Results 1,401-1,420 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to share time with Deputies Niall Collins, Cathal Crowe and Cormac Devlin. I will take six minutes and each of the other Deputies will take three minutes. As is the case with other contributions, I will use my six minutes to pool a number of questions and the Minister may decide to answer in writing on another day so that we are not wasting speaking time in the House. I welcome...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licence Renewals (13 May 2020)
Marc MacSharry: 1061. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered offering temporary extensions to elderly drivers that need medical or optical certificates of fitness to renew their licences and that are presently unable to access such services due to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis. [5103/20]
- Covid-19 (Tourism): Statements (6 May 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I will share time with Deputies Calleary, Foley and Christopher O'Sullivan. I will use six minutes to make a statement rather than pose questions. Perhaps the Minister will impose on the Taoiseach to use one of his "Six One" or "The Late Late Show" slots to give answers. In the meantime, I want to get some things on the record. First, I regret that the senior Minister is not here. I do...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 May 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I saw on television that it is proposed to have a new committee to discuss Covid-19. Is it possible for Members to be given the terms of reference of this committee? I notice its membership-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 May 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I note that it seems to be done on something of a d'Hondt system in that the larger parties have four members and there are disproportionately fewer places for the smaller groupings. With what frequency is the committee going to meet and would it be the same frequency as the Dáil reform committee that was constituted here six or seven weeks ago? It would be superficial for us to set up...
- Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister can log those questions. I am conscious that I have very limited time. The Minister will have much more speaking time than me in the future so if she cannot answer them during my time, she can do it during her own time, perhaps to the media outside the Chamber.
- Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I know that but I am being creative with the order and we are wasting each other's time.
- Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: No. He will have five minutes too. In terms of working capital, as my colleague said, interest free loans will be needed. On laundering it through the SBCI with its innovation clause expecting viable businesses to be able to reinvent the wheel in order to get money at 5% because the costs have to be paid to the pillar banks which are going to get it out there, if the rate is less than...
- Covid-19 (Business, Enterprise and Innovation): Statements (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I am grateful for the opportunity to contribute on this issue. I am very conscious that I am one of the very few that have had the opportunity to do this. I want to express our thanks as a party to all people on the front line, not just in the health service but those manning supermarkets, filling stations, doing deliveries, manufacturing and so on. It is to their eternal credit and we...
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Authorisation to instruct Legal Representatives: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: What is the purpose of the legal advice?
- Houses of the Oireachtas Commission Authorisation to instruct Legal Representatives: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Okay.
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: On a point of order-----
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: The Ceann Comhairle and I have corresponded about this matter.
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Without a doubt.
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: No, but in the interests of the many Members who have not found their position such that they have been allocated speaking time since the emergency-----
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: It is not just for my party. I speak on behalf of the 140-odd Members who are not currently here. I think that those arrangements are a matter that needs to be discussed, for every Member to have an opportunity to speak on them. I respectfully suggest that on the basis that all of us have individual offices here, and with the benefit, as with this debate, of allocated speaking times that...
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: I am glad to have some of it on the record.
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Just to conclude-----
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: Just to conclude-----
- Standing Orders 21 and 22: Motion (30 Apr 2020)
Marc MacSharry: It is only a point of order.