Results 8,861-8,880 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (25 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 309. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Leitrim will receive a decision on an application for disability allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31585/16]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Just to comment on it, this is tactics. Lazard is a professional adviser to NAMA. The latter owns the information. It solicited it, asked questions and got answers. We have to consider those answers and questions as part of our report. My answer is "No".
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (20 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: If NAMA has information, the ownership of that information and professional advice rests with it and not Lazard. We are only considering it in the context of it being in the ownership of NAMA. We are not judging Lazard on its advice.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The point being missed is that there is no problem. The council has done an exceptional job in following the plan heretofore to the best of its ability. It is time the Minister was prepared to admit, as assistant secretary Lemass was prepared to admit, that the Department prescribed surpluses of €12. 5 million to be delivered by 2019. I am telling the Minister that that is not...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: In advance of next week's meeting, I appeal to the Minister to put the thinking cap on, accept the fact that these surplus targets are not achievable. We do not want to tear up the plan, but as the Minister rightly pointed out, he stated his intentions and the fact that he was prepared to do it, it needs to be amended in the context of reviewing those surpluses downwards so that they are...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister's own county council owes €600 million.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: They are not independent republics.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: No. That was prescribed. The Minister knows it was prescribed.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister is being provocative. He did not put any of that rubbish in his initial response-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I am talking facts. I am not grandstanding.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I am here on behalf of the people of Sligo. I am not here to represent officials in the Department who are answerable to nobody and who-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The surplus targets in Donegal that are being insisted on are several hundred thousand euro, not €3.6 million.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government for taking the time to come here today. I know he has agreed to meet four Deputies on this issue but I wanted to table this very important issue. The last time we discussed this issue, the Minister said other level V counties have similar numbers of staff and seem to do a better job with the resources given to them....
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I apologise. There is much more I could say on this. The capital aspect of this budget is absolutely impotent. It behoves the Government to review this as a matter of the utmost urgency and begin to invest what is needed to allow us to perform to our potential.
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: How is the Minister going to fill the 30 seconds?
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: How much does that cost?
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I thought it was telling that in the 11 minutes of the contribution from the Minister, Deputy Ross, he took a whole 1 minute and 30 seconds to talk about his own Department and what he is doing or, indeed, not doing, for example, in terms of local improvement schemes. I am not even sure he knows what an LIS is, given there might not be many of them being done out in the principality....
- Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: He also introduced the smoking ban.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (12 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 74. To ask the Minister for Health if he, the chief medical officer and the HSE are aware that a number of children and young adults are presenting with symptoms including sleeplessness, over-tiredness, hallucinations, sleep paralysis and slurred speech which they believe is directly connected to receiving the pandemrix swine flu vaccine; if so, the action the HSE is undertaking to provide...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Excise Duties Collection (11 Oct 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance to set out the total revenue income from excise and taxes on alcoholic drinks per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29675/16]