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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Communications Surveillance (17 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister. The response from the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade had all the forcefulness of a tenant going to a landlord looking for a rent reduction. He asked for the general principle to be followed. We have brought this forward in international forums. The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade should ask for a report from the British Government, outlining whether...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Communications Surveillance (17 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for coming in personally to give her response to this. I also thank Senator Reilly for sharing time with me. It is amazing that we have a situation in which mass surveillance is taking place on telecommunications from this State. Like Senator Reilly, I am amazed that there seems to be no concern about another government surveying everything...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Organ Donation (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for his reply and I welcome the moves made in respect of organ donation and transplantation. We had a number of issues raised at the time of the Seanad recall about the crossover and infrastructural failures of the implementation of the EU directive on organ transplantation by the Minister's predecessor. It was described by the head of the Spanish transplant authority...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Organ Donation (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister to the House. The issue I wish to raise is that of organ donation. As the Minister knows, the system in Ireland is not all it should be. For too long, we did not have organ donor co-ordinators. There are many staff working excellently in the field very much on a voluntary basis. We were to appoint 20 new staff in this area as part of the HSE's service plan but...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Today the Taoiseach is meeting the British Prime Minister in the North to try to find a solution to three issues - flags, parades and the past. I hope that he will raise the issues on the current and ongoing tapping of communication systems in Ireland and to the outside world from Ireland that appears to be going on as revealed by Edward Snowden. In terms of the past, the Taoiseach should...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: If the Government had secured a write-down in the debt it would not now have to impose water charges. A government is supposed to represent all the people. That is what the Government is supposed to do but this Government does not represent all the people. As the Minister for Finance has said, they "govern for reasonable people". That means they only govern for people who agree with them...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: What about people who have five houses, five homes, five bedrooms or one bedroom? Eamon Gilmore continued to say "metering is unworkable". That is what Eamon Gilmore is quoted as saying in the Irish Examineron 28 June 2010. He lied and that is why he lost his job; the Government continues to lie and that is why its members will lose their jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: On the minutes, I raised previously a reply from the Department about the issue of Members of the Oireachtas having mobile phone numbers for ambassadors which seems to be a State secret. Could someone give us a written reply?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It is an important issue. It has been raised with me by a number of people. I refer to the tapping of everyone's mobile phone. Is the committee taking a lead on that issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: We have only one-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: We have only one meeting left. The Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade should deal with the tapping of the mobile phones by the British Government because-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (3 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: One meeting should be entirely about that.

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (3 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It can be costly. It might not be free that often.

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (3 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I wish to thank the Minister of State for his contribution. I would also like to thank Senators Crown and Barrett, and especially Mr. Shane Conneely, for their work on this important legislation, which relates to the awesome and overwhelming power of the State to silence people who have information and wish to criticise the State. The Minister for Health spoke yesterday about the ambulance...

Seanad: Geological Survey of Ireland: Statements (Resumed) (2 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is important that the survey which is an audit of our natural resources be made available to the public. It is important to know what we have and what resources we can use safely and extract safely and those which it would be better to leave alone. The Minister is well aware of the issues in respect of natural resources and fracking....

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: As a policy, every piece of communication from this island is being monitored.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: Worse than that, the Government is still giving-----

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: -----contracts to the companies, Vodafone and others, which are monitoring on behalf of another state.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: It is incredible that there is deafening silence.

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Dec 2014)

Mark Daly: I hope, by the time we get out of this Chamber, the Government has the will and bravery, because it is cowardice so far, to take the case of the hooded men back to the European courts because this is the issue. It is not about what happened nearly 40 years ago.