Results 1,141-1,160 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Will the Senator's party be running candidates in the German elections?
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Government extended it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Government voted against the Family Home Bill by three votes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: It is the banks.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Electoral Divisions (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to discuss the issue of the local electoral area boundary committee which was established by the Minister, Deputy Hogan, to determine the electoral areas. The committee's terms of reference state at paragraph 9: Subject to a minimum total of 18 and a maximum total of 40 members of every other council - - there should be one member for every 4,830 population in each council area...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Electoral Divisions (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: As the reply was drafted for the Minister of State, it is clearly not her fault. The Minister of State appears to be as confused as I am. The reply refers to an additional four members for boroughs. It also refers to a minimum total of 18 and a maximum of 40. I am sure the legal eagles would have good fun with that. As I understand it, places such as Sligo and Kilkenny will have 18...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Electoral Divisions (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: It does not.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Electoral Divisions (4 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We will have an opportunity to speak on the budget later today. I refer to a serious allegation on the front page of today's edition of The Irish Times. Once again it relates to the primary care centres and, in particular, ministerial involvement in that process. The Tánaiste informed the other House that following investigations he was quite confident there was no ministerial involvement...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Notwithstanding the budget debates which will take place over the coming days, the drip-feed of information with regard to this issue is continually damaging to public confidence - whatever little bit remains - in the running of our health service. I ask the Leader to make a statement on this matter tomorrow so that we can put this issue to bed once and for all. I particularly ask Labour...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: -----which read, "Protect child benefit. Vote Labour." With a matter of hours to go, I hope the Labour Party will be able to intervene to save the families of Ireland.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: There were new revelations. I am sure the Deputy Leader would like to comment on them.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. The Minister of State indicated that ¤24 billion has already been taken out of our economy. I sat where Senator Michael D'Arcy now sits while ¤20 billion of that adjustment was being made and I had to defend the measures that were announced. I know how difficult that position can be. However, I found it a walk in the park to defend some...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I do not know what horse trading took place in advance of the budget. Kites were flown and there were walkouts and everything else over the weekend but I am sure the Government Whip will ensure that the budget goes through. I hope it does not because it contains measures that are not necessary. Other options were available to them. Having accompanied my party's delegation to meet the...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We used the figures made available by the Department of Finance and the troika in the same way as the Government parties could have done prior to the last general election, instead of exhibiting the most blatant example of political delinquency in history. They promised everything to all people and every community around the country, not least to my own constituency of Sligo-Leitrim, only to...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The tax as proposed will be highly discriminatory. It will fleece communities throughout middle Dublin, middle Sligo and other urban centres throughout the country.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The poor widow whose large family has left home will be penalised by this Government simply because she needed a larger farmhouse. To add insult to injury, an exemption will be granted to anybody who purchases a house next year. The unlucky ones like me and, I am sure, many others in these Houses and across Ireland who paid some of the ¤5.5 billion taken in stamp duty between 2000 and 2009...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: This is a criminal way to put forward an exemption to this tax. I repeat that the troika did not insist on property tax. It wanted measures that would give an equal outcome. The Minister for Finance has the gall to promote a deferral scheme which will reduce poor people who cannot afford to pay to the equivalent of tax defaulters. They will have to pay half the amount or else face...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: -----and promised it all.