Results 181-200 of 13,958 for speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (6 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 392. To ask the Minister for Health if he will allow persons with dependent children who held a medical card prior to qualifying for the widow's, widower's or surviving civil partner's (contributory) pension on the death of a partner or spouse to retain the medical card for three years if they subsequently take up new employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49360/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: While I welcome the extra €67 million allocated to the Department of Defence in budget 2023, on the day that PDFORRA delegates are meeting throughout the country, and acknowledging that they have lost 300 staff this year alone, I ask the Taoiseach to provide a timeframe for tangible increases in the pay of soldiers, airmen and seamen.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will review the route of the Rural Link bus managed from the Cavan/Monaghan Rural Link office to accommodate persons from the Carrigallen area in County Leitrim to travel to Cavan town, to include members of the Ukrainian community (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46902/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 443. To ask the Minister for Health when the early-intervention youth service for counties Sligo and Leitrim will be finalised (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46631/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 453. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the many anomalies in the payment of salaries, premiums and overtime in the CHO 1 area in disability services since the adoption of a new system approximately 12 months ago; the number of errors that have been made, in tabular form; the reason these errors occurred; the length of time it took for each underpayment to be rectified; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 454. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is taking a full 12 weeks to pay overtime to staff, including nurses; the reason this is the case; if he is prepared to shorten the inordinate time healthcare professionals are expected to wait to receive their overtime payments amidst an unprecedented cost-of-living crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46698/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (22 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of an education and training board employee (details supplied) who has been advised that they will not receive wages until mid-October 2022 due to an issue with the payroll system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46409/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the refusal of special school transport for a pupil (details supplied) to the ASD unit in a school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46428/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the announcement of the increase in the minimum wage. I encourage the Government to accelerate it towards being a living wage. Given the inordinate pressures on SMEs, which are now responsible for employing, with other companies, some 2.5 million people nationwide, I ask that measures specific to SMEs be included in next week's budget to enable them to offset a proportion of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Chairman very much for allowing me to make a few points. I welcome the Minister and thank her for her responses. To save time, I call on her to ensure, with Deputy McGrath and her colleagues at Cabinet, that there is a measure in the budget next week to alleviate the anxiety and hardship on the 6,000 applicants who were discommoded this year. I acknowledge that all eligible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: Okay, right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: I do not know whether it is appropriate, or whether it is done at this committee, to put questions directly to officials. No, I can see that it is not and that is okay. Did anybody indicate to the Minister at the time that there was an issue, or that one would arise, with those people who had concessionary tickets in the previous years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: This is a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: But, it is. I am here a long time-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: -----20 years, so it is a "Yes" or "No" answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: No. This is the issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: I have to say, with the best of respect, that the one thing that has been missing in this, and the Minister can ask my parliamentary assistant and secretarial assistant in Sligo, or each of the representatives present, or everybody throughout the House, or indeed county councillors, and this is why I announced the successes at the beginning and welcomed them so that the Minister did not have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: Not enough, quite frankly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: The Minister has done the same reply 50 times.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Marc MacSharry: We know about the increase-----