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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: I support my colleague Senator Darragh O'Brien in his views on the issue of medical cards. I also share his view on the Government's continued perverse policy of withdrawing medical cards from the elderly and children who are in need of assistance but who happen to be over the age of six years while giving them to the sons and daughters of millionaires who are under the age of six. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If Senator Burke thinks it is okay for the HSE-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If Senator Colm Burke thinks it is okay for the HSE to attempt to silence HIQA, which is critical-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If the Government is only looking for praise, then it should look to its own press department, because that is the only place it will get praised.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If the Government wants critical analysis and wants HIQA to do its job, which it is doing-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: -----then it should look at the report and have it published unedited.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: The Government did not promise censorship, but rather openness and transparency, which it is not providing. This report is a crystallisation of that policy.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: I am looking for a debate on that. Senator Burke would like to show up and defend his-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: Will the Leas-Chathaoirleach ask Senator Burke-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: Perhaps the Leader would ask, when the debate is held on the report that is being suppressed by the HSE, that the Minister would attend the House in order that we can have a full, open and transparent debate on the contents of the unedited report. I pay tribute to Henry Shefflin on his retirement. I am from a county which has not fallen to his masterful skills and can praise him fulsomely...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: We have won the Christy Ring cup and other competitions. It will come as news to the Government that I want to thank and praise it and I ask the Leader to give me some indulgence in this regard.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: The Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Paschal Donohoe, who is a former Senator, will come to Kerry tomorrow and we will give him a full welcome. He will visit the Valentia marine rescue coordination centre. The Members opposite-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: It was a matter that was raised here many times on the Order of Business. There were attempts by both Governments to close it. A previous Fianna Fáil Minister attempted to have it shut down and the local community and a national campaign, in which Mick O'Connell was involved-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: We managed to keep it open. I praise all involved.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: In 1968 John Healy wrote a book called "No-one Shouted Stop: Death of an Irish Town" about his home town of Charlestown, County Mayo. He was lamenting the fact that rural Ireland was dying on its feet. In recent years we have seen 100 banks, around 214 post offices and 1,290 pubs in rural Ireland close. However, what affects rural Ireland more than any of that is the loss of schools and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: As Senator Paul Coghlan would know, we are very poetic in Kerry.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: The school is not entirely happy. I am asking for a review of this case, on the basis of the criteria that was sent out to the school. The previous Minister for Education and Skills was implementing a system which would have ensured that small rural schools would be closed. The particular school to which I refer would have been affected but this is not just an issue for that school. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Irish - Ireland’s Diaspora Policy: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1 Apr 2015)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State and his appointment as the first Minister of State with responsibility for the diaspora. We in Fianna Fáil are delighted to be the first party to publish a policy paper on the diaspora and to call for such an appointment. I am delighted to see that it is the Minister of State, Deputy Deenihan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Global Irish - Ireland’s Diaspora Policy: Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1 Apr 2015)

Mark Daly: We take some credit, but the Taoiseach might have had slightly more to do with it. We published our paper in July 2013. When asked in October 2013 whether there should be a Minister of State for the diaspora, the then Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade stated that there should be. In 2014, Sinn Féin came out with its policy. Lo and behold, everyone agreed and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Mark Daly: I move:That the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade requests the Taoiseach to contact the President of Egypt in relation to Ibrahim Halawa's case. I welcome the Minister's letter. It is comprehensive. He raised many issues in it which appear to contradict what other governments have successfully done to achieve the release of their citizens abroad. I note previous correspondence...