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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: I also support my colleague in regard to the National Asset Management Agency Act and his call for the Minister for Finance to come to the House tomorrow. There is no transparency in NAMA. The sweetheart deals it is doing will eventually come out in the wash but it is the taxpayer who will be at a loss. I support Senator Mullen's call for a debate on the media. Notwithstanding the...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: If the Senator is looking for promises, we know where they came from.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: With the leave of the House, I would like to share my time with Senator Darragh O'Brien. I welcome the Minister to the House. He has made a wide-ranging contribution and it is difficult for him to touch on every issue. I raise a pressing issue for which the Minister's Department is, to some extent, responsible. A 65 year old lady, Ms Teresa Treacy, has been in jail since 13 September. I...

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: I would like to invite him to the House to defend himself. Union leaders are trying to defend the indefensible at a time when the vast majority of people, the 400,000 people unemployed and those in receipt of social welfare benefits, have to pay enormous electricity and gas bills. I accept there have been increases owing to the cost of oil and gas. However, pay is a big issue. I would like...

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: I could be wrong but Conor Lenihan is not here.

Seanad: Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Statements, Questions and Answers (5 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: The Minister might encourage his Fine Gael colleagues to encourage the capping of their salaries at €200,000, as they said they would in the run-up to the election.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: Could the Cathaoirleach read the advice again?

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: It sounds like RTE has written to the Cathaoirleach to say----

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: -----he is to shut us up. That is what it sounds like. Will the Cathaoirleach read the advice again because it sounds like one of the parties-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: -----to the proceedings has told him to tell us-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: -----to keep quiet.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: In his ruling to the House the Cathaoirleach referred to a letter received from one of the parties in respect of the High Court case. I call on the Cathaoirleach to make that letter available to people in this House because it is disturbing that they are trying to gag not only the Cathaoirleach, but everyone else.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: I will read over the minutes again but they seemed to suggest that someone-----

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: It might be helpful to Members if the Cathaoirleach circulated the rulings on sub judice matters and the naming of people in the House. That would be beneficial to everyone in the House.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: In respect of the Global Economic Forum, will the Leader to ask a junior Minister from the Taoiseach's Department to come to the House and provide a review every four months on the outcomes of the forum and the progress made on the ideas that came out of it in respect of improving the economy, tourism and culture? It was noted that while Micheál Martin and the previous Government came up...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: We had the German ambassador in here during the summer and I emphasised to him that if he thinks we will pass a referendum as a result of a diktat from the Reichstag or Bundestag or whatever stag they are having, he is mistaken. The people simply will not pass another EU referendum to help the German and French taxpayers.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: I too welcome the impending release of Gilad Shalit. In recent years all sides of the House have called for his release because of the great burden it placed on his family and the fact that there is impending peace in the Middle East. As my colleague, Senator Leyden, suggested, I hope this is a step in the right direction. It is difficult to understand how the Palestinian people can call...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: I stated yesterday and I will continue to emphasise to our colleagues in Europe that there is no way the Irish people will back any referendum that gives more power to the Germans, the French, the European Commission and unelected bureaucrats such Mr. Barroso and others. The fact that they had the opportunity to get-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: The question for the Leader is to ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs to discuss diktats from Europe. They had the opportunity to run the euro correctly and they made a mess of it. Why should we give them more power to make a greater mess of it?

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: That would be the Germans.