Results 6,621-6,640 of 8,632 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: On the minutes, I raised previously a reply from the Department about the issue of Members of the Oireachtas having mobile phone numbers for ambassadors which seems to be a State secret. Could someone give us a written reply?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: It is an important issue. It has been raised with me by a number of people. I refer to the tapping of everyone's mobile phone. Is the committee taking a lead on that issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: We have only one-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: We have only one meeting left. The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade should deal with the tapping of the mobile phones by the British Government because-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: One meeting should be entirely about that.
- Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (3 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: It can be costly. It might not be free that often.
- Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (3 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: I wish to thank the Minister of State for his contribution. I would also like to thank Senators Crown and Barrett, and especially Mr. Shane Conneely, for their work on this important legislation, which relates to the awesome and overwhelming power of the State to silence people who have information and wish to criticise the State. The Minister for Health spoke yesterday about the ambulance...
- Seanad: Geological Survey of Ireland: Statements (Resumed) (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is important that the survey which is an audit of our natural resources be made available to the public. It is important to know what we have and what resources we can use safely and extract safely and those which it would be better to leave alone. The Minister is well aware of the issues in respect of natural resources and fracking....
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: As a policy, every piece of communication from this island is being monitored.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: Worse than that, the Government is still giving-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: -----contracts to the companies, Vodafone and others, which are monitoring on behalf of another state.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: It is incredible that there is deafening silence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: I hope, by the time we get out of this Chamber, the Government has the will and bravery, because it is cowardice so far, to take the case of the hooded men back to the European courts because this is the issue. It is not about what happened nearly 40 years ago.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: It is about the fact that the European court ruling is now being used-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: -----to promote and allow for enhanced interrogation techniques, which is actually torture, around the world.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: I also express my sympathies to the family and friends of Jonathan Corrie, who died just yards from this Chamber. However, homelessness, and the result seen yesterday of somebody dying on the steps of Parliament, is the thin edge of austerity. That is what it looks like when services are cut and when funding has been withdrawn from mental health services, from alcohol and addiction...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: It is absolutely unbelievable.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)
Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to organise a debate, to bring in the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade and to ask him why there is no outrage from or protest by the Government. The ambassador is not even being brought in to explain why they are listening.
- Seanad: Cumann na mBan: Motion (27 Nov 2014)
Mark Daly: I move: That, in this year, the 100th anniversary of Cumann na mBan, Seanad Éireann: - encourages local authorities to name currently unnamed public buildings, roads or parks after Cumann na mBan or a member of Cumann na mBan from their county; and - believes it is fitting and appropriate that local authorities recognise those women of Cumann na mBan and also the role of other women who...
- Seanad: Order of Business (27 Nov 2014)
Mark Daly: That is a positivity.