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Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State, his officials and all Members for the debate on this issue. I hope they will support the amendment in my name. This goes back to the issue of education and to the review of the Act to ensure that it is operating correctly. It will ensure that there will be a requirement on the State, long after we have shuffled off this mortal coil, to produce reports on the...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I move amendment No. 41:In page 17, to delete lines 21 to 31 and substitute the following:“Review of the operation of the Act 30.(1) The Minister shall, 3 years after the date on which this act is enacted and every 5 years thereafter require a report to be prepared on—(a) the operation of this Act, (b) without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, a report under this...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I move amendment No. 43:In page 17, after line 31, to insert the following:“Short title and commencement 30.(1) This Act may be cited as the Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Act 2017.(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day or days not later than 3 years after the passing of this Act as, by order or orders made by the Minister under this section, may...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: We have already discussed it.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State. As he said, this is a civil rights Bill. It ensure that the citizens of this State who suffer from the most extreme marginalisation, as described by our Committee on Justice and Equality, have rights enshrined in law. Members of the deaf community on this island are unable to access the most basic of services. Citizens are excluded from participating in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for their ongoing work to get to the truth behind what happened in the conflict. In particular, I thank Ms Anne Cadwallader for her assistance in preparing the report the committee launched in August. I have met the Victims' Commissioner. In terms of the outline of the number of cases, are there are 1,300 outstanding cases that have yet to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: They are online. They are also in the big version of the report.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: John Bradley of Queen's University Belfast once said that policy neglect seldom goes unpunished. The Revenue Commissioners have produced a comprehensive report on Brexit that the Government has not released. It outlines the fact that the 91,000 Irish companies that trade with the United Kingdom will be subject to massive regulations and customs declarations in the event of a hard Brexit and...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Can we not at least comment-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Any time Senator Coghlan wants to talk about football, in terms of solo runs or hand passes-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Thanks for the support.

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for the update on his work and that of his Department regarding getting the Northern Executive up and running. I have some questions. If the Minister does not have the answers today, I ask him to send them to Senators at a later date. How many officials in the Department are dealing directly with officials in Brussels regarding the impact of Brexit on the joint bodies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the representatives from Irish Aid for the detailed presentation. Deputy O'Sullivan spoke on the issue of the UN and the EU and how much of our overseas aid budget actually goes directly to them. The issue is really over the control. Members often receive memos about aid programmes that Ireland has signed up for under the EU. We hand over the cheque and Ireland's control of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: There is an issue in Germany where we have four consulates and there are some 16,000 Irish citizens there. Compared to other regions there is no balance. I am on the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, as is the Chairman, and we would hope the witnesses would come before that committee because we have had a number of issues. We are the implementation committee and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Just slightly. The Department, however, cannot tell us. On the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement next year we, as the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, would like to be able to say to people what is left to be implemented in the same manner as the Fresh Start agreement. We have not been able to get information from the Department officials in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: It is definitely not overseas. I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Time added on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2017 to 2020: Department of Defence (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Secretary General for coming into the committee and for his presentation. I have a number of specific questions, the most important of which is that the issue of neutrality is not mentioned in the presentation or in what I can see in the information we have here. In a previous strategy document, we had to fight for it to be mentioned. If the Government is going to drop the idea...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2017 to 2020: Department of Defence (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I seek a commitment. The document speaks of an EU global strategy on foreign security policy and peacekeeping, but it is important that any strategy, even in the introduction, would mention neutrality. Could Mr. Quinn give us a commitment that neutrality will be included in the Department's paper?