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- 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: -----if a close and very hardworking colleague has impressed and done an exceptional amount of public service, we can design a bespoke retirement secondment package for him.
- 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: By who? By the man himself, is that not correct?
- 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: Of the 770 staff you mentioned earlier, who do not always agree with one another, in the Department of Health, how many are eligible for similar, self-designed, gilt-edged secondments or retirements following good service to the State?
- 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: How many can do that and be told, "Look, I will tell you what. What do you want to do? Do you want to be a professional footballer? I will tell you what, go out to Shamrock Rovers, you negotiate with it your terms and we will fund it." Is that how it works?
- 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: Do you say “Yes” to everybody?
- 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: How much are you managing to funnel to UCD to fund it now?
- 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: For the role that Dr. Holohan now has in UCD how much of the research funding is being channelled?
- 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: Well you knew all about it in Trinity. Is there money now going through the Department to UCD for this purpose?
- 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 is a very important question now.
- 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 asking the Department of Health. You are the one who seems to have plenipotentiary status to dish out €10 million or €15 million when it suits. I am asking you, are there any moneys going to UCD to support the efforts of Dr. Holohan in that position?
- 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 did not ask you that. Is the Department of Health giving UCD any money?
- 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: How much are they giving?
- 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: How much of the €50 million plus did it increase from a calendar perspective, since the non-progression of the TCD secondments?
- 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: Would there be additional money since then do you think?
- 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 will conclude by saying this whole debacle is unseemly in the extreme. Sadly, it has called into question the continuance in his position of an excellent and very talented Secretary General. It makes a farce of an expression of confidence in the Secretary General by the Tánaiste and the Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, National Delivery Plan and Reform, while we have an...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (20 Apr 2023)
Marc MacSharry: 352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when an accommodation provider (details supplied) for Ukrainian refugees who is experiencing financial difficulties will receive payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18822/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Apr 2023)
Marc MacSharry: There is an unintended consequence of one of the State's welcome actions to accommodate refugees fleeing war-torn Ukraine. I refer specifically to the tax-free payment of €800 to landlords. The issue is that houses which ordinarily may come to the open rental market, particularly in parts of the country not like Dublin, where rents are especially high, are exclusively being devoted...
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Apr 2023)
Marc MacSharry: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a detailed estimated timeline of reforms under LOA 2 of the Defence Forces Commission. [19817/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Apr 2023)
Marc MacSharry: 47. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces has established a group to study the lessons of the Ukraine war and how it will impact Ireland's capabilities and force structure. [19818/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Apr 2023)
Marc MacSharry: 48. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the expected timeline for a replacement of the Air Corps Pilatus PC-9M aircraft; and if consideration is being given to more capable jet aircraft for air policing missions. [19819/23]