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Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Waste Management
Marc MacSharry
37. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his strategy for the sustainability and expansion of the compost industry in Ireland; his plans to expand the brown bin service to all households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3670/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Departmental Expenditure
Marc MacSharry
38. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the expenditure on national public awareness campaigns for waste services (details supplied) over the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3671/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Pay
Marc MacSharry
246. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason an increased salary of some €292,000 has been allocated to the position of Secretary General for the Department of Health. [4153/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Pay
Marc MacSharry
247. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has provided direct approval and sanctioning of a salary increase for the new position of Secretary General of the Department of Health; the details of the business case for such an increase in remuneration; if the account as reported in a national print media article dated 18 January 2020 quoting a person (details supplied) is correct; the reason a full memo was not brought to Cabinet; and the reason a message was not brought by him to Dáil Éireann. [4154/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Pay
Marc MacSharry
248. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a public statement advising the absence of a memo to Cabinet for formal approval of the proposed increase of the rate of pay for the position of Secretary General of the Department of Health to €292,000 is in line with Articles 11 and 17 of the Constitution and the views of the Minister for Health (details supplied) that such an increase would not be included in advised voted expenditure; and his plans to bring a message to Dáil Éireann for approval of such an increase in the rate of remuneration applicable to the position, which is far outside increases prescribed in the public service pay agreements. [4155/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Pay
Marc MacSharry
249. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in the interests of the taxpayer, TLAC will immediately suspend the formal recruitment of a new Secretary General of the Department of Health, pending the full consideration of the matter by the Committee of Public Accounts and Dáil Éireann to ensure the optimum public scrutiny and approval of public expenditure and the proposed increase in the salary to avoid the setting of further poor precedent by proceeding without such scrutiny and examination. [4156/21]
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
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Public Sector Staff
Marc MacSharry
250. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide additional extensions or to carry out a competitive recruitment process for the replacement on retirement of three Secretaries General (details supplied) in view of the expiry of the seven-year rule in 2018. [4157/21]
Thu, 21 Jan 2021
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Working Family Payment
Marc MacSharry
226. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) in County Sligo whose working family payment was not renewed following the annual review even though the person's circumstances have not changed since 2020 will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3031/21]
Wed, 20 Jan 2021
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
31. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will review the legislation with regard to employers who had to cease trading and let their staff go due to Covid-19, repaying statutory redundancy payments paid to their former employees, given that these employers have already paid their portion of the employee social insurance contribution over the years and the fact that the closure of their respective businesses was due to the pandemic and they are not in a financial position to make these payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2792/21]
Wed, 20 Jan 2021
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Revenue Commissioners
Marc MacSharry
147. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Finance if clarity will be provided on the benefit-in-kind treatment for tax purposes for company cars for 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2516/21]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Broadband Infrastructure
Marc MacSharry
25. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the establishment of a network of broadband connection points in counties Sligo and Leitrim; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43606/20]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Local Improvement Scheme
Marc MacSharry
77. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding that will be provided in counties Sligo and Leitrim under the local improvement scheme in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43607/20]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic
Marc MacSharry
109. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Sligo and Leitrim that have availed of the Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43804/20]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
160. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Sligo and Leitrim that have received support under the restart grant and the restart grant plus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43803/20]
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
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Animal Welfare
Marc MacSharry
646. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all seizures of horses made under SI 62 of 2016, the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 and the Control of Horses Act 1996 are included in the national horse seizure statistics figure; if not, his plans to ensure that all horse seizures are included in the national figure in view of the fact that, without the inclusion of same, the national horse figure provided is erroneous; if he will ensure that all of the legislation will be enforced in order to reduce and eliminate continuing and blatant disregard for the law on animal welfare in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44441/20]
Tue, 15 Dec 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
206. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Finance the position of eligibility to the new CRSS from sports clubs with a bar registered under the Clubs Act 1904 and so on as it seems the system of the Revenue Commissioners is refusing such applications; the reason this should be as the CRSS was projected as a replacement for the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment local authority reopening scheme which did apply to sports clubs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43055/20]
Tue, 15 Dec 2020
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Fuel Allowance
Marc MacSharry
378. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Social Protection if the case of a person (details supplied) who had their fuel allowance disallowed on reaching 66 years of age will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43274/20]
Thu, 10 Dec 2020
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Medicinal Products
Marc MacSharry
373. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Health the way in which he is encouraging the use of biosimilar medicines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42312/20]
Thu, 26 Nov 2020
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Covid-19 Pandemic Supports
Marc MacSharry
140. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in counties Sligo and Leitrim that have qualified for support under the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39199/20]
Thu, 26 Nov 2020
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School Admissions
Marc MacSharry
284. Deputy Marc MacSharry asked the Minister for Education the reason a student (details supplied) is being refused a place in three schools; the assurance she can provide to allay the fears and upset of the student's parents that there will be a place in a local school for the next school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39508/20]