Results 7,641-7,660 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There was no space for us.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Definitely not.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Feb 2018)
Marc MacSharry: How about an answer?
- Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: There are many reasons not to accept this Bill but I very much hope the Minister will look for the reasons and the positives to ensure he accepts it. For too long we have been focused 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...
- Sustainable Seaweed Harvesting: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I thank Deputies Connolly and Pringle for the opportunity to discuss this matter. I agree with Deputies Ó Cuív and Murphy O'Mahony regarding the beauty of all of the constituencies on the western seaboard. If beauty equalled licensing and resources for those constituencies, we probably would not have to have this debate. Sadly, however, it does not. When I think about how we...
- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The Tánaiste referred to cohesion, centralisation, cost-saving and the consolidation of websites. These are all admirable matters which do not cost €5 million. We are all for good communications, telling the truth, as well as portraying and giving the truth the complexion it deserves. Since its establishment, the strategic communications unit has used a new tagline, “A...
- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That cost taxpayers' money. There is no level of morality associated with the "Leo the Vain" unit. This is €5 million of taxpayers' money. I will not even begin to list off the umpteen things Deputy Tony McLoughlin would like to do in Sligo with €5 million. Deputy Martin Kenny and I also have our list of things to do, as do all Deputies in the House. Deputy Micheál...
- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The sooner it abolishes this unit, the better.
- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I will conclude on this point. With regard to the launch in Sligo, which the Minister, Deputy Charles Flanagan, said I was not even at, let me tell him I was there. Deputies, former Tánaistí and so on were there, stuck at the back - we were sitting at tables - while Fine Gael's known and respected supporters were shown to their seats.
- Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We then had schoolchildren in from the local schools, which was fantastic, and they were given questions to ask. How do I know this? My niece was one of them. It was stage managed to a tee. This must end.
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Benefit Data (20 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 970. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of qualified child increases by scheme type for those aged 18 to 22 years in full-time education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12572/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Data (20 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 971. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of one-parent family payment and the related number of children who are also in receipt of family income supplement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12573/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: This is the type of thing that makes it into the news and we should be taking a look at it in our work programme.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I agree 100% with Deputy Cullinane. There is no sanction here. It is not the committee's fault. This committee was traditionally more powerful. If issues arose, people were brought in and there was some sanction. However, now outcomes from this committee are broadly noted. When there is institutional culpability, the reaction is to announce a review or to ensure that a report is carried...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I am not an auditor and Mr. McCarthy has all of the expertise, but I always have a problem when I read "clear audit opinion, but". How could there be a clear audit opinion if processes were not followed? Given that the Comptroller and Auditor General certified this, there is something about the situation that I do not accept. If a Word document was sent to him, it would take work to-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: -----pull out some of that and submit an earlier draft. We are reaching a little if we assume it was a clerical error. This is not a bunch of documents, but something in electronic format. Would that pay-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: To get it printed-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: -----and presented to the Oireachtas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Mar 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is the part of the report other than what was presented to Mr. McCarthy internal to the document? Is it the last page?