that on board. I thank the witnesses. I wish Mr. Reid in particular the best of luck. I look forward to seeing him again.

Seanad: Order of Business. (9 Dec 2004)

Marc MacSharry: ...benefit from a balanced debate, with all of the facts, in which we can explore the many positive aspects that are associated with incineration, and the negative ones, and form an opinion on it going forward. In asking the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government to come before the House we could finally deal with the issue of the review of local government funding, which...

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...on the bottom line of the banks and the systemic nature of the banks while ignoring the systemic nature of people. It is about the human cost to families and not just the bottom line. Some government some time is going to have to embrace that. I very much hope it is the Minister. There are no excuses for failure in this regard anymore. In the past there may have been reasons but there...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Mar 2015)

Marc MacSharry: ...debate on the issue of repossessions. As far back as 2008, when I was on the Government side of the House, I commenced the debate on the need to prepare for this issue. Senator Byrne and I put forward the Family Home Bill in July 2011 in an effort to afford some level of support and protection to the family home. On that occasion, the Bill was voted down by just three votes. Since...

Seanad: Illegal Moneylending (6 Oct 2010)

Marc MacSharry: ...with mortgages repayments and increased bills. The difficulty of getting credit to cover these bills has caused great distress for families and, in many instances and not least in my area of Sligo, has given rise the spectre of illegal moneylending, about which I am unhappy. Having researched the position through a group I established, the prevention of family home repossessions group,...

Seanad: Property Services (Regulation) Bill 2009: Second Stage (21 May 2009)

Marc MacSharry: ...is needed. As a relatively recent entrant to the market, I have observed the need for this legislation over the past few years. If nothing else, it will protect the many auctioneers who go about their business in an appropriate fashion. I accept that there have been many abuses and I am glad that this legislation includes a variety of measures to deal with that. I am sure many...

Seanad: Educational Facilities: Motion. (6 Oct 2004)

Marc MacSharry: ...standard. If people took the time to read the report from beginning to end, they would see the works had to be carried out to bring it up to the required health and safety standards in order to go forward for the following three years. I am not long in this House and am probably politically naive and ill-informed about many matters. I can only aspire to the greatness and fluency in the...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Mar 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister to the House, as always. We in Sligo have grave reservations about the report of the Constituency Commission and the Bill. While I appreciate that the practice has become the automatic acceptance of the recommendations of the independent Constituency Commission, I recall that a former Taoiseach said Governments should not be bound by independent commissions or...