Results 861-880 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I never heckle as the Leader knows.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Feb 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Government's decision to hold a referendum. It is good for politics as it is important we are seen to give a sense of ownership to public policy. This is the deficit consecutive Governments over the past couple of decades have suffered from. It is positive there will be a public debate on this issue and that the people can have their say. I ask the Leader to arrange at an...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to ask the Minister for Health to come to the House to explain the situation with regard to the national cancer control programme and its relationship to pre-election promises and commentary which has followed since then. On 9 February, the Minister, Deputy James Reilly, visited the north west of the country and spoke of the issue concerning...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
Marc MacSharry: If the new Senator cares to check the record of the House, he will see that the only person whose position on this issue has not changed is myself.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
Marc MacSharry: To use, neglect and mislead the people of Ireland, or a section of the population, in this way is inexcusable. While the Leader sometimes likes us to raise such issues on the Adjournment, to use and neglect 200,000 lives in this cynical way, just to get votes, is inexcusable and it demands that the Minister would come to the House to clarify why, on the north west station Ocean FM, on the...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (29 Feb 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I am afraid it must.
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I join with others in expressing concern about the Europe-wide discussion on budgetary matters for Ireland before we discuss them here. It is unacceptable, as the Leader of the Opposition, Senator Byrne and others have articulated very well. In the context of ongoing and future debates about the forthcoming referendum, I will unequivocally support its passage. It is incumbent on all of us...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I would like to pick up on what Senator à Murchú said about our national holiday, which is coming up this weekend. I suggest that we organise a discussion on advertising standards in that context. At the moment, one can buy a t-shirt in Penneys stores that simply says "Irish today, drunk tomorrow".
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I do not think such merchandise should be permitted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I call for a debate on media in general, similar to the themes that have been raised by those calling for a debate on the presidential election coverage. The problem is that we preside over a national media that we praise constantly for its integrity. The reality is that we do not have reportage. We do not have newspapers, but "viewspapers". We do not have a national broadcaster that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I am calling for a debate, and in that context, I am making a point.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We all want free speech. When people are tweeting, texting or online, for example, on boards.ie and Politics.ie. In my view that does not amount to free speech, but legalised subversion of the State. It is fundamentally wrong. What we need is someone or medium which reports the facts. We praise the people of Ireland for being among the most educated in the world. They are prepared and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: A little less conversation, a little more action.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Notwithstanding the fact that we will use our Private Members' time to deal with some of these issues, I join others in calling for a debate on the inaction in mortgage arrears. Leaving aside a cheap political stunt of reflecting on the causes of people finding themselves in mortgage arrears, the record of the House will show that nobody has a sense of ownership on this issue, and nobody has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: There are many reasons for failure but there are no excuses. We have had the Hugh Cooney report on mortgage arrears, the Keane report on mortgage arrears, the programme for Government and a Cabinet sub-committee but the reality is clear. I often quote Senator Barrett, who is in the House, who mentioned the metaphorical back stairs in the Department of Finance that seems to be exclusively...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We have a deficit in respect of the solutions being proposed and acted on by the Government. The Family Home Bill 2011 was voted down in this House by only three votes. If the three other Senators from my area had supported the legislation, it would have been enacted in law and the courts would now be in a position to take greater steps to help people in mortgage arrears. I ask for more...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: That has been done but the Bill was voted down.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: It could have been amended by the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: They could not vote.