Results 12,161-12,180 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Care of the Elderly: Motion (9 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I move: That Seanad Éireann--- notes the HSE National Operational Plan 2013 which states that ‘based on population projections, there will be a significant national deficit of long stay beds by 2016 based on the HSE’s target of 4% of older persons in long stay care’; - notes the finding by the Centre for Ageing Research and Development in Ireland, CARDI, in its...
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister is responsible for providing these services to the Leader's region also, which as he knows has been discriminated against in the context of health services.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The fact Deputy Varadkar and some of his well heeled cousins in the gin and tonic belts of the nation do not feel there is a need for trains or public transportation for the people is not good enough. I am sure the electorate outside of Dublin will take note of this on 23 May.
- Seanad: Order of Business (3 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I second the amendment by our leader, Senator O'Brien. I ask for an urgent debate on the Government's approach to rural and regional Ireland. There is a front page headline indicating that the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, has decided he is disposed to closing rail lines throughout the country. There is no doubt my own Sligo to Dublin line, which a previous...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I am afraid it must be.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: That was the previous Government. We all know that. Who will the Senator nominate today?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: It will be included in the manifesto for the next election.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Similar to last week and yesterday, I propose an amendment to the Order of Business: "That in accordance with Standing Order 56, the Attorney General be invited to attend the Seanad today to discuss the taping of telephone conversations in Garda stations." The Attorney General should attend to give an account of the incredible affairs of recent weeks in order that this House can participate...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I look forward to being surprised. I assume that when she comes to the House we will get a detailed account.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: That is what is required and that is what the public are entitled to rather than this show. Can Senator Brennan confirm that she will come to the House?
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I very much welcome the fact that she will come in. We will get to vote on the amendment shortly. The White Paper on universal health care, which is three years in preparation, will be launched later and I would like the House to debate it because according to the king of announcements, the Minister for Health, we now have free GP care for under-sixes but that is not happening and there was...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Bring him in too.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: We cannot have the 2011 election again. How many times does the Government want to have that election? We lost 53 seats. Fine Gael and the Labour Party are in government now.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: We want to listen to the Attorney General, not the Senator. She is just spinning.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Bacik is the queen of restraint.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: When will the Attorney General come in?
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2014)
Marc MacSharry: I agree with Senator Conway that there should be an urgent debate with Ministers about the ambulance service. After watching the programme the other night and hearing from representatives of the ambulance organisation throughout the country, one wonders why the Taoiseach did not dispatch the Secretary General of the Department of Health to the head of that organisation, considering the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Marc MacSharry: The north west does not have full-time cardiology services.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Marc MacSharry: It is a fact, not a maybe.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2014)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.