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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (17 Apr 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 101. To ask the Taoiseach the amount of the €5 million budgeted for the Strategic Communications Unit in Budget 2018 which will remain; the areas in which these remaining funds will be used; and the purpose to which he funding will be used [15239/18]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Strategic Communications Unit (17 Apr 2018)

Marc MacSharry: 104. To ask the Taoiseach the costs and expenditure from the €5 million provided in Budget 2018 for the Strategic Communications Unit that have been expended up to and including 27 March 2018; the estimated further expenditure of the €5 million in the period between 27 March 2018 and the winding down of the unit in July 2018; and the amounts and purpose for which the moneys are...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Marc MacSharry: That cost taxpayers' money. There is no level of morality associated with the "Leo the Vain" unit. This is €5 million of taxpayers' money. I will not even begin to list off the umpteen things Deputy Tony McLoughlin would like to do in Sligo with €5 million. Deputy Martin Kenny and I also have our list of things to do, as do all Deputies in the House. Deputy Micheál...

Strategic Communications Unit: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2018)

Marc MacSharry: The Tánaiste referred to cohesion, centralisation, cost-saving and the consolidation of websites. These are all admirable matters which do not cost €5 million. We are all for good communications, telling the truth, as well as portraying and giving the truth the complexion it deserves. Since its establishment, the strategic communications unit has used a new tagline, “A...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3 - Cost of Bank Stabilisation Measures as at the end of 2016
Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Liquidation (14 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: It really went to town, did it not, with €5 million on €222 million?

Online Advertising and Social Media (Transparency) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...of the people's entitlements. It is wrong and dishonest and it impairs the integrity of the Government. I am very surprised the Minister, as an Independent member of Government, stood over a €5 million wastage. What would €5 million have done for the A&E in Roscommon hospital, for example? How many home care packages could it have given to the people of Roscommon and...

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund (7 Dec 2017)

Marc MacSharry: Was that the Department's idea or is it related to the €5 million unit of Mr. Concannon?

Finance Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...comprises VAT, levies and other forms of taxation. We might have to be radical and push that VAT rate and the levies down to try to get guys building again. It is not to make all of them multimillionaires and, indeed, it is something we can revisit once things are up and running and building is taking place in the places it is required around the country. At present, we are busy...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...meeting had started when I circulated the other ones, that the Department of Finance is going through the motions. I should have mentioned it earlier but at one stage there were two rebates of €5 million and €3 million. If that was a negotiated write-down on a €225 million gross fee, it is 3%. It does not sound great to me for that amount of money. We also do not...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Liquidation (20 Sep 2017)

Marc MacSharry: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 134 of 11 September 2017, the basis on which the rebate of €5 million was provided by the special liquidators in respect of their costs; if this or other rebates were requested by him; the way in which the sum of €5 million was calculated; if it related to overcharging or failure to deliver the services...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...station. It is great to see such initiative and colour as the foundations on which serious legislative change is considered by the Government as a whole. Given that Fine Gael in government in 1995 set up the current arrangement, it was unexpected that Santa Claus would be the man to pull it asunder and dig up the pitch. As I said last week in another debate, it is certainly...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Marc MacSharry: ...and not having viewed the site, and I know Dr. Brady cannot give the Savills valuation, I believe the current value of the six acres at Harold's Cross, with its current zoning, is probably €750,000 an acre. With the appropriate zoning to allow for institutional use, the market value is probably €1.5 million an acre, which is very substantially less than €23 million....

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (19 Oct 2016)

Marc MacSharry: ...plan heretofore to the best of its ability. It is time the Minister was prepared to admit, as assistant secretary Lemass was prepared to admit, that the Department prescribed surpluses of €12. 5 million to be delivered by 2019. I am telling the Minister that that is not possible against the backdrop of all the cuts already done. In terms of what they can do, they are...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (2 Dec 2015)

Marc MacSharry: ...one is dealing with a blank canvas. Sadly, nationally, that is not the case so we have to take cognisance of the social balance in a number of places. I use Sligo as an example. Throughout the Part 5 era, any developments had to have that or they had to swap their land or pay money in lieu. In Sligo we had the third highest social mix in the country, after Cork and Limerick. With a...

Seanad: United Nations Principles for Older Persons: Motion (21 Oct 2015)

Marc MacSharry: .... No doubt there are enforcement measures and assessment criteria that would see through such applicants. The cost per week for district nursing homes run by the HSE in Sligo and Leitrim ranges from €900 to €1,550 and various sums in between. It is not as simple as one being better at delivering the service than others; it is to do with the complexity of patients’...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Marc MacSharry: ...other groups. The same applies to the current budget. For example, to take the changes in the universal social charge, a person with an income of €18,868 will pay the same rate of USC as a person on 3.5 times that income. That is not equal. While certain things have improved in statistical terms, the Government's greatest failure has been the two-tier recovery. Of the jobs...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Apr 2015)

Marc MacSharry: Would there have been many staff, say, that borrowed or were involved in syndication for multi-million, say, in excess of €5 million?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (23 Apr 2015)

Marc MacSharry: Which was €5 million.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (3 Feb 2015)

Marc MacSharry: ...through the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government has prescribed cuts, which have affected the people of Sligo, in particular to library and tax office services and 50 additional lay offs. This is unacceptable. More than 180 people have lost their jobs with the council over the past three years. To treat them in this way is to do little more to the people of...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)

Marc MacSharry: ...redacted. God knows what they might say. It is in the public interest that the Government might publish the entire letter. It is scandalous in the extreme that the Government entered into a plan around 5 November 2014 to try to bribe the people, with borrowed money on which the people will have to pay interest, to get them to sign up to an ill-conceived and badly thought out plan. The...