Results 3,421-3,440 of 8,400 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: Could the Senator name a dozen?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: Is the Senator looking for another job?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: I want to return to the issue Senator Bacik is addressing in her amendment. I did not quite grasp which section she was talking about.
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: I know the section we are talking about but to what amendment was she referring?
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: There is merit to what she says. I have to disagree with my learned colleague, Senator McDowell, in the issue of the Bar Council and the Law Society not having to put forward candidates of either gender and then giving the Minister discretion. No man knows it better than Senator McDowell in respect of the issue of gender quotas in political life. To have a system that leaves it mostly up...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: By way of example, when I was asking people in Kerry to name five public parks, buildings or roads named after women, they were unable to do so. The reason was that everybody who picks the names of the public parks are men because they are all men on the committee. Until such time as half a committee is made up of women, the men will unknowingly bring the bias of picking their favourite...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: She is proposing to bring forward a gender option providing that there would be a choice and that it would not be left up to the Bar Council and Law Society to pick only one nominee. That is where this section is relevant. If the amendment tabled by Senator Bacik were accepted on Report Stage, although I do not think we would agree with all of it, I would certainly see merit in the...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: I imagine this would normally be a matter for the Minister to put in by regulation and statutory instrument. To see the procedures of the commission enshrined in legislation suggests a lot of thought has been put into this in terms of making sure, at all costs, that the lay person is the chair. The requirement for a quorum in our own rules comes under Standing Orders and is not laid down in...
- Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: On a point of order, while Senator Norris is gathering his thoughts, can I call for a quorum?
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: I welcome Bart, Alison and Caoimhe Donegan to the Seanad and to Leinster House, a building that their family has served in with distinction and honour for many years. The issue of disturbances in Derry and attempts by Catholic and Protestant church leaders to ensure the marching season and 12 July pass by peacefully have again come to the fore. Youths have been arrested, shots fired at...
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: No. Senator Conway-Walsh's party is the tail. We know all about what is happening with the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill. We all know what is happening with the dog and the tail in that regard.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: Perhaps the dog will control its tail and perhaps the Minister will intervene in an area that would be of benefit to society and the country, rather than doing what he is doing in areas outside of his own jurisdiction.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: With all due respect to the Leader-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: -----and to the Cathaoirleach-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: -----the right honourable Member had an opportunity to go into government and to form a government-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: -----and chose not to.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: I believe she and her party went to the cinema.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: No. With the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill we have seen quite clearly that Sinn Féin's ability to be whipped is beyond question.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: I agree with the Cathaoirleach.
- Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)
Mark Daly: Bring back Norris.