Results 161-180 of 13,961 for speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (29 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 807. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will review the eligibility criteria for the community and voluntary sector energy support scheme to include organisations that are receiving minimum part-funding from the HSE and are struggling financially to maintain vital services to older and vulnerable persons in rural areas (details supplied); and if she will make a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (22 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: The situation at SUH is at breaking point. We have the highest percentage of over-65s in the country, which means we have the greatest demand. We have a bed occupancy rate of about 110%, which is well over the national average of 90% and very dangerously over the acceptable international level of 85%. In other words, people in Sligo are dying because we cannot live up to rates that can be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (22 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: We are failing consultants, doctors, nurses and all our medical professionals through not providing the safe environment they require. They are accountable but through our failure, we are leaving them vulnerable in terms of their accountability and endangering patients' lives. That is a statistical fact. The Saolta University Healthcare Group is too Galway-centric. This is a major...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (15 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have a decision on their invalidity pension claim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56112/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (15 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 393. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) who had their back to education allowance withdrawn and have the payment re-instated having regard to the extenuating circumstances of this case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56514/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: This question is for the Taoiseach. As part of the nation's welcome efforts to accommodate Ukrainian refugees running for their lives, in an unprecedented development, on Sligo County Council-owned lands, the OPW and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth have invoked emergency planning regulations to erect 24 very fine modular homes exclusively for Ukrainian...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: What would the Taoiseach like to say to these families?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: A word to the families in Sligo.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: Once we look after everybody else, we will look after the people in Sligo.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: On a point of order.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: You have not allowed me to tell you yet. The point of order is very specifically, and I know the rules on points of order, that on Questions on Promised Legislation we are all entitled to make our case to be involved, and for over a year now you have, with your-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: It certainly is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: It certainly is. You have consistently put me into the last three speakers, where I am lucky to get 30 seconds, while others enjoy the benefit of celebrating the local sausage manufacturers and the prizes they win for a minute and ten seconds.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: I have not the slightest intention, until you show a little bit less discrimination and positively discriminate for actual Independents rather than those, like yourself, who join and form de factoparties and get to speak three or four times every day.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: I am just asking that I might get more than 30 seconds every two weeks-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: -----and I wish you would study the Standing Orders and accept the fact that this is a legitimate point-----

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 Nov 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will abolish the means test for persons in receipt of a State pension who have a disability, in view of the unprecedented increase in energy costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the number of the additional 23 specialist nurses in adult neurology services who will be allocated to Sligo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52462/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (20 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children's disability network teams in both CHO1 and CHO2; the locations in which each team is based; the numbers of staff in WTE terms approved for each team; the numbers currently assigned to each team; the number of vacant positions on each team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52461/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (18 Oct 2022)

Marc MacSharry: 199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 8 September 2022, if he will clarify the reason An Post does not propose to comply with Paragraph 8 of DPER Circular 16/2021 in relation to the submission of its request for Ministerial approval of the 2% increase due to its pensioners from 1 January 2023 (details supplied);...