Results 12,601-12,620 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: He is acting like a clown. When somebody looks like a clown, talks like a clown -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: ----- performs like a clown and insists on turning Government into a circus ring -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is a bit rich that the man who now leads the party, looking back at the manifestos of 2002 and 2007 -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: He nominated you as a Senator and when you are here as long as me, you will not make sense of the fact that Fine Gael demanded----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: ----in 2002 and 2007 and that is what drove this economy into the ground and the Government of that day.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I am not quite finished. It is important -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I think it is important to state that, out of respect for this House, you are a close confidante of the Taoiseach that he would acknowledge the contribution that you made during your time here, and that of the Leader, or else, frankly, ye should bloody well resign because he is undermining the contribution you and the Leader have made over the years. How dare he clown around Europe accepting...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister should do it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Accountability.
- Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for coming to the House, as he always does. I have no difficulty in supporting the legislation. We look forward to further improvements to finally weed out the use of tobacco, the effects of which have probably touched everybody's family at some stage. My mother and three of her younger brothers all died before their time as a direct result of smoking and lung cancer....
- Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco)(Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (29 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We have to take a rest now and again.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I suppose it takes the pressure off the Minister, Deputy James Reilly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is in the public interest.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I support Senator Hayden's comments on the issue of the Irish Bankers Federation announcement earlier that there has been a 14% increase in property transactions. I share her concerns that this should be interpreted as a boost to the property market. Those who are sufficiently well heeled are making cash purchases and hoovering up property. With the exception of the Dublin area, people can...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Unlicensed Money-Lending) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is with great regret that, yet again, Private Members' Bill No. 3 for me, is going down the tubes. Of all the Bills I initiated, this is the one where there was the least excuse not to accept it. I thank all Members for their commendations. As a former Ceann Comhairle in the other House who was a member of the Labour Party famously said when he was retiring some years ago, I wanted to...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Unlicensed Money-Lending) Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 May 2013)
Marc MacSharry: -----into one specific offence. The victims of such offences were told today by the Minister that what they need to do is set up a group such as the one in Sligo, Communities Against Illegal Lending of Money, and that is the way to deal with the issue. The group specifically said that its three-pronged approach of educating and creating alternatives have been working but what is not working...