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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Issues Arising from Brexit: Retail NI and Retail Excellence Ireland (6 Apr 2017)

Mark Daly: My colleague has pointed out the special position, the special status and the special case. Everybody is using different phrases to describe the relationship between North and South. Have the witnesses done much research on the issue of trade between East and West Germany prior to the Berlin Wall coming down and the special status that East Germany had in the EEC and the EC, even though it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Issues Arising from Brexit: Retail NI and Retail Excellence Ireland (6 Apr 2017)

Mark Daly: The size possibly.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with former Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahern (6 Apr 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Mr. Bertie Ahern for attending the committee. As my colleague Senator Paul Daly pointed out, his experience is unparalleled in any of the Houses. Regarding strand 3 of the Good Friday Agreement and his interpretation of it, would it allow us to do bilateral discussions, negotiations and agreements on many of the issues which affect us as a consequence of Brexit? We have been told...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UK Withdrawal from the EU: British Ambassador to Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the ambassador for coming before the committee. As the Chairman has mentioned, I am a member of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. I am also a member of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence. I was listening to the ambassador's contribution in my office and noted that he mentioned his visit, on the invitation of the Ceann...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UK Withdrawal from the EU: British Ambassador to Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

Mark Daly: The question I asked about allowing for a united Ireland to be in the final agreement between the UK and the EU has nothing to do with the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement. Could the ambassador address that issue please?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UK Withdrawal from the EU: British Ambassador to Ireland (4 Apr 2017)

Mark Daly: Having done it in a previous international agreement, the Good Friday Agreement, allowing for it in another international agreement would be appropriate.

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for outlining the immediate problems in terms of the discussions in the North. We all welcome the extension of time given by the Secretary of State to seek a resolution. Often, the immediate problems mean that time cannot be given to the long-term and legacy issues which, as the Minister pointed out, continue to dog Northern Ireland and its politics. As outlined by the...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: Apologies, I had to go to the Committee on Foreign Affairs meeting, where Brexit is on the agenda as well. Our work here involves looking at the various options. We do not know what the EU will look for, and everyone is looking at the North being a back door into Britain and wondering how the common travel area can be sustained. The EU's concern is that it does not want us to be a back...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the officials for their detailed response on Protocols 19 and 20 which was required owing to their complex nature. From what they have outlined, the fundamental point appears to be that EU countries are not concerned about what will happen between the North and the South. Whether controls are to be put in place is entirely at the will of the British Government. It is of no concern...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: Forgive me for labouring on the point, but the very clear focus for the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement is the issue of people going over and back across the Border. The EU does not have any real issue because we are outside the Schengen Agreement, and it is not going to request or require us to act. That had been a concern raised at the committee, and we...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: Not yet.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Common Travel Area: Department of Justice and Equality (23 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: Or legal.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I too would like to extend my sympathies to the families of the crew of R116, along with the Haughey family. Mrs. Haughey was a formidable lady, a daughter of a Taoiseach, a wife of a Taoiseach and in her own right made a contribution to Irish life and society. I extend my sympathies to the family, friends and colleagues of Martin McGuinness, who made an...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: I gave plenty of warning. I am not finger-wagging.

Seanad: Death of Martin McGuinness: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: To Bernie, Fiachra, Emmett, Fionnuala and Grainne, we extend our sympathies. They have lost a husband, a father, a grandfather. We have seen the passing of an extraordinary Irish man.He was a man who negotiated with the British in his early 20s and who fought the British. Those who opposed him saw him as a worthy adversary as well as the enemy. He was a man who thought about the future....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Dr. Karen Devine, DCU (9 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Dr. Devine. I agree with Irish neutrality. The EU has proven itself not to be a very democratic state when it comes to the foreign affairs agenda. I was in Rome when Ms Federica Mogherini was closing down the Mare Nostrum rescue mission in the Mediterranean, the obvious consequence of which was that people would die in the Mediterranean, but their idea was that if these people know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Dr. Karen Devine, DCU (9 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: We have to be brief but it was actually Dr. Devine's description of former taoisigh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Dr. Karen Devine, DCU (9 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: Sorry, I listened to Dr. Devine's entire speech. I am sorry I had to leave but I was watching it on the monitor in my office. Dr. Devine's analogy and description of successive leaders of this country in such a manner is inappropriate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Dr. Karen Devine, DCU (9 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: I have read Animal Farm. I know exactly what Dr. Devine is doing. I am just referring to Dr. Devine making that statement to members of the foreign affairs committee and describing successive leaders of this country in such a manner. I know the analogy but Dr. Devine actually described them in a manner that is inappropriate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Foreign Policy: Dr. Karen Devine, DCU (9 Mar 2017)

Mark Daly: That is Dr. Devine's exact wording.