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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: The issue is still the same as yesterday. The Labour Party could have had an election yesterday if it had wanted to and had the guts to do it. It did not do it. The Labour Party funked it.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: You lot did not do it. You funked it.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Will the Leader bring in the Minister for Finance at the earliest opportunity to debate this most serious issue? Of the €2 billion in banks assets sold so far, the taxpayer has only got back €200 million.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: The rest of that amount has gone to banks not under NAMA.

Seanad: National Monument at 14-16 Moore Street, Dublin: Statements (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I welcome the relatives of some of those who fought in 1916 and gave their lives for the country. Thomas Davis who was from Mallow would be proud today that a fellow Corkman was elected leader of Fianna Fáil. In his famous song, "A Nation Once Again", he wrote the line, "three hundred men and three men" to describe how the Greeks had taken on the Persians. As far as the British were...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Fine Gael could have blocked the Finance Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: We could have begun the election campaign last Tuesday.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Like Senator Leyden, I am opposed to this. I do not know whether the Labour Party Senators got clearance from their Dáil spokesperson but if we did this within one month, we would need to hold the general election in March.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Because it cannot go before the Dáil.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: The recommendation states: "The Minister shall within one month from the passing of this Act prepare and lay before Dáil Éireann". The Dáil will no longer be in existence in one month.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: The Senator should know we are supposed to dissolve the Dáil on Tuesday.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I am dealing with the wording of the recommendation.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Pardon?

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: It is not as pathetic as the wording of the recommendation.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: If you are going to come into this House-----

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: ----you should at least say "two months".

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: You are the one talking to me and I am talking to you.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: As Senator Leyden said, we should make declarations about this and I, as an auctioneer, was involved in selling section 23 properties.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I felt at the time that some of these tax exemption sections were quite good, such as the section dealing with nursing homes, but the holiday home exemptions went on for too long. Senator Ross is right about that. They should have been closed off in many areas. In my home town there were a number of planned developments and we were lucky they did not go ahead. If, however, the section was...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: If that loss were extended to cover other fire sales in similar properties, including section 23 properties, the cost to the taxpayer would be in the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of euro. If section 23 relief is withdrawn unilaterally, there will be a double crash. I raised a related point during the week that NAMA was not following the legislative provisions in the selling of...