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Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: -----to listen to Deputy Pat Rabbitte? The real Labour Party policy is: "Isn't that what you ... do during an election?"

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I only give the facts.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It is all right. I think I will be able to handle the barbs coming from the other side.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome engagement with the Minister at any time on this issue. I am only putting on the record of this House statements by the Labour Party in 2010 and the real facts behind what it said when Deputy Rabbitte, in a moment of clarity and truth, said: "Isn't that what you ... do during an election?" One promises but does not ever believe one is going to deliver. Another Minister made what...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It is not a question is how we would pay for water but of how the 500,000 people who do not have money at the end of the month would do so.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Why is it that the man in south Dublin who is on €500,000 per year is being charged the same as a person who has nothing at the end of the week or month?

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: What the Government is doing in this Bill-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: -----and what Senators must be mindful of when they vote on it is asking 500,000 people to choose between paying their water bill-----

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: -----and buying food to on their tables for their children. The facts are from the Irish League of Credit Unions, which says 500,000 citizens of this State, not customers, as Irish Water would call them, are being abandoned by the Minister for Finance.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: The Minister says he does not govern for people who do not agree with him. The Minister for Health, Deputy Leo Varadkar, says that if there are people who have a problem paying €3 per week, he does not govern for them either. Senators have the power to bring the Government's madness on this to a halt and answer the fundamental question as to how 500,000 citizens in the State who do...

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It is the same one.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: There is an echo in here. It has been reverberating around the Chamber for three years.

Seanad: Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (18 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Indeed.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Communications Surveillance (17 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister. The response from the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade had all the forcefulness of a tenant going to a landlord looking for a rent reduction. He asked for the general principle to be followed. We have brought this forward in international forums. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade should ask for a report from the British Government, outlining whether...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Communications Surveillance (17 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for coming in personally to give her response to this. I also thank Senator Reilly for sharing time with me. It is amazing that we have a situation in which mass surveillance is taking place on telecommunications from this State. Like Senator Reilly, I am amazed that there seems to be no concern about another government surveying everything...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Organ Donation (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for his reply and I welcome the moves made in respect of organ donation and transplantation. We had a number of issues raised at the time of the Seanad recall about the crossover and infrastructural failures of the implementation of the EU directive on organ transplantation by the Minister's predecessor. It was described by the head of the Spanish transplant authority...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Organ Donation (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister to the House. The issue I wish to raise is that of organ donation. As the Minister knows, the system in Ireland is not all it should be. For too long, we did not have organ donor co-ordinators. There are many staff working excellently in the field very much on a voluntary basis. We were to appoint 20 new staff in this area as part of the HSE's service plan but...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Today the Taoiseach is meeting the British Prime Minister in the North to try to find a solution to three issues - flags, parades and the past. I hope that he will raise the issues on the current and ongoing tapping of communication systems in Ireland and to the outside world from Ireland that appears to be going on as revealed by Edward Snowden. In terms of the past, the Taoiseach should...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: If the Government had secured a write-down in the debt it would not now have to impose water charges. A government is supposed to represent all the people. That is what the Government is supposed to do but this Government does not represent all the people. As the Minister for Finance has said, they "govern for reasonable people". That means they only govern for people who agree with them...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: What about people who have five houses, five homes, five bedrooms or one bedroom? Eamon Gilmore continued to say "metering is unworkable". That is what Eamon Gilmore is quoted as saying in the Irish Examineron 28 June 2010. He lied and that is why he lost his job; the Government continues to lie and that is why its members will lose their jobs.