Results 3,041-3,060 of 8,400 for speaker:Mark Daly

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: If the Government had put them in, they would not have been ruled out of order.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: Okay.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: For the benefit of the House, in the Constitution it is "Ireland".

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: On a point of order, the Chair has outlined that the amendments were late. The Minister of State has outlined that he decided not to propose the amendments. Somebody has to tell us which is correct.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: No, I am sorry, a Leas-Chathaoirleach. You outlined that they were late. The issue with this Bill is that a lot of the amendments we had tabled have been ruled out of order by the Chair, even though some of them were the same as the Government amendments. The Government decided not to table the amendments, knowing that by it so doing our amendments would be ruled out of order. That was a...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: We have spent hours on the Bill. This Stage was supposed to be taken ten weeks after Second Stage. It is ten months later. We have exhausted ourselves.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: What the Minister of State has outlined-----

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: No, I am sorry-----

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I am sorry, but just on what the Minister of State outlined, what he did not address is that there is a broadcasting element in this. This will show how cynical this is. What we are introducing in the broadcasting element of this Bill is less than what is required of the broadcasting authorities and yet the Government wants it taken out. Why? If we are asking for less, why does it want to...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: It is deeply disturbing for the deaf community-----

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: If the Government put forward its amendments they cannot be ruled out of order.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: The Government can put a charge on the State.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I do understand it can put a charge on the State but-----

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: -----but because ours are exactly the same as theirs-----

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: They were not late.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: They said the amendments were late.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I know that.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: We like to flatter the Minister of State if we can.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: The Minister of State has opposed another of them.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Committee Stage (21 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I said deafness is not a party political issue, but a civil rights issue. This is an issue about the extreme marginalisation of a community and I thank the Senators who have spoken on this amendment and on other issues. I especially thank Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee, who is sick, had an operation recently and came in to get this Bill passed. The Government withdrew its own amendment that...