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Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: If Senator O'Donnell would respect the rules of the House, that would be fine.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Stay quiet.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Senator Gilroy has given me an endorsement.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: If the Senator wanted the banks to fail on the morning in question, she was quite entitled to hold that opinion.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Where is Jerry when you need him?

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Senator Bacik is no angel.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: We hear it from Senator Bacik more often than not.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Let she who is without sin cast the first stone.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: We will see how the Senator goes.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: I support my colleague, Senator Fiach Mac Conghail, in his call for a debate on the proposed changes in respect of the disability allowance. I hope the House will see its way to facilitating that debate rather than accepting the proposal from the other side of the House that we wait for the departmental officials to do the driving and come back with their considered view. I propose an...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Oh, dear me, the people in the glasshouses are throwing stones.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: They have proven the point that debate is about provoking a response. I am delighted to see that I have succeeded in proving the point.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: The budget is anti-rural. Small schools are being told to consider their future, Garda stations are being closed down and farm families are being affected. My amendment proposes that the issue of increments be debated today and that the Government should use the €300 million which it is proposed to pay the public service in a fairer way. My colleague, Senator Ó Murchú has an amendment...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Like my colleagues, I look forward to the debate on the forthcoming referendum on the abolition of the Seanad. We must make the case that this House has a role to play. In this regard, I welcome the Leader's efforts to persuade his colleagues in Government that the Seanad should have a primary role in the scrutiny of EU legislation. As I have pointed out before, 138 pieces of European...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: Yes. I am calling for a debate on the Ballymurphy massacre. One of the most disturbing aspects of the case was that a priest, Fr. Hugh Mullan, was killed while waving a white cloth, an image familiar to us from photographs of the scenes in Derry on Bloody Sunday.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: He was accused of being-----

Seanad: NAMA Transparency Bill 2011: Motion to Discharge Order for Second Stage (8 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: I move: That the order for Second Stage of the NAMA Transparency Bill 2011 be discharged and that the Bill be withdrawn.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: I ask leave of the House to introduce No. 11 on the Order Paper, the NAMA and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Transparency Bill 2011.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: I will move such an amendment tomorrow because I want to second Senator Cullinane's amendment to the Order of Business. Is it possible that I might do both now?