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- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: It is a national issue. The people in Sligo are citizens of this country. It is not just a local issue.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: The Taoiseach cannot stand the heat. He wanted the job; what is he going to do now that he has it?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: References to increased State support for older people is made on page 82 of the programme for Government. During the hustings relating to his party's leadership election, the Taoiseach, Deputy Varadkar, published a document on 22 May in which he committed to the restoration of the bereavement grant. Members will recall that this was when he was still Minister for Social Protection. As...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Coming from Sandymount?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Had we said that we would also consider revisiting-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Did we decide at our previous meeting that , in the context of the work programme for the new session, we would begin the work that the Chairman and Deputy McDonald never got to finish because of the KPMG report and issues relating to it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: That is grand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: On a separate issue, notwithstanding the 13 individual personalities and views of committee members, in order to ensure the committee's approach to its work is as cohesive as possible, perhaps in the next session, in advance of meetings, each member could be tasked with selecting and dealing with one or two of the suggested questions listed in the briefing provided by the Office of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)
Marc MacSharry: It would give a level of assurance. The researchers and the secretariat engage in a particular line of work and members might identify an issue not identified by them. There may be 20 suggested questions, as was often the case in terms of the banking inquiry, and the lead questioner, for example, Deputy Catherine Murphy, could deal with four, the second questioner could deal with three and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (4 Jul 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding arrangements to post-primary schools for the leaving certificate applied, LCA, programme; if schools that choose to organise the LCA programme can access funding in year one of the two year programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31102/17]
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)
Marc MacSharry: With no disrespect to the Minister of State, it is unfortunate that the line Minister responsible for justice issues has not taken the time to be here for the entirety of the debate. We are not talking about a simple amendment Bill with no major consequences and it behoves the Minister to take the time to be here to listen to all of the points being made. Before getting into any of its...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)
Marc MacSharry: When he was sitting on the back benches of this House as an Independent and on the back benches of the Seanad for 30 years, he liked to have his voice heard. His voice was colourful, sometimes informative and sometimes of benefit but now that it has an impact on the legal establishment of the State and how it operates, we have to consider caution rather than political expediency when we...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Marc MacSharry: "We don't know".
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I also want to address Mr. Barrett's unsolicited correspondence. For one thing, I must say that I found it very helpful. It contains opinion, certainly, but there is no difficulty in discounting that. It also points to certain facts that I found to be very helpful. I read this in advance of yesterday's meeting in private session and gave my view of the issues arising from it. As far as I...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Marc MacSharry: -----and claiming something that, to my mind, happened in part, and certainly in terms of the withdrawal of comments, and not other than that. I have read this morning's correspondence as well. While there are these full pages with brief comments on item this and item that, it is a box ticking exercise. One issue came up in the stuff that I read this morning about the 50 accounts. It said...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Marc MacSharry: You will have to get up earlier in the morning, lads.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (6 Jul 2017)
Marc MacSharry: You had to jog first.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017) Marc MacSharry: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for the points they made. I will make a number of points on the accounts first. Receipts included €701,000 compared with €350,000 budgeted for in respect of the recoupment of certain expenses on the stabilisation of the banking sector. What was the nature of those expenses?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017) Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017) Marc MacSharry: I know how expenses work.