Results 11,581-11,600 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is not the case in Leitrim, Sligo, west Cavan and Donegal. That might be the case in Waterford and some such places where the senior figures of Fine Gael and the Labour Party hail from. That is not the situation in constituencies like Senator Mooney's and mine.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader has distorted the facts.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Some €700 million has been wasted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Not particularly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Over the past few days, documents have been released to Fianna Fáil under the Freedom of Information Act. Unlike the usual Government spin, laundered through public relations agencies and PR consultants, these documents make for very interesting and stark reading for the public. The documents include a letter from the Secretary General of the Tánaiste's Department to the Secretary...
- Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Much has already been said. Senator Diarmuid Wilson has captured what most of us feel and think. I first got to know John Carty outside politics, when neither of us was a councillor, Senator or anything else. I was involved in the beef export business and most of the product we exported came from a plant in Baltinglass, County Wicklow. Once or twice a year, John and Paddy O’Hara...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome Professor Kane and thank him for making the journey here to help us out. In a paper he wrote in 2006, entitled Inadequacy of Nation-Based and VaR-Based Safety Nets in the European Union, he outlined the European Union's financial safety net and stated, "If confronted with one or more large-bank insolvencies, nationalistic pressures on home and host regulators are bound to aggravate...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I appreciate the professor's limited knowledge of the domestic situation here. Considering the nature of the EMU, and his research writings in 2006 which were specific to the preparedness, readiness or lack of it for a banking crisis, for a small open economy like Ireland, was it possible to prevent or adequately navigate the crisis once it hit in 2008, considering what the professor wrote...
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Was that because of Ireland's small size?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Was it because Ireland is less than 1% of the eurozone?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is interesting. In terms of the regulatory situation throughout the world, I shall give a bit of background on the Irish system. Post-2003, we had a regulator and a Central Bank that were separate but connected. Is such a model flawed? Are central banks and regulators best placed to work together on the same mission with shared information?
- Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (28 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: I think I know the professor's answer to my next query but I shall ask it in any event. In terms of international co-operation on banking regulation, and the professor talked about established norms, does it remain completely unfit for purpose?
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: And MacSharry.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: Is that a fact? There are so many Government Members in the Dáil they are falling all over each other. Fianna Fáil only has 18 Deputies.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: This is the forum-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----in which it should be discussed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: On a point of order-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----it is only fair that the Leader should acknowledge that we have passed motions to show-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: -----that Senators on this side are committed, in the first instance, to the business of this House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)
Marc MacSharry: That is how they will be involved. As the Leader well knows, the only exception is the banking inquiry.