Results 5,821-5,840 of 8,379 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: I am absolutely not.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: I was talking about an issue that has been there-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: -----and will be there for some time to come. Leave of absence is an entitlement of gardaí, nurses and teachers.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: There is a solution to the problem.
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: Retired gardaí can be used as substitutes for those who are on leave of absence
- Seanad: Order of Business (12 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: Or maybe to the circus.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to discuss this issue. This is a topical subject on the tagging of people who are out on bail and proposals that those on early release from prison, having served some of their sentences, would also be tagged. Much has been made of some of the incidents that have happened recently in rural Ireland, especially in Tipperary. There has...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: Unfortunately, there were many references to sections 101 and 108, and I will be writing a letter to the Cathaoirleach seeking that when I ask about section 102 or whatever and I, the Minister of State and everybody else goes to the bother of coming to the House, we actually get an answer. If I deleted everything that had nothing to do with my question, there would be a paragraph, but that...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: I will be asking the Cathaoirleach to write to the Minister and, specifically, to the officials. It is not appropriate that a Minister would be given a reply to give a Member of the Oireachtas which amounts to an answer to a question that was not asked. That is the point I am making. The reply, even when it referred to section 102, did not answer the question why the section has not been...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: I am sure the Minister would agree. It costs €6.45 to put an electronic tag on a person - that is what the mechanism costs - whereas it costs €263 a day to put him or her in prison. The Minister of State was allowed to give a reply to the House that this is not necessarily the most cost-effective way to challenge and change an offender's behaviour. I will read the alternative...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: It notes the section was not commenced and has not been put into operation. Section 102 was an alternative sentence to imprisonment. I will write to the Cathaoirleach and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, although it is not her area. I will write to the Minister.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: Electronic Tagging (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: Most important of all, the Minister of State was allowed to come to House and deliver this reply. Whatever official wrote it should be brought before the Minister and asked how he or she could allow a Minister to say to the House that spending €6.45 on electronic tagging is not more cost-efficient than the judge's alternative of putting a person in prison. That is a disgraceful...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: I call on the Acting Leader to organise a debate in respect of unifying the people of Ireland. There was an interesting RTE "Prime Time" and BBC opinion poll carried out for what Tommy Gorman, on "Morning Ireland", described as a show rather than an actual serious debate. According to the poll, there are many issues that unite us in terms of civil rights and other issues. Obviously, many...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: I would like to mention a statistic that was highlighted last night. According to the most recent census in Northern Ireland - I am not talking about a survey here - just 40% of people in the North describe themselves as British. Another statistic worth mentioning is that 43% of people are not in favour of a united Ireland. As the Acting Leader will appreciate, it depends on which way one...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2015)
Mark Daly: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Mark Daly: I am delighted to see a fellow Kerryman leading off in the Seanad. I am sure he will agree that a smart man makes a mistake, learns from it and never makes it again, but a wise man finds a smart man and learns not to make the same mistake. I am sure the Government could not be accused of doing either. In the newspapers today we see that 500 people who had been disqualified from driving...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Mark Daly: Why consider changes to the bail laws? Section 102 is already in place.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Mark Daly: The Labour Party always wants to blame the previous Government.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Mark Daly: The Government should commence section 102 of the Criminal Justice Act-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Oct 2015)
Mark Daly: -----to allow those out on bail to be smart-tagged.