Results 1-20 of 138 for going forward speaker:Marc MacSharry

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc MacSharry: I highlighted this matter more than a year and a half ago in the first instance because of the problems it would inevitably cause. Unfortunately, many of those problems have now been realised. As the Minister of State will be aware, those poor people who are fleeing war and persecution from countries such as Syria, Somalia, Nigeria and elsewhere are being afforded accommodation, food and...

Seller's Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Oct 2023)

Marc MacSharry: ...to succeed today. Documentation is much more readily available in the digital age and digital is acceptable for the transfer of documentation. In that context, we believe it is timely to bring this forward. There is no evidence to suggest the pre-contract initiative which came from the Law Society has reduced conveyancing times. Neither will this add expense. Legal professionals...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tourist Accommodation (15 Feb 2023)

Marc MacSharry: .... All things being equal, if there was no war and so forth, there may have been a case for bringing that back up in a buoyant, post-Covid tourism market that we would have been able to look forward to but that is done now. We are going to have to support the sector with the 9% VAT rate. I am aware of the energy relief scheme and welcome it but a strategic approach must be taken to...

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...a cliff edge in terms of the various supports. I would like to have seen Europe divvying up more than the €900 million. That is required and we will have to display a level of agility as we move forward in terms of additional issues that will have to be addressed to assist our economy and society in its recovery. Second and most important is the issue of alignment of policy....

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?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Mar 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...fraud squad be requested to look at this. I made such a formal request previously to the then president or chancellor of the university, or whatever position it was at the time. The answer I got was that he would take that under advisement. I certainly felt that a cursory look at the situation by the Garda was necessary, at a minimum, such was the material available to us. We will want...

Covid-19 (Childcare): Statements (4 Feb 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...and structures review I caution against any change to the county childcare committees, which have been serving us very well. More resourcing and supports for these structures is a better way to go rather than trying to reinvent the wheel. I was concerned when the Minister took office that this was a suggestion, and I hope it is one he will suppress because it is a good structure. It is...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...and making apologies has to stop. It’s time to LISTEN as not just hear our voices. Only those of us who have lived and experienced these lives along with those loved ones or friends who have watched and supported us as we go through so much pain, hurt and frustration can really and truly understand just what our lives have been like with all the obstacles that can be put in our...

Covid-19 (Higher Education): Statements (14 Jan 2021)

Marc MacSharry: ...to the development of technological universities around the country through the amalgamation of institutes of technology. That is something we all support. In parallel, we also support the ongoing investment in our national universities, such as NUIG, UCD and others, to the extent that we provide funding to them and to our other third level institutions throughout the whole country. As...

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: Business of Committee (24 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I agree with that but I do not have my notes to hand. Late during the final session we brought forward legislation which most people would have supported, involving the introduction of measures so that people, instead of having to go prison for non-payment of a fine where somebody could not afford to pay it, community service and other measures could be considered. As I recall everybody was...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan (16 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...issue of the Four Masters national school in Kinlough and the Strandhill community development association at Strandhill. I would like a specific answer on the areas and I am sure officials can go back on the record to note the locations. I ask that these areas be included in the broadband connection points delivery project that would see connectivity this year. The thought of being...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ..., there are some anomalies with the payment that I would have liked to see addressed from the beginning. Take the issue of people over 66, for example. There is a small family business in Sligo, run by a husband and wife, which employed 13 people. Eleven of them qualified for the payment but as the owners were both over 66 and in receipt of the contributory pension, into which they had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I do not wish to cast aspersions on the good name of the independent chairman of the FAI or anyone else but I am bound by my duties to the taxpayer. These are serious issues. Significant State funds are at stake and clearly the independent chairman of the FAI has significant questions to answer and so too does Sport Ireland. The essence of the independent chairman's role is ensuring...

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...doors closed throughout this period. That has had an enormous impact on our society and economy and on employment and so on. However, when we say to people who are already on the rack that we are going to enable them to borrow, that is not a good precedent to set. The other aspect of this is that the way we underwrite these loans and the way the SBCI money in particular is distributed...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...cash injection, not just for Expressway but also for other aspects of our public transport system which will need it to stand still, not to mention our ambitions for public transportation going forward. In addition, private operators within the public transport system will require our support. Rural link and taxi drivers have been affected. We need an all-encompassing strategic plan...

Covid-19 (Tourism): Statements (6 May 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...abroad at -0.75% through SBCI. It goes to banks. They then add on 3% or 4% and apply their own arbitrary underwriting to screw businesses into the ground. That is not the kind of support that is going to support the 20,000 businesses that are already closed in the country. Of 260,000 employees, some 175,000 have already lost their jobs. How many will get them back? We do not know....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Governance and Funding of Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (18 Dec 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...It is a legitimate question. While I appreciate I have just sprung it on Mr. Treacy now, I will get him theIrish Independentarticle that made me ask the question. It is from seven or eight years ago. I am conscious that the Minister, Deputy Ross, has gone but no doubt the Minister of State, Deputy Griffin, speaks for the Government. Up to very lately the Government position was that we...

Road Traffic (Amendment) (Use of Electric Scooters) Bill 2019: Second Stage (16 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...see e-scooters every day, particularly in Dublin and large towns. Many people are at their wit's end trying to navigate congestion, over-capacity in rail and bus transportation and difficulties in going about their daily business when travelling to college, school or work. For such people, electric scooters work. Under the current legislation, the 1961 Road Traffic Act, it is illegal...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ...over the country. We need to be truthful with the people and tell them what is being cut. The budget does not represent an increase. The additional €350 million is to keep existing projects going forward, but we can assume that no new projects will start because no money is available. The Minister needs to outline which capital projects are now receiving lower allocations than...