Results 721-740 of 8,391 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: I am not saying that the Senator opposite is part of the political elite, but the political class and the bureaucrats are telling the citizens of Europe how it should be run.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Yes. We need a debate on this issue. I welcome the constitutional convention, which is a positive step taken by the Government. It is consulting the people. It will select 100 people from all walks of life to feed into this welcome process. I suggest that Europe should travel in a similar direction when designing its new structures instead of following its current path, whereby the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Will the Leader arrange for a debate on the new constitutional convention? It is important that the issues under discussion and the proposed changes be debated in the House. We could have a series of debates. To the Senator opposite, Europe-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: If she replied to me, I will reply to her.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: If Senator Healy Eames believes that Europe is democratic in nature while the Germans and French dictate to everyone how it should be run, she is the one who is not living in the real world.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: I second the Sinn Féin amendment to the Order of Business.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Thomas Jefferson said that if one expects people to be ignorant and free one expects what never was and never shall be. At the time he was talking about education. In today's world he would be talking about the media and the importance of its role in ensuring freedom. We have seen in the Arab spring how media, in particular social media, played its role. We need a free media in order to...
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: They would sell tickets for that.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Down with that sort of thing.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: They are still taxiing on the runway to allow the Minister to take off.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and look forward to hearing her reply on whether she will propose that the Bill move forward to the next Stage. This is an interesting Bill. While we are not opposing it we seek more study of the issue. This whole area needs to be regulated. Unfortunately, as we have seen from other issues, whether mobile telephone masts, pylons or wind...
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Kilcummin.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: They have.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Would that be in a Don Quixote kind of way?
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: I merely have a bad cough.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: I am too young to be cynical.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: We are an open party. Membership is open to everybody.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: That was important legislation.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Statutory instruments are slightly more powerful. Guidelines are only worth the paper on which they are written.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Did the House of Lords pass the relevant Bill presented it to it?