Results 12,761-12,780 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 654. To ask the Minister for Health when radiology services will be opened in hospitals for non-Covid-19 patients especially those who may have cancer-related health issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16773/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (21 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 655. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available to provide staff to operate the state-of-the art x-ray equipment in a Saolta health campus (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16774/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: Last week, I raised several issues regarding State borrowing by the Football Association of Ireland, FAI, in circumstances where there are governance questions to be answered. Since then, I have done as the independent chairman of the FAI asked in his late night statement of last week, and checked my facts and find not only that I must stand over my comments but that other serious governance...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I do not wish to cast aspersions on the good name of the independent chairman of the FAI or anyone else but I am bound by my duties to the taxpayer. These are serious issues. Significant State funds are at stake and clearly the independent chairman of the FAI has significant questions to answer and so too does Sport Ireland. The essence of the independent chairman's role is ensuring...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: He has a fiduciary duty to the FAI when he is on that board and, at the same time, he is the one providing the money from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Government should reverse this. In fairness to the former Minister with responsibility, Shane Ross, I did not agree with him much but I agreed with him on blocking that appointment in January.

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I wish the Minister the best in her tenure in this Department. I would be delighted if she had the Department of Rural and Community Affairs on its own because it is the kind of Department that requires someone with her expertise and commitment. I regret that in the division and reallocation of Departments, we have overloaded some of them with very important issues and the Minister's is one...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Preparations (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if further Brexit legislation is likely to be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18500/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps business owners should take whose respective insurance companies will not pay out on claims for business interruption due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18893/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 959. To ask the Minister for Health the activity volumes per month at each of the 18 private hospitals which were part of the provision of public health services in private hospitals as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic covering the full duration of the agreement, including but not limited to inpatient, outpatient, elective and all other activities and procedures undertaken under the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Football Association of Ireland (8 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 174. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will make enquiries into the governance procedures followed or not followed as the case may be with regard to the appointment of the independent chairman of an organisation (details supplied) and other matters within his Department and Sport Ireland; if he will then publish a detailed account of these enquiries and precise...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school profiling based on the performance of previous years will now not proceed for fear it could discriminate against high performance students from disadvantaged areas; her views on whether a high performance student in a disadvantaged area will naturally be in the upper end of the bell curve of the school in circumstances (details...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme (10 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 680 of 14 July 2020 and subsequent correspondence to her Department, when a school (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive funding for emergency works at the school. [23172/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Bodies (15 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 205. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the position of the chief executive officer of an organisation (details supplied), which was extended in 2016 for a four-year period and is set to expire on 30 September 2020, will be advertised; if not being publicly advertised, the precise reason for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23976/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Bodies (15 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the terms of the chairman and three board members of an organisation (details supplied), together with the three board vacancies which already exist, are set to expire on 30 September 2020; when these positions will be advertised in the media and on the normal Public Jobs online platform; if not being publicly advertised, the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Bodies (15 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been an approach by an organisation (details supplied) to seek a further extension to the existing contract of the current CEO; if an extension to the terms of office of the current chairman or board members has been sought; if so, the details of such representations; the person or body that made them; when they were made;...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Appointments to State Boards (15 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 291. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether, for optimum corporate governance, all organisations and agencies under the competent authority of the State should adhere to the practice of term limits for key personnel including the positions of CEO, chairperson and board members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23979/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Public Sector Staff (15 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 321. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on whether recruitment for all organisations and agencies under the competent authority of the State should carry out all recruitment in an open, transparent and public manner in line with the principles of corporate governance and established protocols which govern public procurement and the recruitment of personnel...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (15 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 474. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the disability allowance assessment criteria for those living with myalgic encephalomyelitis is not representative of the WHO classified neurological disorder myalgic encephalomyelitis (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24081/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 815. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 10 July 2019, the evidence Children’s Health Ireland relies on to adopt graded exercise therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy as treatments for children with myalgic encephalomyelitis; if HSE paediatricians follow the same treatment pathways, that is, supervised graded exercise programmes and cognitive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (15 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 818. To ask the Minister for Health the diagnostic criteria that will be used to differentiate between long-tail Covid-19, that is, those exhibiting a post-Covid-19 syndrome and those with myalgic encephalomyelitis in view of the fact that SARS and MERS outbreaks resulted in some persons having slow recovery and of those a sub-group went on to fulfil diagnostic criteria for ME; and if he will...