Results 11,961-11,980 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Public Health (Standardised Packaging of Tobacco) Bill 2014: Committee and Remaining Stages (24 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I move amendment No. 7: In page 8, line 18, to delete “law.” and substitute the following:“law;(d) the text ‘National Smokers Quitline 1800 201 203 - www.quit.ie’.”.I do not wish to delay the House and the Minister knows our motivation on this. The amendment seeks to include the quit-line details. The experience of this in Australia is that the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I request that the Leader arrange a debate with the Minister for Health on the ongoing maternity services issue. I first raised this issue in February when I exposed the report. The CEO of the west north-west hospitals group has announced today that the hospital group intends to abandon that report into maternity services and the reference will be subsumed into the national process. As...
- Seanad: Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Fund Bill 2014: First Stage (18 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I move: That leave be granted to introduced a Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby a levy shall be fixed on all alcoholic beverages sold from, but not intended for consumption on licenced premises, such levy shall be paid into a fund, to be known as the “Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Levy Fund” the monies from which shall be directed towards the support of...
- Seanad: Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Fund Bill 2014: First Stage (18 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Next Tuesday, 24 June 2014.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: They are not here to defend themselves.
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Can I propose that No. 14, which seeks leave to introduce the Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Fund Bill 2014, be taken before No. 1? We all welcome the U-turn that the Government has made in terms of the discretion on medical cards. The Minister referred to unintended consequences. Having listened to one lady on the radio today, I find that expression disturbing. Were they the...
- Seanad: Report of the Committee of Selection: Motion (12 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Except a banking inquiry.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: -----and in private media briefings outside the House.
- Seanad: Order Of Business (12 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I wholeheartedly agree with the points made by Senator Ó Clochartaigh. Having brought forward the maternity report in the first instance and having been accused of all sorts of things to do with its publication, I am very pleased by the fact that it has been discredited. We have uncovered the conflict of interest involving individuals in the Health Service Executive who are feathering...
- Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, after line 36, to insert the following: “6.(1) A person shall not sell or hire or offer for sale or hire, or permit to be sold or hired or offered for sale or hire, a sunbed to a person unless—(a) they have assessed the person’s skin type in accordance with the Fitzpatrick skin photo type classification system, or (b) the person has...
- Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I am disappointed that the Minister cannot accept these amendments. While we will support this Bill, we will also press the amendments. I agree that in his capacity as a doctor, the Minister should not prescribe how people act - what they can or cannot do. All he can do is advise them. However, he is in this Chamber in his capacity as a Government Minister who is responsible for...
- Seanad: Public Health (Sunbeds) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following:“5. (1) The owner, manager or employee of a sunbed business shall not sell the use of a sunbed on a sunbed premises to a person unless—(a) the owner, manager or employee has assessed the person’s skin type in accordance with the Fitzpatrick skin photo type classification system, or (b) the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Taoiseach comes to the House this morning to explain his extraordinary claims in the Dáil yesterday that he intends to delay the banking inquiry until such time as the Government parties have a majority on it. It seems alarming that the Taoiseach has chosen to tamper with the democratic process in such a way. The Curtin inquiry,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister of Health come to the House today to provide a briefing on the medical card fiasco. We have heard a great deal of positive commentary on this issue in recent weeks. The Taoiseach has assured us it will be dealt with, and there have been indications of a postponing or ending of the reviews of discretionary cards. We have had...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: On a point of order, it was the Leader who chose to raise this matter on the floor of the House. As a Member of the House and as a citizen of Ireland, I am entitled to some level of protection from the Chair. The Leader stated that it has come to his attention that I have a conflict of interest. As a result of his choosing to share that information in the House and in front of the media, I...
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I remind the Cathaoirleach-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: No.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The procedure which took place yesterday when I accused a member of the HSE of spending the public's money, was that I was lifted by the Chair for saying something about someone outside the House in a way which could have made that individual identifiable. Here we have the Leader of the Seanad impugning my character-----