Results 6,701-6,720 of 8,379 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: In respect of any other business, I requested a copy of the correspondence and reports relating to the Irish Immigration Center in Boston. I know we were previously given the response by the Tánaiste which is, of course, welcome but what I was looking for were the actual reports sent by the centre to our consulate and those sent by our consulate to Dublin. Given the fact that we give...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: I ask the Chairman to outline the position on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: This is the appropriate forum to raise it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: I cannot see it in the correspondence I have received. We have raised it repeatedly.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: Is this the item dated 23 October 2013? It is the same item we received previously.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: We asked for information.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: It is entirely unsatisfactory that an organisation to which we provide $260,000 acted in the manner it did but this committee does not get a report to allow us to decide whether it offered value for money. We do not want to send everything to the Committee of Public Accounts because it has enough on its plate. If the Department is not going to give us a report we should write to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: It would have been raised in the Dáil if everything was hunky dory.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: That is because we are not getting a report. This is the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: All I am asking for is transparency. This organisation gets more money than any other Irish centre in America. Questions were asked about what it did and it ended up having to apologise. I would like to see either its own report, if it is willing to share it, or the report that went to the Department. When something goes wrong the Department is supposed to report to this committee,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: I ask that the committee also write to the IIIC to ask for a copy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: We have been kicked around on this for long enough.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: No, we should write to the IIIC as a committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: I do not wish to refer the issue to the IIIC for the heck of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: If Deputy Eric Byrne had read the minutes -----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: I appreciate that. The Deputy may not be aware it was in the minutes.
- Seanad: Seanad Reform: Motion (29 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Paul Kehoe. I thank Senators Zappone, Quinn and others for tabling the motion. There are three areas to be considered: the promised democratic revolution which turned into a power grab; the national democratic deficit which has been in place for many years, as outlined by some speakers; and what is possible for the House to achieve. I will start with...
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: We can talk about motions and guidelines but one cannot go to a judge and say one’s rights are being infringed on the basis of a guideline. One has to go with legislation. I thank Senator Moloney for her support for sign language recognition. She would like to vote for this Bill and put it on a legislative footing and then force services to be put in place. I know others too would...
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: I thank my colleagues, Senators Ó Murchú and Byrne, for supporting the legislation, all the Members who spoke and the Minister of State for taking this debate and not reading the script she was given, which shows she has a huge understanding of the issue and does not have to be enlightened by the civil servants. This comes down to the fundamental issue of what is a republic and...
- Seanad: Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2013: Second Stage (22 Jan 2014)
Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State for attending. I also thank my colleagues, Senators Labhrás Ó Murchú, Thomas Byrne and Sean Barrett for supporting this important legislation. A number of months ago we discussed the issue of Irish Sign Language and nobody on this side of the House opposed the motion. However, we need to put the matter in legislation because the previous...