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Seanad: Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Senators Ruane and Ó Ríordáin for bringing this Bill forward. It is correct to say that the war on drugs has not worked. It has turned into a war on poor people. It is a war on the sick. When one sees that we have the third highest overdose rate in Europe, it shows that our systems are failing in all respects. When one sees 679 people dying from overdoses, which is...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Border Communities Against Brexit (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank my colleague, Senator Paul Daly, for allowing me to speak before him, as I must return to the foreign affairs committee, which is meeting the Minister. The Brexit issue is looming large in that context as well. My questions are on the special economic status that we are seeking on top of the ability to move seamlessly over and back across the Border. The research that we have seen...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Dr. Duncan Morrow (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I offer apologies because I must leave the meeting at 12.30 p.m., but I will read the transcript. Dr. Morrow talks of the special status for Northern Ireland, but I did not get his opening remarks. Many have raised the issue. Does the Good Friday Agreement have to be renegotiated in full or in part as a result of Brexit? With regard to the special status of Northern Ireland, we have...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. This is one of the key issues in respect of the PEACE IV funding. What we are looking for is the precedent of the Norway-Sweden model, particularly a list of those funding schemes involving EU and non-EU members, which we can include in our submission. We will continue with the PEACE funding and the Government is making a strong case on that. We...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: Therein lies the rub.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: We are looking for solutions. A draft proposal contained in a report on Brexit by the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, of which I am a member, is that all current and future EU programmes, in the absence of an agreement in the alternative, would be funded by Her Majesty's Treasury. While that is also what Ms McIntyre is talking about, in that instance we...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: It is hard to break this down because it is multi-annual but in terms of INTERREG, how much would the British Treasury have to give to continue to fund INTERREG post Brexit? Is the witness able to calculate that figure?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: How did it work historically? For example, how did it work during INTERREG from 2007 to 2013?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The funding issue is very important and will be a core part of the discussions. The EU have said that Ireland must be sorted. It would be very helpful if, in the historic example of the previous funding programme broken down on the 60:40 basis, we could arrive at a figure. This would enable us to say that were this programme replicated post Brexit, this is what the cost would be to the...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I would like to raise the issue of EEA+ status in respect of Northern Ireland. Theresa May has ruled it out in seeming to opt for the hard Brexit option. I take the point that resistance to that idea would probably come from London rather than from Brussels, although I am not too sure how excited Brussels would be about it, either. It would set a precedent for part of the country remaining...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The European Union does not want anybody in the UK to win.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: With regard to the EEA+ issue, has any economic analysis been done with respect to practicalities and current legal challenges? Is it possible that the economic analysis could be "gamed out" and Belfast wins, with the financial houses of London not having to go to Frankfurt and Paris but instead setting up a brass plate company in Belfast before being good to go? We have been asked to put...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The physical movement of goods is one issue. That is why we are teasing it out. We are doing this as we are talking. If EEA+ is not a runner because of the benefits for brass plate companies establishing in Belfast - I am talking about financial houses or insurance companies - what is the next best thing in the real world? That is probably not possible. If we scale back, EEA+ would be...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The point is interesting. We can go through key areas like policing and justice and there can certainly be an argument made for whatever EEA arrangements are there. Senator McDowell would know about extradition and how the European arrest warrant would solve the problem. A hard Brexit brings a special problem relating to the peace process in that regard. Tourism is a cross-Border and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: EU Foreign Affairs Council (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: Apologies for leaving Minister, we have Brexit discussions in the Seanad all day today, something that the Minister has been working hard on and I congratulate him and his team on ensuring that Ireland is one of the three key issues to be resolved prior to any trade discussions between the UK and the EU. One of the key things to emerge from research that I have done for the Joint Committee...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Representatives of the Transport Sector (11 May 2017)

Mark Daly: Will the witnesses clarify that the free travel scheme will not be affected by Brexit directly? We might note in our report the requirement for primary legislation on the cross-Border taxi issue. I thank the witnesses for their presentation on the cross-Border bus service but that needs a detailed explanation as to what we can do for our report. All of the issues raised by that were...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Representatives of the Transport Sector (11 May 2017)

Mark Daly: There is the issue of rail services and the amount of money the EU has put into that area. The Good Friday committee, of which I am a member, has made a draft recommendation on Brexit that all current and future EU funding should continue to be provided for Northern Ireland in the absence of an alternative agreement by the UK. That may be of assistance to the issue of rail services. Are...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Mr. Eamon Gilmore (11 May 2017)

Mark Daly: Mr. Gilmore said we needed to engage more on European issues such as defence and he mentioned peace work, humanitarian aid and the promotion of soft power in EU policy. In the Italian Senate two and a half years ago, Ms Mogherini spoke about closing down Operation Mare Nostrum and said we needed to stop picking up refugees in the Mediterranean as it only encouraged them to come. When a...

Seanad: Courts (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (9 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State. We welcome the Bill and any legislation to deal with the almost 7,500 cases dismissed because of the current system. The Bill aims to rectify the allowance made by the court where a person states he or she did not receive a previous notification. The online issue of a summons is to be welcomed. As it is a technical amendment, we will not go through it in...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Industry Representatives (4 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The proposal by the British-Irish Chamber of Commerce is an excellent one. I am surprised that it was not approached already. It should be one of the key recommendations of our report. On the insurance industry and the idea of grandfathering and joint corridors and so on, again it is very credible. We had the Central Bank in here in an earlier session, and one of the issues that I...