Results 12,901-12,920 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Leader.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Did he read it?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Child benefit.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I was four years of age.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to propose an amendment to the Order of Business, namely, that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Fitzgerald, come before the House in order that we might have the opportunity to impress upon her the need to revisit a number of measures contained in yesterday's budget. As Minister O'Brien indicated-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: -----the Minister for Social Protection has not been in a position to listen to her party's backbenchers. We had an opportunity to discuss some matters relating to the budget last evening. As one of my colleagues stated in the Dáil yesterday, this budget is anti-women and anti-children. It is particularly anti-children in the context of the ¤10 cut in child benefit for the first two...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Our budget submission was costed and it recommends how ¤3.5 billion-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: It was certainly not costed by those who made the calculations for the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, in respect of the ¤370 million overrun relating to the health service. It was also not costed by the person who made the calculations for the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, in respect of her Department's ¤600 million overrun.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Our pre-budget submission contained recommendations on how to achieve the ¤3.5 billion in savings contained in the budget and produce a higher tax yield. Under those recommendations, child benefit, maternity benefit and the back to school allowance would have been protected. Colleagues will refer to the propaganda engaged in by the Labour Party prior to the general election. I have...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I ask that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs come before the House in order that we might ask her to consider the implications of the budget for the mothers and children of Ireland. We are of the view that the cuts to which I refer can and should be reversed.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: In our costed pre-budget submission, we showed how a 3% increase in the universal social charge would yield ¤200 million. If our recommendation in this regard were accepted, the Government would not be obliged to destroy families throughout the country.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: He is feeling the pressure.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Kelly should come over to this side of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Senator Bacik should address her remarks through the Chair. She should also sit down.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: -----and promised it all.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Now the Government is going to wreck communities throughout the country by taking ¤10 off a family's children's allowance.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: A sum of ¤18 has been taken off the allowance in respect of third children. I recall the current Minister for Finance, when he was a senior backbench Deputy in opposition, asking "What have you got against third children?" Do Members remember him saying that to the then Minister for Finance? I wondered about his question because I had only two children at the time; now I have three.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: All families with three children will have ¤18 less per month. Let me examine the details that are coming, as I speak, from the other House. One hundred Garda stations will be closed. Did the backbenchers know that? Did the Senators know that?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Did Senators O'Keeffe, Comiskey and Henry realise that nine stations in the immediate 30- or 40-mile radius of where I live will be closed?