Results 601-620 of 13,959 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021) Marc MacSharry: Not at all. I am just wondering how one goes about that. Did the person in question have his own production company?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021) Marc MacSharry: Did it? I ask Ms Forbes to email the name of that company to all Oireachtas Members in order that the also-rans after the next election will know where to send a few CVs with their production ideas. It is a very enjoyable programme. Unfortunately, I am not blessed with Irish. I did not study hard enough. Nevertheless, I found the programme immensely entertaining. It just shows there is...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment (27 Apr 2021) Marc MacSharry: That is great. The net return to RTÉ was approximately €78 million. RTÉ distributed that appropriately in terms of capital expenditure and some other things it had to do. It reduced the debt by €10 million and did several other things. The net price per acre was pretty good. It is a very sought after part of Dublin. At approximately €10 million an acre,...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (21 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if all relevant Departments have developed action plans as part of the reform agenda as in the Building Momentum Public Service Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20387/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Children's Hospital (21 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 83. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received an update from the Department of Health in relation to the costs associated with the building of the new children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20388/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (21 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 463. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will give consideration to the extension of the help-to-buy incentive scheme for first-time buyers to include the purchase of existing dwellings given the shortage of new housing developments and the difficulty in getting planning permission for new builds in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18222/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (21 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 493. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will review the provisions of the Covid restrictions support scheme as it applies to self-employed travel counsellors who are currently ineligible for the scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19022/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 985. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a school (details supplied) that is scheduled to have the teaching staff reduced from four to three based on current retention numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18937/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (21 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 1115. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the only DEIS band 1 national school (details supplied) in County Clare was not included in the hot school meals programme for 2021-2022; if this decision will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18389/21]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (21 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 1187. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of the process that is followed in her Department following receipt of a report from the occupational health unit of the Civil Service; if there is a policy to disagree with reports that state that there is nothing medically wrong with an employee (details supplied); and if she will make a...
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I want to make a few points. I thank the Minister. The plan announced the other evening is not ambitious and lacks strategy. It is a case of live horse and get grass, things will be better and in about two years' time, we can all look forward to eating al fresco with two people per acre while it is raining. On the vaccination side, there is still nobody in charge. Once there is...
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I was not, actually. Clearly, they do not speak common sense in Harvard, MIT-----
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: Read the emails-----
- Vaccination Programme and Covid-19: Statements (1 Apr 2021)
Marc MacSharry: Why not bring in NPHET-----
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (31 Mar 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make contact with the insurance industry to request that annual premium renewals are reduced for sports clubs that are being hit by large premiums. [17165/21]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (31 Mar 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, again and ask him if we will make contact with the insurance industry chiefs and request that the annual premium renewals are reduced for sports clubs that are being hit by very large premiums.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (31 Mar 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State for that reply. I am aware of his response to the State getting involved in financial services and he mentioned Irish Public Bodies, IPB Insurance. Is it possible, perhaps, when it comes to community initiatives such as sports clubs, not-for-profit organisations, local festivals and such events, playgrounds and so on, that IPB Insurance could be considered as...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (31 Mar 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State very much for his words but to conclude, there are many reasons not to do something. Real leadership is having the courage to do things. I would like to see the State ultimately entering the financial services world. I do not trust any of the banks, whether we are shareholders in them or not, and I am a former employee of one of them. I do not trust any of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (31 Mar 2021)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the news about the group the Minister of State chairs. Ultimately, the Government needs to consider the establishment of a State bank, which was not far away from Fianna Fáil, or indeed Fine Gael, policy in the past. Both the Minister and the Minister of State need to unite around the Cabinet table and look at the establishment of a State financial services provider, be that...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Costs (31 Mar 2021)
Marc MacSharry: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures that can be taken in order that insurance companies provide rebates and premium reductions to customers in the case of a decline of claims costs related to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17166/21]