Results 2,161-2,180 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Missions Data (8 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 365. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the expenditure relating to a promotional trip by Bord Bia to China in May 2019; the name of private sector companies included on the trip; the number of persons who travelled from each company; if the companies contributed to the cost of the trip; if so, the details of same in tabular form; and if he will make a...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I was going to raise it anyway. It is ironic that we had written to it and this correspondence came back. I understand the 100-day storage issue that we had. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit this agency?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The 2007 Act provides that the agency can get its money from a levy of 2 cent per litre on petrol, diesel and home heating oil. It is a bit more complicated for aviation fuel. The Act is prescriptive in that the agency should raise this levy for its running costs. Running costs of the agency are about €80 million to €90 million a year. I am told that there is somewhere in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It has been hinted in dispatches that it may be possible to use this money for this, that and the other. It seems that next week's budget will hit consumers with additional carbon taxes. If that happens, so be it because it is a matter for policy or whatever. If we are hitting consumers for 2 cent a litre for the specific purposes of the oil reserve that we require and that we all support,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I did not make it up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: A levy of 2 cent is being imposed on people.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The levy is supposed to cover the running costs. At the moment, approximately two and a half years' running costs are in the bank. People do not have that kind of money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It is. If the Deputy checks the National Oil Reserves Agency Act 2007, she will see that NORA can impose a levy for its running costs. At present, it is imposing a levy for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The levy was set in 2007. At that time, nobody in the Department was saying that a 2 cent levy might be needed because of Brexit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I want to provide one clarification in respect of the previous item that might be of use. Everything I said was correct. In the 2007 Act, section 44(3) states: "In determining the rates of levy, [that is, the 2 cent per litre that everyone is paying] the Minister shall seek to ensure that (taking one year with another) the sums realised by applying those rates to the volume assessments meet...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the witnesses. Page 27 of the report details that out of 43 oral hearings, 30 related to compulsory purchase orders, CPOs. How does the board ensure that the individuals and the State get value for money?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The board is happy that the current process provides value for money. Is that a fair assessment?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Money-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am not talking about the valuation. I am talking about the process that is gone through in terms of oral hearings, where they are held and all of that. Is the board happy that it provides value for money?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The board is not necessarily rushing to have one.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am sure it is not a vast amount of money but I note that all oral hearings are held in hotels. I know that when the Deputy beside me was Minister, he ordered a review and there was a recommendation that such hearings would be held in local authority buildings or chambers. Why was that recommendation not embraced?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: We are in the money business, not the perception business.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: If we were to follow that through to every Department and if I were suing the State, I would have an issue with the case being held in a court house.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: Yes, and An Bord Pleanála is independent of the local authorities.