Results 41-60 of 133 for cork speaker:Mark Daly

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (6 Oct 2022)

Mark Daly: ..., Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to make a statement on the timeline for the re-opening of the early childhood care and education, ECCE, class in Morning Star National School, Ballyphehane, Cork. Senator Malcolm Byrne - The need for the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to make a statement on Ireland’s potential membership of...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (10 Nov 2020)

Mark Daly: ...consideration be given to inviting President-elect Biden to come to Ireland and to address a joint sitting of these Houses. I know the Mayo and Louth contingents, and now I hear the Wexford and Cork contingents, where he has relatives would welcome such an address.In our letter to President-elect Biden, we quoted one of his favourite poets, W.B. Yeats, who is a former Member of the...

Seanad: Agriculture and Fisheries: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: ...what steps does he intend to take to remedy it? If afforestation has decreased by 38% in one year, something must be seriously wrong. There are people who want to plant land in areas of counties Cork and Kerry, for example, but we are down 38% because the unenclosed land has been cut out for grants and rates.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Mark Daly: ...make a statement on the measures being taken to address the concerns of relatives and relevant persons in respect of the planning application on the former Bessborough mother and baby home estate in County Cork. Senator Emer Currie - The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the registration of Ukrainian doctors so as to make them eligible to practise in Ireland....

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (21 Sep 2022)

Mark Daly: ...: Senator Tim Lombard: The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the report of the Mental Health Commission on the Centre for Mental Health Care and Recovery, Bantry, County Cork. Senator Maria Byrne: The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the rent-a-room scheme in the context of the medical card income assessment. Senator Mary Seery Kearney:...

Seanad: Health Services: Motion (25 Feb 2015)

Mark Daly: ...Kerry. When he was seen, they called the coastguard helicopter. He stepped into the helicopter and said that it was not good. The paramedic agreed with him and he died on the operating table in Cork. If he had been seen earlier and if the ambulance had been available, the outcome could have been different. We do not have enough emergency ambulances so we have people dying or having...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Services (26 Nov 2013)

Mark Daly: ...care professionals throughout the State as possible are properly trained and qualified and that procedures are in place to ensure that tragedies, such as those that occurred in Kilkenny and in Cork, do not happen in the future.

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (29 Jun 2020)

Mark Daly: ...s name was also on the sign language Bill for the deaf community. I thank her for her support on that and for her kind words. I am going out of sequence but I wish to call my great colleague from Cork, Senator Buttimer, the former Leader, who did outstanding work as Leader of the Seanad. We did not always agree. In fact, we very rarely agreed but we can always agree to disagree. That...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Jul 2016)

Mark Daly: ...for Social Protection and by all accounts the future leader of Fine Gael, Deputy Leo Varadkar, are that the nine emergency departments in Cavan, Naas, Portiuncula, Kilkenny, Mullingar, Clonmel, Cork's Mercy Hospital and Portlaoise would be shut down and their patients would be moved, along with any future patients, into an already overcrowded and chaotic emergency department system. It...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2021)

Mark Daly: ...the Greek language. This year, Greece celebrates the 200th anniversary of the beginning of its war of independence. Among those who fought in that struggle was General Richard Church, from County Cork, who led the Greek army in the latter stages of the war. He became a Greek citizen and a Greek senator and was a member of Greece's council of state.The year 2021 also marks the 40th...

Seanad: Cystic Fibrosis Services (13 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State. I wish to raise with her the provision of adult cystic fibrosis in-care beds at Cork University Hospital. She will be aware that in Ireland one in 19 people carry the cystic fibrosis gene. When two parents carrying the gene have a child, there is a one in four chance that it will be born with cystic fibrosis. While we are unique in that we have a higher...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2021)

Mark Daly: ...in this State.The Lithuanian Association in Ireland, which was established in 1999, along with 30 other organisations, clubs and sporting clubs, organises gatherings, concerts and events in Dublin, Cork, Monaghan, Portlaoise, Tullamore and other locations in the State. There are at present 20 Lithuanian weekend schools, and Lithuanian is taught in some Irish schools. This year marks 30...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (28 Apr 2022)

Mark Daly: ...: The need for the Minister for Education to provide an update on the appointment of a design team and project progress for the proposed new build for Summercove National School, Kinsale, County Cork. I have also received notice from Senator Martin Conway of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Education to make a statement on the special arrangements to be put in...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (7 Apr 2022)

Mark Daly: ...I have also received notice from Senator Jerry Buttimer of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Health to provide an update on the use of the emergency motorcycle response service in Cork city. I have also received notice from Senator Tim Lombard of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to make a statement on funding...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jun 2008)

Mark Daly: I commend Cork City Council on passing a motion by Councillor Chris O'Leary of the Green Party, which places a moratorium on all planning decisions for mobile phone masts within the city until evidence is produced that they are not harmful to people. The moratorium will not be lifted until the council is satisfied that the European environmental protection agency's precautionary principle is...

Seanad: Seanad Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 May 2013)

Mark Daly: ...Constitution, we count them as citizens but the most fundamental right of any citizen is the right to vote. Some 800,000 passport holders living overseas, which is the population of Dublin city, Cork, Waterford, Galway and Limerick combined, are denied the right to vote in a Republic. Four countries in the Council of Europe deny their citizens overseas the right to vote, and Ireland is...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)

Mark Daly: ...of the job being done ineffectively, we have a dysfunctional ambulance service, then it must be highlighted. That is what we are supposed to do in the House. We were told, and the people of west Cork were told-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)

Mark Daly: ...-on-Suir and Carrick-on-Shannon, where, following motions from this party, it has been proposed that public parks and housing infrastructure be named after Cumann na mBan. That is happening in Cork and Kerry, where the President's wife will open a park in honour of Cumann na mBan. I also call for a debate on emigration and employment. A report by UCC shows that up to 60% of those who...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (16 May 2024)

Mark Daly: ...horse racing. Senator Tim Lombard - the need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make a statement on plans to begin the process of having a directly elected mayor for Cork city and county. The matters raised by the Senators are suitable for discussion and I have selected Senators Eugene Murphy, Micheál Carrigy, Joe O'Reilly and Ollie Crowe and they...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (12 Mar 2021)

Mark Daly: ...of roads projects for 2021. I have also received notice from Senator Jerry Buttimer of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Finance to make a statement on the Living City initiative in Cork city with the impact on the use of office and retail spaces as a result of Covid-19 in particular. I have also received notice from Senator Victor Boyhan of the following matter:...