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Seanad: Order of Business (16 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: The note concludes as follows, "For that to happen, the HSE needs to approve Orkambi."

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I join with colleagues regarding concerns about the health service. The HSE director general, Tony O'Brien, gave a comprehensive account of what is wrong with it and the Minister agreed with him. That is great. As Senator Walsh has pointed out, he is the commentator in chief on the Government's behalf.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: From the way he talks about the health service, one would swear he was not a player. He seems to get an easy time on radio, as if he were just one of the talking heads who are invited into studios to discuss the health service and not the man in charge of it. I, too, raise concerns about Ibrahim Halawa. This is the tenth time his court case has been postponed. Some 493 other people are on...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is clear that the Government is not doing everything possible. The Members opposite voted against hearing from Ibrahim Halawa's legal team at the foreign affairs committee last week. For the committee not to want to hear the legal team's opinion is unprecedented.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is not a political football.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is simply that the Government is not doing enough.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is not repeating what the Australian Government did in the case of its citizen, Peter Greste.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: The Australian Government invoked Law 140 and used all its diplomatic pressure to do so. It secured his release. This Government has failed quite clearly-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: -----to do the same thing in respect of an Irish citizen who has spent his 20th birthday in jail.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: If he wants to make political charges, I will respond.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I made statements of fact.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is like the Government's health policy - another work of fiction.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I thank Senator John Crown for bringing this Bill forward. He is keeping a promise on reforming this House. The Government made a promise about the referendum and we have seen no reform or change since. This is important legislation which proposes to change the way in which this House is elected and who can elect people to the Oireachtas. One of the important provisions in the Bill is the...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I know, but let us be honest; we are not going to reach the rest of the sections. Senator John Crown sums up the need for reform and the need to ensure more people are allowed to vote in a reformed Seanad, which would allow them to have a stake in what this House does and the type of legislation it proposes. I know Senator Crown is not going to run again but it is heartening to see the...

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: That is great.

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: Is that the reason Senator Keane is objecting to this one?

Seanad: Seanad Electoral Reform Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: Senator Keane would want to check her briefing notes on that one.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State. If he does not have the answer to any of my questions, I ask him to circulate it afterwards. Was an impact assessment made of the implementation of this legislation by judges? One of the reasons people are given bail is the possibility that there will be an undue delay in hearing cases in court. It can take some time for a case to come to court. On the...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: Was one of the items on the Order Paper that there would be no Opposition amendments taken?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: The two-tier recovery is continuing, according to a report by a think tank which shows that 10% of people in this country have nearly 50% of the wealth; 20% have 75% yet the bottom 50% have only 5%. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has shown that this Government’s budgets have hit those at the bottom the hardest and protected those at the top, whereas our budgets got...