Results 13,041-13,060 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Government is thanking him for doing a great job and while indicating it would be give him a first class grade if he was being adjudicated on his economics class, it is also telling him it has no interest in changing the law to do something for people. The Minister stated that two senior civil servants, the Secretary General of the Department, Mr. John Moran, and Ms Muldoon of the Central...
- Seanad: Mortgage Credit (Loans and Bonds) Bill 2012: Second Stage (17 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for taking time to attend, given his busy schedule. It is a shame we have to talk so often about this issue without any consequent penetrative action. I commend Senator Barrett on his work on this Bill. If we had had a model such as the Danish model some 20 or 25 years ago, before we had all our problems, I do not believe we would be in the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: That does not only happen on the Adjournment.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I join others in raising the issue of cuts to allowances for public servants as reported in the media this morning. I ask the Acting Leader to raise the issue of the forthcoming budget. While I would not always agree with the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, he was spot on in highlighting that consumer confidence was being directly affected by Ministers flying...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: ----- but are perceived to be making a fortune, are the automatic targets of the Government when preparing budgets. It is wrong that these people represent the first line we seek to attack. In any event it is absolutely unacceptable for Ministers to continue to fly kites in trying to balance the delicate mix of backbenchers in the Labour Party and Fine Gael against their own popularity. I...
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: At the outset, I am delighted my former colleague and very good friend outside the ring has been promoted. There is no better man to come up the curve quickly and do all that is necessary in pursuit of his work. That is genuine.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Acting Chairman cannot allow this heckling to last five minutes as I have a lot to answer. I always welcome the Minister to the House. I said at the very beginning of this debate and all day how appreciative we are of him making so much time available. He is the only Minister with that kind of record. We have had all the Ministers in the House at different times. He always comes to...
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: As for cynicism-----
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I congratulate the new Labour Party Whip. If she was here long enough, she would know that the most cynical campaign ever carried out in opposition was by the then shadow Minister, Deputy Reilly. That is a fact. Of the current cuts, front-line cuts are all over the news. All Senators are fielding complaints in their constituency clinics about cuts to home help hours - hours cut to half...
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: They would tell it what they wanted to tell it and nothing else. With regard to that mantra about not listening to Fianna Fáil, when I was on the Government side of the House, and any of the senior Senators still around and the Minister of State might remember it, I got stuck into the then Minister day and night on health.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: There is a track record, form and consistency here on health.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: That is the scenario there. We have cost overruns in every hospital in the country. We have letters of undertaking being given to Tallaght Hospital for its overdraft. What is going to happen in Sligo General Hospital and Beaumont Hospital with their overruns? We are heading for ¤500 million so will the Minister have to find ¤1.25 billion in health cuts when it comes to the budget in...
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The stroke related to the other 15.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Proximity to a Minister and broken promises were the other criteria.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: It is quite different from the manifesto.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: He is the same.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Do not burn any bridges.
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister is trying to defend himself against a growing pool of opposition, possibly within Fine Gael but certainly among some Labour members of the coalition, as evidenced by Deputy Shortall. This situation needs to come to an end. When the House debated the HSE governance Bill this afternoon, the Minister referred to it as an interim measure to facilitate the abolition of the board....
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: The Titanic looks the same. It has the same captain. We might be passing legislation to call it by a different name, but the health system under the Minister's administration is littered with broken promises and a cost overrun heading towards ¤500 million. We do not know how that will be tackled. Given the extra ¤750 million that must be found in next year's budget, must we find ¤1.25...
- Seanad: Primary Care Centres: Motion (10 Oct 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We are all behind the Minister. All he needs to do is tell us how he will do it.