Results 9,001-9,020 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Can Mr. Daly confirm that following this report, which may have led to the resignation of one or both of these individuals, NAMA renewed the contract of Mr. Cushnahan?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Daly mentioned that he met Mr. Cushnahan for the very first time when he was first appointed to the Northern Ireland advisory committee. A month later, I think both of them ended up on the same board of a company called-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: It is a charity but, nevertheless, it is a registered company. How did that happen? Did Mr. Daly invite him or did he invite Mr. Daly to join the board? Was it a pure coincidence?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: When did Mr. Daly resign or is he still on the board?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Is Mr. Cushnahan still on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (29 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: That will do for now.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address the anomaly whereby a co-habiting couple (details supplied) are treated as two single persons for tax purposes but are treated as a couple when it comes to applying for social protection payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27713/16]
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: So throw the people under the bus.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: That is exactly what the Minister is doing.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: All people are equal, except in Sligo. We expect to pay more tax.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Oh, please. They took it yesterday and they will not increase the rate by 15%.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: I learned from the Acting Chairman.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The reality on the ground is that this plan was never workable. We can hide behind the fact that the Minister said it was not rammed down Sligo's throat as a plan that it had to adopt. Deputy Martin Kenny referred to a surplus of €4 million. The Minister then read out the amounts of €3.4 million and €3.1 million. What is the difference? If we go back a few years to...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Excuse me. Will the Minister go to the assistant secretary in question and ask him why he did not have the manners to acknowledge his own elected representatives and meet a Senator, which he did not, and the Minister so far has refused to do the same? The Minister should remember what is behind the confidence and supply agreement because one cannot just take 65,000 people in Sligo and cast...
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: We will not stand for it. The Minister should get used to this kind of robust debate because that is what is going to happen again and again as long as he shows continuing contempt for the people of Sligo.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: And tell the people to put up the tax.
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: That is exactly what the Minister did, himself and-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: Is the Minister denying it?
- Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)
Marc MacSharry: The property tax in Sligo was to be increased by 50%.