Results 4,101-4,120 of 5,294 for speaker:Michael McCarthy
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Like Senator Twomey, it gave me no pleasure to walk past the picket by the CPSU this morning. However, I did so in the belief that we were coming into this House to debate the issue. I hope we will have a good, healthy debate this evening, exchange views with those on the other side of the House and then vote on the legislation. That is why we are here. I refer to the CPSU and the...
- Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2009: Second Stage. (26 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I welcome the Minister of State. People throughout the country are sitting around kitchen tables discussing the downturn in our economic fortunes. Many of them have lost their jobs and those of them who were not unlucky enough to lose their jobs are earning much less. They are still paying the same bills, struggling to pay mortgages, send children to school and trying to make ends meet....
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: The Minister has replied several times.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: The Minister of State should have gone to west Cork.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: He has cousins in west Cork.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I support Senator Hanafin's call for the restoration of the social partnership process, an issue I also raised yesterday. Social partnership has served us well in the past, in particular in the 1980s when we had massive economic difficulties, worsened by unemployment and mass emigration. I support the call for the restoration of the social partnership process, not least to bring everybody...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: That is outrageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: On a point of order, will the Leader clarify who got the trade union sub?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: It was flushed down the toilet by the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I hope he does stay with us or we will be ruined.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: We have debated this Bill at length, for approximately 12 to 14 hours, and everything that could possibly be said about these amendments has been said so I will not add to my comments on them. The points have been well made on all sides of the House, not least on the Government side where there is a filibuster. I intend, however, to reintroduce some of these amendments on Report Stage.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: I want to raise two issues. The first is the publication today of the pensions levy legislation, also known as the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill. I appeal to the Leader to call on the Minister for Finance, Deputy Lenihan, to ensure fairness and balance his policy in terms of getting the public finances back under control. The most basic route he could follow is...
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: In light of the manner in which they have operated, the banks have literally brought the economy and the country to their knees. Is the Leader of the opinion that it is fair that the former chief executive of the Financial Regulator should have obtained the severance package with which he was provided when he left his position? It is clear that questions remain to be asked about the way...
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (resumed) (11 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: There were two Government Deputies in west Cork.
- Seanad: Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008: Committee Stage (resumed) (11 Feb 2009)
Michael McCarthy: Hear, hear.