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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: If Senator Paul Coghlan is going to state-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: When representatives from NAMA came before a meeting of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: Senator Paul Coghlan then asked-----

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: Senator Paul Coghlan did not sit down.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: When the Senator sits down, I will also sit down.

Seanad: Registration of Wills Bill 2011: Second Stage (6 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: I commend Senator Terry Leyden for introducing this Private Members' Bill. There has been some debate as to whether the Government will support it. Senator Leyden would not argue the Bill, as drafted, is the finished article and accepts amendments need to be made to iron out the various issues raised by Senator Bacik and others, such as the voluntary nature of registration. Senator Leyden...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Justice and Equality to the House. Prior to the dissolution of the previous Dáil, legislation was proposed to reform the National Asset Management Agency. I understand a delegation of NAMA met members of the Fine Gael Party yesterday to discuss how the agency does its business. Perhaps the Leader will indicate whether the delegation proposed...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: I thank Senator Coghlan for his contribution. While the agency may be operating within the law, the problem is that it is not open and transparent. People need to have confidence in NAMA because taxpayers' money is involved. I ask the Leader to arrange to have the Minister for Justice and Equality come before the House to discuss the issue of data protection. The religious orders and...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: I support the Minister, Deputy Deenihan, for his initiative concerning the Bank of Ireland building on College Green. If his officials bring him through the entire file he would see a letter from me to the previous Minister suggesting the same idea. We were making progress on the issue until the untimely general election. We do not care which Kerryman opens the building, even if it is my...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: One may opt out but most do not. It is a system that does not work, although it has been tried everywhere. In the last consultation by the Department, of the 28 bodies involved in organ donation, 27 did not want the policy.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: Will the Leader organise a debate on organ donation and presumed consent opt-out? The State is basically taking people's organs without permission, which is not a positive step in any society. It has been proven that where the system was in place in other countries, it did not work. A system of organ donor co-ordination works better.

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: Fianna Fáil will be calling a vote on this motion. This is showman politics. We offered to introduce legislation into the House, which is where we are supposed to make laws. This motion is only following up on what an Oireachtas committee did, not in the previous Dáil but in the one before that, and which made all the recommendations the Senator proposes in the motion. The Senator spoke...

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: An Oireachtas committee discussed it, not in the last Dáil, but in the one prior to that and nothing happened. We are talking about it today, but that is not what we should be doing. We have legislation that would make people aware of the potential dangers to their children. I would not like to be back here in 47 years time saying we should have made them more aware so that more people...

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: It is activity and not action. That is not politics and is not why we are here.

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: The Senator speaks for himself.

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: On a point of order, we offered to place my legislation which Senator John Crown has endorsed and said is valid on the Order Paper to be debated tonight.

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: What is ironic about this is that the Minister of State has said-----

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: -----there are no plans to introduce further legislation in this area-----

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: -----yet a doctor has told us legislation should be introduced. The learned Members opposite have also said it should be introduced.

Seanad: Mobile Phones: Motion (13 Jul 2011)

Mark Daly: There is because we would have brought it forward in the House.