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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school profiling based on the performance of previous years will now not proceed for fear it could discriminate against high performance students from disadvantaged areas; her views on whether a high performance student in a disadvantaged area will naturally be in the upper end of the bell curve of the school in circumstances (details...

Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I wish the Minister the best in her tenure in this Department. I would be delighted if she had the Department of Rural and Community Affairs on its own because it is the kind of Department that requires someone with her expertise and commitment. I regret that in the division and reallocation of Departments, we have overloaded some of them with very important issues and the Minister's is one...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Preparations (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if further Brexit legislation is likely to be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18500/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps business owners should take whose respective insurance companies will not pay out on claims for business interruption due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18893/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 959. To ask the Minister for Health the activity volumes per month at each of the 18 private hospitals which were part of the provision of public health services in private hospitals as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic covering the full duration of the agreement, including but not limited to inpatient, outpatient, elective and all other activities and procedures undertaken under the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: He has a fiduciary duty to the FAI when he is on that board and, at the same time, he is the one providing the money from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Government should reverse this. In fairness to the former Minister with responsibility, Shane Ross, I did not agree with him much but I agreed with him on blocking that appointment in January.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: Last week, I raised several issues regarding State borrowing by the Football Association of Ireland, FAI, in circumstances where there are governance questions to be answered. Since then, I have done as the independent chairman of the FAI asked in his late night statement of last week, and checked my facts and find not only that I must stand over my comments but that other serious governance...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I do not wish to cast aspersions on the good name of the independent chairman of the FAI or anyone else but I am bound by my duties to the taxpayer. These are serious issues. Significant State funds are at stake and clearly the independent chairman of the FAI has significant questions to answer and so too does Sport Ireland. The essence of the independent chairman's role is ensuring...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (21 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 449. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a decision on their possible entitlement to the pandemic unemployment payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16494/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 654. To ask the Minister for Health when radiology services will be opened in hospitals for non-Covid-19 patients especially those who may have cancer-related health issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16773/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (21 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 655. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available to provide staff to operate the state-of-the art x-ray equipment in a Saolta health campus (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16774/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (16 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: To clarify, privilege is a vitally important rule within the House and sometimes it must be used. I mentioned nobody by name but as State funds are relevant to this, I am well within the rules to highlight the three people in question. Absolutely there are no aspersions about them as individuals, without prejudice to them or to impugn their good characters in any way. However, their...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (16 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: It pains me to say it, but the Minister has gone native already. There will be no change and the former Minister, Mr. Ross, is enjoying the irony out in the leafy hills of Enniskerry. The MOU says that the offer of the Minister should in no way be regarded as a binding commitment in the context of a contractual agreement etc. and the MOU will be underpinned by a series of relevant legal...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (16 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and wish all of the new Ministers well in their portfolios. It is nothing personal; this is business. As the Minister knows, the memorandum of understanding, MOU, with the FAI is a Shane Ross production. His ghost is very much alive as we see. It was very much drawn from the same ether as his failed judicial appointments Bill, where he wanted everybody under the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (14 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 30. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the consideration his Department is giving to additional measures that may be needed to support the hospitality, retail, entertainment, arts and leisure sectors. [15801/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme (14 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision in relation to funding for emergency works at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15968/20]

Microenterprise Loan Fund (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: I am grateful for the opportunity to make a few points about finance initiatives that are needed to support business. There has been much talk over the past number of months about the need to support small business in particular and the talk has been encouraging from all sides. We now have a Government in place. Indeed, it was remiss of me not to wish the Government well and wish the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (7 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the provision of section 18(A)(4) of the Package Holidays and Travel Trade Act 1995 applies to persons who booked a holiday earlier in 2020 to Spain for a family wedding through an online UK based travel company which subsequently had to be cancelled due to the pandemic (details supplied); if not, the options open to them to recoup...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Records (7 Jul 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 357. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will supply historic details of the social insurance record of a person (details supplied) that requires this information in order for the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection to carry out a review of the rate of payment of widower’s contributory pension; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Jun 2020)

Marc MacSharry: 96. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has considered the introduction of measures to incentivise working from home in view of the ongoing capacity constraints across public transport and so on. [13017/20]