Results 321-340 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the announcement of the increase in the minimum wage. I encourage the Government to accelerate it towards being a living wage. Given the inordinate pressures on SMEs, which are now responsible for employing, with other companies, some 2.5 million people nationwide, I ask that measures specific to SMEs be included in next week's budget to enable them to offset a proportion of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Chairman very much for allowing me to make a few points. I welcome the Minister and thank her for her responses. To save time, I call on her to ensure, with Deputy McGrath and her colleagues at Cabinet, that there is a measure in the budget next week to alleviate the anxiety and hardship on the 6,000 applicants who were discommoded this year. I acknowledge that all eligible...
- 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 Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 306. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that frontline staff in a healthcare setting (details supplied) who provide a service on behalf of the HSE and come under Section 39, were not included in the list for the €1,000 pandemic special recognition payment; if he will rectify this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45288/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jul 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 258. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite a passport application for a child (details supplied) given that the target issue date has been exceeded and the travel date is imminent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38183/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jul 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 255. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite passport applications for a family (details supplied) given that the target issue date has been exceeded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38152/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Jul 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 641. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will expedite a decision on an application for the carer's benefit for a person (details supplied) given that the carer has serious health issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37794/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (6 Jul 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the passports of children (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36586/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (5 Jul 2022)
Marc MacSharry: 311. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application for a person (details supplied) given that the target issue date has been exceeded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36121/22]