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Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: That is not acceptable. There are many reasons for failure but no excuses. The Oireachtas and the Government cannot constantly depend on the focus and sharpness of "Prime Time" in looking after the hard-working staff of Console and the many charities throughout the country, including the counsellors we heard on radio who struggle on a monthly basis to get paid. A precise date is required...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: All the Members of both Houses and the public at large will have been appalled by the revelations concerning one of the charities most associated with our nation's silent crisis, the loss of life through suicide. There are now five investigations under way between the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation, the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement, the HSE, the Charities Regulatory...

National Asset Management Agency: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I am glad to have an opportunity to make a few points. I thank Deputy Clare Daly for bringing forward the motion and hope some of the points made in it can be taken on board. Obviously, I will be supporting the amendment, to which I will come back. Clearly, it is in all our interests that NAMA is successful and ultimately make a profit for the people of the State. When I was Fianna...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (23 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the future development role of Permanent TSB in the personal and consumer banking sectors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17535/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (22 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he can expedite a decision on an application for funding under the schools building programme phase 1 for a post-primary school (details supplied) in County Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17348/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home School Community Liaison Scheme (21 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will accede to the request from the principals of schools (details supplied) who share a home school liaison community co-ordinator resource to extend the assignment of the teacher in this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17304/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (21 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expedite a decision on an application for funding under the schools capital appraisal scheme for urgent refurbishment work in a school (details supplied) in preparation for the opening of a special class for children with autism in September 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17329/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (16 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: 201. To ask the Minister for Health to consider a late application by a person (details supplied) for a position in the west- north west Health Service Executive area, given that the person is registered with the Health Service Executive national recruitment services talent pool, but did not receive a job alert regarding the position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16390/16]

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I nearly forgot that I was in the room.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for coming, but my questions are not for him or for the Minister for Finance. I am interested in the views of their officials, Mr. Beausang, Ms Swaine, Mr. Palmer and Mr. McCarthy. I am not going to ask them to identify any specific Ministers, but it would be useful for this committee to know from their very substantial cumulative...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: Just to clarify on the budget issue, obviously we all know of hundreds of examples of Governments accepting amendments to legislation on Committee Stage, but the specific question related to budget preparations. Again, not wishing to know the identity of Ministers or even the specific issue, in practice, do Government representatives return from the Dáil or parliamentary committees and...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: This is not for the Minister. His future is ahead of him. I am talking about the practice so far.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Engagement with Minister for Finance and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (15 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: Well done, Minister.

Adjournment Debate: Forestry Management (8 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Andrew Doyle, on his appointment and wish him very well. I am sure it is a great honour. My Adjournment matter refers to afforestation in County Leitrim, of which I know the Minister of State is aware based on other representations that have been made to him. Traditional farming in the area is under threat. The reality is that while the...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I take the opportunity to wish the Minister and Minister of State well and particularly the Minister of State, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, as the Minister, Deputy Noonan, has been there for some time. I had the pleasure of working with Deputy Murphy on the banking inquiry and I am sure he has a long career ahead of him in the Department of loaves and fishes. I just ask that when he decides who...

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I think we could go around in circles here for a good few weeks. I speak as one of the four people here who spent a good few weeks going around in circles at the Joint Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis before we decided on a way forward. We could get to 29 June quite quickly and have nothing done at all.

Committee on Arrangements for Budgetary Scrutiny: Business of Select Committee (1 Jun 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I am still a bit confused about what structures - assuming we are going to come up with structures - can facilitate a budget oversight committee that can in any way participate in the process of the preparation of budgets, given the legislative constraints and the secrecy which Deputy Calleary described as being endemic among Secretaries General and the Government. I am not sure, as much as...

Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2016)

Marc MacSharry: I congratulate the Ministers who are present, Deputies Pat Breen and Mary Mitchell O'Connor, on their appointments. It is a great honour for them and I do not doubt their commitment in any way. I am glad to have the opportunity to make a few points on this motion. I thank the Labour Party for using its Private Members' time to bring this issue forward. We would all aspire to a living...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (31 May 2016)

Marc MacSharry: 49. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for the phased repeal of the financial emergency measures in the public interest legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13063/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (31 May 2016)

Marc MacSharry: 267. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 60 to 74 of 18 May 2016 and the consequences of leaks from the National Asset Management Agency, if all the debtor lists of Bank of Ireland, Allied Irish Banks, Anglo Irish Bank and the Irish Nationwide Building Society that were transferred to the agency, reported to total 800 cases, and associated loan and...