Results 12,161-12,180 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I most respectfully suggest that Ms Graham might ask whether it is possible for normal beat cops, as part of their shift, as opposed to the dedicated traffic corps or homicide police, to extend their focus to transport. I refer to the visible police we see, whether they are community police or police walking the beat. Is it possible to factor in as part of their normal working day that they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am sorry for interrupting, but my only fear on that is we will end up with a patchy service where one superintendent thinks it is a great idea and he is doing it while another superintendent does not. It is important to agree a national policy, although it is clear that it is more of an issue in urban areas on the Luas and Dublin Bus and on intercity rail lines. We have all heard about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is brilliant. We are agreed then. I thank Ms Graham.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Who carried out the review?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the fact that we did not go out to tender and pay somebody a couple of hundred thousand euro to compile this report. We discussed this project previously and the €11 million that was spent on it. Am I right in stating that it is run now by a private sector company? Is it also correct that it gets a preferential rent? What is the rent?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The report is standard. It is a case of circle the wagons, nobody is to blame, nobody pays the price and Galway has a piece of infrastructure. We are all proud of Galway's culture, heritage and the part it plays. With every respect to Deputy Connolly, however, Galway does pretty well out of public funds when it comes to the arts. As I said at the meeting when we first raised this, it is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is typical of reviews.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: "Wit" is the perfect word. Sometimes the language in this committee is far too politically correct to capture the disastrous approaches that are taken. This is the standard three-card trick of saying how wonderful things are. This is not a bit wonderful. There is nothing wonderful about it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: One is in the clear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: In the brief discussion we had the last day when this matter arose in Deputy Kelly's absence, I made many similar points. At best, we are seeing the politically opportunistic use of legislation that was not intended for that purpose. At worst, and as with actions we saw in the Dáil during the week, through the use of articles of the Constitution on money messages, it defines life in a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The Deputy is spot on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I will make a final point. We might suggest to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform that, where all public expenditure is concerned, tenderers should be told that their fees and costs will be public information. They would be entitled to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: And if individual barristers are that hung up about their privacy, they do not have to do the work for the State.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It is a very honourable profession.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The profession is definitely as well resourced as it is honourable.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I do not have much to add to this but I had picked it out and underlined the relevant sentence. Effectively, it amounts to a blank cheque. The Taoiseach had signalled this earlier. It seems, if we are to believe it, that we are about to write another blank cheque for broadband provision. This is a significant concern. We are continuing down an endless road in respect of the costs of this...