Results 13,041-13,060 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (24 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 395. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the total number of employees in the Property Registration Authority is in the region of 550 employees; the precise number employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38734/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (24 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if approximately 230 employees are currently remote working enabled and who are therefore working from home; the precise number; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38735/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (24 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the remainder of staff at the Property Registration Authority numbering approximately 320 employees are split into two teams, namely team A and team B; if these teams work part-time across the six locations operated by the PRA, with team A and B working a two-day week and three-day week alternating from team to team and...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration Authority (24 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 398. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the attention of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has been drawn to and has approved a situation in which employees are working a two to three-day week in certain instances but yet being remunerated for a full working week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38737/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 30. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 26 and 27 of 4 November 2020, the financial implications or fines arising from the failure of Ireland to meet Regulation (EU) No. 994/2010 from 1 January 2021 on the security of gas supply, which requires member states to comply with the N-1 formula; and if he will make a...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities. (25 Nov 2020) Marc MacSharry: I welcome Mr. Doyle and everyone. I wish Mr. Doyle the best in his new role. I am sure he will have no problem getting across the brief, having come from the mixed brief he had. It is even more mixed since he left it. I welcome Ms Hurley and Ms Ryan as well. The Chairman can stop me if he feels he needs to, because I will be somewhat current. During the Covid-19 period have any rules...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities. (25 Nov 2020) Marc MacSharry: Of course safety is of paramount importance. What about the issue of people being paid a full salary for less work, should a person be unable to work remotely? For example, what if the person is outside a broadband area or is simply unable to attend work in a safe space? What I am trying to get at is whether things have evolved to the extent that we are paying a full salary where, for...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities. (25 Nov 2020) Marc MacSharry: I support that of course.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities. (25 Nov 2020) Marc MacSharry: The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform says that if people work less they should be paid less pro rata. Obviously, we have to look after people so there are financial supports through the pandemic unemployment payment and so on. Will Mr. Doyle check this? I do not expect him to know the answer today. I believe the Property Registration Authority is under the remit of the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government.
Local Government Fund
Chapter 2 – Central Government Funding of Local Authorities. (25 Nov 2020) Marc MacSharry: I thank Mr. Doyle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Chairman for allowing me to contribute. I am not a regular member of the committee and I am here as a guest today. I thank the representatives from Eir for attending. Unlike State agencies, Eir is not bound to appear before Oireachtas committees. We appreciate this opportunity. I also thank Deputy James O'Connor for allowing me to use his slot to contribute. It gives me no...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I will read directly from Twitter this morning, and Ms Lennon can correct me if I am wrong. It refers to it being a "mistake" to go to Sligo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: In that case, Ms Lennon is happy Eir went to Sligo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Did Ms Lennon also say that Sligo did not have experience of customer care centres before Eir set up there?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: How many thousands of people does Ms Lennon think worked at MBNA?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Is that not a matter for Eir and its recruitment strategy?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: We have the opportunity to correct it now. That is why I am putting pertinent questions. Is it correct that Morgan McKinley handled the recruitment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: It did that from Cork. Is that right?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: It did a great job. It recruited from Cork. With hindsight, would it have been better to use a company in Galway or Sligo, if there were any, to handle the recruitment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)
Marc MacSharry: It did a great job too.