Results 13,201-13,220 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry
- Seanad: Small Business: Motion (28 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the opportunity to make a few points on small business. I also welcome my constituency colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy John Perry. We are very proud in the north west to have a local representative as the Minister of State with responsibility for small business who, as Senator Paschal Mooney said, is doing the best job he can in difficult circumstances. I have read the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I join others in welcoming the publication of the Mahon report. It is particularly welcome given the 15 years of drip-feeding of information which, despite the wishes of many while the deliberations were ongoing, prevented many actions being taken during that period. I say, as a relatively young Member, that a start can finally be made, following some legislative improvements in recent...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I join with others in calling for a debate on these issues. One would have to welcome the developments in the past number of days but the reality is, not to take from the negotiating ability of the Government team, whom we support, Europe has thrown us a bone, Europe owes us big time. As I said before, the first skirmish of the international financial crisis happened on Irish soil. The...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: When the banks were making millions of euro the reality was that people did not have to face prohibitive charges such as those being proposed. Rather than the back stairs in the Department of Finance,so often referred to by Senator Barrett, exclusively for the use of the senior bankers and that shareholder bottom line, it is time the House united in demanding that the Minister summon the...
- Seanad: Clotting Factor Concentrates and Other Biological Products Bill 2012: Second and Subsequent Stages (21 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Fianna Fáil will be supporting this Bill which is technical in nature and makes some improvements by giving all the responsibility for the procurement of clotting factor products to St. James's Hospital. It is a good opportunity to remember the system's failings for people with blood disorders in the past. When we consider legislation such as...
- Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: What about Deputy Willie Penrose?
- Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I am glad to have the opportunity to make a few points on this issue. I have enjoyed the debate immensely so far. Debates are always filled with colour when we get into some of the political crossfire. Members of these Houses are not yet ready to consider some of the facts calmly without getting high on certain aspects. It will probably be several years before an assessment of the global...
- Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I will always praise the Government when it does good things but I will not let it go when it knowingly and openly misleads the public.
- Seanad: Programme for Government: Motion (21 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Biggest in the Oireachtas.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: They could not vote.
- Seanad: Order of Business (15 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I concur with other Senators, particularly Senator Bradford. On this occasion contempt has been shown for all Members of the House. I have been vocal in the past in praising the Leader and Deputy Leader for changes to procedures here and how we do our business in the House. The Government, however, has shown absolute disrespect to all Members of the House and to the Leader. I do not hold...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: A little less conversation, a little more action.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: Notwithstanding the fact that we will use our Private Members' time to deal with some of these issues, I join others in calling for a debate on the inaction in mortgage arrears. Leaving aside a cheap political stunt of reflecting on the causes of people finding themselves in mortgage arrears, the record of the House will show that nobody has a sense of ownership on this issue, and nobody has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: There are many reasons for failure but there are no excuses. We have had the Hugh Cooney report on mortgage arrears, the Keane report on mortgage arrears, the programme for Government and a Cabinet sub-committee but the reality is clear. I often quote Senator Barrett, who is in the House, who mentioned the metaphorical back stairs in the Department of Finance that seems to be exclusively...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: We have a deficit in respect of the solutions being proposed and acted on by the Government. The Family Home Bill 2011 was voted down in this House by only three votes. If the three other Senators from my area had supported the legislation, it would have been enacted in law and the courts would now be in a position to take greater steps to help people in mortgage arrears. I ask for more...
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: That has been done but the Bill was voted down.
- Seanad: Order of Business (14 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: It could have been amended by the Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I would like to pick up on what Senator à Murchú said about our national holiday, which is coming up this weekend. I suggest that we organise a discussion on advertising standards in that context. At the moment, one can buy a t-shirt in Penneys stores that simply says "Irish today, drunk tomorrow".
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I do not think such merchandise should be permitted.
- Seanad: Order of Business (13 Mar 2012)
Marc MacSharry: I call for a debate on media in general, similar to the themes that have been raised by those calling for a debate on the presidential election coverage. The problem is that we preside over a national media that we praise constantly for its integrity. The reality is that we do not have reportage. We do not have newspapers, but "viewspapers". We do not have a national broadcaster that...