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Seanad: Overseas Development Issues: Statements (9 May 2013)

Mark Daly: I will send the Minister of State the report. When the foreign affairs committee received a presentation on the matter, we pointed out the percentage of money that we needed give to EU institutions. We are tied to the figures. That money does not support our overall allocation. However, as the party that committed to the 0.7% target, we are supportive of the Minister of State's efforts...

Seanad: Overseas Development Issues: Statements (9 May 2013)

Mark Daly: The latest survey shows that 88% of people in this country are proud of Ireland's record in the area of international aid. We have been involved in many excellent initiatives which have saved and transformed the lives of millions of people. Our record as a donor country is undoubtedly a legacy of our own past experience of famine and want. We are now in difficult times, however, and people...

Seanad: Overseas Development Issues: Statements (9 May 2013)

Mark Daly: The figures are there in the overseas aid reports. The bottom line is that a huge portion of the budget is going to EU institutions and the World Bank. My party, in common with most people in this country, wants to support the overseas aid programme. The fact that it is being rolled up into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade probably makes sense in so far as the rate at which many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Second Global Irish Economic Forum: Discussion with Department of Foreign Affairs (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: The Global Irish Economic Forum was probably one of the best initiatives of both the previous Government and this Government in terms of our reaching out to our diaspora abroad. I will not go into all the questions involved but implementation is a concern I have always raised. Resources were not given to the Department of Foreign Affairs to do all that was laid down by the first and second...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Second Global Irish Economic Forum: Discussion with Department of Foreign Affairs (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: Has any detailed analysis been done of the numbers of undocumented Irish in the US or is it guesstimates through the Irish pastoral care centres and various organisations that the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade supports? Have we any hard and fast figures we could go by in terms of how many are in each state or city? Various figures are thrown out from 10,000 to 50,000.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Second Global Irish Economic Forum: Discussion with Department of Foreign Affairs (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: I welcome the officials. The undocumented Irish issue has been in the mix for a long time since the Kennedy-McCain initiative. Like the peace process, all the stars and elements need to be aligned for it to work. Everything must be in the right place at the right time with the right people involved. Now is the time for this to happen but that does not necessarily mean it will be...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: I am seconding the amendment. The Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, signed a pledge to the effect that he would not increase school fees. When all is said and done, he will have increased them three times. It is bad enough to break a promise once but to do so on three occasions is quite an achievement. We were also promised the creation of 40,000 jobs per year....

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to arrange a debate on the five-point plan and on those promises which it would never have been possible to honour-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: Those now in government promised people that they would get free GP care. This was despite the fact that it would never have been possible to deliver it.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: I am seeking a debate on the Defence Forces. Yesterday, a Bill relating to those who deserted the Defence Forces and went absent without leave, AWOL, during the Second World War was passed by the Dáil. Earlier today, at a ceremony in Arbour Hill attended by the President and the Taoiseach, the Army was virtually excluded from its own church. The church at Arbour Hill is the church of...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: -----relating to the 1916 Rising and the leaders thereof who were executed. Why does the Minister for Defence, Deputy Shatter, dislike our Defence Forces so much?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: This is the man who described Irish neutrality during the Second World War as being morally bankrupt

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: The Defence Forces are charged with defending our country.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: The policy of neutrality during the Second World War was supported by the Minister's party at the time. Not only is he taking on members of the Garda, he is also taking on the Defence Forces and excluding them from their own church at Arbour Hill.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (8 May 2013)

Mark Daly: I support Senator Byrne in calling for a debate on the broken promise on free GP care for all citizens of the State. There has been a litany of broken promises on this matter. When these promises were made two years ago, those who put them forward were well aware of and well briefed on the financial situation. The promises in question were ones with those responsible for making them could...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Organ Donation: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2013)

Mark Daly: I have been observing this debate for six years and have come to the conclusion it is a fundamental failure of the political process. No amount of money will make any difference to our organ donation system until we have the correct procedures and structures in place. I was in the Seanad when Senator Feargal Quinn introduced his presumed consent legislation, which was hotly debated. When...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Issues: Discussion with Centre for Global Development and GOAL (24 Apr 2013)

Mark Daly: I thank Mr. Barry and Mr. Glasgow for meeting us. What game changer do they see happening to put an end to the hurting stalemate that currently exists? It appears the conflict will trundle on in the absence of decisive intervention and all we will see is an increased body count. The staff are operating in a war zone, which is a dangerous place to be. It will be a challenge to get them out...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2013)

Mark Daly: I also extend my sympathy to the families of Martin Richard, aged eight years, and Ms Krystle Campbell, aged 29, both of whom died in the Boston bombings, and to all those who were injured and maimed in that terrorist attack. I also ask the Leader to organise a debate on the undocumented Irish, an issue about which we spoke previously. Yesterday the US Senate published an 884 page...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Mar 2013)

Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to organise an immediate debate and bring the Minister for Finance into the House on the liquidation of IBRC and the actions by KPMG, the liquidator appointed. It seems that many of the contracts for sale that were to be processed by IBRC prior to its liquidation will now be held up for four months, and possibly longer, as a result of the appointment of this liquidator....

Seanad: Philantrophy and Fund-raising: Motion (27 Mar 2013)

Mark Daly: I do not see the bottom line.