Results 14,061-14,080 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Definitely not. If you gave me 35 grand to do an aul MBA, I might stick around for a couple of years. Is coastal erosion under the remit of the OPW? The western seaboard, as we know, is rotting away because the weather is the way it is. I am in the Sligo area and there are big problems where I live in Strandhill. The fantastic head of public affairs at the OPW also lives there and I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Mooney is talking about the minor works scheme, which is still there for people.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Have any applications relevant to coastal erosion in Strandhill been made by Sligo County Council to the OPW under the minor works scheme?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Mooney would know if there was such an application. I know, for example, that Galway might make approximately 17 applications per year and Sligo might make six per year.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: There cannot be that many applications.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Would it be safe to say there is no current application before the OPW?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Will Mr. Mooney check and come back to me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Rosses Point is also an issue. A village, Strandhill, has almost fallen into the sea on one side. On the other side is Sligo Golf Club and so on. There is a big issue there. An important place called Shelly Valley is under threat. It would be preferable for Mr. Mooney to give me a note on the issue. I worry that it is not going to be a local issue but a national issue. I am conscious-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I am concerned. Fianna Fáil has been draining the River Shannon since 1946. We have not got there yet. Mr. Mooney will send me a note on the issue. I thank him and I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: It is the result of spending 22 years listening to similar answers, albeit not from Mr. Mooney.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Do not be stuck if you need somebody to do an MBA or anything. I am certainly available.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: May I make one point on that issue? It is good to hear from the chief architect, who does fantastic work. Our job, however, is not to praise the fantastic work. It is to call out the glitches. I agree with Mr. O'Connor that the problem is not systemic. When there are glitches, however, the practice of the State is to circle the wagons and blame it on systemic failure because we will not...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (24 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, given recent reports of historical sexual abuse in primary and secondary schools, what course of action can be taken by victims of sexual abuse at a school (details supplied) in seeking redress; the scheme and or process currently open to them; the way victims should go about applying for inclusion; if, in the event that there is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: It mitigates the impact, probably from about €10 million down to about €9.3 million.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is planning to support the continuing growth of capital equity markets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38302/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is planning to expand the financing options, such as access to initial public offerings, available to enterprises to help them to scale and grow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38303/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2025 (10 Oct 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason there was no allocated supports for shared mobility providers offered in Budget 2025, considering these operators play a leading role in making transport more sustainable, accessible and affordable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40732/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2025 (10 Oct 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on Action 87 of the National Sustainable Mobility Policy, on the development of a strategy for the expansion of car share, bike, PTT services at transport hubs, considering there was no mention of shared mobility in Budget 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40733/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Oct 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 187. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans reform of RPZs on foot of the recommendations contained in the report of the Housing Commission; his views on the private residential sector as a critical component in achieving Ireland's housing for all goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40734/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (10 Oct 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has considered the impact of rent controls or policies similar to RPZs on housing markets in other jurisdictions when developing policy; his views on the current RPZ system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40735/24]