Results 7,341-7,360 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: So 1.75 people in the compliance unit are going to take Tusla from an annual audit rate of 1.7% to what?
- Public Accounts Committee: Tusla - Financial Statements 2016 (19 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I would suggest humbly that given the number of organisations and amount of money involved, WTEs are not going to cut it and neither are 11 people. There is an awful lot of money and agencies and we need a better system. I thank the Chairman.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: The programme for Government refers to breakthrough treatments, the availability of new drugs and their cost. The previous Deputy mentioned that Kuvan is the only treatment for PKU, a disease that is prevalent in Ireland. Ireland has the highest incidence in the world at one in 4,500. Many countries throughout Europe have already approved this drug for supply. We have not done it here...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, is waiting at the door and there are still some bits of correspondence to get through that I, for one, certainly have a view on.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Exactly and they make take some time to get through.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: That is the Chairman's view. There are at least two of major importance to me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Can we deal with TII and then return to correspondence in a more detailed manner?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: That is a problem then because I am lead speaker and I have to go on RTÉ at 11 o'clock.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: We just spent half an hour on one item of correspondence.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I am only asking.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Deputy Kelly is stealing my notes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I do.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: I would like to put a couple of things on record about this. The gentleman in question also wrote to me requesting that I recuse myself because of what he determined as my long association with the college. To me, the implication of his correspondence was that a partiality or conflict of interest might impair my fair adjudication of any evidence or correspondence that this committee might...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely. Potentially and depending on the reply, we could have the college representatives in to the committee, with the gentleman, to give an account of these matters.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: There was a court case with an outcome. It seems to be suggested in this correspondence that the outcome of that court case may be being interpreted differently by NUIG than the authorities at St. Angela's College and by this gentleman. The suggestion in the correspondence is that up to €1 million was potentially spent in legal fees which, without prejudice to any of our own...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: St. Angela's is in Sligo, and while it was a constituent college of NUI, it is now merging with it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: NUIG, yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (10 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 88. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the location of the site for the new Garda headquarters (details supplied) in County Sligo; if it has been procured; the status of the project; the timeframe for planning, construction and completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42318/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the allocation for the provision of a multi purpose room which is needed for the pupils and staff of a school (details supplied); if approval will be given; the timeframe involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42324/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Alcohol Sales Legislation (10 Oct 2017)
Marc MacSharry: 216. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to recent legislation passed which provides for craft brewers licenced to sell their products to brewery visitors between certain times, if the licence is a saleable asset; if it is transferable; if they can be converted to full licences in time; if the licence will expire if a business closes down; the way in which...