Results 941-960 of 8,391 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Seanad: Irish Water and Related Reforms: Statements (20 Sep 2012)
Mark Daly: We will not talk about last night's debate on the motion of confidence in the Minister for Health.
- Seanad: Irish Water and Related Reforms: Statements (20 Sep 2012)
Mark Daly: There was a lack of what I would call a chorus-----
- Seanad: Irish Water and Related Reforms: Statements (20 Sep 2012)
Mark Daly: Not on the Government announcements issued.
- Seanad: Irish Water and Related Reforms: Statements (20 Sep 2012)
Mark Daly: I thought it was in the NewERA document.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to organise a debate on driving licences on two fronts. First, many people have worked on the campaign for a new EU driving licence - myself included - along with various organ donor organisations here. We want a tick box to be included on all driving licences in the EU in order that more families are aware of the intention of their loved ones. A central database would...
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Mark Daly: A union of nation states is what people signed up to. Federalism was not in the charter.
- Seanad: Order of Business (26 Sep 2012)
Mark Daly: We have an incremental federalism being proposed by the bureaucrats at the top who are unelected. We must arrange a debate on the matter as soon as possible.
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: Will the Leader arrange a debate on some of the parades taking place in Belfast? I pay tribute to the Catholic community in Carrick Hill in Belfast, who organised a dignified protest against the Orange Order parade that went through their area at the weekend. Over the summer months there has been serious tension in Carrick Hill because of the triumphalist nature of the parades and the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: The other issue relates to suicide prevention. I ask the Leader for a debate on why a director for suicide prevention has not been appointed after five months. We have more than 600 suicides a year-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (2 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: -----yet we do not have action by the Government on the issue.
- Seanad: Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (3 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: The thirty-first amendment to the Constitution affords rights to children and gives them protection that heretofore has often been sadly missing in our society, as the Minister well knows. The amendment gives effect to the line in the Proclamation which states we should cherish all the children of the nation equally. It is appropriate also that the date for the referendum is the birth date...
- Seanad: Radical Seanad Reform Through Legislative Change: Statements (3 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: I welcome my colleague, Councillor Ger Fogarty, to the Visitors Gallery. He contributed to this debate by examining ways of having the Diaspora represented in the House. Seanad reform is a broad topic. While the scale of the financial crisis has been widely discussed, the Seanad could play a role in addressing the issue of the national democratic deficit. The scrutiny of legislation by the...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Emigration Statistics (4 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation. Emigration is the most pressing issue in Ireland. The CSO indicates that 87,100 people emigrated from Ireland between April 2011 and April 2012. This harks back to the worst days of the 1950s, when 1,000 people a week left our shores. In addition to this brain drain of the best and brightest of our youth,...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Emigration Statistics (4 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: What happened the NewERA plan? The Taoiseach said in May 2010 that it would create 105,000 jobs. I am concerned about the brain-drain. We are sending highly-educated young people abroad. I will give an example of the Government's lack of joined-up thinking. I would like to hear the Minister of State's view on it. The Government's internship programme has been made available to the...
- Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Emigration Statistics (4 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: What happened the 105,000 jobs that were promised? What happened the jobs initiative and the jobs plan? It was forecast that 80,000 jobs would be created. What happened them? How can we keep our young people in Ireland? The numbers of jobs mentioned by the Minister of State in his reply are not of the scale that was promised.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: Will the Leader allow time for the reintroduction of the NAMA and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Transparency Bill 2011? As of August, 2,500 properties had been sold by NAMA for ¤4.6 billion, yet the Minister for Finance is unable to tell us how many of those were sold in an open and transparent manner. NAMA refuses to tell him how many were put on the market, publicly advertised or...
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: NAMA paid ¤32 billion for those properties-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: NAMA paid ¤32 billion for those properties, yet we do not know and the public is not told how many of them have been sold in an open and transparent manner, as is required under the NAMA legislation.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: We introduced it, but the Government is not enforcing it.
- Seanad: Order of Business (9 Oct 2012)
Mark Daly: Previously, I asked that the Attorney General attend the House under Standing Order 56, yet she has not appeared before us to explain----