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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

Mark Daly: Could I suggest that in principle we agree to send a delegation? We will get feedback next week from the Egyptian authorities as to whether members will be allowed to attend the trial and to visit Ibrahim. I agree with Deputy O'Sullivan that it is important that members of the committee meet him and that the foreign affairs committee agree in principle to send a delegation on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

Mark Daly: I understand his lawyers from Ireland and London are going over, and the Egyptian lawyers as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (23 Sep 2015)

Mark Daly: In the event of a delegation going, I know that members want the Chairman to go but the Chairman has already done a lot on this issue.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: Out of 47 European countries, Ireland has the fewest number of judges per 100,000 of population. I ask the Leader for a debate on that but also that the issue of barristers defending and prosecuting cases of sexual violence should, as they do in other jurisdictions including the United Kingdom, undertake training on the impact of sexual violence on victims. That does not happen currently...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I have not said anything inappropriate.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: My time is not up yet. Those were cases in which the perpetrators admitted that they raped somebody-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: -----yet suspended sentences were handed down. We saw this week, in regard to the house of horrors, where three judges said that the sentence should be reduced for one of the most horrific cases of abuse in the history of the State.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: All of these judges are male, middle class and privately schooled. That has got to change.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to organise a debate on the current state of the economy as we will not have much time to discuss the budget provision. The economic policy being pursued by the Government is akin to economic Darwinism because it involves the survival of the fittest. Those who have get richer and those who have not get nothing. Those who are on the outside of our society keep looking in...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: They pass judgment on women.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I am not casting aspersions on any particular judge. I am talking about our judicial system.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I am talking about sentencing in general.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I am talking about how judges pass judgment on women, on people who have been victims of child abuse and on minorities. I can give some examples.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I am asking for a debate on our judicial system because there needs to be a gender quota in the appointment of our judges. It is as simple as that. We have gender quotas in politics and in other areas, but we do not have such a quota in the Judiciary. As I have said, some 69% of people are not satisfied with our sentencing regime. There are mandatory sentences for murder, which is as it...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: That is why I am calling for a debate on it. Eleven pupils were abused by one principal and he got only a two-year sentence.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: These are unidentifiable children.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: Another sentence was handed down in respect of a baby who was abused.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: Sorry, a Chathaoirligh. Hold on.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I am sorry. I am not identifying anyone. I am talking about sentencing in relation to-----

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: Chairman, I am generalising about sentences that are handed down in respect of child abuse.