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Seanad: Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018: Second Stage (30 Jan 2018)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for being here today and accommodating this Bill. I have visited the occupied territories. I have been to UN schools as part of a delegation of the foreign affairs committee. President Higgins, who was then a member of the committee, was there too. We met a class of 12 year-old girls in a UN school in Bethlehem and discussed the issues regarding Ireland and our search...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: The issue of rural broadband is not just about connectivity to the Internet, but about sustaining and maintaining jobs in rural Ireland. Broadband is to the economy today what canals were to the economy in the 1700s, railways were in the 1900s, rural electrification in the 1930s and 1940s and telephone connections with the wider world in the 1970s and 1980s. Now there is another delay in...

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: Some 400,000 households were ruled out.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: I thank the Leader for admitting that. I am very grateful to him for that.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: It is very gracious of the Leader to be so honest.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: It depends on the Leader's definition of success.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: A monopoly has never benefited the customer so I am not sure how this one will bring a benefit the customer.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: The Deputy's party has been in government for seven years and he is blaming this on Eircom.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: There are 400,000 customers-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: The Government said that it was not going to pay for those people and then the Leader is wondering why-----

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Taoiseach ar Lá Fhéile Bhríde. This is a great day for him to come to the Seanad and an auspicious day for women in this auspicious year for women as the centenary of them getting the vote. I commend Senator Bacik and those who were involved in that gesture whereby Constance Markievicz's portrait will hang in Westminster, a building that the...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: -----fearful for their families' future and fearful for this country's future.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: The next election, whenever it takes place, must be about a change of policy and a change of direction. Most certainly, it must be about a change of Government. It must be about giving a sense of hope to those this very day who are in emergency departments, giving a sense of hope to those who are looking for a place to call home and giving a sense of hope to those who are working long and...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: -----regardless of the circumstances of the person's background, the opportunity to reach his or her full potential.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: We, in Fianna Fáil, believe that we can give those people that future that we all want to see. We do not believe in an Ireland for those who have received all the opportunities. We do not believe in an Ireland for the privileged. We do not believe in an Ireland for the few. We believe in an Ireland for everyone. As regards voting rights, the most fundamental right of any citizen in...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: The Senator should not worry about taxation.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: John Concannon will not be happy.

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State for coming into the House. I know that he is busy working on the events that coincide with St. Patrick's Day which will present a great opportunity for Ireland to engage on foreign policy issue and also with the global Irish network. Given that the Minister is attending to important business in the North, there are issues about which we have concerns, including...

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (6 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: I would like a commitment from the Minister of State. Will he make sure the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade supplies the Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement with a line-by-line, issue-by-issue breakdown of what is yet to be implemented in the Good Friday Agreement?