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

Mark Daly: There is an issue in Germany where we have four consulates and there are some 16,000 Irish citizens there. Compared to other regions there is no balance. I am on the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, as is the Chairman, and we would hope the witnesses would come before that committee because we have had a number of issues. We are the implementation committee and...

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

Mark Daly: Just slightly. The Department, however, cannot tell us. On the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement next year we, as the Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, would like to be able to say to people what is left to be implemented in the same manner as the Fresh Start agreement. We have not been able to get information from the Department officials in...

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

Mark Daly: It is definitely not overseas. I thank the Chairman.

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

Mark Daly: Time added on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2017 to 2020: Department of Defence (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Secretary General for coming into the committee and for his presentation. I have a number of specific questions, the most important of which is that the issue of neutrality is not mentioned in the presentation or in what I can see in the information we have here. In a previous strategy document, we had to fight for it to be mentioned. If the Government is going to drop the idea...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2017 to 2020: Department of Defence (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I seek a commitment. The document speaks of an EU global strategy on foreign security policy and peacekeeping, but it is important that any strategy, even in the introduction, would mention neutrality. Could Mr. Quinn give us a commitment that neutrality will be included in the Department's paper?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2017 to 2020: Department of Defence (5 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: That is okay. That is all Mr. Quinn can do. I thank Mr. Quinn for clarifying the issue of the second-hand equipment because there was a newspaper report on that, and the protocols around the incursion. I understand the latter. Every other European country has some form of interceptor jets. I would agree the Irish people would abhor spending €50 million or €100 million on...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Before I begin, I welcome the members of Clare County Council who are in the Visitors Gallery. They are here on business on behalf of their constituents. We are delighted to see them in our temporary home. As we know from the Dáil Chamber, the National Gallery was told that it would only be taken temporarily, but the Dáil has been there for nearly 100 years. When the councillors...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Sorry.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: On behalf of the Leas-Chathaoirleach,-----

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I would like the record to be amended to show that the Leas-Chathaoirleach has welcomed the visitors first. I will come second in the order.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: On behalf of my Fianna Fáil Seanad colleagues, we look forward to meeting the visitors later in another piece of the building that was temporarily acquired from the National Gallery, which is the Dáil bar, and has become a permanent home for some. We will consider this matter later at the leaders' meeting but, instead of having statements, could we debate the reports published by...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: -----no time has been allocated for it. Others Members have tabled Bills that would make a difference to people's lives. All we are taking here, like the other House, is statements. Statements do not change the world. Legislation changes people's lives and we need to pass some. It was remiss of me to usurp the Leas-Chathaoirleach in welcoming our colleagues from Clare County Council.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

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Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Today our sympathies, thoughts and prayers are with those who were killed in the mass shooting in Las Vegas. To their families and friends we send our heartfelt condolences. What happened in Las Vegas, as is often the case, is a failure of politics to regulate and control the ownership of guns. Whatever about the constitution of the United States of America, the fact that families have...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Mark Daly: I ask the Deputy Leader to organise a debate on our Defence Forces and the fact we are spending a massive amount of money on equipment and a new naval ship that we do not have enough personnel to man. We do not have enough personnel in the Naval Service to keep all our ships at sea at any one time. We do not have enough personnel to man our Air Corps aircraft. We do not have enough...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2017)

Mark Daly: We are not rare at all. There are quite a number of us around the place.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the Cathaoirleach, Martin Groves, Bridget Doody and all the staff for their assistance here in what will be our old Chamber. Hopefully, we will all get back in, including Senator Leyden. Hopefully, he will not need the wills Bill any time soon.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jul 2017)

Mark Daly: Please God, it will be passed at some stage. In respect of the horrific attack over the weekend, we must look at the issue of electronic tagging because there is provision for people who are out on bail to be electronically tagged. Believe it or not, that legislation is over ten years old, yet it has never been enacted. The provision for it to happen has never been enacted. We must also...