Results 5,221-5,240 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister's own county council owes €600 million.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: They are not independent republics.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: No. That was prescribed. The Minister knows it was prescribed.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister is being provocative. He did not put any of that rubbish in his initial response-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I am talking facts. I am not grandstanding.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I am here on behalf of the people of Sligo. I am not here to represent officials in the Department who are answerable to nobody and who-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The surplus targets in Donegal that are being insisted on are several hundred thousand euro, not €3.6 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Just to comment on it, this is tactics. Lazard is a professional adviser to NAMA. The latter owns the information. It solicited it, asked questions and got answers. We have to consider those answers and questions as part of our report. My answer is "No".
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: If NAMA has information, the ownership of that information and professional advice rests with it and not Lazard. We are only considering it in the context of it being in the ownership of NAMA. We are not judging Lazard on its advice.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (25 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 309. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive a decision on an application for disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31585/16]
- Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Yes. I will be sharing no less than three minutes with him. If I get that far, the Ceann Comhairle might, as the man says, cut me off. I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill and commend Deputy Tony McLoughlin from Sligo, without whose work it would not have got this far. It is important that the praise from all round the House for him is given. Often we are pitched on opposite...
- Prohibition of the Exploration and Extraction of Onshore Petroleum Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I proposed giving him three minutes. I am nearly finished. A forum for debate is not what Deputy Tony McLoughlin is providing. He has proposed legislation. Deputy Eamon Scanlon has said it also, but from the Ministers' contributions, it appears that the Government's position is to wait and see what the EPA has to state and that perhaps there is a way. I do not care what the EPA...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (2 Nov 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if payments will be made under the Caranua redress scheme towards funeral costs of survivors of institutional abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32654/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (2 Nov 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will have a decision in respect of an application for urgent house improvements under the Caranua redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32653/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (2 Nov 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 178. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of health and safety officers in local authorities who are still on the old clerical grading (details supplied); the reason these health and safety officers have not been put on the appropriate grading commensurate with their title of health and safety officer; the timeframe for these officers to be put...
- An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Uisce faoi Úinéireacht Phoiblí) (Uimh. 2) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Water in Public Ownership) (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Nov 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I am glad to have an opportunity to make a few points on the Bill. I welcome the legislation and commend those who brought it forward. Notwithstanding the Water Services Acts in place and the safeguards they provide, there is distrust among the public about issues such as the ownership of Irish water and other aspects of public property. Anything we can do to facilitate this is welcome....
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (10 Nov 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 198. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on their application for carer's allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34383/16]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Nov 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Or we could bring them in now.
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I will not be repetitive other than to say that I very much agree with Deputy Cullinane. To me, this letter is potentially explosive. One aspect that jumps out at me is that in a sales process of 2013-2014, NAMA was providing valuations for 2009. We had certain discussions with Ministers and others about the fact that valuations were not sought. From my own knowledge, having been an...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (15 Nov 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 389. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the progress which has been made on the 2010 national pensions framework proposals for the introduction of a total contributions approach to State pension (contributory) to replace the current averaging system from 2020; and if persons will have the option in the future to continue in employment beyond pension age to make up contribution...