Results 2,481-2,500 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That was an interest payment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The chasm of disconnection is contagious in Fine Gael. It is not just the leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: There is a disconnection within the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: What about the people?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I charged him with disconnection from the people.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Jobs for the boys.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Mullen was right.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The people have adjudicated in the election. We must now hold the Government to account.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I do not need a neck; I have a mandate, just like Senator Cummins.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And MacSharry.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Is that a fact? There are so many Government Members in the Dáil they are falling all over each other. Fianna Fáil only has 18 Deputies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: This is the forum-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----in which it should be discussed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----it is only fair that the Leader should acknowledge that we have passed motions to show-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----that Senators on this side are committed, in the first instance, to the business of this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is how they will be involved. As the Leader well knows, the only exception is the banking inquiry.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It is not a matter for the Leader's party to decide what can or cannot be debated in this House. The Seanad is representative of the people and, regardless of whether Fine Gael likes it, Senators are entitled to engage in debates on behalf of the people.
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Much has already been said. Senator Diarmuid Wilson has captured what most of us feel and think. I first got to know John Carty outside politics, when neither of us was a councillor, Senator or anything else. I was involved in the beef export business and most of the product we exported came from a plant in Baltinglass, County Wicklow. Once or twice a year, John and Paddy O’Hara...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome Professor Kane and thank him for making the journey here to help us out. In a paper he wrote in 2006, entitled Inadequacy of Nation-Based and VaR-Based Safety Nets in the European Union, he outlined the European Union's financial safety net and stated, "If confronted with one or more large-bank insolvencies, nationalistic pressures on home and host regulators are bound to aggravate...