Results 61-80 of 138 for going forward speaker:Marc MacSharry

Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Second Stage (14 May 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister to the House. I will stick to the issue under discussion, although there are a few others I could discuss. We welcome this Bill, which was on the programme for Government. Obviously, the last Administration came to an abrupt end, so its legislation on this matter was not dealt with. The Prohibition on Use by Children of Sunbeds and Tanning Devices Bill 2012 proposed...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2014)

Marc MacSharry: ...this. Pointing out this inaction is not to absolve previous Governments any more than it is to absolve the current Government, but inaction it is. Being placated with assurances that we have brought forward a worthwhile proposal is not good enough. Having a Private Members' Bill accepted on Second Stage is merely an empty victory if the Government is simply going to push the issue onto...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Second Stage (29 Jan 2014)

Marc MacSharry: ...ways and lodged and stored in different places, and then we must have this seemingly endless duplication and potential for human error, for instance, where one set of information cannot be got or gets lost because the wrong person had it, etc. My party would fully support the idea of health identifiers and health practitioner identifiers as something that can help bridge the gap in...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jan 2014)

Marc MacSharry: .... I would say that legal advice is coming from one of those big firms - we all know their names - between the two canals here in Dublin. They were responsible for all the legal advice that got us into the crisis and it now seems they will be responsible for all the legal advice on examining their own poor legal advice back in the day. While we all welcome a banking inquiry and look...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank her for making herself available again. I commend the Labour Party group for bringing forward this motion, which we will not be opposing. I am glad to have the opportunity to highlight some issues in this area about which we have concerns. Of all the jobs of the Ministers of State, I would hate to have the Minister's job. There is no...

Seanad: EU Scrutiny and Transparency in Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (24 Oct 2013)

Marc MacSharry: ...;il Party and, particularly, Senator Mark Daly, who is the author of the Bill. He has done us a service and, while the Bill may not be perfect, it forms the basis of a vehicle that can be improved upon by the Government or other parties in a debate to ensure we achieve the outcome we want. Yesterday, the Taoiseach's concluding remarks on how the Seanad can be reformed referred to the...

Seanad: Statistics (Heritage Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Oct 2013)

Marc MacSharry: Yes, I second the Bill. There is no reason we cannot accept this Bill and I hope the Minister of State will be in a position to accept it, at least on Second Stage. The Government can make amendments on Committee Stage if it feels some technical improvements need to be made. Senator Ó Murchú has outlined the background to this Bill. The inability to access this information from...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Marc MacSharry: ...brought up in this House and that the first legislation came from this House. There are countless examples of that. The people, havin considered how they voted, are entitled to know those things going forward.

Seanad: Report of Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Statements (18 Sep 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State and am glad of the opportunity to make a few points. The Seanad Public Consultation Committee is one of the good news stories of the Oireachtas during this Administration. It did not exist hitherto and I wish to pay tribute to Senator Cummins, the Leader of the House, who has done his best to introduce a variety of different initiatives to this House. As he...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Marc MacSharry: ...Fitzgeralds lived here, this was used for entertainment." If the Taoiseach gets his way, it might not be too long before it is used simply for entertainment but for now, these contributions are going on the record. Regarding the way forward, step 8 on page 51 of the report outlines the importance, and I referred to former Taoiseach, John Bruton, earlier, of former Taoisigh and...

Seanad: Public Health (Availability of Defibrillators) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for returning to the House again today. I appreciate all the time that he gives us. I commend Senator Quinn in particular and Senator Crown on bringing forward this Bill. It is a no-brainer. Senator Quinn has made the points on the positive impact that this can have. The statistics seem to show it is all about how quickly a person can have access to a defibrillator....

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Unlicensed Money-Lending) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: It is with great regret that, yet again, Private Members' Bill No. 3 for me, is going down the tubes. Of all the Bills I initiated, this is the one where there was the least excuse not to accept it. I thank all Members for their commendations. As a former Ceann Comhairle in the other House who was a member of the Labour Party famously said when he was retiring some years ago, I wanted to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Unlicensed Money-Lending) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: ...Unfortunately, the crime figures do not bear that out because, as the Minister is all too aware, there has never been a conviction for illegal moneylending in Ireland. There is a great deal of law governing this area but, unfortunately, its victims are not sufficiently protected in terms of coming forward and giving evidence against the accused when the accused, or agents of same, is...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 [Certified Money Bill]: Committee and Remaining Stages (21 Mar 2013)

Marc MacSharry: ...it receives the right supports, it can act as a real economic driver for that region and help to ensure the regions contribute to the national effort in a sustainable way. Some of the measures the Government has announced to help Shannon Airport are to be welcomed in that context. As the Minister is aware - we have corresponded on it - I have a lodged a complaint with the Directorate...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2013 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (20 Mar 2013)

Marc MacSharry: ...year's season. We must adjudicate on the games, tactics and resources that player managers are using at this moment. In that context, there were choices to be made on the Finance Bill. We put forward budget proposals. Some were the same, some provided alternatives. Some decisions are unavoidable but in other cases there were clear choices. Regarding the universal social charge, 3% or...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (13 Mar 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State to the House, as always. I also thank her for welcoming the suicide policy document my party published last week and I hope we will have an opportunity to go through it with her in the coming weeks. I welcome this legislation and while not wanting to take an adversarial position on the Order of Business this morning, I said that it was a shame that we could...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Mar 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister to the House, as always. We in Sligo have grave reservations about the report of the Constituency Commission and the Bill. While I appreciate that the practice has become the automatic acceptance of the recommendations of the independent Constituency Commission, I recall that a former Taoiseach said Governments should not be bound by independent commissions or...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Mar 2013)

Marc MacSharry: Of course population comes into play, but is the Minister, an educated man, saying to me with straight face that 32,000 people in Leitrim require 18 councillors while 65,000 people in Sligo can survive on the same number while coping with the challenges of supporting the ninth largest urban centre in the State? If he is, he must examine that. Term of reference No. 5, in particular, clearly...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (13 Dec 2012)

Marc MacSharry: ...for the first three years was ¤295 million. The figure rose to ¤397 million in 2006 and was ¤360 million in 2009. Given the constitutional role of the Houses of the Oireachtas in holding the Government to account, the figure allocated is a tiny fraction of the overall expenditure of ¤56.2 billion. In addition, Members have taken significant cuts in salaries and allowances, which are...

Seanad: Health and Social Care Professionals (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2012)

Marc MacSharry: ..., we are always looking to have a chat with him about various things. In contrast to the normal adversarial approach I take, we very much support this Bill. The Minister knows that its origins go back to the current Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Martin, in 2000 in respect of the report entitled Statutory Registration for Health and Social Professionals: Proposals for the Way Forward....