Results 9,241-9,260 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I must not have been listening attentively. I apologise. Is it within the €750 million?
- Seanad: Pre-Budget Outlook: Statements (30 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: It will be €450 million of new measures. Now we know that there will be €300 million off the top of the €1.2 billion or €1.5 billion under the Lansdowne Road agreement. It is good to have that clarification. Will the additional spending commitments required take account of demographic pressures on health, education and welfare and the scope for expenditure to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the publication of the figure of €27 billion over the next number of years and eagerly await all the pre-election promises. One hopes that the litany of broken promises does not follow if the Government is returned to power. One of the details that has emerged is that there will be approximately €18 million for the refurbishment of Garda stations. It has not been...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: He is on the pitch. He needs to perform. He should not be threatening staff that they will be fired. Then again, this is what the Taoiseach has done with regard to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I ask that the Minister be brought to the House today. That is an amendment to the Order of Business. The Minister should address his failure to acknowledge his position as the person in command of the health service. I would like him to outline for us what will be done to mitigate the disaster which has seen record numbers on waiting lists and trolleys in recent months.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I reserve my right to raise it on another day.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Beef Data Programme (23 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thank you, a Chathaoirligh, for accepting the matter. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Simon Harris. My matter relates specifically to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and while I accept it is not within the Minister of State's area of responsibility, I appreciate him coming to give a response. The matter relates to the beef genomics scheme on which I have consulted...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Beef Data Programme (23 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Sadly, however, I disagree with most of what has been given to him to provide in his reply. I would like to bring some of the people from the Irish Cattle Breeding Federation, ICBF, to a few marts, and perhaps Senator Comiskey could come along with us, because what was said is not what is being borne out on the ground. The other thing that...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Thank you Chairman and welcome Mr. Chopra. Thank you for taking the time. What were the most contentious issues that emerged during the discussions with the troika and the Irish Government and the Irish side in the formulation of the bailout programme?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: What was the issue around the promissory notes?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: In the operation of the troika, did you feel that the IMF were an equal player or did you feel that the ECB or the Irish Government or others were proportionately stronger in promoting their point of view?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: You rightly pointed out the extensive experience and that this was not new territory to the IMF. The ECB in particular would not have had the lifetime experience and expertise in circumstances of crises such as these. Bearing in mind that, by your own admission, you feel that you steered things in the right direction but didn’t win every battle, what alternatives should have been...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: You were wholesome in your praise for all of the people that you worked with through the programme, elected people, people on the technical side, officials and so on. Obviously the fallout from this has seen a contribution from the Irish people that is second to none and indeed without any civil unrest that I’m sure your own organisation would be very familiar with. Would you say...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Just a couple of quick points just specifically on the burden-sharing. We had Kevin Cardiff who was here with us and in his opening statement he said about these issues and I quote: There had even been early indications of a positive hearing from US Treasury Secretary Geithner. We heard back, however, via the IMF team in Dublin, that instead of a positive response, there had been a strong...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: You mentioned earlier, while you were in a position to recall certain meetings and confirm they took place, and even the content of some meetings, you couldn't go into the specific deliberations, and we fully understand that. Was there ever discussions, to your knowledge, at the G10 ... sorry, at the G20 in 2010 conference in South Korea about Ireland entering a programme?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Would you have any comment on the ECB's refusal to co-operate with this committee?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Did it surprise you?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And the rules, of course, of the IMF, didn't prohibit you in your private capacity from coming in. We're all very grateful for that. Did you find it unusual that, given the same rules apply to the ECB, that Jean-Claude Trichet didn't take a similar opportunity to attend and-----
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (10 Sep 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And we're very grateful for it indeed. Thank you, we'll move on from that. Can you ... you mentioned earlier that, that a programme was under way, almost, before the formal IMF programme, troika programme was entered into. Are you satisfied that the programme, designed I suppose under the stewardship of the late Brian Lenihan and the previous Government, and continued to a great extent by...