Results 81-100 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Will Mr. Mooney check and come back to me?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Rosses Point is also an issue. A village, Strandhill, has almost fallen into the sea on one side. On the other side is Sligo Golf Club and so on. There is a big issue there. An important place called Shelly Valley is under threat. It would be preferable for Mr. Mooney to give me a note on the issue. I worry that it is not going to be a local issue but a national issue. I am conscious-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I am concerned. Fianna Fáil has been draining the River Shannon since 1946. We have not got there yet. Mr. Mooney will send me a note on the issue. I thank him and I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: It is the result of spending 22 years listening to similar answers, albeit not from Mr. Mooney.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Do not be stuck if you need somebody to do an MBA or anything. I am certainly available.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: May I make one point on that issue? It is good to hear from the chief architect, who does fantastic work. Our job, however, is not to praise the fantastic work. It is to call out the glitches. I agree with Mr. O'Connor that the problem is not systemic. When there are glitches, however, the practice of the State is to circle the wagons and blame it on systemic failure because we will not...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with Office of Public Works (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: It mitigates the impact, probably from about €10 million down to about €9.3 million.
- Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: I am glad to support the motion. It is very shortsighted of the Government - any government - not to embrace the opportunity to abolish this means test. It does not reconcile with our ability to dish out social supports hand over fist to people from other countries, mainly as a result of the Ukraine war, without any means test at all. Some of them are driving all sorts of vehicles and...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (24 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline, given recent reports of historical sexual abuse in primary and secondary schools, what course of action can be taken by victims of sexual abuse at a school (details supplied) in seeking redress; the scheme and or process currently open to them; the way victims should go about applying for inclusion; if, in the event that there is...
- CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: Rather than thinking too locally or too prudently, for the first time, this and the next Government need to think strategically. We have talked for 50 years about balanced regional development and Deputy Harkin and others have raised the infrastructure deficit on the western seaboard. Never did we have a situation where we had money we did not want and, it seems, did not need, yet there is...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position regarding a method of education (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36114/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the existence of a number of schools in Ireland, including in Sligo, using a method of education (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36115/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given the State's commitment to cherish all children equally, the means by which she proposes to fund the teaching and infrastructure, both human and physical, to provide for those families who are availing of a method of education (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36116/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 282. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the State's commitment to cherish all children equally, and the current anomalous situation where no financial support is provided to particular schools (details supplied), the means by which such schools should best engage with the apparatus of the State, including the Department of Education, to secure supports that will place them on...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction an extended school transport service (details supplied) in County Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36246/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 663. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the sanction and resources for the appointment of a physiologist to Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36109/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 664. To ask the Minister for Health the commencement and completion dates for the sanctioned new medical block at Sligo University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36110/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 665. To ask the Minister for Health his plans with regard to the appointment of additional advanced nurse practitioners in the area of cardiac care and other disciplines at Sligo University Hospital. [36111/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the way he can reconcile the approval and sanction of the appointment of additional hospital consultants without parallel sanction of additional junior doctors, advance nurse practitioners, nurses and administrative back up; if he will strategically link just sanctions together in the interests of best practice; and if he will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (9 Sep 2024)
Marc MacSharry: 110.To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason there is such a long delay in revoking Bye-Law No. C.S.336, 2024, that closed the Ballisodare, County Sligo catchment including all lakes for angling (details supplied); if he will immediately expedite this issue and allow anglers access to this fantastic resource; and if he will make a statement on the...