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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: Okay, right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: I do not know whether it is appropriate, or whether it is done at this committee, to put questions directly to officials. No, I can see that it is not and that is okay. Did anybody indicate to the Minister at the time that there was an issue, or that one would arise, with those people who had concessionary tickets in the previous years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: This is a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: But, it is. I am here a long time-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: -----20 years, so it is a "Yes" or "No" answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: No. This is the issue-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: I have to say, with the best of respect, that the one thing that has been missing in this, and the Minister can ask my parliamentary assistant and secretarial assistant in Sligo, or each of the representatives present, or everybody throughout the House, or indeed county councillors, and this is why I announced the successes at the beginning and welcomed them so that the Minister did not have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: Not enough, quite frankly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister has done the same reply 50 times.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: We know about the increase-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: -----but we also have 6,000 freeloaders, as the Chairman has mentioned, who hoovered up the spaces because they might need it and sure it would be nice to have it. We did not deal with that and, even now, with respect to the Minister, and her a long time, there is no humility here. It is a case of, "Look at the great job we are doing and you should be happy with it."
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: What about the other concessionaries?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the route of the Rural Link bus managed from the Cavan/Monaghan Rural Link office to accommodate persons from the Carrigallen area in County Leitrim to travel to Cavan town, to include members of the Ukrainian community (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46902/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 443. To ask the Minister for Health when the early-intervention youth service for counties Sligo and Leitrim will be finalised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46631/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the many anomalies in the payment of salaries, premiums and overtime in the CHO 1 area in disability services since the adoption of a new system approximately 12 months ago; the number of errors that have been made, in tabular form; the reason these errors occurred; the length of time it took for each underpayment to be rectified; the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 454. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is taking a full 12 weeks to pay overtime to staff, including nurses; the reason this is the case; if he is prepared to shorten the inordinate time healthcare professionals are expected to wait to receive their overtime payments amidst an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46698/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)
Marc MacSharry: While I welcome the extra €67 million allocated to the Department of Defence in budget 2023, on the day that PDFORRA delegates are meeting throughout the country, and acknowledging that they have lost 300 staff this year alone, I ask the Taoiseach to provide a timeframe for tangible increases in the pay of soldiers, airmen and seamen.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (6 Oct 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow persons with dependent children who held a medical card prior to qualifying for the widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension on the death of a partner or spouse to retain the medical card for three years if they subsequently take up new employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49360/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)
Marc MacSharry: As the Minister and the Minister for Finance put the final touches to the finance Bill, in welcoming many measures in the budget, could I ask that they use this opportunity, as late in the day as it is, to reverse the decision to place a 10% levy on concrete blocks? As a property professional, I can tell the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform that the proposal is counterproductive to...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (11 Oct 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 515. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the anomaly whereby a person (details supplied) who is in receipt of a State pension and who fulfils the means criteria for receipt of the fuel allowance is ineligible for the allowance if they are residing with a pensioner who is not in receipt of a qualifying payment from the Department, but are in...