Results 12,281-12,300 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, line 35, to delete "12 per cent" and substitute "10 per cent".
- Seanad: Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (12 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister to the House. We will not support the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013. While we fully support the concept of risk equalisation and community rating, these policies will not work if we continue to undermine health insurance at every step. The market is becoming more unbalanced, as we have seen, with approximately 280,000, arguably younger and healthier, people...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It has been suggested primary legislation is required to give effect to the necessary changes, but that is not the case, as officials confirmed to me this week. A statutory instrument is required and I hope the Committee on Procedure and Privileges, following its meeting, will impress on the Minister the need to introduce a statutory instrument as a matter of the utmost urgency. I reiterate...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I ask the Leader about an issue that has come up that warrants raising here on the Order of Business. As Members would be aware, the remuneration and expenses paid to Members of the Houses are now fully vouched, which, of course, we all welcome as a much more transparent system and one that was needed for a long time. There is, however, a situation that remains with regard to the...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I promise I will not speak again, but just to conclude, the Minister of State did have options.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I am entitled to speak.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: No, but I will, because I have had enough of it today, to tell the truth. The reality is that there are options. There were choices and the Minister of State has chosen not to take them. It is as simple as that. While the Minister of State might personally-----
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: -----not wish to embrace this particular issue, of all the people in the room at the moment he is the only one with a chance to do it because he is above the Whip. He is a Minister and he can sit down with his ministerial colleagues and say there are other ways. If he fails in doing that in consultation with the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, and the Minister for Public Expenditure...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: That is the wrong thing to do.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The two parties were united on fleecing the elderly.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: What about children’s allowance?
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I said that I would not speak until the end of the debate and I will not speak again after this contribution but the Minister of State has provoked me.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister of State made reference to manifestos of the past. Manifestos were put forward. The Fianna Fáil one was rejected and Fianna Fáil lost 53 seats and whatever number of Senators-----
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Government parties' collective manifesto was accepted.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is as if the Government parties got the Fianna Fáil manifesto, which it did not want and which was rejected by the people, and decided to follow that one instead of their own one. The Government of today has options and choices. It is senior hurling now. The Minister of State cannot come in here and say that none of us embraced this. The Minister of State is in the position to do...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: No, I am not in favour of that. I do not consider a person in receipt of an income of €500 a week a wealthy elderly person. I do not consider a couple in their 70s or 80s who have incomes of €900 a week to be a wealthy elderly couple. Senator Cullinane referred to this matter. The Minister of State accused me of doing a U-turn and adopting a position when it suited me but...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: -----and about our economic sovereignty and we will have a state of the union address by the Taoiseach on this next Sunday when he will tell us how great it is to have our economic sovereignty back. I am drifting a little bit here.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Following Klaus Regling's comments in recent days, if there is going to be no retroactive deal on banking for Ireland, the Minister of State might ask the Taoiseach does that mean that, for having saved the euro effectively, the Irish people are faced with a situation where the Government has given up the ghost in terms of trying and get a better deal on it?
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I know it is.