Results 1,841-1,860 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services Provision (12 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 470. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of permits issued to airlines outside the State under the fifth freedom over the past five years. [46125/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services Provision (12 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 471. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the granting of fifth freedom traffic rights to an airline (details supplied) for the Dublin to Madrid route; his views on whether the decision potentially creates a competitive distortion in view of the different obligations on an airline with such rights; the policy in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Jobseeker's Benefit Eligibility (12 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the provisions for the self-employed to have access to jobseeker's benefit will be enacted in view of the Social Welfare Act 2019 being signed on 24 October 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46013/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Who carried out the review?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the fact that we did not go out to tender and pay somebody a couple of hundred thousand euro to compile this report. We discussed this project previously and the €11 million that was spent on it. Am I right in stating that it is run now by a private sector company? Is it also correct that it gets a preferential rent? What is the rent?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The report is standard. It is a case of circle the wagons, nobody is to blame, nobody pays the price and Galway has a piece of infrastructure. We are all proud of Galway's culture, heritage and the part it plays. With every respect to Deputy Connolly, however, Galway does pretty well out of public funds when it comes to the arts. As I said at the meeting when we first raised this, it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is typical of reviews.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: "Wit" is the perfect word. Sometimes the language in this committee is far too politically correct to capture the disastrous approaches that are taken. This is the standard three-card trick of saying how wonderful things are. This is not a bit wonderful. There is nothing wonderful about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: One is in the clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: In the brief discussion we had the last day when this matter arose in Deputy Kelly's absence, I made many similar points. At best, we are seeing the politically opportunistic use of legislation that was not intended for that purpose. At worst, and as with actions we saw in the Dáil during the week, through the use of articles of the Constitution on money messages, it defines life in a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The Deputy is spot on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I will make a final point. We might suggest to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that, where all public expenditure is concerned, tenderers should be told that their fees and costs will be public information. They would be entitled to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: And if individual barristers are that hung up about their privacy, they do not have to do the work for the State.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It is a very honourable profession.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The profession is definitely as well resourced as it is honourable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I do not have much to add to this but I had picked it out and underlined the relevant sentence. Effectively, it amounts to a blank cheque. The Taoiseach had signalled this earlier. It seems, if we are to believe it, that we are about to write another blank cheque for broadband provision. This is a significant concern. We are continuing down an endless road in respect of the costs of this...