Results 12,301-12,320 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We have time. It is 2.05 p.m. and the debate on this Bill will be guillotined at 3 p.m.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The facts are these. Has the Minister of State choices? Yes, he does. Can he take them? Yes, he can. I have even suggested how and where he can take them. His inability to get this over the line in terms of his internal discussions with Ministers is his business and his problem. Does this have to happen to raise €25 million? No, it does not. We can talk about the past. Yes,...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is perfectly credible for me to stand here, arguably with a more current mandate than the Minster of State's following the Seanad referendum, and hold the Government to account, recall what is in manifestos or in programmes for Government and query the good points being made, argued by the Taoiseach, Deputy Kenny, the Tánaiste, Deputy Gilmore, and the Minister, Deputy Reilly when they...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Government will do it anyway.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It depends on whom one speaks to.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister of State should not do it then.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: In its wisdom, it did not make me the Minister for Health and Children.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Now that the coalition negotiations are continuing, I want to say that we have not put forward amendments to the Bill because those we put forward in the Dáil were ruled out of order because they were a charge on the Exchequer. I do not wish to delay the House. We made the points on Second Stage about why we are opposing this Bill. We will oppose it section by section. We may have...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: One of the mistakes made was thankfully reversed and the thresholds were at €1,400 and €700. I quoted the "shame on you" declaration of the then Deputy Enda Kenny and the whine about the contribution made by the people who built the nation by the then Deputy James Reilly, as well as the rhetoric from the then Deputy Gilmore. They spoke about their difficulties at the time with...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: If the Minister of State wants to talk about election manifestos, I will get that other folder out.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Does the Minister of State remember the advertisement that his party was not going to allow cuts to child benefit, €1 euro on the bottle of wine and so on? It all happened anyway. Does he remember that?
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I am glad you have ruled on that, because I was referring to the recent budget submissions, in respect of the 3% tax that the Labour Party did not manage to get across the line in its negotiations with Fine Gael on the budget. Those people are better heeled. In my view, they were expecting an additional hit and could shoulder that burden, yet we chose to ignore it. I very much regret that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: He will be here to deal with legislation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to move an amendment to the Order of Business. I ask that either the Minister for Health or one of the troika of Ministers overseeing the Department, namely, Deputy Howlin, Deputy Noonan or the Taoiseach, would make himself available to the House today to discuss the spending overrun in the Department and the HSE service plan which was published a number of weeks ago. It appears that...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: On behalf of the Fianna Fáil group, I mark the occasion of the passing of Nelson Mandela, who was an example to all the world of what can be achieved by peaceful methods. His contribution to world affairs will live for millennia, and so it should. On the occasion of our recalling what was achieved by peaceful means in South Africa, it is worth noting today that the brother of the late...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It was and it was in the Sinn Féin one too.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: From what we have heard of the Labour Party one it showed Fine Gael did not get the provision over the line.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: In its wisdom, the Government did not make me the Minister for Finance.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) (No. 2) Bill: Second Stage (5 Dec 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We will.