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- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: The Minister is going to write to them to ask them to speak to the man about the thing.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I am afraid it must be, yes.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: We are opposing the Order of Business, to which I propose an amendment that the Minister for Health come to the House immediately to discuss the many issues within the health service which amount to a national crisis. A number of years ago a particular Senator, who will remain nameless, used to annoy me as he went through the newspapers each day. I regret to say one has no option but to go...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: What is the health strategy that presides as 371 people were on trolleys throughout this country yesterday?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: What is our health strategy? I can assure the Senator that I was no less vocal when I sat where she sits today when I saw things being done wrongly. I expect her to be equally as forceful as I was when I sat on the front bench on the other side of the House-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: -----when I saw injustices done. This is a disgrace. The Minister, Deputy Reilly, went on a well-documented trip to China with an official not from his Department but from his office, a councillor from north Dublin and his wife. One wonders what level of management and responsibility the Government will take when an Adjournment matter was declined last week because the Minister concerned...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I have asked the Department to contact the HSE with a view to contacting the Croke Park implementation body. I am bound to say that if this were a business it would be out of business. I had great hopes when the Minister took over for the changes he was planning to make in the HSE.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: All I have seen so far has worried and disappointed me greatly. For this reason we are opposing the Order of Business and ask that it be amended in order that the Minister can immediately come to the House. As has been said here previously, he has been here on only one occasion under the new Administration. That was for the taking of important legislation on female genital mutilation...
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: -----they can check the record of the House and they will see how forceful I was in speaking out when things were done incorrectly, and Senators Bacik and Cummins can testify to that. I do not intend stopping now when I am on this side of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I was then but how long does it take for the Government to take the blame?
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: The Senator can only keep blaming Fianna Fáil for so long.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: There is a budget coming up.
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: What about the centre of excellence and the national screening centre for colonoscopies?
- Seanad: Company Closures: Motion (Resumed) (28 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I thank Labour Party Senators for giving us the opportunity to discuss this issue. Although we agree with much of the amendment proposed by Sinn Féin, my party will be supporting the motion because we do not believe the principles set out in it should be lost. Perhaps the issues raised by Sinn Féin should be the subject of a debate in their own right. I do not want to repeat what others...
- Seanad: Address by President of the Irish Human Rights Commission (28 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome Dr. Manning. While I did not have the pleasure to serve with him, I have got to know him over several years. With regard to some of the greats he mentioned, I shared an office with Dr. Maurice Hayes for some years. Certainly, when one considers the contribution made by such people, it certainly also shows the contribution this House has made, albeit in its flawed state. These...
- Seanad: Order of Business (28 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I join with the Acting Leader in seconding the amendment to the Order of Business to call on the Minister, Deputy Shatter, to come to the House and address the situation regarding domestic violence against women throughout the country. Some 3,000 or more were refused access to a refuge last year. I have personal experience of the issue as I chair a group in the north west to advance the...
- Seanad: Order of Business. (21 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I join Senator Darragh O'Brien in again calling for the Minister for Health to come to the House as a matter of the utmost urgency for a debate on a series of issues that all of us on all sides wish to discuss, not least the most worrying one that â¬6 million is being written off in by HSE west. Will the Leader schedule an early debate on social welfare, in particular on the processing of...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: I, too, welcome the actions of the Government on this matter. As Senator Bradford said, the families in question are from Sligo. They have waited a long time for closure on this issue. A former Member of this House, John Minihan, was in Lebanon at the time the soldiers died. I believe the Captain of the Guard in Leinster House was also serving at the time. We all welcome the progress on...
- Seanad: Order of Business (20 Sep 2011)
Marc MacSharry: -----in denying access to information when it is sought on behalf of the public by ourselves.