Results 761-780 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I have asked the Department to contact the HSE with a view to contacting the Croke Park implementation body. I am bound to say that if this were a business it would be out of business. I had great hopes when the Minister took over for the changes he was planning to make in the HSE.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: All I have seen so far has worried and disappointed me greatly. For this reason we are opposing the Order of Business and ask that it be amended in order that the Minister can immediately come to the House. As has been said here previously, he has been here on only one occasion under the new Administration. That was for the taking of important legislation on female genital mutilation...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: -----they can check the record of the House and they will see how forceful I was in speaking out when things were done incorrectly, and Senators Bacik and Cummins can testify to that. I do not intend stopping now when I am on this side of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I was then but how long does it take for the Government to take the blame?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator can only keep blaming Fianna Fáil for so long.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: There is a budget coming up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: What about the centre of excellence and the national screening centre for colonoscopies?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister is going to write to them to ask them to speak to the man about the thing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I am afraid it must be, yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I support the proposed amendment to the Order of Business. Senator Mac Conghail asked the Leader to indicate who the next important person to attend the House might be. It would be an achievement if we could manage to get the Minister for Health to the Chamber. This issue arose under previous Administrations too, where the contempt shown to this House is not the sole preserve of the media...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: Can we have a debate on media standards and on the manipulation of the media? The contempt in which the Cabinet holds this House, indicated by their lack of attendance, must end. I know the Leader agrees with me and will use his good office to try to have it rectified.
- Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I will be as brief as I can. The Minister touched on the issue of fracking but I cannot overestimate the level of public concern about it. The Minister will be aware of it from his parliamentary colleagues living in the area. The Minister has been a good communicator in all aspects of his political life heretofore-----
- Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: For the people of the north west a public information and consultation process needs to be announced immediately and engaged with. The people in the relevant counties want to realise the benefits of the bounty of the earth if it can be accessed safely. I am afraid that despite the polish of the corporate machine which, as the Minister said, some people may be stirring, there is a lot of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I agree with Senator Higgins. It would be welcome if the Minister were to attend the House on a date earlier than 27 October.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: We were all here to see him on the Adjournment. Recently, we had a good debate on the arts, their contribution to employment and how we can expand on that. The debate had been sought by Senator Mac Conghail and I seek a similar debate on sports tourism. I am mindful of the great contribution of our rugby stars in New Zealand. It is reminiscent of the Euro 1988 and 1990 campaigns and is...
- Seanad: Statements on Finance (6 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister to the House. While there is much I would like to speak about, I will, because there are many Members wishing to ask questions, confine myself to questions to the Minister. With the recapitalisation of European banks likely at this stage, can the Minister guarantee that the template used for Irish banks, if adjusted by the troika, will be retrospectively visited if a...
- Seanad: Statements on Finance (6 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: On this point-----
- Seanad: Statements on Finance (6 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I appreciate that but I want to make a very important point. The troika prescribed the level of capital that would be required for recapitalisation far in advance so the markets cleaned the shareholder. This will probably not be the process used this time, to the advantage of the European banks and their shareholders and the people in Europe. On this point we should look for something and...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)
Marc MacSharry: According to media reports this morning, the Cabinet discussed the Declan Keane report on mortgage debt, personal debt and insolvency. I am calling for an early debate on these matters. Despite what we have seen in the programme for Government and the recommendations of the first expert group, there is now a second expert group. Declan Keane was a member of the first one also. The points...