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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: The cuts made in the last budget affected those on the minimum wage far more than the top earners. That is a fact.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: The Leader did not answer the question relating to Irish Water and I demand an answer. He did not answer the question relating to the Taoiseach and his wage of €3,500 a week while people on the minimum wage get nothing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Role and Interaction of GAA with the Diaspora: GAA (25 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: I must agree with my colleague from Cork, nothing is won in February. It is when the business is done that Kerry comes to the fore. I welcome Liam O'Neill and Páraic Duffy to this meeting. As a chairman of the Kenmare Shamrocks hurling and Gaelic club for five years, from the age of 27, I learned more in that committee room than I have learned in this committee room, with all respect...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister to the House. Depending on who is doing the number-crunching, approximately 1 million people go through accident and emergency departments every year. There are several main issues with accident and emergency departments from ambulances, patient processing, staffing and step-down beds. From my experience of dealing with the ambulance service, I know the situation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (18 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: Did we get any answer back from our friends in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on the issue of contacting ambassadors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (18 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: We will get a reply on the issue of Article 3 under the work programme also.

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (28 Jan 2015)

Mark Daly: I welcome the family to the Visitors Gallery. Another famous Mayo person, John Healy, wrote in 1968 the most famous tome about rural Ireland, No One Shouted Stop: Death of an Irish town. He lamented the decline of rural Ireland. While it laid out the issues of rural Ireland very well, it took people like John Carty to fight the decline of rural Ireland. As my colleague pointed out, there...

Seanad: Broadband, Post Office Network and Energy White Paper: Statements (27 Jan 2015)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister. I love this map, but the problem with it is that it lacks ambition. When one looks at the areas it is proposed to cover one notes that if one lives west of the Shannon or west of Cork city, one will not receive high speed broadband any time soon. In today's terms broadband is equivalent to what electricity was 50 years ago, in that nobody but the State could...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: On a point of order, when the question was asked whether we agreed to debate amendments Nos. 19 to 21, inclusive, I replied that we were not taking them together.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: The screen indicates amendments Nos. 19 to 21, inclusive.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I just wanted to clarify that. On the clarity being sought on the issue, is this really a mechanism to give people money and to allow the Government to get around European regulations? Is that the purpose behind this? The dread of any legislator is where legislation states that the Minister may make regulations for the purpose of this section to provide for the following: the amount of the...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: But that is section 5-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: We are asking that within six months the Minister will prepare a report, and this goes back to my earlier point to which I did not receive a reply. I was not allowed ask the Minister the follow-up question. I asked twice whether any regulatory impact assessment was done. This is a report we would like to see laid before the Houses. The central topic is whether anybody in the Department of...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Sorry, I did not get an answer to my last question.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I will not stay in this Chamber for Ministers to stand up and not reply. I am not talking about the Minister present but the previous Minister. It is not that he did not hear me because I asked the question twice. We are accused of repeating ourselves but it is because we do not get the answers.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I can guarantee him this-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: This is relevant. We are asking for a report about the water conservation measure to be laid before the Houses.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I asked a question about-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I asked a question that was not answered.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (19 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Going back to the regulatory impact assessment, will the Department make available its costings and figures concerning the change in the original legislation whereby the supply will not be cut off and the fines are €30 and €60? How many do they expect? I am sure those figures must have been done and somebody in Uisce Éireann must have carried out that assessment. It...