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- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It was Senator Terry Leyden's Bill.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: As Members will know, the HSE's service plan is supposed to be announced today and I wonder what is in store for us. Let us recall the €119 million overrun last September. What is it now? What about the proposed cut of €666 million? What about the notional achievement of €113 million in cuts to medical cards? In parallel, there are 29 CEOs in hospitals throughout the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Mr. Curran rightly pointed out to the nation that the medical card review was a waste of resources, money and time.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Is it not possible to log the fact that somebody suffers from multiple sclerosis-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: -----and that his or her situation will not change. I ask the Cathaoirleach to indulge me, please.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: This is far too blunt an instrument. There is not a member in this or the other House who has not had personal experience of a lower profile case that is equally needy.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Yes. I move an amendment that the Minister come to the House today. I do not care how busy he is with the media launch for the service plan for the HSE. We must have progress in this area where people's human needs are taken into account rather than this blunt instrument to save money.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Following on from the points I made yesterday, I must mention that the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister for Health have apologised to Marie Fleming and her family for the lack of respect and dignity shown in reviewing her medical card eligibility, but the question that must be asked is who is going to apologise to the countless people in all of our constituencies whose cases are...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I was never in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Nobody made me Minister.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Perhaps the Taoiseach would consider making Senator Burke Minister, as he has a better command of the figures.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (27 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I have known Bernard McGlinchey all of my life and since I was born. Today it is my greatest political privilege, since my election in 2002, to pay tribute to him. To me and many people in the north west, particularly in Donegal, he was a giant of political life. As I have said, I have known him since I was born. He used to kid me many years ago by saying "I changed your nappy." With...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We will oppose the Order of Business. As my colleague Deputy Thomas Byrne mentioned the other day, it is not in keeping with the programme for Government to have Committee Stage of this most important Bill two days after Second Stage. Fundamental changes and reform to pension law are proposed as part of the Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill. In the referendum the people voted to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Nov 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Will the Leader raise with the Minister for Health a case which concluded in the courts today of a deceased woman, Dhara Kivlehan, from north Leitrim? The HSE consistently refused to hold an inquest into the death of that woman. Her husband, Michael, his parents and his son have been denied the right to an inquest. People may be aware that this case was a very similar to that of Savita...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Now that it is not, I echo the call of Mr. Kivlehan today. Surely that deceased woman, who did not have the benefit of the high profile case we had for Savita Halappanavar, is entitled to an inquest. I ask Senator Cummins to use the good offices of the Leader of Seanad Éireann to impress upon the Minister the need to have that inquest carried out in memory of this woman. Finally, I ask...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Frankly, this is an issue that is of huge importance for the small farmers in the north west, who remain the engine room in terms of the production of weanlings, which is such a huge part of the beef export market.