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Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: We will be objecting to the Order of Business. When this Government came into power we were told there would be a new way of doing politics, a new Government, new procedures and a new legislative scrutiny. What we have this week is what we have had for the last number of years - a ramrodding through of legislation in the last few weeks before the recess. It is the same in the summer....

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: The Senator will be aware that his party has now stacked the legislation before Christmas to try to get things done and dusted. There is no time for scrutiny. What we saw in this House yesterday with regard to the Legal Services Bill, which was reported by The Irish Times, was a shambles. That was an understatement. The legislative programme and all the promises made by Fine Gael are now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I am ready to move the motion but we will deal with it in Part B.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: Are we discussing it in Part B?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is under-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: No, it is not. It is in the public part, motion re update on the Halawa case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: No. It is stated on the agenda that the public part includes the motion re update.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: We will hold off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: We will hear the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: We will deal with it later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: We will leave it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: We will deal with it later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I move:That the committee ask the legal team for Ibrahim Halawa to come before the committee and give an update on his case. I circulated among members the legal opinion from the legal team for Ibrahim Halawa of Doughty Street Chambers, which states that Egyptian Law 140 could be applied in the case of Ibrahim Halawa in the same way as it was applied in the case of the Australian citizen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I am seeking a formal meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I propose then to put the motion to a vote.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: There is an Irish citizen facing trial and, possibly, the death penalty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trial of Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I accept that as the Chairman said the Government supported an application under Law 140 but the Government has also stated, including during a meeting of this committee, that Law 140 does not apply in this case. I do not understand how the Government can on the one hand say that it would support an application under Egyptian Law 140, which is a presidential decree that would allow Ibrahim...