Results 12,701-12,720 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: As always, I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Alex White, back to the House. It is good to see him. I know he is working very hard in the Department. The Bill is hardly one the Minister of State would regard as a great achievement. It is, clearly, one we cannot support. In 2009, when the universality of the over-70s medical card went under the microscope, the Government of the day...
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister of State must not know the manifesto as well as I do. If he wants to talk about manifestos, there was a lot in the Labour Party?s manifesto and the Fine Gael manifesto.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is a Second Stage speech. If the Acting Chairman were in the House for as long as I am, he would be aware that one can go off the subject to a certain extent.
- Seanad: Health (Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: There is a general thrust to the debate and speakers are allowed to refer generally to the subject, which is what I am doing. The 3% universal social charge increase would have taken in hundreds of millions of euro and I am sure the Minister of State would agree that if it was his call, or that of his party, such measures could take in a significant amount of money and look after the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Before normal hostilities resume, our group would also like to acknowledge the true greatness of our friend and the great friend of the House, Jimmy Walsh. In my 11 years here, my experience, which would reflect that of us all, has been that he has been an innately decent man who has been a great friend to the Seanad, the only one it has had. From a journalistic perspective, that is a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I realise time is short with the Easter recess approaching, but an urgent debate is required on the insolvency guidelines and how they will be dealt with by the personal insolvency service. There are mixed messages from Government and very worrying reports in the media. At the weekend, one newspaper indicated that women would be forced to give up their work if child care could not be...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Different choices.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: To have choices.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader should listen to his Labour Party colleagues. Over ¤100,000 a year-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: He will not even listen to his Labour Party colleagues.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Frankfurt's way is working well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I meant to say 9 o'clock.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is not 10 p.m. closing and they are not opening at 7 a.m.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is outrageous.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: It is not enough for the poor people in Ratoath and Ashbourne. They will not have time to get home.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Come on. The Leader cannot be going around collecting the accolades of the late Mr. Brian Lenihan Jr. on the one hand and then blaming him when back home.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I was speaking for Labour's candidate. Sure, people will not get home from work to vote for Labour's candidate. Fine Gael have it rigged.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I want to raise a number of points. Today, Pieta House launched the Mind Our Men campaign, which is its latest initiative on suicide prevention and, in particular, promoting what all of us can do easily in looking out for the men in our lives, be it wives keeping an eye on their husbands, sisters on their brothers, work colleagues on their work colleagues, friends on their friends and so on....
- Seanad: Mobility Allowance: Statements (21 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Moloney does not agree.