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- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: What will the closures do to communities with the resultant increase in crime levels? Here is a lovely detail. I am sure the old internal party policy committee on fairness gave a lot of consideration to the following. The annual respite grant will be reduced from ¤1,700 to ¤1,375. Hooray for the Government. What great fairness? It is prize-winning stuff. If the Government had...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I have not even touched on rural Ireland. I wonder what is hidden in the ¤89 million saving which will focus on the suckler cow scheme. Anybody who knows the scheme realises that it is the engine room of the beef industry in this country. I would appreciate leeway on this subject because many speakers from the Opposition will raise it.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I am sure the Cathaoirleach will get through them.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Agriculture has taken a beating, particularly in the west of Ireland where the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform has indicated that about ¤90 million will be taken from the suckler cow scheme, REPS and other measures. I must defend the ¤20 billion being taken out of the economy. I cannot stand over the discriminatory nature of the budget, which honed in on the elderly, those on...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: No.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: What about the carers' respite grants?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The rest of them have been cleaned out.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: On a point of order, from one end of my speech to the other I was harassed by the Opposition, and I object to being told to shut up by anybody. I invite the Senator to withdraw his remark and I seek the protection of the Chair.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator told me to shut up. Will he take it back?
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator has told me to shut up again. One must have manners in the House.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: No interrupting, Senator.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the budget. The Minister of State indicated that ¤24 billion has already been taken out of our economy. I sat where Senator Michael D'Arcy now sits while ¤20 billion of that adjustment was being made and I had to defend the measures that were announced. I know how difficult that position can be. However, I found it a walk in the park to defend some...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I do not know what horse trading took place in advance of the budget. Kites were flown and there were walkouts and everything else over the weekend but I am sure the Government Whip will ensure that the budget goes through. I hope it does not because it contains measures that are not necessary. Other options were available to them. Having accompanied my party's delegation to meet the...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We used the figures made available by the Department of Finance and the troika in the same way as the Government parties could have done prior to the last general election, instead of exhibiting the most blatant example of political delinquency in history. They promised everything to all people and every community around the country, not least to my own constituency of Sligo-Leitrim, only to...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The tax as proposed will be highly discriminatory. It will fleece communities throughout middle Dublin, middle Sligo and other urban centres throughout the country.
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The poor widow whose large family has left home will be penalised by this Government simply because she needed a larger farmhouse. To add insult to injury, an exemption will be granted to anybody who purchases a house next year. The unlucky ones like me and, I am sure, many others in these Houses and across Ireland who paid some of the ¤5.5 billion taken in stamp duty between 2000 and 2009...
- Seanad: Budget 2013: Statements (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: This is a criminal way to put forward an exemption to this tax. I repeat that the troika did not insist on property tax. It wanted measures that would give an equal outcome. The Minister for Finance has the gall to promote a deferral scheme which will reduce poor people who cannot afford to pay to the equivalent of tax defaulters. They will have to pay half the amount or else face...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: There were new revelations. I am sure the Deputy Leader would like to comment on them.
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We will have an opportunity to speak on the budget later today. I refer to a serious allegation on the front page of today's edition of The Irish Times. Once again it relates to the primary care centres and, in particular, ministerial involvement in that process. The Tánaiste informed the other House that following investigations he was quite confident there was no ministerial involvement...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Notwithstanding the budget debates which will take place over the coming days, the drip-feed of information with regard to this issue is continually damaging to public confidence - whatever little bit remains - in the running of our health service. I ask the Leader to make a statement on this matter tomorrow so that we can put this issue to bed once and for all. I particularly ask Labour...