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Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: It is a sad reality of our political process that most of the Members opposite, who are members of the Government parties, and back bench Government Deputies are reading about the budget in the newspapers. The Fourth Estate seems to be informing the legislators about what is and is not in the budget.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: On coming into power, this Government promised the budgetary process would be different and that it would bring it to committees, tease it out and analyse different possibilities but we are back to the same system which was in place-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I did not hear the Senator's comments. It seems an affront to the political process that the civil servants who draft the budget and put it before the Ministers are the ones who know what is in it. They are the ones who debate what cuts will be made. The Dáil, which will sign off on it today, will simply be rubber-stamping it and rushing it through. I am calling for our budgetary...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: The budgetary process should begin well in advance. Not only would Members opposite and Deputies be involved in the process but so too would members of the Cabinet who are not one of the four members of what could be the Irish troika-----

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: -----and their budgets would not simply be handed to them on the day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: We all got an e-mail referring to one of the cities in Syria that is surrounded by the Syrian army and is under constant shelling.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Impact of Conflict in Syria: Discussion. (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I am sorry. There are also air strikes. The fear is that the city will be overrun and the civilian population will be slaughtered. Are the witnesses aware that the civilian population is surrounded in situations where media blackouts seems to be in place? If such a city is overrun we are talking about a massacre of the entire civilian population. Has that come across the radar of the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. We in south Kerry are facing death by geography and death by PowerPoint. Hidden within the PowerPoint presentation delivered to us by the national ambulance service was the information that the second emergency ambulance in Killarney town would be lost, which simply beggars belief. People in rural areas will now be waiting one to two hours for a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: It is the paramedics and doctors in Killarney who raised the issue with me.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ambulance Service Provision (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch, for taking this Adjournment debate. The issue I raise is the ambulance service in County Kerry, in particular in south Kerry where, as of last Tuesday, the service has been changed significantly in a way I believe will have detrimental consequences for patient safety. The issue is simple. Killarney town, which services a huge catchment area, has...

Seanad: Irish Sign Language: Motion (9 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I also welcome the members of the deaf community. The Irish Deaf Society is my nominating body and I am proud to be their Senator in this Chamber. I welcome Dr. John Bosco Conama, with whom I have worked on the issue of the recognition of Irish Sign Language. We are in breach of all sorts of agreements. We are in breach of the UN Convention on...

Seanad: Political Reform: Statements (8 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: It could be argued that emigrants are not engaged in or concerned about what happens in their home country. Of course, Irish emigrants are engaged and want to know what is happening at home and want people for whom they can vote to ensure the economic and social conditions improve in order that they can return. The Constitutional Convention, of which I am a member, approved voting rights...

Seanad: Political Reform: Statements (8 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: As the budget is coming up, it is important to recognise that the scale of our financial deficit has been well and truly debated in all Chambers but the scale of our national democratic deficit has really only come under scrutiny because of the debate on the Seanad. There are many issues we now have to consider. The 1 million people who voted on Friday looked for reform, not just of this...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I will be here in the Chamber tonight.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I agree with the Leader that the most important issue is the forthcoming budget and jobs, particularly when we have one citizen leaving the State every six minutes due to emigration. The way we reform these Houses and our way of government will ensure, in the long term, that the economic crisis that befell us will not happen again. Colleagues have spoken about the Constitutional Convention...

Seanad: An Appreciation of the Life and Work of Seamus Heaney: Statements (3 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: I recite Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney: The pockets of our great-coats full of barley (No kitchens on the run, no striking camp) We moved quick and sudden in our own country. The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp. A people, hardly marching - on the hike - We found new tactics happening each day: Horsemen and horse fell to the twelve foot pike, We'd stampede cattle into...

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: That is not what he said. What Senator Gilroy has said is wrong.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: He did not say that.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: He said we are not the Supreme Court.

Seanad: Upward Only Rent (Clauses and Reviews) Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Mark Daly: Let her show the advice.