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Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: -----and there would be a surplus left. This is not about Orkambi as such, because there is a bigger issue. People are dying on the waiting list and other people are taking up hospital beds when they would prefer to be at home and contributing to society. This is all because our organ donor system simply does not work. We will press for an amendment to the Order of Business with regard to...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: Yes, that No. 12 be taken today.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: It is like this. They were here-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: -----organ donor recommendation-----

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: -----was signed on the last day.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: It has been described as costing people's lives.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: If the Senator wants to go on about organ donation, he must start with himself.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: No. I withdraw the amendment.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members (1 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: I thank the Cathaoirleach for selecting this Fianna Fáil Commencement Matter. We had asked for the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, Deputy Coveney, to come to the House, but I thank the Minister for State, Deputy English, for coming in. We had asked that the Minister would outline what he is doing, or what he is going to do, to improve the terms and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members (1 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: All we had outlined was what the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, has done. What we did not get is what the Minister, Deputy Coveney, will do, other than that he will look at the matter. We had a similar response yesterday on votes for the Irish overseas. The Minister is looking at a lot of things but he does not seem to be getting around to making a decision on anything. AILG and LAMA have...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members (1 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: I know but he is unable to make a decision.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members (1 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: All we hear is "soon".

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members (1 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: Is there a time line on "soon"?

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: He might get some hair dye for Christmas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Situation in Syria: Discussion (1 Dec 2016)

Mark Daly: I thank the Chairman and thank the delegation for coming. I thank the Grand Mufti for telling his story and the tragic story of the loss of his son. I sympathise with him on the tragic murder of his son. He described himself as a bridge between the opposition and the government. In the past here, members of all faiths have acted as bridges in Northern Ireland, including Fr. Faul, Fr....

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2016)

Mark Daly: As the Leader is aware, Fianna Fáil has tabled a Corporate Manslaughter Bill, which was proposed by the Law Reform Commission. It is important legislation which is long overdue, made all the more relevant by issues involving University Hospital Limerick, where a whistleblower has highlighted the deaths of 30 people due to serious mismanagement in the hospital. She has made a protected...

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Mark Daly: We have been having this debate since the 2013 Constitutional Convention. We have been discussing the issue regarding extending voting rights for Irish overseas and citizens outside the State for many a long decade. It is amazing we are so far from other changes to voting rights, from Catholic emancipation in 1829 to extending voting rights to women, and now we are still debating extending...

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Mark Daly: If Government Members want to get agreement on its amendment, they will have to do it on their own.

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Mark Daly: The Government has been unable to find the shelf where the report has been resting for three years. I can give Government Members a copy of it to consider. We might bring it before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence to see if we have a better answer. The fact that the Minister, Deputy Flanagan, as the Minister responsible, is unable to be here, we just...