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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: I have a couple of issues. One is on the request regarding Ibrahim Halawa and the proposal that the joint committee might travel and visit him in prison. Has there been an update in this regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: All right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: The second item relates to the other correspondence from the Relatives for Justice group in which it was proposed that members would have a joint meeting with the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Has there been a response from the aforementioned committee in this regard?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: On that issue, because I agree with the Deputy, perhaps we could get a response from the Department of the Taoiseach regarding his meeting with Mr. David Cameron tomorrow and on the request for the files on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. I refer to the implication of the British state being involved in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, that is, in the biggest mass murder in the history of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: Absolutely.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: The political commentator, Gore Vidal, once said that the four most beautiful words in the English language were "I told you so". I will not say "I told you so" to Senator Coghlan but I think I did. When it comes to the NAMA and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Transparency Bill, which in-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: I meant Senator Paul Coghlan. In 2012, my side of the House tried to pass the NAMA and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Transparency Bill. I think we were told at the time that it would be fine, that there was nothing to worry about and that all would be well. Now we see that all is not well. If the Government had accepted the NAMA and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Transparency Bill,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: We now we have an inquiry thanks to the fact that the Government would not accept the transparency Bill we proposed. We lost that vote 17 to 24. Now the Government is acting but it is after the horse has bolted. I ask for a debate on an Irish citizen, Ibrahim Halawa, who is in prison in Egypt. Amnesty International has said he is entirely innocent of all the charges he is facing. He has...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: There are Members missing who had been speaking on radio-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: We are not talking about our own. What we are talking about is the fact that a public meeting is taking place tonight in Roscommon on this issue. We have a motion on the Order Paper. We will not press it to a vote today because, unfortunately, some Members from the Government side, are unable to assist us.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: We will table it next Tuesday. I give notice that we will put it to a vote on Tuesday in order that all Members opposite will have an opportunity to assist us to pass that motion-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: -----to keep that Alzheimer's unit open and those who have been talking the talk on radio will be able to do something in the place that counts, that is, here. I ask that Government time to be set aside for a debate on this important issue and in regard to what Dr. Kelly, the former chairperson of the Western Health Board, has said that the Government is abusing the elderly by closing down...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: Is the Senator talking about the IBRC?
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: To what is the Senator referring?
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: Senator Coghlan is lacking in transparency in the most obvious manner.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: The Senator is master of lack of transparency. I do not even know to what the Senator is referring.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: I thank the Senator for his support on that issue.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: The Senator should respect the Chair.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: The Senator cannot turn around and say he will respect the Chair and do the opposite.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jun 2015)
Mark Daly: We did that two years ago.