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- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise Controls (15 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 192. To ask the Minister for Finance the checks carried out by his officials to ensure that goods bought online from outside the State and posted to the purchaser are complying with VAT and customs duties regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54436/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Initiatives (15 Jan 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 1094. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 538 of 19 December 2018, if her attention has been drawn to the fact that talks for the agreement of a new contract have broken down and as such a company (details supplied) will not be the sponsor organisation in 2019; if her attention has been further drawn to an application from...
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Job Initiatives (19 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: 538. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that from 31 December 2018 there will no longer be a jobs club in County Sligo; the reason the decision has been taken; if the decision will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53542/18]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is this the person with whom I am in contact?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I think we got a bit confused. As I understood it, after our last meeting when Deputy O'Connell was here, we would ask the HSE. The Brothers of Charity Services in Ireland would not have to come, but we would ask their representatives and go through this. The issue was that they seemed to be applying rules and people were being charged, some of whom were reimbursed, others of whom were...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: On the State Claims Agency, we touched on thalidomide the last time the HSE was in. I would like to pursue the outstanding issue of the eight or nine people with it again because we posed a number of questions the last time that were not adequately answered. Of the remaining eight or nine thalidomide sufferers who are not being accepted as being part of the scheme, one is a judge and one...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Of course the State cannot be a soft touch or anything like that. We are talking about eight or nine people and it is being defended in the High Court and we have Hayes Solicitors on record, which is a private firm that is incurring a cost to the State and all so on. The State's default position will be to defend every case and I would love to know why it is throwing money at this when...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: If somebody runs into my car, I will not waste €10,000 suing them unless they have money so what is the cost-benefit analysis in pursuing eight people?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I was watching proceedings on the monitor in my office. I may have missed some stuff so if the Chairman tells me any of my questions have been dealt with I will move on and consult the record. Is any of the transport outsourced or does Bus Éireann do it all?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That is high. Does the fact it is outsourced incur any additional cost to the State?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Is it because we do not have the fleet?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It is a policy call.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: What is the benefit?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Would it be cheaper?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: Has the Comptroller and Auditor General examined that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That must build morale in Bus Éireann.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: That must build morale in Bus Éireann.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: The service provider of last resort.
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: It would stand to reason that if a company with scale could deliver the service throughout the entire country-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport (13 Dec 2018)
Marc MacSharry: I thought Bus Éireann was a company of scale.