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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (11 Nov 2014)

Mark Daly: Could the Minister raise that matter with his colleagues in the Council? In future, all language in such resolutions should refer to Irish neutrality, which they refused to insert in that resolution.

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister and thank him for outlining the situation with the health budget. The choices made in regard to cuts in the health budget are the thin edge of the wedge. It took six months to get the facts and figures on ambulance cover throughout the country, including my county. It is a stark example of where we are at in terms of being in need of an ambulance today in Kerry....

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Mark Daly: I agree with Senator Mooney in respect of RTE's long wave 252 service and his request for a debate on the issue. I also agree with the comments made in respect of the right to vote being extended to members of the diaspora. I attended the meeting of the Constitutional Convention when the majority of those present agreed that the right to vote in presidential elections should be extended to...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)

Mark Daly: It is one of the worst drugs because most people who take it become instantly addicted and highly violent. In some instances, up to seven gardaí have been required to restrain individuals who have taken crystal meth and who have presented at accident and emergency departments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Colombia: ICTU (22 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: I thank the witnesses for giving views on the trade agreement and the situation in Colombia. I have been to Colombia where I met the mothers of the victims of the false positives. I accompanied a solicitor around Colombia during which for the first time in ten years he did not have 24-hour armed protection because he believed travelling with members of the Joint Committee on Foreign...

Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: Yes.

Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: I understand Senator van Turnhout will table an amendment on Report Stage. This is worrying, which is why we are having this debate. This must be removed. There is a difference between generating income and generating income for commercial purposes. GAA clubs, as a necessity, rent out halls to other sporting organisations for indoor soccer, basketball and so forth. Rugby clubs do the...

Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: I support my colleague's comments on this section and our request that the Minister looks at it. We oppose what seems to be the Government's intention in this regard. For many years, like many colleagues, I have been involved in GAA clubs. They rent out facilities, halls, astro turf pitches, etc., in order to pay back debt and to run the club. No one is making money out of the venture....

Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: I also support the position adopted by Senator Quinn. As he noted, in many cases circumstances beyond the control of the owner of a property will impact on his or her ability to pay. Much of the debate on the local property tax related to ability to pay. Many properties in rural areas are vacant and many county councils have, for the first time, the power to impose half-rates on commercial...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome the United States ambassador to the House for his first visit but, hopefully, not his last. It is a long overdue visit. We will obviously be liaising with him in regard to the issue of the 50,000 undocumented Irish living in the United States. It is good to have a great friend of Ireland in Dublin, as well as having him with us in the Seanad today. I too would like to support...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: Senator Coghlan should remember to stay silent when he is winning.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: A bonus culture will fix the leaks. Is that the answer?

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: -----but Members opposite shot it down.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: They wonder why NAMA is not transparent yet they did not want to introduce a measure that would make it transparent.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: Our legislation would have ensured any NAMA property for sale would be put on a website and be available for all to see. This reaction from Members opposite is a bit like crying over Irish Water. I agree with colleagues opposite who raised the issue of the recent desecration of the grave of W.T. Cosgrave. It is a disgrace that anyone would do this to a former leader and person who served...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: I, too, call for a suspension of the operation of Irish Water. We have seen the Government ignore the reports of its own consultants, PricewaterhouseCoopers, who told it not to establish Irish Water in the way it did. Now it is giving out about the fact that it is not working, even though it was told that it would not work in the first place. I do not know why it is crying because in 2009...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2014)

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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2014)

Mark Daly: I referred to the budget.