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- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: We want to listen to the Attorney General, not the Senator. She is just spinning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Bacik is the queen of restraint.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: When will the Attorney General come in?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: It will be included in the manifesto for the next election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: That was the previous Government. We all know that. Who will the Senator nominate today?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I am afraid it must be.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I second the amendment by our leader, Senator O'Brien. I ask for an urgent debate on the Government's approach to rural and regional Ireland. There is a front page headline indicating that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, has decided he is disposed to closing rail lines throughout the country. There is no doubt my own Sligo to Dublin line, which a previous...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister is responsible for providing these services to the Leader's region also, which as he knows has been discriminated against in the context of health services.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The fact Deputy Varadkar and some of his well heeled cousins in the gin and tonic belts of the nation do not feel there is a need for trains or public transportation for the people is not good enough. I am sure the electorate outside of Dublin will take note of this on 23 May.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I move: That Seanad Éireann--- notes the HSE National Operational Plan 2013 which states that ‘based on population projections, there will be a significant national deficit of long stay beds by 2016 based on the HSE’s target of 4% of older persons in long stay care’; - notes the finding by the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland, CARDI, in its...
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator is listening, fair play to him.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I will proceed. I am sure we are all aware of Health's Ageing Crisis: Time For Action, A Future Strategy for Ireland's Long-Term Residential Care Sector, prepared by BDO, which predicts that we will have a deficit of approximately 8,000 beds by 2021. It will probably be half of that by 2016 and we took 700 out this year. This is the HSE's position. The Centre for Ageing Research and...
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator was not listening.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator was not listening.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I am disappointed that more speakers from all sides did not participate in the debate. I am not here for commendation from anyone. In fact, I hate it. However, I thank Senators. I have a couple of points of rebuttal. Senator Burke said we are putting in €23 million, but that is being specifically taken out of the fair deal scheme. That leads to 700 fewer beds. The Minister of...
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Labour Party manifesto of 2011. It was a good proposal which the party did not manage to push over the line in the programme for Government with Fine Gael.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Those are some general points. Senator Burke said he commended me on raising the matter and keeping the debate going. I am sick of keeping the debate going. Let us keep it on the agenda. The Minister of State said the elderly formed a neglected part of her portfolio.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Her entire Department is neglected. She said there was too great a focus on mental health.
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Her entire Department is neglected in terms of underfunding and the lip service it is paid. While there are similarities between the motion and the Fine Gael amendment, there is no question of us not calling a vote. To fail to call a vote would be to suggest there was no problem. There is a very serious problem. While we can choose at a point in time to take refuge in the circumstantial...
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: If we are waiting for these organisations, the Minister of State says: "Let us not have a forum because Governments must make policy."