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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (9 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the vacant property refurbishment grant can be considered where the applicant fulfils the conditions of the scheme and has an independent engineer's report confirming that the vacant property concerned is unsuitable for habitation and structurally unsafe and should be demolished to be replaced with a new dwelling (details...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (9 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 286. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an accommodation provider for Ukrainian refugees (details supplied) who is experiencing financial difficulties will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12013/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (9 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 328. To ask the Minister for Health given the expiry of the National Cardiovascular Health Strategy; ‘Changing Cardiovascular Health Policy’ four years ago, when is it proposed that the Government will publish a new National Cardiovascular Strategy. [12057/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tax Code (9 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 329. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to expand sugar related taxes to include other goods including a wide range of high sugar quantity confectionary sweets, snacks and other consumable products to help tackle the national obesity pandemic. [12060/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (9 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 330. To ask the Minister for Health the current Government position with regard to target timeframe to achieve a tobacco free Ireland. [12062/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: I listened earlier to the Taoiseach outline the total superficiality of Private Members' motions, like many of the activities of this House. For the record, therefore, will the Taoiseach confirm for the Irish people who are increasingly and falsely led to believe by all parties including the Taoiseach's party and enthusiastically supported by the media that the will of this Chamber on such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (23 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 441 of 28 September 2021, and subsequent correspondence received from her Department sanctioning the transportation of a disabled child who is a full-time wheelchair user (details supplied) by the school bus service to a respite centre on the required days; if her Department will contact the school bus...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (28 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the maximum grant of €5,000 for households that are not connected to public sewer systems, towards the substantial costs involved for the upgrade or replacement of domestic waste-water treatment systems (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14903/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 179. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence given the time that has elapsed since receipt of the independent review group report into the Defence Forces, when it will be published; if the Government has considered the report; if there is a delay in publication due to advice received from the Attorney General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15832/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 181. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will confirm or deny that among the recommendations of the independent review group report on the Defence Forces is the establishment of a tribunal of inquiry to expose and address any cultural issues within the Defence Forces with regard to abuse, bullying, sexual harassment and other wrongdoing. [15834/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Mar 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 180. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence with regard to the work of the independent review group, what is to happen to the transcripts of submission made to the independent review group report on the Defence Forces by the victims and survivors of abuse, bullying and wrongdoing; if he will ensure these transcripts are carefully maintained and not destroyed; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Enterprise Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 692. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the budget that has been specifically ring fenced for the implementation of the recommendations set out in the Sustainable Enterprise - Creative Economy Report in March 2022, by the Western Development Commission, given the identification of her Department as the primary entity responsible for driving creative enterprise in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Chairman and members for allowing me to join the committee. It is nice to exchange with Mr. Watt once again. It is a year since we had our first exchange on this issue. It was at the health committee. I recall the Chairman of that committee and indeed other members wanting to have my comments withdrawn from the record and to disassociate themselves. It is ironic that a year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Marc MacSharry: Sorry, I did not ask you that. You have a lot of experience, and so do I. I asked you a specific question. What section of what Act endows you with authority to unilaterally decide on expenditure of €20 million over ten years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Marc MacSharry: No, I am not asking about the letter of intent either. You know these Acts back to front. What section of what Act endows plenipotentiary authority on you to invoke taxpayers’ money to the tune of €20 million over ten years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Marc MacSharry: What section of the Act, please? It was €2 million per annum, I understood. Let us not get into pedantics. What section of the Act is it? We are dancing around protocols, one's understanding of the Act and all of that. I have heard it for hours. You once told me at the Committee of Public Accounts that we do not have a gotcha culture in the Civil Service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Marc MacSharry: Clearly we do not, and certainly not when the independent report disagrees with the great on high. The reality is that it is time taxpayers stopped being taken for fools. They pay you €300,000 per year and, despite the expertise of all these parliamentary party people, we await a direct answer. Who, or what authority under what Act, allowed you to say: “Tony wanted to go....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Marc MacSharry: What section of it, please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Secretary General of the Department of Health (19 Apr 2023)

Marc MacSharry: It says the Secretary General-----