Results 2,341-2,360 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The amendment must be pressed. While some Members might consider it acceptable to have the debate tomorrow, it is not acceptable to those of us on this side of the Chamber.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: For Senator Craughwell to say we are playing politics with this issue displays an extraordinary level of ignorance. Senator Mooney has been making contributions on social issues for almost 30 years in this House. I am here a mere 12 years. Colleagues may vote whichever way they like, but we are asking that the debate take place today.
- Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for Health for coming to the House. My motion is on the need for the Minister to outline what, if any, procedures are followed to prevent a consultant physician from practising unsupervised as a senior consultant in obstetrics or any other discipline when he or she has previously been at the centre of settled medical negligence allegations, albeit settled without...
- Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: While I appreciate that, the Acting Chairman, of all people, will appreciate that this is a very important issue for people in the north west. I strongly advise her to give me a little latitude in this regard. The Minister's predecessor, now Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, gave a commitment on this matter to people in the north west, as did Deputies Tony...
- Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I hope people in Sligo will note the enthusiasm with which the Acting Chairman is interrupting me. She should allow some latitude, particularly as she is au faitwith the problem in accessing mammography services in the north west.
- Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Is it Government policy not to provide mammography services in the north west?
- Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Tony Canavan, chief operating officer of the west-north west hospitals group, allegedly told a group representing patients in Sligo yesterday-----
- Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: -----that mammography services would not recommence at Sligo Regional Hospital. Is it now Government policy to-----
- Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Acting Chairman. I welcome the Minister to the House. I will speak predominantly about beef. Nobody doubts the Minister's commitment to the job at hand and I am sure he is doing all he can. However, I wish to make a few suggestions about a number of things we should be doing. As the biggest surplus producer of beef in the EU we should be leading the way rather than following...
- Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Offal is very significant. There are limited markets for offal. My business pre politics was exporting beef to 46 countries around the world through two BSE crises so I know a little about it but not as much as the Minister with the advice he is getting. I acknowledge that he is committed to the task at hand but I do not believe we are as focused or as successful as we could be. Instead...
- Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I ask the House for just 60 seconds.
- Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Thirty seconds.
- Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Chair will let Senator Quinn speak for the whole day.
- Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Mullen is now the kettle calling the pot black.
- Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to mention one further important issue, namely, Article 39 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. This guarantees farmers a fair price for their labour. I would like to see the Minister, through Commissioner Hogan, raise this issue. There are no regulations in place to prevent the kind of anti-fair trade practices that are being implemented under the cloak of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Fianna Fáil will be opposing the Order of Business today. I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for Health comes to the House as a matter of urgency to discuss the crisis in our accident and emergency services, in particular those in our flagship hospital, Beaumont Hospital. On 8 September last the CEO of that hospital went public because he said it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Just Beaumont.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I was, yes, I was Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2014)
Marc MacSharry: A Chathaoirligh, I am entitled to some protection from the Chair.