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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. We in south Kerry are facing death by geography and death by PowerPoint. Hidden within the PowerPoint presentation delivered to us by the national ambulance service was the information that the second emergency ambulance in Killarney town would be lost, which simply beggars belief. People in rural areas will now be waiting one to two hours for a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: It is the paramedics and doctors in Killarney who raised the issue with me.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, for taking this Adjournment debate. The issue I raise is the ambulance service in County Kerry, in particular in south Kerry where, as of last Tuesday, the service has been changed significantly in a way I believe will have detrimental consequences for patient safety. The issue is simple. Killarney town, which services a huge catchment area, has...

Seanad: Irish Sign Language: Motion (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also welcome the members of the deaf community. The Irish Deaf Society is my nominating body and I am proud to be their Senator in this Chamber. I welcome Dr. John Bosco Conama, with whom I have worked on the issue of the recognition of Irish Sign Language. We are in breach of all sorts of agreements. We are in breach of the UN Convention on...

Seanad: Political Reform: Statements (8 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: It could be argued that emigrants are not engaged in or concerned about what happens in their home country. Of course, Irish emigrants are engaged and want to know what is happening at home and want people for whom they can vote to ensure the economic and social conditions improve in order that they can return. The Constitutional Convention, of which I am a member, approved voting rights...

Seanad: Political Reform: Statements (8 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: As the budget is coming up, it is important to recognise that the scale of our financial deficit has been well and truly debated in all Chambers but the scale of our national democratic deficit has really only come under scrutiny because of the debate on the Seanad. There are many issues we now have to consider. The 1 million people who voted on Friday looked for reform, not just of this...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I will be here in the Chamber tonight.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I agree with the Leader that the most important issue is the forthcoming budget and jobs, particularly when we have one citizen leaving the State every six minutes due to emigration. The way we reform these Houses and our way of government will ensure, in the long term, that the economic crisis that befell us will not happen again. Colleagues have spoken about the Constitutional Convention...

Seanad: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Seamus Heaney: Statements (3 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I recite Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney: The pockets of our great-coats full of barley (No kitchens on the run, no striking camp) We moved quick and sudden in our own country. The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp. A people, hardly marching - on the hike - We found new tactics happening each day: Horsemen and horse fell to the twelve foot pike, We'd stampede cattle into...

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: That is not what he said. What Senator Gilroy has said is wrong.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: He did not say that.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: He said we are not the Supreme Court.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: Let her show the advice.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: Let her show the advice.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: Which is probably more relevant than the advice from the Attorney General.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: If the Senator was in opposition, he would support the legislation.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: In opposition, you were promising the sun, the moon and the stars.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: May we have two minutes?

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I will reread a sentence from the Minister of State's script. I know this is not his own wording. He states: "[I]t is a well established principle of constitutional law that legislative restrictions which affect property rights retrospectively are prima facie unjust". Clearly somebody in Government knows the well established principle of constitutional law, yet the Fine Gael and Labour...

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: Is Senator Gilroy from a party that promised legislation that is not constitutional?