Results 1-12 of 12 for kerry speaker:Marc MacSharry

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

Marc MacSharry: ...were being raised. They paid for them but were told they were too late. They cannot ring their employer and say "No". Those people are equal citizens, by the way. They all have votes in Kerry as well as in Sligo-Leitrim. There is a need for a basic acknowledgement from Government that while it was set up with the best will in the world to help families and while 124,000 are being...

Covid-19 (Local Government): Statements (27 May 2020)

Marc MacSharry: ...Dublin Airport in their rates base, have limited resources. Such authorities do not have the benefit of many services that other local authorities have. For example, local authorities in Mayo and Kerry have four or five tourism officers whereas authorities in Sligo and Leitrim might be lucky to have one. Those are my questions and they relate to grant aid for people and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland, Shannon Group and Port of Waterford Company: Chairpersons Designate (2 Oct 2019)

Marc MacSharry: ..., unless they have had a really bad meal or stayed in a really bad hotel, people are in reasonably good form so will say everything was tickety-boo and that they had a tip-top holiday in Galway, Kerry, Sligo or wherever they were. I think the satisfaction rating is a flawed metric and that we need to take a different approach to ascertain and build place bonding because there is no...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Marc MacSharry: The Chairman can stop me whenever I am out of time but I will probably come in during the second round of questioning anyway. Home helps in some CHO areas, particularly those in counties Cork and Kerry and in my area of Sligo-Leitrim, are facing an effective moratorium at the moment. The Minister has been saying that X number of hours have been funded but the experience on the ground is...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Car Park Charges (27 Mar 2018)

Marc MacSharry: ...that require regular visits and regular treatment, should be provided with parking discs. While certain hospitals - Tullamore, St. Luke's, Letterkenny, Mayo, Portiuncula, University Hospital Limerick, Kilkenny, Wexford, Kerry and Connolly - have free parking, others, including Sligo University Hospital in my constituency, do not have any arrangements. It is simply untenable that, for...

Seanad: Irish Water: Motion (13 Jan 2016)

Marc MacSharry: ...of the waste of €50 million and the storage costs. It pales into insignificance when one considers the waste of €785 million of the people’s money so far, when we did not have it. What would local authority staff, from Waterford to Sligo, from Kerry to Louth, with excellent water services personnel who have service level agreements with Irish Water have done in all...

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)

Marc MacSharry: .... I, therefore, propose an amendment that the relevant Minister come to the House for an emergency debate on the flooding issue. As we know, the forecast this evening for counties Clare and Kerry, all counties in Connacht, County Donegal and other parts of the country is again very bad. In 2012 the Taoiseach spoke about the need to have much more sophisticated early warning systems and...

Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)

Marc MacSharry: ...and Mayo General Hospital at Castlebar. It seems to question the Higgins report from last year on the hospital groups, which stated that Letterkenny hospital, as a result of its geographic location and similar to Kerry and Wexford general hospitals, should retain its full range of emergency department, surgical, maternity and paediatric services. The Government in its amendment argues...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Senator Paul Coghlan should read the report to which I refer. He should leave the oak woods until another day and think instead of the women of Kerry and Portiuncula. The Government will not even allow us to debate the report, of which I have a copy in my possession.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jan 2014)

Marc MacSharry: ...to address flood and storm damage, such as that experienced this year. It is worth noting that while a number of high profile cases of storm damage occurred, notably in counties Galway, Clare and Kerry, many other areas also suffered damage. In counties Donegal and Sligo, for example, the estimated cost of the damage was in excess of €1.5 million and between €500,000 and...

Seanad: National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Marc MacSharry: ...concept alone of Ireland bidding for the championship was laughable, much less winning it, much less again holding it in County Sligo. He would have hoovered it up for his constituency in County Kerry had he thought winning it was possible. It was the best championship in the world at the time. However, this was an issue for Fáilte Ireland and other bodies because rallying was not one...

Seanad: Role of Broadcasting Authority of Ireland: Statements (18 May 2010)

Marc MacSharry: ...implications of the work of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, we must ensure to the fullest possible extent that we do not undermine the great work of the local radio stations, from Donegal to Kerry FM and from TippFm to Ocean FM and all the local stations in our own areas. The national broadcaster, RTE, does a very good job in terms of radio and television, as do the other national...