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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Group and Port of Waterford Company: Chairpersons Designate (2 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: How many are doing so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Group and Port of Waterford Company: Chairpersons Designate (2 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It would be good to know the answers to these questions. I will move on. I really am getting near the end - I promise. Is Mr. Cawley familiar with the term "place bonding"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Group and Port of Waterford Company: Chairpersons Designate (2 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: From my research on international tourism, it seems to be among the new buzz terms. Place bonding is what leads to repeat tourism. Our rate of repeat tourism is 31%, apparently. What are we doing to increase this? In Britain the rate of repeat tourism is 63%. What we have when people exit the country is a satisfaction questionnaire, which asks them whether they had a nice time, where...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Group and Port of Waterford Company: Chairpersons Designate (2 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I assure Mr. Cawley that my figures are accurate. I asked Fáilte Ireland and Tourism Ireland for them. They were derived from international research, and I can provide them to him. I promise I am concluding. This is my very last question. Is there an opportunity to build place bonding and repeat visiting through the excellent work Fáilte Ireland does? However, is it trying...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Group and Port of Waterford Company: Chairpersons Designate (2 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I wish all three witnesses the very best and thank them for their time and their answers to the questioning. I apologise to my good friend here, Senator Kieran O'Donnell, who has been waiting for some time.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Penalty Points System (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 14. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has engaged with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport with regard to the considerable loopholes that exist within the penalty point system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40156/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo who was refused the third level back to education allowance in 2017 will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40237/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I was going to raise it anyway. It is ironic that we had written to it and this correspondence came back. I understand the 100-day storage issue that we had. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit this agency?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The 2007 Act provides that the agency can get its money from a levy of 2 cent per litre on petrol, diesel and home heating oil. It is a bit more complicated for aviation fuel. The Act is prescriptive in that the agency should raise this levy for its running costs. Running costs of the agency are about €80 million to €90 million a year. I am told that there is somewhere in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It has been hinted in dispatches that it may be possible to use this money for this, that and the other. It seems that next week's budget will hit consumers with additional carbon taxes. If that happens, so be it because it is a matter for policy or whatever. If we are hitting consumers for 2 cent a litre for the specific purposes of the oil reserve that we require and that we all support,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I did not make it up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: A levy of 2 cent is being imposed on people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The levy is supposed to cover the running costs. At the moment, approximately two and a half years' running costs are in the bank. People do not have that kind of money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It is. If the Deputy checks the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007, she will see that NORA can impose a levy for its running costs. At present, it is imposing a levy for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The levy was set in 2007. At that time, nobody in the Department was saying that a 2 cent levy might be needed because of Brexit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I want to provide one clarification in respect of the previous item that might be of use. Everything I said was correct. In the 2007 Act, section 44(3) states: "In determining the rates of levy, [that is, the 2 cent per litre that everyone is paying] the Minister shall seek to ensure that (taking one year with another) the sums realised by applying those rates to the volume assessments meet...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the witnesses. Page 27 of the report details that out of 43 oral hearings, 30 related to compulsory purchase orders, CPOs. How does the board ensure that the individuals and the State get value for money?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The board is happy that the current process provides value for money. Is that a fair assessment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Money-----