Results 4,921-4,940 of 8,359 for speaker:Mark Daly

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: Bring back Norris.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: That is very rare.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: There sure is.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: Yet.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: Soldiering on for the judges.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: For the record, Kerry are the Munster champions.

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: I do. I am sharing time with my colleague, Senator Terry Leyden.

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Statements (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister and thank him for all of his work on this issue and visits to the region. His understanding of the complex nature of the issue is beyond question. He has a good grasp of the problems facing the Palestinian people when it comes to the settlements, the ongoing occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In 1980 Ireland was the first state to call for the...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: Such as the Judicial Appointments Commission Bill.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: There was very little progress.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: I want to return to the issue Senator Bacik is addressing in her amendment. I did not quite grasp which section she was talking about.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: I know the section we are talking about but to what amendment was she referring?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: There is merit to what she says. I have to disagree with my learned colleague, Senator McDowell, in the issue of the Bar Council and the Law Society not having to put forward candidates of either gender and then giving the Minister discretion. No man knows it better than Senator McDowell in respect of the issue of gender quotas in political life. To have a system that leaves it mostly up...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: By way of example, when I was asking people in Kerry to name five public parks, buildings or roads named after women, they were unable to do so. The reason was that everybody who picks the names of the public parks are men because they are all men on the committee. Until such time as half a committee is made up of women, the men will unknowingly bring the bias of picking their favourite...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: She is proposing to bring forward a gender option providing that there would be a choice and that it would not be left up to the Bar Council and Law Society to pick only one nominee. That is where this section is relevant. If the amendment tabled by Senator Bacik were accepted on Report Stage, although I do not think we would agree with all of it, I would certainly see merit in the...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: I imagine this would normally be a matter for the Minister to put in by regulation and statutory instrument. To see the procedures of the commission enshrined in legislation suggests a lot of thought has been put into this in terms of making sure, at all costs, that the lay person is the chair. The requirement for a quorum in our own rules comes under Standing Orders and is not laid down in...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: On a point of order, while Senator Norris is gathering his thoughts, can I call for a quorum?

Seanad: Business of Seanad (9 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: We might have to support an adjournment.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: I join colleagues in expressing concern on aspects of the Bill, the amendment to the GRECO report, GRECO's question as to whether this move is in line with EU standards and why there has been a move away from the original position that it was not in compliance with those standards. Senator Lorraine Clifford Lee put forward the Fianna Fáil amendment to the effect that the commission...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: Who appoints the people who appoint? Let us consider also the issue of having laypersons appointed by different organisations or Ministers. How are those organisations put together and how are those people given those jobs? There is layer upon layer of appointments that come into question in view of the concept put forward by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport's. Our amendment...