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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: A schoolboy error.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: Do.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: Will the Leader consider scheduling sittings of the House next week given that we are back only four weeks? A newspaper in his native Cork pointed out yesterday that in the first three weeks we were back, we had 33 hours and 30 minutes of statements.Much of that was on Brexit, which is being dealt with by a number of committees and in the Dáil, but we have only spent eight hours and 15...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications for Good Friday Agreement of UK EU Referendum Result: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: When one considers the agricultural community voting against its best interests, considering the financial benefit of EU payments and then the Northern Ireland Assembly voting yesterday that they should not be taken as a special case - terminology and language being very important - it beggars belief that people are continuing to vote against their own best interests. I think the witnesses...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and Defence met this morning in the Dáil Chamber. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Statement of Strategy 2015-2017 refers to strengthening our influence in the EU, to the United Nations and so on but makes no mention of Irish neutrality, which is worrying in the context of the EU's relentless progress towards militarisation....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: Is the Senator saying we are not young? That is very disappointing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs and Trade Issues: Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade (20 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister. This has been a wide-ranging discussion. We have spent an inordinate amount of time on Brexit but, to keep it on the agenda at every opportunity and emphasise the fact that the EU is its own peace process, I note we have an ongoing peace process in Northern Ireland. By any measure, Brexit has a destabilising effect on it. Regarding the issue of Palestinians,...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: I thank the Leader for outlining the Order of Business. The Irish health system is pockmarked by the failures of the service itself and of politicians in terms of devising systems that do not work. In 2013, we highlighted that in the House with the recall of the Seanad to discuss organ donation. In one calendar year, 65 people on our organ donor waiting lists will die. Currently, there...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, who I know has a personal commitment to equality and to this issue, for coming to the House. I acknowledge all those who have campaigned over the past weeks, months and years for this legislation on the recognition of Irish Sign Language for the deaf community. I also acknowledge the...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: They can do it in the Seanad. We were told that members of the deaf community could go to the audio-visual room, away from the Parliament, and that interpreters would be accommodated there for them. Nothing screams inequality as much as the fact that one cannot go to one's own Parliament to understand what is going on. After I leaked this to the newspapers - it is no secret that I do that...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: -----it became a bit of an issue of concern for the previous Dáil. The head of communications asked to meet me in light of the bad publicity brought upon the Parliament because we had highlighted inequality. The director of communications-----

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: There have been so many of them, no one would know which one of them it is.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: The person is not identifiable because there are so many of them.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: I am doing it to highlight the issue. Along with members of the Irish Deaf Society, I was requested to attend the meeting with officials, one of whom was in charge of communications. At that meeting, having been lectured to for five minutes, I eventually pointed out-----

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: -----the inequality of what was going on in terms of the lack of an interpreter. The officials had asked for a meeting with members of the deaf community on an issue that was important to them yet they had not brought to that meeting, in Parliament, an interpreter for citizens who are deaf.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: After five minutes of a lecture, I pointed out that no interpreter was present and so the only person who could understand what was being said was me. I had left an interpreter outside the room to make the point that in the Irish Parliament citizens are not equal.

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: Interpreters were provided for the Dáil Chamber when 200 members of the deaf community came in. I like to give praise when it is due. Senator Conway will be happy to hear that the former Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, came out of the Chamber and assured them that their advocacy funding would be reinstated, as it should be. Nobody needs advocates more than those...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: That is a stark example, if it was needed, of the extreme marginalisation of the deaf community. This Bill is necessary not only for this Parliament to understand why we need to treat all citizens of the nation equally but because it is a life and death issue. While we have procedures of sorts in place in our accident and emergency departments there is no requirement for our health services...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State for his words. This is a civil rights issue. It is about giving equal opportunity to members of the deaf community to be full citizens of the State. It is also about ending extreme marginalisation. The Minister of State has said the Bill will pass Second Stage and this has been made possible by new politics. People give out about it but the last election...

Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016: Second Stage (19 Oct 2016)

Mark Daly: Next Tuesday, but when we say next Tuesday we do not actually mean it. It is a procedural thing. It will be when the Minister of State decides, sometime in January next year.