Results 12,681-12,700 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I am only asking for the same leniency as was shown to Senator van Turnhout. I am almost finished.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I will be as quick as I can.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I will press on and finish as quickly as I can. I would like to see a debate in this House on the matter of a senior official in the Department of Finance, who is now the Secretary General of that Department, making himself and the Department's resources available to property speculators - the twins from London - to secure part of a portfolio that the Irish people effectively own.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: My question is whether we will have a debate on this issue. It is important that I set out the context. The reality is that if one is the Secretary General of a Department -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: ----- or the Barclay twins, one has a direct line to the Department of Finance to get one's business done -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: ----- but the people of Ireland can get nothing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Today, for example, Bord Gáis is giving a dividend to the State which is €10 million less than it gave last year.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: What is the Government going to do to redistribute that money to the people throughout this country who, at the end of this month -----
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: ----- will have no more fuel allowances? The answer is "Nothing". However, the Barclay twins can ring the Secretary General of the Department of Finance and he will look after everything for them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I second Senator O'Donovan's amendment. The Leader may be aware that former Senator Bernard McGlinchey passed away over the weekend. I am sure he will make time available for expressions of sympathy and will contact the family in the interim. Mr. McGlinchey served as a Senator for 21 years between the early 1960s and 1980s. I join with Senator Norris and others in calling for a debate on...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I also support the amendment. The information is available and while it would require an amendment to the Data Protection Act to allow for the sharing of information, the fact there might be legal challenges to achieving such a system does not mean we should not have it as an objective. To go off the point slightly, it is a suggestion that has merit when one considers the kind of backlogs...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: My party will also oppose it. As the Minister of State correctly stated, we made many of these points on Second Stage. I do not believe one should be so touchy about Senators making points on Committee Stage. The practice is that Senators can make points as often-----
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I would say the attendance today would be more relevant to the abolition than the contribution.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We made the points yesterday. The section is wrong. We did not table all the amendments my party tabled in the Dáil where they all were ruled out of order, which was regrettable. It will be on the sections we will speak and some of those points will be general. The Bill is regressive. It creates a lot of fear for those who will lose the medical card. Some, arguably, will not go the...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I would like it clarified again, if that is okay. In section 7, we will be dealing with-----
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We will be dealing with it shortly. The Minister of State can clarify that but my party will oppose the section.
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Unlicenced Money-Lending) Bill 2013: First Stage (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision whereby the punishment imposed on a person who engages in unlicenced money-lending shall include a prohibition on a person convicted of the offence of unlicenced money-lending from subjecting the victim(s) of the offence of unlicenced money-lending to harassment for such defined period as the court may specify...
- Seanad: Criminal Justice (Unlicenced Money-Lending) Bill 2013: First Stage (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: On the first Tuesday after the Easter recess.
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, "That No. 16 be taken before No. 1." As we have seen in recent days in the fallout from the Garda conferences there is the threat of suspension, as I mentioned yesterday. Rather than it being diffused, it appears to grown further legs where the Minister, the Garda Commissioner and other authorities have got involved and that those involved...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I appreciate that but it does not have to be done by way of legislation. The Minister can change the criteria for eligibility without coming before the Oireachtas. It is a bad precedent because, increasingly, as a result of the Whip system and the fact that the Oireachtas is a mere tool of the Cabinet of the day, we are now passing legislation to remove the troublesome necessity of having...