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- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader should get real. He is playing senior hurling now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: With respect, will the Leader undertake to request a response?
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: School Transport Provision (14 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Ciarán Cannon, for coming to the Chamber to deal with this matter. Ardvarney national school in north Leitrim has 41 pupils, 28 of whom avail of school transport. Of these 28, 14 are deemed by the Department of Education and Skills and Bus Éireann to be eligible for free school transport, with the remainder availing of the concessionary...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: School Transport Provision (14 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State for his response, but it is entirely unsatisfactory. It is an abdication of responsibility to claim this is a matter for Bus Éireann. The fact is that the spirit of the legislation and the Department's own criteria are not being followed in this case. Going around the country engaging in a literal interpretation of every rule will mean rural communities...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: This is the Seanad.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I second the amendment proposing that the Minister come to the House to debate aspects of the hospital groupings as a transition to independent hospital trusts. It is what it does not contain and certainly, I congratulate the Leader and his colleagues. The south east definitely won its political argument, not least for maintenance but to be enhanced to being a university hospital. In that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: How dare he? Another amendment to the Order of Business will be proposed tomorrow until this debate takes place and until Members receive a level of commitment that the people of the north west of Ireland are truly equal to the rest, rather than George Orwell's definition in which some people are more equal than others.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I regret, as my colleague, Senator Thomas Byrne, mentioned yesterday, the fact that we have a light work programme in the House this week. Today we have the Order of Business followed by an address, albeit a very important one to which we are all looking forward, by Mr. Jim Higgins, MEP. As Senator David Norris rightly pointed out yesterday, the Order Paper was never so full of legislation...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I second Senator Darragh O'Brien's amendment calling for the Minister for Justice and Equality to attend the House, given the pantomime of recent days since last week's "Prime Time" programme when the Minister regrettably used information that ordinarily should not have been brought into the public domain and does not form part of the normal day-to-day work of a Minister. This is not to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Of all the matters that I expected to be heckled on, I did not believe this would be one of them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I felt that the silence we were hearing from the Minister and most of his Cabinet colleagues on the issue would be continued in this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister needs to discuss this issue in the House because people are entitled to know why such information is being passed around by the Garda, regardless of whether it was a throw-away remark during a briefing. I am concerned about it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It has echoes of a police state. In the same diary, which the Leader of the Opposition solicited under the Freedom of Information Act, I noticed a meeting with the director of intelligence. One wonders who this individual is and whether it is he or she who shares information-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: -----on Deputies and others who might be of political interest to the Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Perhaps he is just looking for easy copy for his books. At my third attempt to pass a Private Member's Bill, I hope that the Government will be in a position to support the Criminal Justice (Unlicensed Money-Lending) Bill. Notwithstanding our need to question the Minister on other issues, I hope he will take the Bill.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Idi Amin.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We would have to see the files.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Why was he speaking to the director of intelligence?
- Seanad: Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: One wonders about the timeframe as there is the potential for the 180 days to be on the never-never. If we consider the 420 modules and the drugs to be considered in the fullness of time, we will begin with the 20 most used, taking a cumulative six months to assess whether a drug will be on the list. There is no doubt it is in the interest of Pfizer, Abbott and others to object to it and it...