Results 1,761-1,780 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: If we do not get adequate funding, this will put in jeopardy our beef export business into the future. Very finally-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: -----I second the amendment proposed by our leader, Senator Darragh O'Brien.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: With respect, Savita Halappanavar did not need too many Adjournments.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We will all debate it together.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Indeed I will.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and thank her for making herself available again. I commend the Labour Party group for bringing forward this motion, which we will not be opposing. I am glad to have the opportunity to highlight some issues in this area about which we have concerns. Of all the jobs of the Ministers of State, I would hate to have the Minister's job. There is no...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the fact that tax returns are ahead of target, as mentioned in recent days. We all celebrate these facts. Similarly, it is important that Forbes magazine has named Ireland is a great place in which to do business. I spoke earlier this week about the issue of co-funding, which is of critical importance to the north west. The rumours in this regard intensified after the Minister...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Can the Leader second it?
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, and thank him for coming to the House. I meant no disrespect to him but I missed part of his address as I got my times mixed up. Nonetheless, I am confident I know what was in his address.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Needless to say, we will vehemently oppose this Bill on the basis that we should always be able to extend ourselves for the relative security and protection of the vulnerable and the elderly. While I know the Minister of State was a very welcome and excellent colleague in this House at the time, it is impossible to consider this legislation without assessing the response of the Minister,...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It was and it was in the Sinn Féin one too.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: From what we have heard of the Labour Party one it showed Fine Gael did not get the provision over the line.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: In its wisdom, the Government did not make me the Minister for Finance.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We will.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: On behalf of the Fianna Fáil group, I mark the occasion of the passing of Nelson Mandela, who was an example to all the world of what can be achieved by peaceful methods. His contribution to world affairs will live for millennia, and so it should. On the occasion of our recalling what was achieved by peaceful means in South Africa, it is worth noting today that the brother of the late...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to move an amendment to the Order of Business. I ask that either the Minister for Health or one of the troika of Ministers overseeing the Department, namely, Deputy Howlin, Deputy Noonan or the Taoiseach, would make himself available to the House today to discuss the spending overrun in the Department and the HSE service plan which was published a number of weeks ago. It appears that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: He will be here to deal with legislation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Now that the coalition negotiations are continuing, I want to say that we have not put forward amendments to the Bill because those we put forward in the Dáil were ruled out of order because they were a charge on the Exchequer. I do not wish to delay the House. We made the points on Second Stage about why we are opposing this Bill. We will oppose it section by section. We may have...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: One of the mistakes made was thankfully reversed and the thresholds were at €1,400 and €700. I quoted the "shame on you" declaration of the then Deputy Enda Kenny and the whine about the contribution made by the people who built the nation by the then Deputy James Reilly, as well as the rhetoric from the then Deputy Gilmore. They spoke about their difficulties at the time with...