Results 1,961-1,980 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: As a suggestion, would Ms Graham consider talking to the Commissioner along those lines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: So Ms Graham will do that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I most respectfully suggest that Ms Graham might ask whether it is possible for normal beat cops, as part of their shift, as opposed to the dedicated traffic corps or homicide police, to extend their focus to transport. I refer to the visible police we see, whether they are community police or police walking the beat. Is it possible to factor in as part of their normal working day that they...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am sorry for interrupting, but my only fear on that is we will end up with a patchy service where one superintendent thinks it is a great idea and he is doing it while another superintendent does not. It is important to agree a national policy, although it is clear that it is more of an issue in urban areas on the Luas and Dublin Bus and on intercity rail lines. We have all heard about...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: Discussion (6 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is brilliant. We are agreed then. I thank Ms Graham.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Controls (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a single point of contact on migrant smuggling has been appointed as per the EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling 2015-2020. [44467/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the preventative measures in place at ports here to detect instances of migrant smuggling; and the planned changes or enhancements in view of the recent tragic death of 39 persons who travelled in a container from Bulgaria to the UK. [44473/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 281. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff employed to provide security checks on ships and lorries entering at each port in tabular form. [44474/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of staff employed to detect possible human smuggling at ports here in tabular form. [44475/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 283. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if staff members at ports and airports here have received training and guidance on the detection of possible migrant smuggling. [44478/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he or representatives of his Department have met with Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency to discuss measures to prevent migrant smuggling. [44479/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Facilities (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 908. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of full-time equivalent staff vacancies at each port; and the function of each role in tabular form. [44476/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Human Trafficking (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 909. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has met the Minister for Justice and Equality to discuss migrant smuggling and the preventative measures needed to detect same. [44477/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (5 Nov 2019)
Marc MacSharry: 1134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of full-time equivalent cycling officers employed by each local authority; and the seniority level of each officer in tabular form. [44597/19]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The implications of this is that privilege under the general data protection regulation, GDPR, can be claimed in any case of non-compliance. As such, the public will not be entitled to know.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: I am not a barrister. Perhaps Deputy Connolly could advise.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: The implication is that any contractor, whether a contract cleaner for an office who was or was not properly procured, is not entitled to know. As normal, the house always wins. The last to know anything is the public. The attitude of the Department is that it cannot, and does not want to, tell the public anything and that it has now received legal opinion from the Office of the Attorney...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: In that a case, if one is a sole trading billionaire, one is in business. That makes a mockery of things.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: That is bananas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Marc MacSharry: It is not contract cleaning rates.