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- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Ãireann" and substitute the following: acknowledges the very substantial investment in infrastructure the Government has made in electricity, including renewable energy sources, and the very substantial investment in infrastructure the Government has made in upgrading water distribution and treatment works; expresses concern that such...
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I understand I can refer to documents provided I leave a copy for the Cathaoirleach afterwards. Is that the case?
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Marc MacSharry: The documents, which must not be displayed or held up in the House, bear two diagrams which are remarkably similar.
- Seanad: Economic and Recovery Authority: Motion (1 Apr 2009)
Marc MacSharry: ICTU issued a statement to the effect that it considers the adoption of its proposals of 2005 to be the ultimate form of flattery. Perhaps Fine Gael will raise that issue with ICTU. Fianna Fáil acknowledges the substantial investment in electricity infrastructure made by the Government in recent years, including in renewable energies. No Administration in the history of the State has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Mar 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I call on the Leader for a debate on data protection. I am a member of the Committee on Finance and the Public Service and yesterday the Criminal Assets Bureau and the Irish Fraud Bureau attended a meeting of the committee. It is clear that in our effort to preserve a level of civil liberties we are impeding upon the ability of CAB and the Irish Fraud Bureau to access the level of...
- Seanad: Nursing Education (10 Mar 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Wallace, to the House. I thank the Cathaoirleach for ruling in order my motion to ask the Government to address urgently the inequitable level of reduction in undergraduate nursing places in St. Angela's College. Undergraduate nursing education throughout the country has been cut by 16.5%. This has been especially savage in the north west at St....
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2009)
Marc MacSharry: On the Order of Business, perhaps Members should have a debate on planning and development as notwithstanding that the motion before the House is to be taken without debate, as Senator O'Toole noted, this is an important issue. I have called for such a debate previously and when considering the future, in which there obviously will be much less construction, it will be important to consider...
- Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I welcome the Minister of State and I am glad to have the opportunity to make a couple of points on this most important issue. I thank the Opposition for using its Private Members' time to debate this issue because it is the single most important matter facing the country. We cannot overstate the unprecedented nature of the position we are in. In recent days, I made a point in the House...
- Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: A change at the top of all the institutions would not harm confidence at this time. That is not to say everybody should be disposed of but we need to see very significant personnel changes to restore confidence.
- Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I hope the Government will do what it can to ensure we have the right staff in charge of the banks. I would like to see young people in their 30s and 40s in the banking sector. One does not have to be in one's 50s, 60s or 70s or have a long list of associations with a particular sector to do a good job. I would like the Government to beââ
- Seanad: Banking Sector: Motion (25 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I am sure they were. I am not being ageist but saying we should employ some.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I join my colleague, Senator Hanafin, in calling for a debate on regulation. In particular, our European colleagues should take some leadership in developing a pan-European approach to regulation. While baby steps in several directions have been taken, nationally and internationally, it is clear that the definitive path that will lead the global economy out of the present turmoil has not...
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: To start that process, I believe it is unacceptable that 30% of the State's purse is under the control of third party organisations which, as Members have seen, have â¬51 million to make people like Professor Keane maintain his celebrity status. I look forward to an urgent debate in this regard.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I wish to make a point in this regard. While I have every respect for the Cathaoirleach, the names one can or cannot mention in this House are highly selective. When someone has a particularââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: My point is that when someone makes a specific pointââ
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: ââpertaining to a specific part of Government policy or action of this State and regarding expenditure that relates to that person, I believe it is absolutely appropriate to name that person.
- Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: Under what Standing Order does it state that one cannot name an individual?
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I join others in welcoming an early debate next week on the pension levy. It remains my hope and that of colleagues in this House that a mechanism can be found whereby we can ensure those people in the lower paid brackets are looked after in a better way than is currently proposed. The measures that have had to be introduced are enormously traumatic for a generation and a half, effectively,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and I look forward to the same level of indulgence being afforded to me as to other Members of the House.
- Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2009)
Marc MacSharry: I repudiate any suggestion as completely unfounded that the chances are, to quote another Senator, the situation of Anglo Irish Bank and the so-called golden circle is associated with Fianna Fáil.