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- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Jun 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I would also welcome an opportunity to debate the jobs initiative and, from my perspective, its failure. An ESRI conference yesterday learned how 80% of the jobs created in recent times have been located in Dublin, Galway and Cork even though job losses in those locations would only have been 60% of those elsewhere. It is important to focus on the original visions of the national spatial...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Jun 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: There are many parts to it, though.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Following on what Senator Brian à Domhnaill and others in the House have said, I want to refer to mortgage arrears. In three weeks it will be almost one year since we introduced the Family Home Bill in the House. A number of other Bills were introduced in the Dáil specifically to provide solutions to the mortgage arrears problem. The Governor of the Central Bank and countless other...
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I ask the Deputy Leader to arrange for the Minister for Health to come to the House as a matter of urgency. We will not put it to a vote today but we expect that this issue will be dealt with in the earlier part of next week. As many will be aware, the board of Tallaght hospital is meeting this morning to consider the 300-page HIQA report which many of us have been reading about in the...
- Seanad: Symphysiotomy: Statements (16 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and our guests in the Visitors Gallery who are survivors of symphysiotomy. I am entirely unqualified to in any way accurately verbalise how the victims of symphysiotomy must feel given the many challenges and difficulties they have had to endure throughout their lives as a result of this procedure. As we sadly often say in these Houses on a...
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I called for a debate specifically on the financing aspect. In fairness, the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, has been fantastic. However, her budget is neither large enough nor sufficiently targeted. That is why I called for a debate with the Minister, Deputy James Reilly.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the announcement today from Aviva that an additional 200 jobs are to be created in Galway and that fewer jobs will be cut than the numbers announced before Christmas. In early autumn Senator Darragh O'Brien was aware that there were some issues in Aviva. He raised that issue many times and called on the Department, as I did, to engage directly with Aviva and all major employers in...
- Seanad: Protection of Children's Health from Tobacco Smoke Bill 2012: Second Stage (9 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. I commend Senators Crown, Daly and van Turnhout for their initiative in bringing forward this legislation. Eight years ago, Fianna Fáil and our current leader, Deputy Martin, brought forward the smoking ban. As a smoker at the time, I opposed this internally in the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party. Now, having been off cigarettes for six and...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Will the Deputy Leader ask the Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, to come to the House to comment on the statements made by the Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Patrick Honohan, in London in recent days. The Governor strongly advocated a European-level resolution agency for banking debt. The European Union and the euro, in particular, were saved as a result of the severe actions...
- Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (2 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I join others in welcoming the opportunity to make a few points on the Bill, many of which have been made already. At this stage I do not want to take from Senator Power's concluding comments. I agree with our Leader on this side of the House that it is a basic question of all people in the country being equal and as such the same rights should be available to everybody. For far too long...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I join Senator Susan O'Keeffe in calling for a debate on the issues raised in last night's BBC television programme which were shocking in the extreme. As a Catholic, it is incumbent on the Catholic Church and the institutions of the State, including the Houses of the Oireachtas, to ensure appropriate action is taken. How many more revelations are to be made? How much more do we not know?...
- Seanad: Order of Business (1 May 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I call on the Leader to arrange a debate on health, in particular waiting lists at Beaumont Hospital, which is the centre of excellence for neurosurgery and neurology for the entire country. People who have had aneurysms are experiencing difficulty getting an appointment for an angiogram at Beaumont Hospital as it is currently only dealing with one appointment per day in this regard. That...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I follow Senator Denis Landy by referring to news reports today that highlight the epidemic of house repossessions. There are now two per day and over one year into the term of office of the Government, despite many promises, we have made no progress. Solutions have been put forward on all sides of the House; this side has tabled two Bills, but there has not been any action and still the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I join with other Senators in calling for an early debate on the water charge. Like Senator Leyden, I am concerned that the service provider in this regard will be a subsidiary of Bord Gáis, which under the Gas Acts is a commercial entity. One wonders if the people of Ireland will be responsible for delivering profits for that company and if, as correctly pointed out by Senator Leyden,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I note Senators opposite are shaking their heads. Perhaps that is not the case but the questions are legitimate. Senator Leyden has pointed out that there is no legislative basis for the Government announcing that a new semi-State entity is to be operated by a company that has a commercial mandate as determined under the Gas Acts, which is a real cause for concern. Members opposite can...