Results 1,381-1,400 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader should listen to his Labour Party colleagues. Over ¤100,000 a year-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: He will not even listen to his Labour Party colleagues.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Frankfurt's way is working well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Before normal hostilities resume, our group would also like to acknowledge the true greatness of our friend and the great friend of the House, Jimmy Walsh. In my 11 years here, my experience, which would reflect that of us all, has been that he has been an innately decent man who has been a great friend to the Seanad, the only one it has had. From a journalistic perspective, that is a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I realise time is short with the Easter recess approaching, but an urgent debate is required on the insolvency guidelines and how they will be dealt with by the personal insolvency service. There are mixed messages from Government and very worrying reports in the media. At the weekend, one newspaper indicated that women would be forced to give up their work if child care could not be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: As always, I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, back to the House. It is good to see him. I know he is working very hard in the Department. The Bill is hardly one the Minister of State would regard as a great achievement. It is, clearly, one we cannot support. In 2009, when the universality of the over-70s medical card went under the microscope, the Government of the day...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister of State must not know the manifesto as well as I do. If he wants to talk about manifestos, there was a lot in the Labour Party?s manifesto and the Fine Gael manifesto.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is a Second Stage speech. If the Acting Chairman were in the House for as long as I am, he would be aware that one can go off the subject to a certain extent.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: There is a general thrust to the debate and speakers are allowed to refer generally to the subject, which is what I am doing. The 3% universal social charge increase would have taken in hundreds of millions of euro and I am sure the Minister of State would agree that if it was his call, or that of his party, such measures could take in a significant amount of money and look after the...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I appreciate that but it does not have to be done by way of legislation. The Minister can change the criteria for eligibility without coming before the Oireachtas. It is a bad precedent because, increasingly, as a result of the Whip system and the fact that the Oireachtas is a mere tool of the Cabinet of the day, we are now passing legislation to remove the troublesome necessity of having...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, "That No. 16 be taken before No. 1." As we have seen in recent days in the fallout from the Garda conferences there is the threat of suspension, as I mentioned yesterday. Rather than it being diffused, it appears to grown further legs where the Minister, the Garda Commissioner and other authorities have got involved and that those involved...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Unlicenced Money-Lending) Bill 2013: First Stage (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the punishment imposed on a person who engages in unlicenced money-lending shall include a prohibition on a person convicted of the offence of unlicenced money-lending from subjecting the victim(s) of the offence of unlicenced money-lending to harassment for such defined period as the court may specify...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Unlicenced Money-Lending) Bill 2013: First Stage (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: On the first Tuesday after the Easter recess.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: My party will also oppose it. As the Minister of State correctly stated, we made many of these points on Second Stage. I do not believe one should be so touchy about Senators making points on Committee Stage. The practice is that Senators can make points as often-----
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I would say the attendance today would be more relevant to the abolition than the contribution.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We made the points yesterday. The section is wrong. We did not table all the amendments my party tabled in the Dáil where they all were ruled out of order, which was regrettable. It will be on the sections we will speak and some of those points will be general. The Bill is regressive. It creates a lot of fear for those who will lose the medical card. Some, arguably, will not go the...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I would like it clarified again, if that is okay. In section 7, we will be dealing with-----
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We will be dealing with it shortly. The Minister of State can clarify that but my party will oppose the section.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I also support the amendment. The information is available and while it would require an amendment to the Data Protection Act to allow for the sharing of information, the fact there might be legal challenges to achieving such a system does not mean we should not have it as an objective. To go off the point slightly, it is a suggestion that has merit when one considers the kind of backlogs...