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Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: We have had long discussions about this and the Bill is entitled the Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016. The symbolic recognition provided for in the current drafting is not only important, but central to the issue. We support amendments Nos. 10 and 11 but perhaps the Minister would facilitate a motion, either in this House or in the Dáil, on the...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Senator Clifford-Lee who is knowledgeable about this. It is very important to make an amendment relating to legal proceedings. It arises out of real world consequences for members of the deaf community. In a particular case, a deaf person's co-accused was instructed by the court to interpret for, and therefore give evidence on behalf of, that deaf co-accused person. It would not...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: This is an important element of the Bill. I thank Mr. Geary and the Irish Deaf Society, including Dr. John Bosco Conama, Mr. Eddie Redmond and others, for their assistance on this. It is difficult to capture and right all of the wrongs that members of the deaf community and their families experience while trying to get into the education system. Mr. Geary has twins, one of whom is hearing...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State. This amendment would delete the section detailing a very specific number of hours for sign language interpreting services in education. This matter is addressed in the section on the education system that we have just discussed. The issue of access to the service for cultural and social purposes, in which regard there would be a voucher system, will be...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I move amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 15:To delete subsection (4) and substitute the following: “(4) Provision of or availing of a remote, web-based service shall, if the Irish Sign Language user consents, be sufficient to meet the obligations of a public body under this section.”. Moving an amendment to an amendment sounds a little like poetry or pedantry but I can only...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: The amendment underpins the Broadcasting Act and the activities of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland. A substantial mechanism is available to members of the deaf community for engaging on broadcasting. The process is technical and requires reporting of issues relating to interpreters and subtitling and there is always an argument as to whether targets in these areas are being met....

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State, his officials and all Members for the debate on this issue. I hope they will support the amendment in my name. This goes back to the issue of education and to the review of the Act to ensure that it is operating correctly. It will ensure that there will be a requirement on the State, long after we have shuffled off this mortal coil, to produce reports on the...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I move amendment No. 41:In page 17, to delete lines 21 to 31 and substitute the following:“Review of the operation of the Act 30.(1) The Minister shall, 3 years after the date on which this act is enacted and every 5 years thereafter require a report to be prepared on—(a) the operation of this Act, (b) without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, a report under this...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I move amendment No. 43:In page 17, after line 31, to insert the following:“Short title and commencement 30.(1) This Act may be cited as the Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Act 2017.(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day or days not later than 3 years after the passing of this Act as, by order or orders made by the Minister under this section, may...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: We have already discussed it.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (17 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State. As he said, this is a civil rights Bill. It ensure that the citizens of this State who suffer from the most extreme marginalisation, as described by our Committee on Justice and Equality, have rights enshrined in law. Members of the deaf community on this island are unable to access the most basic of services. Citizens are excluded from participating in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for their ongoing work to get to the truth behind what happened in the conflict. In particular, I thank Ms Anne Cadwallader for her assistance in preparing the report the committee launched in August. I have met the Victims' Commissioner. In terms of the outline of the number of cases, are there are 1,300 outstanding cases that have yet to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Legacy Issues Affecting Victims and Relatives in Northern Ireland: Discussion (12 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: They are online. They are also in the big version of the report.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: John Bradley of Queen's University Belfast once said that policy neglect seldom goes unpunished. The Revenue Commissioners have produced a comprehensive report on Brexit that the Government has not released. It outlines the fact that the 91,000 Irish companies that trade with the United Kingdom will be subject to massive regulations and customs declarations in the event of a hard Brexit and...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Any time Senator Coghlan wants to talk about football, in terms of solo runs or hand passes-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

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Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Thanks for the support.

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (11 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for the update on his work and that of his Department regarding getting the Northern Executive up and running. I have some questions. If the Minister does not have the answers today, I ask him to send them to Senators at a later date. How many officials in the Department are dealing directly with officials in Brussels regarding the impact of Brexit on the joint bodies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the representatives from Irish Aid for the detailed presentation. Deputy O'Sullivan spoke on the issue of the UN and the EU and how much of our overseas aid budget actually goes directly to them. The issue is really over the control. Members often receive memos about aid programmes that Ireland has signed up for under the EU. We hand over the cheque and Ireland's control of the...