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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: I have a couple of issues. One is on the request regarding Ibrahim Halawa and the proposal that the joint committee might travel and visit him in prison. Has there been an update in this regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: All right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: The second item relates to the other correspondence from the Relatives for Justice group in which it was proposed that members would have a joint meeting with the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement. Has there been a response from the aforementioned committee in this regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: On that issue, because I agree with the Deputy, perhaps we could get a response from the Department of the Taoiseach regarding his meeting with Mr. David Cameron tomorrow and on the request for the files on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings. I refer to the implication of the British state being involved in the Dublin-Monaghan bombings, that is, in the biggest mass murder in the history of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (Resumed) (17 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: Absolutely.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: It is an EU directive and the Government is running out of time to implement it.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: No problem.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: I support my colleague, Senator Darragh O'Brien, and second his amendment to the Order of Business on bringing in the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, who one would swear was not the Minister for Health and merely worked as a commentator condemning actions in his own Department, allowing his response to be dictated by Beaumont Hospital and then wondering why it was not brought up yesterday. If it...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: I am sorry - the Minister does not know how the Seanad works. I welcome the announcement by the Pope in the past half an hour on climate change and ask for a debate on it. Climate change is the most serious issue facing mankind. It is the most serious threat facing the world at this time. When one considers that half of the creatures of the Earth have disappeared since 1990, in China life...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: We are getting legal advice.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (18 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: It is not all-----

Seanad: Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: I support the proposed amendment to the Order of Business on the lone parent allowance. All of us have received representations on this important issue and I hope the Government will accept the amendment. I commend the Taoiseach on his recent announcement in Killarney that he will release the files on the Kingsmill massacre in the North. He met the families involved and promised to release...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: I support colleagues in the motion about the Rape Crisis Network. The Senator will be able to watch a programme tonight about the work of the Rape Crisis Network in Kerry, the valuable work it does and how its funding is being cut.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: As Senator Gilroy will know, the situation is dire and every time there is a trial reported in the newspapers or on television, as we will see tomorrow in relation to Father Brendan Smyth, Cardinal Brady and others, it means the victims relive their experience. The Rape Crisis Network and those who support it have been damaged and have suffered from a grievous crime and for the Government to...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: The Labour Party is used to breaking promises and Senator Gilroy is used to defending the indefensible but when he sees the Rape Crisis Network in Kerry he will hear about the loss of funding when all they have to do is look at the person to the left, to the right, to the front or to the back to see a victim.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: Senator Gilroy is defending the indefensible, as usual, and talks out of both sides of his mouth. Others had Commencement matters relating to this issue but we will see how they vote because how they vote on questions relating to the most vulnerable is the most important thing. Actions speak louder than words. When the motion comes up I hope Members opposite will reflect on it. The most...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: I am asking for a debate and I look forward to hearing from Government Members opposite, especially those in the Labour Party who talk on the radio on the one hand while, on the other, vote against the Rape Crisis Network and other organisations which provide so much valuable support to the most vulnerable people.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: These people have suffered and will continue to suffer if this Government goes ahead with its cuts.

Seanad: Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and I welcome the delayed Bill to the Seanad. As the Minister of State will be aware only 2% of the laws made in this country every year actually come before the Dáil and Seanad. Most of the laws that come into effect in Ireland are EU directives, EU regulations or statutory instruments, signed by Ministers directly into Irish law and they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (24 Jun 2015)

Mark Daly: The committee has received correspondence from the family of Ibrahim Halawa. Amnesty International is returning to the committee to talk about its annual report and also the discrepancies between what we have been told by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and information that the Halawa family have given us regarding the torture of Ibrahim and the lack of medical treatment and...