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Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mark Daly: Perhaps the Leader could find out why the Minister, Deputy Ross, is focusing on everybody else's portfolio except his own.

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Mark Daly: I am sharing time with Senators Wilson, Gallagher, Davitt and Murnane O'Connor.

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Mark Daly: We will take whatever time we are given but perhaps the Acting Chairman will show a little latitude.

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Mark Daly: In that case, I will share time with Senator Robbie Gallagher. Many of us understood that the review to which the Minister referred related to the holistic issue of terms and conditions for councillors. One of the proposals was to consider the type of system that operates in the Oireachtas. In his contribution, however, the Minister of State indicated the Revenue Commissioners had...

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Mark Daly: There was no mention of the overall review.

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Mark Daly: That is fine. I will look at the blacks because this is an important issue. The timeline is also critical. It will be important to consider a system for payments to public representatives similar to that in operation for Deputies and Senators. Local councillors are treated as but not paid as civil servants. They are not treated in the same way as national public representatives. The...

Seanad: Appointment of Members of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission: Motion (29 Mar 2018)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank him for his outline of the appointments to the commission, which is important for the protection of Irish human rights and equality. Much remains to be done to achieve the aims and objectives of the commission. As the Minister of State pointed out, the inclusion of Patrick Connolly and others who have served in other areas, such as...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: I know the Cathaoirleach and the House will join with me in expressing sympathy to the family of the late Big Tom, as he was known. He was the king of country music and a legend in his lifetime. To his four children we express our deepest sympathies on his sad passing and on the passing of his wife, Rose, in January. I am aware that we shall discuss the issue of the Good Friday Agreement,...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: This issue is the acknowledgement of their great achievement of winning the Pulitzer Prize. The Iowa state Senate refused to acknowledge them winning the prize because they had been critical of President Trump. The most important thing in any democracy is a free press. A free press should criticise politicians when they need to be criticised and should point out where wrong is done. When...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: Will the Leader ask the relevant Minister to come to the House to discuss the advertising campaign that was axed, as outlined in the Irish Examiner? The fact that two out of every five people in Ireland know someone who is experiencing domestic violence is obviously a concern for everybody but another concern is how taxpayers' money was used in formulating a campaign that has since been...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: We are anxious.

Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. He will remember the words spoken at the SDLP dinner on the Friday night a fortnight ago, quoting the words of John Hume asking people to live for their country and not die for their country. People often refer to the two communities in Northern Ireland. I think we need to refer to them as the two traditions and the aspiration, of course, is to...

Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: No good deed goes unpunished.

Seanad: Northern Ireland and 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (18 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: Regrets, I have had a few.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: We will not be asking the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten, to come into the House to discuss his other issues.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: I speak in a personal capacity and as a Senator. For a Minister to say he is speaking in a personal capacity on an issue to do with his own Department defies belief and credibility. He needs to explain what he is doing. Something else which needs to be explained is the fanciful figure-making represented by the recent pronouncements by the Government on house building. Lorcan Sirr was on...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: The Senator cannot rely on those.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: That depends on the Labour Party.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: The reality-----