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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Mark Daly: I suggest that we revisit the motion and that we write to the Taoiseach to ask him to examine what other jurisdictions have done to secure the release of their citizens and to ask the Department of Foreign Affairs to keep him briefed on a daily basis on the case. On 26 April, the motion will be put to a vote, if needs be.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Prisoners Abroad: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Mark Daly: We support Deputy Durkan's amendment as well.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: In 1968 John Healy wrote a book called "No-one Shouted Stop: Death of an Irish Town" about his home town of Charlestown, County Mayo. He was lamenting the fact that rural Ireland was dying on its feet. In recent years we have seen 100 banks, around 214 post offices and 1,290 pubs in rural Ireland close. However, what affects rural Ireland more than any of that is the loss of schools and...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: As Senator Paul Coghlan would know, we are very poetic in Kerry.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Staffing (26 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: The school is not entirely happy. I am asking for a review of this case, on the basis of the criteria that was sent out to the school. The previous Minister for Education and Skills was implementing a system which would have ensured that small rural schools would be closed. The particular school to which I refer would have been affected but this is not just an issue for that school. This...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: Is this the one the Senator voted for?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If only he voted the way he talks, we would be grand.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: Did the Senator vote with them? He did.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: The vote is what counts. Talk is cheap.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: Can Senator Landy point out which way he voted?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: Is that the town council that the Senator's Government abolished?

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: It is burning stuff all right - mostly bridges.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: I support my colleague Senator Darragh O'Brien in his views on the issue of medical cards. I also share his view on the Government's continued perverse policy of withdrawing medical cards from the elderly and children who are in need of assistance but who happen to be over the age of six years while giving them to the sons and daughters of millionaires who are under the age of six. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If Senator Burke thinks it is okay for the HSE-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If Senator Colm Burke thinks it is okay for the HSE to attempt to silence HIQA, which is critical-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If the Government is only looking for praise, then it should look to its own press department, because that is the only place it will get praised.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: If the Government wants critical analysis and wants HIQA to do its job, which it is doing-----

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: -----then it should look at the report and have it published unedited.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: The Government did not promise censorship, but rather openness and transparency, which it is not providing. This report is a crystallisation of that policy.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Mark Daly: I am looking for a debate on that. Senator Burke would like to show up and defend his-----