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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That was probably a bad example. There are many tax write-offs or incentives available in various areas and it was just to give an analogy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We try to avoid that to the extent that is possible. I am not precious about the contents of this, in the sense that if this can be a catalyst to begin a meaningful debate on the tax allowance and credit for working families with children, my ambition will have been realised. This went to all of the committees but this is the only one that came back. I would love if the Committee on...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: One would not be changing the whole system. One would be introducing a tax credit allowance at whatever level was affordable in terms of the Exchequer. I was proposing that €150 million would equate to an allowance or tax credit per child of about €240. That would be the level, if we could afford €150 million on an annual basis. That is a huge amount of money in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The question is about where the committee goes from here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I do not think so. The issue of rogue employers is an issue now, where employers are taking advantage of the fact people are entitled to FIS. That argument will continue regardless. This is not recommending the abolition of FIS. FIS would remain, where necessary. I respectfully disagree with the Senator's point on that. I do not think it would be any more or any less of an incentive to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The UK, the US and Canada, are using this, to my knowledge.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Not a thing other than to thank the committee very much for allowing me the space to come in. I am wearing a non-political hat in the context of this proposal. A win for me or a win for children would be if the committee, in its own time, was to decide to refer this to the Department and ask if it could examine the principle of this in the context of budget preparations into the future....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Discussion Paper on Taxation: Deputy Marc MacSharry (28 Jun 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I ask that the Minister focus on the principle of this. We all could write the Minister's response in terms of anyone looking to spend €1 billion on anything.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Regarding CervicalCheck, have confidentiality agreements been abolished or abandoned? Are we still seeking those in terms of any-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We will ask him about that but Mr. Connaghan is saying the HSE is not looking for them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is that while mediation is ongoing?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: We will ask it. However, the point is that we are not looking for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: With the audit happening, if a woman is unfortunate enough to be diagnosed, is there now a working protocol in place for informing that woman? Who is telling these women?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If somebody is diagnosed now, is there a very clear protocol in place whereby the physician or CervicalCheck tells the patient? What is the protocol and is it working? Has a new one been put in place since this debacle?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is that a "No"?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is it fair to say that despite the debacle we have had, we are waiting until everything is over before we put a definite protocol in place?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: And no protocols have been put in place in the mean time.
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That did not really happen, as we know. What I am trying to establish is whether the HSE at management and director level has said that if this happens again, "You will do this and I will do that and this is how it will work out." Has that happened?
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I think, as a recommendation, we could be pioneering, not to have to wait for the Scally review, apply basic common sense - I have no clinical training - and put a protocol in place notwithstanding the good recommendations of Scally or anybody else. At this point, has anyone in the HSE been held to account or is it the same answer in terms of waiting for Scally and other reviews? Are any...
- Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The answer is-----