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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Irish - Ireland’s Diaspora Policy: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State and his appointment as the first Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora. We in Fianna Fáil are delighted to be the first party to publish a policy paper on the diaspora and to call for such an appointment. I am delighted to see that it is the Minister of State, Deputy Deenihan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Irish - Ireland’s Diaspora Policy: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: We take some credit, but the Taoiseach might have had slightly more to do with it. We published our paper in July 2013. When asked in October 2013 whether there should be a Minister of State for the diaspora, the then Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade stated that there should be. In 2014, Sinn Féin came out with its policy. Lo and behold, everyone agreed and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: I move:That the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade requests the Taoiseach to contact the President of Egypt in relation to Ibrahim Halawa's case. I welcome the Minister's letter. It is comprehensive. He raised many issues in it which appear to contradict what other governments have successfully done to achieve the release of their citizens abroad. I note previous correspondence...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: No, I am only quoting the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: That is not in the correspondence from the Department.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: Chairman, I will forward the correspondence where the Department states that its primary concern is his treatment in prison.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: On a point of information-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: The Deputy is misleading the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: The President of Egypt can intervene if he so wishes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: In the case of the Canadian and Australian nationals, it was the Prime Ministers' telephone calls and meetings with President el-Sisi that secured their release, nothing else. There was nothing from their departments of foreign affairs or their Ministers for foreign affairs. It was the direct intervention that worked. We welcome all the work the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the officials...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: They were convicted in court.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: On adopting a low-key, measured approach, I note that while it should be measured, the Australians and Canadians did not adopt low-key methods. We must follow the example that worked, not the one that is not working.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: Amnesty International, according to our report here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: I suggest that we revisit the motion and that we write to the Taoiseach to ask him to examine what other jurisdictions have done to secure the release of their citizens and to ask the Department of Foreign Affairs to keep him briefed on a daily basis on the case. On 26 April, the motion will be put to a vote, if needs be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)
Mark Daly: We support Deputy Durkan's amendment as well.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)
Mark Daly: In 1968 John Healy wrote a book called "No-one Shouted Stop: Death of an Irish Town" about his home town of Charlestown, County Mayo. He was lamenting the fact that rural Ireland was dying on its feet. In recent years we have seen 100 banks, around 214 post offices and 1,290 pubs in rural Ireland close. However, what affects rural Ireland more than any of that is the loss of schools and...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)
Mark Daly: As Senator Paul Coghlan would know, we are very poetic in Kerry.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)
Mark Daly: The school is not entirely happy. I am asking for a review of this case, on the basis of the criteria that was sent out to the school. The previous Minister for Education and Skills was implementing a system which would have ensured that small rural schools would be closed. The particular school to which I refer would have been affected but this is not just an issue for that school. This...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Mark Daly: Is this the one the Senator voted for?
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)
Mark Daly: If only he voted the way he talks, we would be grand.