Results 2,421-2,440 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I support my colleague on the mortgage issue. The suggestion of a 20% deposit is certainly not fit for purpose. It is a reaction that shows an extraordinary lack of knowledge and ineptitude in the context of trying to nurture a market that is healthy and is not overheating, but that facilitates the normal trade where people can buy and sell houses in the normal way. Naturally, so that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator took-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator has shown her colours. She was sold a pup before Christmas.
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: He is 150 miles away.
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister to the House. In January 2014, following a Fianna Fáil motion in the other House on the 2014 HSE service plan, our view at that time was that the plan was insufficient for the health service. The Minister's predecessor stated: "For people and patients, a key barometer of the success of our reform programme must be the performance of emergency departments and...
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: He is well able to talk for himself.
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: There are 95,000 fewer medical cards today than there were this time last year. Am I correct that it is envisaged there will be 60,000 fewer this time next year? From whom will these be taken? I welcome the continuing row-back on the cut to discretionary cards. A man from Sligo suffering from cancer who also has heart issues applied for a discretionary card, which he had in the past, but...
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----to go through the full suite of issues.
- Seanad: HSE National Service Plan 2015: Statements (20 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I sympathise with the task the Minister has to hand and I do not doubt his personal commitment to try to solve it. However, before we begin, in January, the health service plan is insufficient. The Minister does not have sufficient funding. He is behind the curve in terms of following crises across all of the disciplines. I did not even get to mental health, where Deputy Varadkar's...
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I move: That Seanad Éireann: noting: - the roll-out of 530,000 water meters across the country to date with an additional 500,000 meters due to be installed by 2016; - two thirds of water bills will be for meters which will remain unused until 2019; and - the overall costs of €540 million borrowed from the National Pension Reserve Fund, NPRF, to finance the implementation of...
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: What we need is water infrastructure for the 21st century, but instead we threw €800 million of the people's money down the drain in setting up an unnecessary quango. Frankly, whoever is responsible for advocating spending €540 million of the people's money on putting meters in the ground that are going to be obsolete in 15 years, should not be employed by this State. It is a...
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: A bit like the people after the election.
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Government created a quango that cost €800 million.
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Plus €170 million was spent on consultants.
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Boyle.
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It will plug the hole at a cost of €540 million.
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: How many years?
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I am only asking the question.
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: If one has a washing machine.
- Seanad: Water Services: Motion (21 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That was back when child benefit was not going to be cut.