Results 1,781-1,800 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: If the Minister of State wants to talk about election manifestos, I will get that other folder out.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Does the Minister of State remember the advertisement that his party was not going to allow cuts to child benefit, €1 euro on the bottle of wine and so on? It all happened anyway. Does he remember that?
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I am glad you have ruled on that, because I was referring to the recent budget submissions, in respect of the 3% tax that the Labour Party did not manage to get across the line in its negotiations with Fine Gael on the budget. Those people are better heeled. In my view, they were expecting an additional hit and could shoulder that burden, yet we chose to ignore it. I very much regret that...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It depends on whom one speaks to.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister of State should not do it then.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: In its wisdom, it did not make me the Minister for Health and Children.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Government will do it anyway.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I said that I would not speak until the end of the debate and I will not speak again after this contribution but the Minister of State has provoked me.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister of State made reference to manifestos of the past. Manifestos were put forward. The Fianna Fáil one was rejected and Fianna Fáil lost 53 seats and whatever number of Senators-----
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Government parties' collective manifesto was accepted.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is as if the Government parties got the Fianna Fáil manifesto, which it did not want and which was rejected by the people, and decided to follow that one instead of their own one. The Government of today has options and choices. It is senior hurling now. The Minister of State cannot come in here and say that none of us embraced this. The Minister of State is in the position to do...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: No, I am not in favour of that. I do not consider a person in receipt of an income of €500 a week a wealthy elderly person. I do not consider a couple in their 70s or 80s who have incomes of €900 a week to be a wealthy elderly couple. Senator Cullinane referred to this matter. The Minister of State accused me of doing a U-turn and adopting a position when it suited me but...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: -----and about our economic sovereignty and we will have a state of the union address by the Taoiseach on this next Sunday when he will tell us how great it is to have our economic sovereignty back. I am drifting a little bit here.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Following Klaus Regling's comments in recent days, if there is going to be no retroactive deal on banking for Ireland, the Minister of State might ask the Taoiseach does that mean that, for having saved the euro effectively, the Irish people are faced with a situation where the Government has given up the ghost in terms of trying and get a better deal on it?
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I know it is.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We have time. It is 2.05 p.m. and the debate on this Bill will be guillotined at 3 p.m.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The facts are these. Has the Minister of State choices? Yes, he does. Can he take them? Yes, he can. I have even suggested how and where he can take them. His inability to get this over the line in terms of his internal discussions with Ministers is his business and his problem. Does this have to happen to raise €25 million? No, it does not. We can talk about the past. Yes,...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is perfectly credible for me to stand here, arguably with a more current mandate than the Minster of State's following the Seanad referendum, and hold the Government to account, recall what is in manifestos or in programmes for Government and query the good points being made, argued by the Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny, the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, and the Minister, Deputy Reilly when they...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I promise I will not speak again, but just to conclude, the Minister of State did have options.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I am entitled to speak.