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Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I ask that the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, come to the House to outline his plans regarding an intended cut in child benefit.

Seanad: Domestic Violence: Motion (8 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I thank the Labour Members for tabling this motion, which we support. That is not to rain entirely on the amendment, but we feel it more appropriate on this occasion to support the motion rather than the amendment. I believe that Sinn Féin could usefully do the same in this instance. When we were on the other side of the House it used to...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: The Leader should be appointed Minister for Health. His delivery is much clearer than the incumbent.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I support the amendment put forward by our leader. It is yet another instance of the haphazard, headless-chicken, sleepwalking approach of the Minister for Health when we see the fears that have been expressed by many of us in the House many times. There are 105,000 people on waiting lists throughout the country. One wonders what the special delivery units are achieving. They were...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: While I want the Minister to come to the House and attempt yet again to explain himself, I ask those in the Labour Party what action it will take. When will they acknowledge the level of incompetence? When will they say that they will no longer put up with such mediocrity?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: We want someone in this job who the public can have genuine confidence in, not someone who is running from Billy to Jack in a mismanaged haphazard fashion. The reality is the people know that the cover is there.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: They are entitled to know that someone is at the helm who knows the direction in which we are going.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: On the order of Business-----

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (8 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Commissioner to the House. Since the bank guarantee and the global recession, there is a sense in this country that very little has been done for the people in a European context. Ireland arguably saved the euro by its actions at the beginning of the crisis. Before Europe was up the curve on it, steps were taken here which nobody else was expected to take. Does Germany have...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Marian Harkin, MEP (2 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I welcome Ms Harkin to the House. She is a neighbour and friend, and I want to pay tribute to her great work in Europe. We in Ireland are extremely lucky to have excellent MEPs, in particular her analytical abilities and her commitment to a wide variety of areas in Ireland and Irish society. We are lucky she is on the agriculture committee. Given her background in the west of Ireland,...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: Will the Leader arrange for a statement to be made, perhaps by the Minister for Finance or whatever Minister is available in the near future, in regard to the "Prime Time" programme last night, particularly the fact that individual as opposed to institutional investors in tracker bonds have effectively been burned as a result of the liquidation of IBRC? The programme highlighted what appears...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2013)

Marc MacSharry: When a Minister, for whatever reason, is called away on important business in a European context or otherwise, which can of course happen, and a Minister of State is not available, we in the House are well used to having Ministers other than the line Ministers for particular debates. Despite the fodder crisis and, not least, the importance of the Animal Health and Welfare Bill itself, we are...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I second the amendment by my colleague, Senator O’Brien. I agree wholeheartedly with Senator Norris. I have seen the reports as well. For far too long Parliament has been subservient to Government, and the people are subservient to all of us. It seems now that the Government is subservient to civil servants and that is fundamentally wrong. I would welcome if any information could...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Apr 2013)

Marc MacSharry: That is not going to cost anything. For many years, Ministers from all parties and none, have always said that we must be conscious of the markets, the European Central Bank, the systemic importance of the other. What about the systemic importance of the people? It is time for once that they came first. Today in the AV room there will be a presentation at lunch time by a group of people...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Cardiac Services (18 Apr 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for his reply and for confirming that the group exists. Although I am sure that he intends to take heed of the advice of the clinicians involved, I caution him that heavy pressure will be brought to locate the cardiology laboratory in the northern end of the catchment at Letterkenny General Hospital. While I do not wish to disenfranchise the people of County Donegal,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Cardiac Services (18 Apr 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for taking the time to come to the House to discuss this issue. Among the successes in the health service are the national cancer control programme and the new approach to cardiac care where outcomes are improving. The Minister is very familiar with the fact that the north-west region, north of the Dublin-Galway line and south of Mullingar, is not adequately catered...

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)

Marc MacSharry: A bit of colour too.

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)

Marc MacSharry: I second this motion and I am glad to have another opportunity to debate this issue. However, it is not talk we need but action on the various recommendations to solve the problem of mortgage arrears. I do not hold the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, responsible for this matter. In fact, he is a brilliant performer and I am great fan of his. However, we are only as good as the...

Seanad: Mortgage Arrears: Motion (17 Apr 2013)

Marc MacSharry: The Government has been in control for two years and mortgage arrears have increased 50%. We brought forward the Family Home Bill in 2011 to put up tangible solutions to the problem yet at the time the Government claimed it was not necessary and was unconstitutional. It even claimed the code on mortgage arrears was working exceptionally well when the Central Bank’s own analysis of it...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Marc MacSharry: Empty.