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- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Put it to the people. Call an election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: We have read them all in the newspapers as usual.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I agree very much with everything Senator Barrett stated. I would like an urgent debate on Irish Water, which is still not acceptable. People have a big problem with this huge umbrella organisation. Yesterday, I gave the analogy that it is like establishing McAlpine to build a tree house. This day two years ago local authorities provided water, albeit in a flawed state in certain areas,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I ask the Leader to arrange for the Minister for Justice and Equality to come to the House so that we might debate the costs of and services offered by coroners throughout the country. The House may be aware that the costs with regard to the salaries and other charges relating to the coroners are footed by the local authority in each area, which is a substantial amount of money, particularly...
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. He is a former colleague here and I wish him well in his portfolio. I do not doubt his personal commitment to this and other issues under his Department's aegis. Irish Water has been an unmitigated disaster, however. I disagree fundamentally with the introduction of charges, as well as with the establishment of Irish Water. This is an idea...
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: No doubt we will go after landlords in that way. It is a disgrace. The PRTB should be abolished or resourced to the extent that it provides equal protection to tenants and landlords. Now the Government wants to go off and use them as bill collectors. As I said at the beginning, I do not doubt the Minister's commitment to making a very bad situation a little better, but the only way out of...
- Seanad: Water Sector Reforms: Statements (25 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: We could go for a private bond issue. We could go to the European Investment Bank. We could go to the Strategic Investment Fund. We could look at other general taxation measures to bring our infrastructure throughout the country up to such a standard that it may be worth contributing something. Why set up the super-quango? There were Kathleen McTiernans in every local authority in this...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: On Senator Pat O'Neill's point about the Garda Commissioner, while on a personal level I wish her well and hope she will do a good job, Senator Mark Daly was perfectly within his rights to make a legitimate point. It is a fact that the person in question was deputy commissioner when many of these issues came to light. That is worth noting and remembering.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I expressed hope, not confidence. Will the Leader arrange a debate on the contribution of the Governor of the Central Bank in recent days? I believe he is wrong and would like to see what science informs his push for 20% deposits. I worked in the building society sector more than 20 years ago, long before there was a boom, and the policy was to seek a 10% deposit. In fact, one could obtain...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Long after the horse has bolted, the Central Bank is attempting to close a door it need not even leave ajar. The reality is that people are struggling and will struggle to get on the housing ladder. Appropriate regulations on lending are required. There is no need to discriminate against young families starting off, which is precisely what a measure such as this will do. It will not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: What I say is not in any way to gazump Senator Craughwell and his e-mail to us all following the shock and horror of events in recent days and the need to debate homelessness and take tangible action, but we must table an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister would come to the House today. The crisis is such that it demands immediacy rather than to be scheduled as a matter for...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I move amendment No. 1: "That the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, come to the House today to outline for us the urgent measures that will be taken to address the housing crisis."
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: That will bring it back to the 2009 levels, when there were 60,000 homeless as opposed to the 90,000 now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Noel Dempsey brought in the provision.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader is not giving the facts. He is the one getting into politics.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader is misleading the House. He should not be telling lies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: There is no point in his telling us lies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: On a point of order, it might be of use to some of the newer Members of the House to observe that the great thing about democracy is that it allows us to take different views on different issues.