Results 1,161-1,180 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Now the Government is going to wreck communities throughout the country by taking ¤10 off a family's children's allowance.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: A sum of ¤18 has been taken off the allowance in respect of third children. I recall the current Minister for Finance, when he was a senior backbench Deputy in opposition, asking "What have you got against third children?" Do Members remember him saying that to the then Minister for Finance? I wondered about his question because I had only two children at the time; now I have three.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: All families with three children will have ¤18 less per month. Let me examine the details that are coming, as I speak, from the other House. One hundred Garda stations will be closed. Did the backbenchers know that? Did the Senators know that?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Did Senators O'Keeffe, Comiskey and Henry realise that nine stations in the immediate 30- or 40-mile radius of where I live will be closed?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: What will the closures do to communities with the resultant increase in crime levels? Here is a lovely detail. I am sure the old internal party policy committee on fairness gave a lot of consideration to the following. The annual respite grant will be reduced from ¤1,700 to ¤1,375. Hooray for the Government. What great fairness? It is prize-winning stuff. If the Government had...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I have not even touched on rural Ireland. I wonder what is hidden in the ¤89 million saving which will focus on the suckler cow scheme. Anybody who knows the scheme realises that it is the engine room of the beef industry in this country. I would appreciate leeway on this subject because many speakers from the Opposition will raise it.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I am sure the Cathaoirleach will get through them.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Agriculture has taken a beating, particularly in the west of Ireland where the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has indicated that about ¤90 million will be taken from the suckler cow scheme, REPS and other measures. I must defend the ¤20 billion being taken out of the economy. I cannot stand over the discriminatory nature of the budget, which honed in on the elderly, those on...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: No.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: What about the carers' respite grants?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The rest of them have been cleaned out.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: On a point of order, from one end of my speech to the other I was harassed by the Opposition, and I object to being told to shut up by anybody. I invite the Senator to withdraw his remark and I seek the protection of the Chair.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator told me to shut up. Will he take it back?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator has told me to shut up again. One must have manners in the House.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: No interrupting, Senator.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business, namely, that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, come before the House in order that we might have the opportunity to impress upon her the need to revisit a number of measures contained in yesterday's budget. As Minister O'Brien indicated-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: -----the Minister for Social Protection has not been in a position to listen to her party's backbenchers. We had an opportunity to discuss some matters relating to the budget last evening. As one of my colleagues stated in the Dáil yesterday, this budget is anti-women and anti-children. It is particularly anti-children in the context of the ¤10 cut in child benefit for the first two...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Our budget submission was costed and it recommends how ¤3.5 billion-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: It was certainly not costed by those who made the calculations for the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, in respect of the ¤370 million overrun relating to the health service. It was also not costed by the person who made the calculations for the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, in respect of her Department's ¤600 million overrun.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Our pre-budget submission contained recommendations on how to achieve the ¤3.5 billion in savings contained in the budget and produce a higher tax yield. Under those recommendations, child benefit, maternity benefit and the back to school allowance would have been protected. Colleagues will refer to the propaganda engaged in by the Labour Party prior to the general election. I have...