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- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: As for cynicism-----
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I congratulate the new Labour Party Whip. If she was here long enough, she would know that the most cynical campaign ever carried out in opposition was by the then shadow Minister, Deputy Reilly. That is a fact. Of the current cuts, front-line cuts are all over the news. All Senators are fielding complaints in their constituency clinics about cuts to home help hours - hours cut to half...
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: They would tell it what they wanted to tell it and nothing else. With regard to that mantra about not listening to Fianna Fáil, when I was on the Government side of the House, and any of the senior Senators still around and the Minister of State might remember it, I got stuck into the then Minister day and night on health.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: There is a track record, form and consistency here on health.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: That is the scenario there. We have cost overruns in every hospital in the country. We have letters of undertaking being given to Tallaght Hospital for its overdraft. What is going to happen in Sligo General Hospital and Beaumont Hospital with their overruns? We are heading for ¤500 million so will the Minister have to find ¤1.25 billion in health cuts when it comes to the budget in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I join others in raising the issue of cuts to allowances for public servants as reported in the media this morning. I ask the Acting Leader to raise the issue of the forthcoming budget. While I would not always agree with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, he was spot on in highlighting that consumer confidence was being directly affected by Ministers flying...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: ----- but are perceived to be making a fortune, are the automatic targets of the Government when preparing budgets. It is wrong that these people represent the first line we seek to attack. In any event it is absolutely unacceptable for Ministers to continue to fly kites in trying to balance the delicate mix of backbenchers in the Labour Party and Fine Gael against their own popularity. I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: That does not only happen on the Adjournment.
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for taking time to attend, given his busy schedule. It is a shame we have to talk so often about this issue without any consequent penetrative action. I commend Senator Barrett on his work on this Bill. If we had had a model such as the Danish model some 20 or 25 years ago, before we had all our problems, I do not believe we would be in the...
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Government is thanking him for doing a great job and while indicating it would be give him a first class grade if he was being adjudicated on his economics class, it is also telling him it has no interest in changing the law to do something for people. The Minister stated that two senior civil servants, the Secretary General of the Department, Mr. John Moran, and Ms Muldoon of the Central...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Yet.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the fact that the German statement last weekend had positive implications from an Irish perspective but the game changer predicted last June has not materialised. The celebratory tone and action of the past number of days has not been reasonable in the context of considering our position on this issue. The Taoiseach and his Ministers need to go to their counterparts in Brussels...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Taoiseach might take time out of his busy schedule to come to the House to tell us what are his plans to tackle this issue because rhetoric is all we have had over the past number of months. A statement by the German, Finnish and Dutch finance Ministers cast doubt on the so-called game changer of last June and then we had an announcement at the weekend that we are special. To say that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: To say that "We're special" will do nothing for the mortgage issues in this country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: To say that "We're special" will not prevent anybody from having their home help hours cut. They are the realities. To say that "We're special" does not cut the mustard, it is not good enough. Government Members can take their celebratory tone back to the Taoiseach and tell him the people of Ireland will no longer put up with this rhetoric.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We want to see some action, finally. Other Senators can shout at me as long as they want but because I am here longer than them, I can stand longer than them and I can shout louder than them. To say that "We're special" does not cut it any more. Let us see some real action rather than this week-on-week rhetoric from the Taoiseach and others.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Does the Senator have a question?
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Take it as read.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I second the amendment to the Order of Business. I seek a debate in the near future on the supports being given by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport to the sporting organisations in the country, particularly the Football Association of Ireland, which in 2011 and 2012 received in the region of ¤3.4 million. As a soccer fan I know the Leader will be aware that at the weekend...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Not too many sporting organisations are in receipt of ¤3.5 million.