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Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: It is not like the Polish precedent where it is going from Poland to a third country. Our problem is that it is coming from Europe to a third country and then to us, so that is the precedent we are looking for. What is the agreement we need to have in place for it to traverse that country? We are all talking about worse-case scenarios here. As we keep being told that no deal is better...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Movement Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: How does the number of our officials in Europe compare with that of other countries such as Denmark? This committee will need to benchmark its recommendations to upscale against other countries. In more than 90% of decisions made in Europe, we and Britain would have voted the same way because our interests were often combined. We obviously will need to stop riding on Britain's coat tails....

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Movement Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: Would Ms O'Connor be able to get those figures for us, showing how many officials we have in Brussels compared with the numbers for other countries? If we are not even matching Denmark, we are tailcoating on Britain's massive civil service presence in Brussels.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Relations between the State and Northern Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: On behalf of the committee, I thank Dr. Mary Murphy for coming from the department of government in University College Cork. She holds the Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration. She has expertise in a number of areas at which the committee is looking. She was unable to come last week when we discussed the future relations between the State and Northern Ireland and we are delighted that...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Relations between the State and Northern Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Dr. Murphy for her valuable contribution. The idea of an independent facilitator is something at which we should look as a committee in making a recommendation. The entire peace process was built on the principle that nothing was agreed until everything was agreed. During the Brexit negotiations the parties must agree what they can and what they cannot agree must be left to one...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Relations between the State and Northern Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Dr. Murphy for her contribution and responses to questions. The committee will take on board her proposals. I thank Senators for their contributions and questions. If Dr. Murphy wishes to add anything at any stage, she should feel free to circulate her ideas to the committee for consideration and inclusion in our final recommendations.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Dr. Anthony Coughlan (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Dr. Coughlan for coming and giving us his views and some information. It is important for us to hear the views of those who articulate the case for Irexit, regardless of whether we agree with them. The arguments in favour of Ireland leaving the European Union should be heard. One wonders whether we should see how Britain gets on before considering whether to ride on its coat-tails....

Seanad: Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Senators Ruane and Ó Ríordáin for bringing this Bill forward. It is correct to say that the war on drugs has not worked. It has turned into a war on poor people. It is a war on the sick. When one sees that we have the third highest overdose rate in Europe, it shows that our systems are failing in all respects. When one sees 679 people dying from overdoses, which is...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Border Communities Against Brexit (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank my colleague, Senator Paul Daly, for allowing me to speak before him, as I must return to the foreign affairs committee, which is meeting the Minister. The Brexit issue is looming large in that context as well. My questions are on the special economic status that we are seeking on top of the ability to move seamlessly over and back across the Border. The research that we have seen...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Dr. Duncan Morrow (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I offer apologies because I must leave the meeting at 12.30 p.m., but I will read the transcript. Dr. Morrow talks of the special status for Northern Ireland, but I did not get his opening remarks. Many have raised the issue. Does the Good Friday Agreement have to be renegotiated in full or in part as a result of Brexit? With regard to the special status of Northern Ireland, we have...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. This is one of the key issues in respect of the PEACE IV funding. What we are looking for is the precedent of the Norway-Sweden model, particularly a list of those funding schemes involving EU and non-EU members, which we can include in our submission. We will continue with the PEACE funding and the Government is making a strong case on that. We...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: Therein lies the rub.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: We are looking for solutions. A draft proposal contained in a report on Brexit by the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, of which I am a member, is that all current and future EU programmes, in the absence of an agreement in the alternative, would be funded by Her Majesty's Treasury. While that is also what Ms McIntyre is talking about, in that instance we...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: It is hard to break this down because it is multi-annual but in terms of INTERREG, how much would the British Treasury have to give to continue to fund INTERREG post Brexit? Is the witness able to calculate that figure?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: How did it work historically? For example, how did it work during INTERREG from 2007 to 2013?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The funding issue is very important and will be a core part of the discussions. The EU have said that Ireland must be sorted. It would be very helpful if, in the historic example of the previous funding programme broken down on the 60:40 basis, we could arrive at a figure. This would enable us to say that were this programme replicated post Brexit, this is what the cost would be to the...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I would like to raise the issue of EEA+ status in respect of Northern Ireland. Theresa May has ruled it out in seeming to opt for the hard Brexit option. I take the point that resistance to that idea would probably come from London rather than from Brussels, although I am not too sure how excited Brussels would be about it, either. It would set a precedent for part of the country remaining...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The European Union does not want anybody in the UK to win.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: With regard to the EEA+ issue, has any economic analysis been done with respect to practicalities and current legal challenges? Is it possible that the economic analysis could be "gamed out" and Belfast wins, with the financial houses of London not having to go to Frankfurt and Paris but instead setting up a brass plate company in Belfast before being good to go? We have been asked to put...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The physical movement of goods is one issue. That is why we are teasing it out. We are doing this as we are talking. If EEA+ is not a runner because of the benefits for brass plate companies establishing in Belfast - I am talking about financial houses or insurance companies - what is the next best thing in the real world? That is probably not possible. If we scale back, EEA+ would be...