Results 461-480 of 8,318 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: I am only going by the orders agreed by everybody in the House in this morning. I take into account what the Senator said on the voting.
- Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: I understand, but that is the order of the House, which everybody agreed to this morning.
- Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: Vótáil.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: I welcome the Tánaiste. He has ten minutes.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: You never know.
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: Before I call Senator Wall, I agree with the sentiments in expressed in respect of the Reserve Defence Force. When it was the FCA, members met at the basketball court in Kenmare every Wednesday night with Bob Purcell, who was a colonel, and the sergeant-----
- Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: Everybody was involved. We did our training there. If you had to do any more, you went to Killarney or Castletownbere. All that has changed, regrettably.As Senator Joe O'Reilly has pointed out, however, it is no longer accessible.
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: The Minister announced he is stepping down from public service after a lifetime in that role and giving voice to the environment, which is the issue of this generation and the world. We had the former President, Mary Robinson, in last week talking about the necessity for climate justice and climate action. When she was with us two years ago for Seanad 100 she said we had eight years to go....
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: Yes, I will come back in later.
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: This comes back to a fundamental lack of transparency by Government. The way in which this is done is that Ministers are presented with draft statutory instruments that were never given to the Dáil, Seanad or relevant committee. Then we see fines being imposed and revisions of draft statutory instruments. As I have stated many times, until the human tissue Bill was introduced, the...
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: I wish to raise an issue of interest to the Minister. Am I correct, Chairman, that we await the draft statutory instrument on corporate sustainability reporting? The final deadline is 6 July. Obviously this committee would like the relevant sectoral committee to be given time. We have asked the Secretary General of the relevant Department to come in. The SI relates to environment issues,...
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: The deadline is 6 July, which is literally around the corner yet we do not have the draft statutory instrument here this evening and the relevant committee does not have it. The draft statutory instrument comprises more than 100 pages and one can imagine the effect it will have. Are there going to be companies green washing? The phraseology includes words like "may" and "shall" but nobody...
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: The SI deals with a very environmental issue so it is a matter for the Minister's Department and every other Department.
- Committee on Scrutiny of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments: Consideration of Draft EU-related Statutory Instruments (18 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: They copied their homework.
- Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Former President Mary Robinson (12 Jun 2024)
Mark Daly: As a Senator, as the seventh President of Ireland and as the chair of The Elders, the iarUachtarán has always been and continues to be a person who has championed minorities, women and the diaspora. When she came to Leinster House to participate in the launch of the 100th anniversary of Seanad Éireann, along with our great friend and colleague, the former Senator David Norris, at...
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)
Mark Daly: One Senator only to speak, please.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)
Mark Daly: The Senator without interruption.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)
Mark Daly: As Senators are aware, the Office of the President is not----
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)
Mark Daly: The Minister, without interruption.
- Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)
Mark Daly: The Minister, without interruption.