Results 2,061-2,080 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I can multi-task.
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Cathaoirleach and will wind up. I see I have time and had thought there would have been a few more speakers on both sides. First, Senator O'Keeffe's research differs from mine and that is why the iPad is out. Ireland has the lowest number of obstetricians in the OECD and Greece has nine times as many obstetricians as do we. Perhaps that is wrong but in any event, Members will...
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I did not interrupt the Senator.
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: What is under consideration is set out in black and white in this report. I am pleased to hear this report has no status. Senator O'Keeffe, who lost all her colleagues on Sligo County Council, states it does have some status.
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: She states it has some status because she says-----
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I think Senator Gilroy did wish to speak after all. If he wishes, I can sit down again and conclude at the end.
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister is now saying something that is extremely serious. In distancing himself from the report, he was saying he had nothing to do with it but clearly somebody commissioned the report. I wish to know who did so. Was it Mr. Bill Maher, the chief executive officer of the hospital group which wasted the public's money on a report that has no status? In response to Senator Henry, I...
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: In fairness, I am entitled to use privilege from time to time and when it comes to someone who was responsible for many billions of euro of the public's money and wasting it, I will use his or her name as often as is necessary. I have no apology to make to anybody for bringing into the public domain a report that has implications for the women of Ireland. Senator O'Keeffe stated, in a heckle...
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Does the Senator think this report would have seen the light of day? Do Senators Mullins, O'Keeffe or Henry think its existence would have been brought to their attention at their respective parliamentary party meetings, had I not brought it out into the public domain? No chance. The Members opposite were caught this time.
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Now they are blaming someone in the hospital group.
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: While someone within the hospital group is being blamed, I want to know his or her name. How much did the Health Partnership group get for this report that has no status but which scares the people of the north west? Of course it scares us all and we are distraught to think that in secret, had it not been brought out by Fianna Fáil, somebody under the Minister's control commissioned a...
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I am just concluding-----
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The people-----
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I think the Senator has spoken already.
- Seanad: Maternity Services: Motion (28 May 2014)
Marc MacSharry: To conclude this debate, the Minister's speech, the contribution of his colleagues and this amendment fall short of an assurance that each of these centres will continue to have obstetrician-led maternity services. The people of the north west of the country are entitled to better and as I stated in response to another Minister lately on a different issue, members of the Government need to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Dáil has sent word already.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Robert Mugabe is the Vice Chairman.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: He will ensure the Government's desire to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business and call for the Minister for Health to come to the House. Following on from what my colleague, Senator Mullen, has said - and it is a shame he was not here for the debate last week on the hospitals issue - two things remain to be discussed. First, we do not know why a report was prepared in the first place and we do not have its terms of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (4 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: What is out of order?