Results 13,641-13,660 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: With regard to the financial resolution before us today, I welcome the Government's intervention in terms of the reductions for excise duty on fuel. Will the Taoiseach reconsider them in the context of home heating oil? The rationale is lost on me. Is it the intention of Government that we would get into the car and put on the heating rather than heat our homes in the few short months that...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (22 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for taking the time this evening. This has no bearing on the Minister of State whatsoever, but I want to point out my disappointment that we could not wheel out any one of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, the Minister, Deputy Ryan, the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, or the Minister, Deputy Coveney, who would have been appropriate to this...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (22 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: In fairness, they were. This is, again, no reflection on the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. I am pleased she is here. The Departments were in contact. They asked me which Department and I helped in their interpretation and said any of the four I have indicated. Funnily enough, and call me old fashioned, I did not mention the Department of Health and specifically did not mention mental...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (22 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State for reading out the reply. I appreciate that she is here, but the reply is an insult. We got a bunch of statistics. The passport service has 900 staff, has received €10 million in extra funding and it is going to be the devil and all. I expect the other Deputies in the Chamber and you, a Cheann Comhairle, would agree that the lived experience of...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (22 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: He is a very well-paid public servant.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Passport Services (22 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: I happened to use parliamentary privilege to put his name on the record.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 1087. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider extending the €1,000 Covid bonus payment to nurses, health and social care workers in the Intellectual Disability Service that worked in the community during the height of Covid and were required to work long shifts and were exposed to the same daily risk as hospital staff, and if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (29 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when employment permits will issue to persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16037/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: The national development plan states: In accordance with balanced regional development, a cancer care network for the Saolta region (West, North West) with a Cancer Centre at Galway University Hospital with appropriate infrastructure will be delivered. Yesterday, those of us from that region had the opportunity to hear a presentation from Professor Michael Kerin, who is the director of...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: When I came back from that presentation, where we heard we do not have enough investment and a dysfunctional cancer service in the north west, I got an email to tell us we have a new logo for the HSE in that area.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2022)
Marc MacSharry: It seems we are getting ten out of ten for colour schemes but we have an inadequate cancer service. What does the Government plan to do about this, as a matter of urgency?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: Some people do not get 40 opportunities.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: Will the Taoiseach make himself available to answer questions in the House for a lengthy period rather than 30 seconds on the obscurity around public appointments? There is a crisis in confidence about public accountability in the senior echelons of our Civil Service. Following today's interview by the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, accounting for the secondment to Trinity...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: -----for thinking that the Cabinet has become little more than rubber stamps for the will of senior civil servants-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: -----who are feathering their own nests and, while Cabinet members run around the world doing other business, are totally unaccountable to the Houses.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: Can I ask the Taoiseach about when he will make himself available-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: -----to answer questions on this matter?
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: It needs to be done. Today, the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, was evasive-----
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: -----patronising and, frankly, embarrassing. He treated the Members of this House like we were idiots. The Taoiseach needs to do something about it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)
Marc MacSharry: The Taoiseach has 40 opportunities.