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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: 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: 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...

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: 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: 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: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: The Taoiseach says he is worth €3,500 per week.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: I am sure it sounds incredible to someone on the minimum wage of €8.65 per hour, or on social welfare or struggling to make ends meet in the middle classes. He was stealing a line from Jennifer Aniston who, when advertising a shampoo, said she was "worth it". No doubt she earns considerably more than the Taoiseach but a person on the minimum wage earns one tenth of what the Taoiseach...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: I am glad to hear Senator Paul Coghlan is not defending the Taoiseach's €3,500 per week or saying that he is worth that. Is that right, Senator Coghlan?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: The Senator said that and the record will show it. The Taoiseach says he is worth €3,500 per week but he was put into office because he promised to end cronyism and fix the health system. He said he would end the disgrace of waiting lists and the accident and emergency crisis. He made all those promises but did not deliver on them yet he says he is worth it. I am not too sure...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: I am sure the elderly and other vulnerable people would not agree he is worth it either. I ask the Leader whether we should have a living wage as opposed to a minimum wage. I also wish to ask a question about Irish Water. It is clear that Irish Water is insolvent. Normally the economists of Ireland cannot agree on anything and if one were to put them end to end they would not come to a...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: I did not associate Senator Norris with them.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: I do not know why the Senator is disassociating himself from comments with which I did not associate him.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: Well, now.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: If that is not the kettle calling the pot black.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: I think you-----