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

Mark Daly: The Chairman might as well. It might be his last use of the hammer.

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

Mark Daly: There are discrepancies between what the Government has said at different times.

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

Mark Daly: His 20th birthday is on 13 December and his trial is on 15 December. My concern remains that we have been told different things at different times by our Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to what can and cannot be done for Ibrahim Halawa on law No. 140 and the presidential decree. Other countries have succeeded but we have failed to do for our citizen what the Australians...

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

Mark Daly: It has not.

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

Mark Daly: That might be Deputy Durkan's view but it is not the legal team's view of it.

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

Mark Daly: It is quite clear the criticism being levelled at the Government-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Situation in Palestine: Discussion (9 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I also wish to voice concerns about Khalida Jarrar and her continued administrative detention. Irrespective of her background and politics, she is entitled to due process. General McChrystal said, "for every innocent person you kill, you create ten new enemies." That obviously seems to be the case not only in Palestine and Syria but throughout the Middle East. As a policy it is...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: Was one of the items on the Order Paper that there would be no Opposition amendments taken?

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: The two-tier recovery is continuing, according to a report by a think tank which shows that 10% of people in this country have nearly 50% of the wealth; 20% have 75% yet the bottom 50% have only 5%. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has shown that this Government’s budgets have hit those at the bottom the hardest and protected those at the top, whereas our budgets got...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: Donald Trump has been a bigot and a racist for most of his life. We would expect more from someone seeking the high office of President of the United States and leader of the free world than to judge someone by his or her religion and try to block members of the Muslim community entering the United States in the same way as people tried to stop Irish Catholics entering the United States over...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: There would be a demand if the museum had them.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: Yes. I remind colleagues seated opposite about the issue of child hunger-----

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: -----so that they do not just blindly support the Government.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I was here as were my colleagues.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State. If he does not have the answer to any of my questions, I ask him to circulate it afterwards. Was an impact assessment made of the implementation of this legislation by judges? One of the reasons people are given bail is the possibility that there will be an undue delay in hearing cases in court. It can take some time for a case to come to court. On the...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: I join with colleagues regarding concerns about the health service. The HSE director general, Tony O'Brien, gave a comprehensive account of what is wrong with it and the Minister agreed with him. That is great. As Senator Walsh has pointed out, he is the commentator in chief on the Government's behalf.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: From the way he talks about the health service, one would swear he was not a player. He seems to get an easy time on radio, as if he were just one of the talking heads who are invited into studios to discuss the health service and not the man in charge of it. I, too, raise concerns about Ibrahim Halawa. This is the tenth time his court case has been postponed. Some 493 other people are on...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is clear that the Government is not doing everything possible. The Members opposite voted against hearing from Ibrahim Halawa's legal team at the foreign affairs committee last week. For the committee not to want to hear the legal team's opinion is unprecedented.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is not a political football.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Dec 2015)

Mark Daly: It is simply that the Government is not doing enough.