Results 2,461-2,480 of 8,400 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Seanad: Transplant Patient Services: Motion (15 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I move: "That Seanad Éireann calls on the Government to ensure: - that the vacant posts in Beaumont Hospital in urology, with an interest in transplantation, be categorised as very urgent and receive an exemption to the current pay scales on offer; - that the recent practice of instructing transplant patients to attend hospital Emergency Departments be complemented by providing...
- Seanad: Transplant Patient Services: Motion (15 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: The most important point is that the hundreds of people who are awaiting organ transplants are suffering anxiety and are in a state of distress as a result of this uncertainty.
- Seanad: Transplant Patient Services: Motion (15 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: It is a disappointing reply even on the practical matter of continuing to ask transplant candidates to attend emergency departments given that we know their very attendance could affect their health and lead to a catastrophic result for them. I understand the issue of staff not being available, but to continue to ask people to put themselves in harm's way in a health service is deeply...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to organise a debate on the current state of the economy as we will not have much time to discuss the budget provision. The economic policy being pursued by the Government is akin to economic Darwinism because it involves the survival of the fittest. Those who have get richer and those who have not get nothing. Those who are on the outside of our society keep looking in...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: They pass judgment on women.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I am not casting aspersions on any particular judge. I am talking about our judicial system.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I am talking about sentencing in general.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I am talking about how judges pass judgment on women, on people who have been victims of child abuse and on minorities. I can give some examples.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I am asking for a debate on our judicial system because there needs to be a gender quota in the appointment of our judges. It is as simple as that. We have gender quotas in politics and in other areas, but we do not have such a quota in the Judiciary. As I have said, some 69% of people are not satisfied with our sentencing regime. There are mandatory sentences for murder, which is as it...
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: That is why I am calling for a debate on it. Eleven pupils were abused by one principal and he got only a two-year sentence.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: These are unidentifiable children.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: Another sentence was handed down in respect of a baby who was abused.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: Sorry, a Chathaoirligh. Hold on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I am sorry. I am not identifying anyone. I am talking about sentencing in relation to-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: Chairman, I am generalising about sentences that are handed down in respect of child abuse.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I am asking that the Minister come to the House and speak about the Judiciary and why it is that someone who is convicted on drugs charges gets seven years while someone who abuses 11 children gets two years.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: What is wrong with our Judiciary that allows that? Why is it that when judges are sentencing people to jail for abuse and rape, they talk about the background of the perpetrator and how he came from a good family and how he is held in high regard-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: -----yet we do not see maximum sentences that are appropriate to a crime?
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to arrange for a debate on a gender quota in our Judiciary.
- Seanad: Order of Business (16 Jul 2015)
Mark Daly: Just because the Senator knows and was involved in appointing so many of them, it does not mean-----