Results 12,761-12,780 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: They do not like it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Kick it down the road for another one.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I was never in government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: What about repossessions? What about inviting the Secretary General of the Department?
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I suppose the officials are all right. The Frankfurt way is going well.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I would like to ask the Leader for a debate on what actions the Government proposes to take in regard to the mortgage crisis. What has characterised the Government in this regard since the general election two years ago has been inaction and indifference. When we first proposed the Family Home Bill in this House in July 2011, the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Brian...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: What is truly lying at the heart of this problem, and what Senator Barrett so often talks about-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: -----is the back stairs to the Department of Finance, which the banks specifically enjoy. We saw the fruits of that. The Secretary General of the Department admitted to the people that there will be lots of repossessions and that people cannot expect the taxpayer to help them. They certainly cannot expect the Government to help them.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: All we have had is rhetoric, most recently throughout the weekend when the Government said it would deal with this now and finally get to the bottom of this crisis. The crisis is so large that I was two years on the other side of the House talking about. Now I am two years on this side of the House and all we have heard is the usual bluff and bluster from a Government which is in denial....
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: We hear again about the Personal Insolvency Act. The banks are in control. We should get Richie Boucher or somebody to come in as Secretary General of the Department. At least then we would be able to ensure that all of the-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Leader should answer the question. Senator Burke does not have to respond to me.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Burke was not even a Member of the House when I was calling for the implementation of measures to deal with the mortgage crisis. In the two years he has been here, I have not heard him bring it up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Burke was not a Member of the House. He should check the record and he will see I was talking about this issue. It is four years since I brought forward legislation. The Minister was in denial.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The Cathaoirleach should ask Senator Burke to speak through the Chair. Has he a question for the Leader? What is his question? My question was what the Government is doing about the mortgage crisis. We have been asking about it for four years but we are still in denial.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: Will the Leader arrange a debate as soon as possible on the discriminatory taxes being introduced, in particular against women, children and the family? On 27 February last, the National Women's Council of Ireland issued a statement with some data on the incomes of women and the gap which exists between them, in particular women who are mothers. The statement was entitled, Being a Mother...
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to share my time with Senators Labhrás à Murchú and Jim Walsh.
- Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: I congratulate Senator John Crown, Mr. Shane Conneely and Ms Aoife Casey on the work they have done. Sadly, we might as well be kicking a football out on the lawn. This is the 21st time I have participated in a debate on the issue of Seanad reform. It is 11 years since I first made a submission on the issue and I am sure Senators David Norris and Feargal Quinn could go even further back....
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: On behalf of the Fianna Fáil group I wholeheartedly welcome the professor. We are honoured to have him here. If it were not for the fact that it would eat into the important time for discussion of the property tax Bill, we would be proposing a vote on the Order of Business today. The property tax is a serious issue and one that will have an impact on the lives and wallets of every...
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: The people who got the jobs did not even apply for them. One is a former Labour Party press officer and the other was an activist in President Higgins's campaign.
- Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Mar 2013)
Marc MacSharry: In the defence of those people, it is possible because it is a small country to trace political lineage to anybody. I am sure those people are exceptionally well qualified to do that work but in the interests of their integrity, the process, the Heritage Council and particularly the 70 people who applied for those jobs, we need to know how that process was conducted. We are not doing either...