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- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I will speak and I will be heard. That man over there can call me a gombeen man all he wants, but I am speaking on behalf of these people. If he wants to call us gombeen people, he can, but we will have our say.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I will not debase a serious issue in this House by name calling.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I have four minutes, a Leas-Chathaoirleach-----
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: -----and I will take them.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Do not be unduly critical of those trying to speak because you happen to be from the same party. The Cathaoirleach would not be so critical.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Excuse me. If the Senator wanted to participate, she should have come in.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: It is as simple as this. I will start with a few points. First, to the people in the Opposition - get over it. The last election took place, Fianna Fáil lost 53 seats and they deserved to lose them. The Minister of State is in government now. Act accordingly, take the decisions and take your bloody medicine when you make a mistake. Let me be the first to say Fianna Fáil lost...
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: In the report, Shari McDaid from Mental Health Reform noted that the HSE National Service Plan 2014 indicates that certain initiatives and places will not be put in place until the back end of the year so savings can be made. As Ms McDaid rightly said, mental health does not operate according to time delays. It is a real-time scenario and people need services. The Minister of State has...
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I am not finished.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I will finish.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I will finish.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Let me say to Senator Kelly, if this motion is about nothing, then that is because of the failure of the political administration and their choice to do nothing about it.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: It is their choice to do nothing. That man from Wexford can call me a gombeen all he wants. I take pleasure in defending-----
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: A Chathaoirleach, it is unfortunate you are not capable of looking after this debate in an appropriate fashion, given the way you talked over me and other colleagues. I expect more from a parliamentary colleague.
- Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Under no circumstances. You did not even give me the protection of the Chair when I was being abused from the other side. As a party colleague, you were wrong.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Maternity Services (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Following the Minister's statement in the Dáil yesterday and the real concerns of the people of the north west, I have some specific questions to which I would like specific answers. What the Minister said yesterday led me to tabling today's motion, which asks him to confirm or deny the existence of a preliminary report on maternity services in the HSE west and north-west hospital...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Maternity Services (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I do not need to temper it. I am taking advantage of what is called parliamentary privilege to tell the truth. I am not abusing privilege, but I am using it to say that the Minister lied to the people of Sligo, the Taoiseach lied to the people of Sligo, and the Tánaiste lied to the people of Sligo and the people of Roscommon. I have an issue with the commitment given by the Minister...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Maternity Services (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: -----because I must put on the record the fact that the Minister told lies in that respect.
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Maternity Services (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: As a result, we have grave concerns about the Minister's commitment yesterday. He did not issue denials that a preliminary report exists. He did not deny that the preliminary report's recommendations sought to shut down three of five services in the north west of the country. As a result, we need to see terms of reference. This group with a virtual office on Trinity Street needs to make...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Maternity Services (19 Feb 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I do not want him to sit here. I want him to answer the question.