Results 1,401-1,420 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I second Senator O'Donovan's amendment. The Leader may be aware that former Senator Bernard McGlinchey passed away over the weekend. I am sure he will make time available for expressions of sympathy and will contact the family in the interim. Mr. McGlinchey served as a Senator for 21 years between the early 1960s and 1980s. I join with Senator Norris and others in calling for a debate on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I am only asking for the same leniency as was shown to Senator van Turnhout. I am almost finished.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I will be as quick as I can.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I will press on and finish as quickly as I can. I would like to see a debate in this House on the matter of a senior official in the Department of Finance, who is now the Secretary General of that Department, making himself and the Department's resources available to property speculators - the twins from London - to secure part of a portfolio that the Irish people effectively own.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: My question is whether we will have a debate on this issue. It is important that I set out the context. The reality is that if one is the Secretary General of a Department -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: ----- or the Barclay twins, one has a direct line to the Department of Finance to get one's business done -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: ----- but the people of Ireland can get nothing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Today, for example, Bord Gáis is giving a dividend to the State which is €10 million less than it gave last year.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: What is the Government going to do to redistribute that money to the people throughout this country who, at the end of this month -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: ----- will have no more fuel allowances? The answer is "Nothing". However, the Barclay twins can ring the Secretary General of the Department of Finance and he will look after everything for them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Empty.
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I second this motion and I am glad to have another opportunity to debate this issue. However, it is not talk we need but action on the various recommendations to solve the problem of mortgage arrears. I do not hold the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, responsible for this matter. In fact, he is a brilliant performer and I am great fan of his. However, we are only as good as the...
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Government has been in control for two years and mortgage arrears have increased 50%. We brought forward the Family Home Bill in 2011 to put up tangible solutions to the problem yet at the time the Government claimed it was not necessary and was unconstitutional. It even claimed the code on mortgage arrears was working exceptionally well when the Central Bank’s own analysis of it...
- Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: A bit of colour too.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Cardiac Services (18 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for taking the time to come to the House to discuss this issue. Among the successes in the health service are the national cancer control programme and the new approach to cardiac care where outcomes are improving. The Minister is very familiar with the fact that the north-west region, north of the Dublin-Galway line and south of Mullingar, is not adequately catered...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Cardiac Services (18 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for his reply and for confirming that the group exists. Although I am sure that he intends to take heed of the advice of the clinicians involved, I caution him that heavy pressure will be brought to locate the cardiology laboratory in the northern end of the catchment at Letterkenny General Hospital. While I do not wish to disenfranchise the people of County Donegal,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I second the amendment by my colleague, Senator O’Brien. I agree wholeheartedly with Senator Norris. I have seen the reports as well. For far too long Parliament has been subservient to Government, and the people are subservient to all of us. It seems now that the Government is subservient to civil servants and that is fundamentally wrong. I would welcome if any information could...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: That is not going to cost anything. For many years, Ministers from all parties and none, have always said that we must be conscious of the markets, the European Central Bank, the systemic importance of the other. What about the systemic importance of the people? It is time for once that they came first. Today in the AV room there will be a presentation at lunch time by a group of people...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Will the Leader arrange for a statement to be made, perhaps by the Minister for Finance or whatever Minister is available in the near future, in regard to the "Prime Time" programme last night, particularly the fact that individual as opposed to institutional investors in tracker bonds have effectively been burned as a result of the liquidation of IBRC? The programme highlighted what appears...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: When a Minister, for whatever reason, is called away on important business in a European context or otherwise, which can of course happen, and a Minister of State is not available, we in the House are well used to having Ministers other than the line Ministers for particular debates. Despite the fodder crisis and, not least, the importance of the Animal Health and Welfare Bill itself, we are...