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Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: We need to put it back to the end of the year. That is what the budgets are saying.

Seanad: Mental Health Services Provision: Motion (19 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I move: That Seanad Éireann – notes:- that the mental health policy, A Vision for Change, published in 2006 was a landmark policy in advocating both for closure of the old psychiatric hospitals and continued building up of community-based services as well as cultural change in the form of human rights-based and recovery-orientated services; - that A Vision for Change was also...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: it should not be a whitewash that has already been prescribed by a Minister in denial.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I second Senator Mooney's amendment. I support Senator Hayden's call for a debate on the issue of mortgage arrears. Repossessions are being ramped up. It is six years since the issue was first raised in the House and, as predicted, we are approaching a serious juncture where families are losing their homes. I have acted as an intermediary on behalf of people who are having difficulty with...

Seanad: Health Identifiers Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: We support this Bill. As I noted on Second Stage, there are some variables to consider with regard to cost and technology required to back this up. Is what we have sufficient and how much will it cost to run this process? Will the appropriate resources be available? There must be a cross-departmental approach to these issues, taking in social welfare, health and justice, as data...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Following what Senator Bacik said regarding the so-called bugging scandal, I am none the wiser after the various statements in the last couple of days. I still have concerns. Were these people bugged or not? According to the spokesman, Mr. Kieran FitzGerald, last night, the chances of these anomalies being benign were remote to zero. That clearly indicates there is an issue. There is...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I am sure Senator Coghlan will regale us with his wisdom in due course.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: There are questions to be answered. To correct something that was said yesterday, Senator Jim D'Arcy must have misunderstood me when he implied that I was trying to implicate the Garda in some way - far from it. I am sure the Garda had nothing to do with it and I wish to have the Garda completely vindicated in this regard. However, clearly there is something here and we must find out about...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: The Senator should speak for himself.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: It looks dodgy to us.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Senator D'Arcy should be saying that to the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, not to me.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Not as long as the other Members.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Is that not what I said?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I join with others in raising the question of what have been referred to as anomalies at the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission. Although I do not agree with him on most issues, I support the call made by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, on his way into the Cabinet meeting this morning for the commission to clarify what it means by...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Senator Bacik was an Independent back then.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I second Senator Darragh O'Brien's proposed amendment to the Order of Business with regard to flooding. I agree with Senator Gilroy about the tragedies we have seen throughout Cork and Limerick, with businesses and people put out of their homes. This is replicated nationwide. As I said a couple of weeks ago regarding the other storm, we must not lose sight of the fact that there are cases...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Not for Leitrim.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2014)

Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2014)

Marc MacSharry: We will not oppose the Order of Business. I thank the Leader for his words and pay tribute to our colleague. We have all heard the sad news this morning of the passing of our colleague, the former Senator John Carty, who was a former member of the other House as well. On behalf of the Fianna Fáil group and all of us in the House we offer our sympathy to Kathleen, his wife, and all his...

Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Marc MacSharry: I commend Senator Katherine Zappone for tabling this Private Members’ motion and Members for their views on the issue of Seanad reform. The reason there are not many Fianna Fáil Members present in the House today is they are attending the funeral of a close and young family member of a party colleague. I am sure Members opposite will understand this. Fianna Fáil supports...