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Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: The Good Friday Agreement recognised Irish, Ulster Scots and Irish Sign Language as official languages. We agreed, with the British Government, that these languages would get official recognition in the North and South. While Irish Sign Language is recognised in the North of Ireland and policy has been put in place on the ground to implement it, here in the South there has been no...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I will be delighted to support the motion, but-----

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I would hope that rather than supporting motions we support legislation.

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I addressed that in my speech. Activity should never be mistaken for action. While we would be delighted to support any motion that is positive on Irish Sign Language, the legislation-----

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: Putting the Good Friday Agreement on a legislative basis would be far more productive for the members of the deaf community.

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I support my colleagues in this motion. There are 600,000 people with disabilities of one form or another in the country, and they should be protected in the best way possible. That amounts to 18.5% of the population having some form of disability, and the manner in which the Government gives support is critical. To clarify the matter for my learned friend opposite, mismanagement in the...

Seanad: Pathways to Work Strategy: Statements (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for outlining the work done by the programmes with which she is involved. It is always good to see a Minister outline his or her brief, not read a script, which tells us that she knows exactly what she is talking about. There are a number of issues. We have talked about how the unemployment rate has stabilised but not about the people who...

Seanad: Pathways to Work Strategy: Statements (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I understand. It is beyond bizarre that we tell everybody that our graduates are the best and bravest of what our universities can produce yet we will not allow them to come in here. We tell all of the multinationals-----

Seanad: Pathways to Work Strategy: Statements (25 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: No, it is not and I understand that completely. I have raised the issue with the Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, the Ceann Comhairle and others. Amazingly, we still cannot bring those people into Leinster House to give them an invaluable insight. I am talking about people who are qualified in the legal profession or political science. These are the types of people who could help us...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to organise a debate on the Irish overseas and the diaspora in light of a comment by the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Brian Hayes, in today's Irish Post. He said the Irish overseas should not get a vote in the Dáil, if there is to be a reformed Dáil, as they have social media. As one of only four countries in Europe that does not give any...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: -----it is extraordinary that the Government's idea of reform is to advise people, including the 50,900 who left in the last 12 months, that they have social media and do not need a vote. In our policy documents we have advocated that the Irish overseas and the diaspora should have a vote and a voice in a reformed Dáil. There is a meeting of the Constitutional Convention this weekend...

Seanad: Turf-cutting: Statements (19 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister to the House and on behalf of my colleague, Senator O'Sullivan, intend to question him regarding the bogs around Listowel in his own constituency and to ask him to provide Members with an update in that regard. I have listened to colleagues opposite outlining the process of how this situation has been reached. They spoke of directives, derogations that were sought,...

Seanad: Turf-cutting: Statements (19 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: Yes, but he did not actually qualify that; there is no asterisk next to it. Moreover, promises were made by the Labour Party, which was going to take it back to Europe. However, the wriggle room in respect of Europe was gone and perhaps the Minister might outline what is happening in that regard at this stage. The fault lies with Departments in the past which left the current Minister with...

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I second that.

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and this important debate. I support the idea of history being a core subject for the junior certificate and quote a Russian proverb: those who keep one eye on the past are half blind but those who keep both eyes on the future can see nothing at all. It is apt that the Minister quoted Pádraig Pearse's book The Murder Machine: I would urge...

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: At least the Minister is not abolishing history.

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: I did not say that it was.

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: No, I did not. Look at my notes.

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (18 Sep 2013)

Mark Daly: If it is not compulsory then how is it compulsory in 50% of schools?

Seanad: SI 325 of 2012 - European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion (20 Aug 2013)

Mark Daly: Well said.