Results 21-40 of 138 for going forward speaker:Marc MacSharry

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...

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.

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 and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (4 Apr 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...ago. I said I would seek legal advice on same and I have. The contents of this documentation are a matter of major concern for me. I do not want the clerk to panic at this stage and nobody is going to be named here. I do want to make a point, however, and I have taken legal advice on what I am about to say. These appear to be a list of profiles of people who may have been and may...

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?

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.

Local Government (Water Pollution) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Nov 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Martin Kenny, on his innovation in bringing this Bill forward, which I wholeheartedly support. I reject the amendment and I will speak to it in a moment. I acknowledge the presence in the Public Gallery of the person who is probably most qualified to speak about this matter, namely, Mr. Francis Davitt, a planner from north County Leitrim. He is only too...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (11 Oct 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...company, designed a process for the closure of post offices nationwide without any consultation with the people's representatives. I was critical of the then Minister, Deputy Naughten, and the Government generally for allowing this to take place. It is a bad precedent. The IPU did a splendid job on behalf of its members in negotiating a retirement package and it is entitled to do that....

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: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...audit outcomes." The laboratories obviously had an issue with anyone being told the truth. The memorandum continues:The programme is liaising with legal team. This is not an impediment to moving forward with formal communication of audit outcomes. It then sets out the next steps - this is frightening stuff - which are as follows: "await advice of solicitors"; "Decide on the order and...

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...

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I wish to share time with Deputies Murphy O'Mahony and Niamh Smyth. If the Acting Chairman could tell me when I am at three and a third minutes, it would be great. I support the Bill being put forward. I have to express sincere regret at the tone and content of the Minister of State's contribution. I know that it is not personal and that a departmental official would have assisted in...

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Marc MacSharry: I am grateful for this opportunity. I was starting to worry that we would not have it. While I am not sure if it was by design, when the draft was published a few weeks ago, there was not a word about it. There was no national call that I could see to analyse the draft that was published and make sure people made submissions by 3 November. I am pleased the Government has given us this...

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...with this money on behalf of the Government? He was responsible for the great initiative whereby all the great buildings of the world are lit up in green on St. Patrick's Day. Is it now the case that we can look forward to all the buildings in Ireland being lit up in blue in honour of Varadkar the vain? The House should have a breakdown of where the €5 million is being spent....

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...However, that is not the case for the small man, who we need to kick this thing on. Here in Dublin, for example, between one third and a half of the price of an average three-bed, semi-detached house is going to the State between VAT, levies and other types of taxation. We need to look at that. We need to be radical and consider pushing that VAT down to get the bloody thing moving...

Other Questions: Garda Station Closures (19 Oct 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...want to tell his colleague, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, to send a tweet that perhaps it might never happen, certainly if the rate of progress of work on Sligo regional Garda station is anything to go by. In Sligo an existing, functional Garda station and regional headquarters responsible for policing in counties Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...is one of those occasions on which the Minister ought to be invited, along with the Secretary General and the liquidators themselves. We should certainly hear Mr. McCarthy's views as well. This has been going on under the covers. Perhaps everything is done correctly and fantastically well for the least money possible, but perhaps not. In any event, given the amounts of money...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta), 2017: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ..., more would be left without them than would have them. That is the sad reality. I support the amendment and the proposal to have the relevant Oireachtas committee examine this matter and bring forward recommendations on how best to implement the legislation and, more particularly, take action in respect of the provision of the housing that is needed throughout the country. There is a...

Mortgage Arrears Resolution (Family Home) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jul 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...With no disrespect to his good self for taking the time to be here, I wish the appropriate senior Minister were present. It is a manifestation of the Government's lack of seriousness - and indeed, going back to 2011, that of the previous Government - on this very important issue. I am quite proud to see this Bill before the House. Listening to some of the commentary from colleagues in...

Topical Issue Debate: Juvenile Rheumatology Services (12 Jul 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...that a third consultant may be considered under the Estimates process. We need to push the bar higher. Six are required. Last month and, again, this month, people who are in the system and going for follow-up appointments have had scheduled appointments cancelled and put back until an unknown date in 2018. These are growing children with, as I said, skeletal deformities and they...