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Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Acting Chairman. I welcome the Minister to the House. I will speak predominantly about beef. Nobody doubts the Minister's commitment to the job at hand and I am sure he is doing all he can. However, I wish to make a few suggestions about a number of things we should be doing. As the biggest surplus producer of beef in the EU we should be leading the way rather than following...

Seanad: Sustainable Agriculture and Dairy Price Outlook: Statements (10 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Offal is very significant. There are limited markets for offal. My business pre politics was exporting beef to 46 countries around the world through two BSE crises so I know a little about it but not as much as the Minister with the advice he is getting. I acknowledge that he is committed to the task at hand but I do not believe we are as focused or as successful as we could be. Instead...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: While I appreciate that, the Acting Chairman, of all people, will appreciate that this is a very important issue for people in the north west. I strongly advise her to give me a little latitude in this regard. The Minister's predecessor, now Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, gave a commitment on this matter to people in the north west, as did Deputies Tony...

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I hope people in Sligo will note the enthusiasm with which the Acting Chairman is interrupting me. She should allow some latitude, particularly as she is au faitwith the problem in accessing mammography services in the north west.

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Is it Government policy not to provide mammography services in the north west?

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Mr. Tony Canavan, chief operating officer of the west-north west hospitals group, allegedly told a group representing patients in Sligo yesterday-----

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: -----that mammography services would not recommence at Sligo Regional Hospital. Is it now Government policy to-----

Seanad: Adjournment Debate: Hospital Staff (9 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for Health for coming to the House. My motion is on the need for the Minister to outline what, if any, procedures are followed to prevent a consultant physician from practising unsupervised as a senior consultant in obstetrics or any other discipline when he or she has previously been at the centre of settled medical negligence allegations, albeit settled without...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Noel Dempsey brought in the provision.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: The Leader is not giving the facts. He is the one getting into politics.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: The Leader is misleading the House. He should not be telling lies.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: There is no point in his telling us lies.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: On a point of order, it might be of use to some of the newer Members of the House to observe that the great thing about democracy is that it allows us to take different views on different issues.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: The amendment must be pressed. While some Members might consider it acceptable to have the debate tomorrow, it is not acceptable to those of us on this side of the Chamber.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: For Senator Craughwell to say we are playing politics with this issue displays an extraordinary level of ignorance. Senator Mooney has been making contributions on social issues for almost 30 years in this House. I am here a mere 12 years. Colleagues may vote whichever way they like, but we are asking that the debate take place today.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: That will bring it back to the 2009 levels, when there were 60,000 homeless as opposed to the 90,000 now.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I move amendment No. 1: "That the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Kelly, come to the House today to outline for us the urgent measures that will be taken to address the housing crisis."

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Marc MacSharry: What I say is not in any way to gazump Senator Craughwell and his e-mail to us all following the shock and horror of events in recent days and the need to debate homelessness and take tangible action, but we must table an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister would come to the House today. The crisis is such that it demands immediacy rather than to be scheduled as a matter for...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)

Marc MacSharry: On Senator Pat O'Neill's point about the Garda Commissioner, while on a personal level I wish her well and hope she will do a good job, Senator Mark Daly was perfectly within his rights to make a legitimate point. It is a fact that the person in question was deputy commissioner when many of these issues came to light. That is worth noting and remembering.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I expressed hope, not confidence. Will the Leader arrange a debate on the contribution of the Governor of the Central Bank in recent days? I believe he is wrong and would like to see what science informs his push for 20% deposits. I worked in the building society sector more than 20 years ago, long before there was a boom, and the policy was to seek a 10% deposit. In fact, one could obtain...