Results 11,321-11,340 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: What if it did not? I appreciate it is hypothetical but this would not be allowed in the private sector or any other sector.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Can we deal with "any other business" before that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I too want to apologise as I will not be here for the main session with the Department. I have one issue for the clerk and we can deal with it on another day. I was going through old files to do with protected disclosures and the rules around them. A letter came to the Committee of Public Accounts from the Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, dated 12 June 2018....
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (18 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the case of an adopted child (details supplied) in County Leitrim will be reviewed. [24937/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Did we receive a copy of this in our pack last week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I did not bring it with me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I have a few comments. When the NAMA Bill was going through the Houses, I was in the Senate and said that this is all new territory and I would not be surprised if, as things evolved, there needed to be a NAMA No. 2 or No. 3 Bill. There never was. Perhaps it is my conspiratorial mind, but there is form here. We are having this exact discussion on the oversight of the IBRC liquidation....
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: To add to that, and so I am not misunderstood, I am not saying that Project Eagle was a good thing from our perspective. From a Northern Ireland industry perspective, it played out very well.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am not saying that at all.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: We can recommend that the Department consider an amending Bill.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I might do it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: At the time of the enactment of the Presidential Establishment Act, the allowance was €5,000 per annum. It is now €317,000 per annum. This is not about the current President any more than it is about Douglas Hyde. It is about appropriate oversight. There are expenses associated with the Presidency, be that wardrobe expenses and so on, that I am sure the public would support...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: This is not a separation of powers. There might have been political argy-bargy, or it might have been interpreted as such, but it is not our fault it ended up being the only issue in the presidential campaign. It was a fairly dead campaign anyway. I voted for the incumbent, so it is not about that any more than it is about Douglas Hyde. The Department is coming back with the usual...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Jun 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I want to follow up on Deputy Catherine Murphy's parliamentary question. The six reports are glorified PowerPoint presentations, which we would have received. There is not much in them besides a headline figure so they will not give us much detail on that, though we could review them before the private meeting. It is good that Deputy Catherine Murphy asked about IBRC, but the response was...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Marc MacSharry: I thank everybody for coming in. I do not want to get into areas covered by the agriculture committee but I will follow up on some of Deputy Aylward's points. I appreciate the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will be the main actor in the Rockall issue but could the witness clarify if the former Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade formally recognised that Rockall...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Marc MacSharry: I know the history. Will Dr. Beamish speak to the specific question?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Marc MacSharry: The fisheries organisations would have a different view.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Marc MacSharry: Okay, I will take that for now. Is there work ongoing in the Department on the impact to the taxpayer of Mercosur negotiations, as we near an agreement there? I refer to higher quotas of beef and so on. I am interested in the financial impact.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019) Marc MacSharry: It is Mercosur, an international trading bloc.