Results 2,521-2,540 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator is in dreamland. We are exporting Irish kidneys because we cannot get transplants in this country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Do, put the question, sure we are getting no answers.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (3 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this matter and I welcome the Minister of State. I am sorry the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is not present but I am conscious that he is meeting colleagues from Sligo County Council and its chief executive officer as I speak. Nevertheless, I would like to make it clear that it is important that central government does...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (3 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Why has the Minister been sent to the House to deliver such bad news? This is clearly an abdication of responsibility to the people. Are the people of Fingal more entitled to a library than the people of Ballymote? That is the question. It is no more onerous than for any local authority. Fingal has the airport in its area but the people of Sligo or in the Minister's native County Donegal...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (3 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Obviously, the Minister is only going to say in the meeting what the Minister of State was sent here to say.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (3 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I was not invited, of course. Only Government Oireachtas Members are invited.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (3 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Close the libraries.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Very quickly-----
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Institutes of Technology (3 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Am I correct in believing that if the merger goes ahead and is successful, there will still be no guarantee that technological university status will be awarded?
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I seek a debate in early course with the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform on public sector pay and specifically regarding pay for gardaí. I note the Labour Party leader in the House has mentioned the new recruits in Templemore and all Members of course welcome that. However, I wish to quote briefly from an e-mail I received from one of them. It states that each of the 300...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I agree with much of Senator Henry's contribution. While minimum pricing is welcome, it is an awful shame that the House could not support the Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Fund Bill 2014. It sought to take advantage of the low prices on alcohol by setting up a fund to ring-fence the money generated from these alcohol sales rather than providing additional profitability to the drinks...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Has the Chairman nothing to add himself on this occasion? I thank Professor Black for joining us and for making the trip over. Just to start things off, he described the guarantee as an insane decision. We have had Governor Honohan from the Central Bank in and we have had Peter Nyberg, as Professor Black is aware. They have said that these were the best of all bad decisions. In...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Professor Black may have done the same thing in the same circumstances.
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is what I am asking. What would he have done?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: If Professor Black was a politician as opposed to an expert-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: For sure. When I asked Professor Edward Kane, who we had in lately, in the context of Europe's response to the crisis, he said that, in many ways, Ireland got a hard deal from its European partners in relation to bank debt. In the subsequent reforms that we have seen, does Professor Black think that there has been sufficient reform so far in the eurozone to make sure that a scenario like...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Okay. In terms of the likelihood of a repeat, does Professor Black think that the set of parameters that currently exist make it quite likely that it will all happen again?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: We heard from the Governor of the Central Bank in previous testimony. As to the Governor's role on the ECB's Governing Council, does Professor Black believe that this is a flawed construct in the eurozone, where the fiduciary duties of the governor of a state is to the bank and the institution rather than, for want of a better expression, wearing one's nation's jersey?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (5 Feb 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Just very finally-----