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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ambulance Service (20 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: Pleasantly surprised, perhaps.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Ambulance Service (20 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: Before commencing I welcome the research staff of St. Vincent's Hospital who work with Senator John Crown. It is apt that my question is on the ambulance service, although a long way from St. Vincent's Hospital. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. We miss him since he left. The matter I wish to raise concerns the people who will be affected by the proposed cut in ambulance...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I congratulate the Taoiseach on what was a full apology to the women who were in the Magdalen institutions, an apology which was long overdue from successive Governments. It is a tribute to him that he appointed Mr. Martin McAleese to the Seanad to carry out that very difficult task of researching what had happened in the Magdalen laundries, culminating in the report presented and last...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I congratulate the Taoiseach on what was a full apology to the women who were in the Magdalen institutions, an apology which was long overdue from successive Governments. It is a tribute to him that he appointed Mr. Martin McAleese to the Seanad to carry out that very difficult task of researching what had happened in the Magdalen laundries, culminating in the report presented and last...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: They were going to Killarney.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: They got stuck in Killarney.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: What about Government action?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I support Senator O'Brien's call for the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter, to come to the House to debate the appalling state of morale in the Garda Síochána. I also call for a debate on the issue of front-line service providers, including emergency crews in the ambulance and fire brigade services, the Garda Síochána, paramedics, nurses and doctors. What we saw last...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: The most pressing issue of the day is the revelation that one quarter of the population are living a life of deprivation in which they are deprived of basic necessities. I do not see any urgency on the part of the Government to tackle this issue. When 56% of single parent households are described as living in deprivation, we can only imagine what will be the consequences for future...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I did not refer to Senator Bacik.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I recall being scolded by her for interrupting during the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to organise a debate on the crisis in nursing. Graduate nurses in County Kerry were brought into a meeting and told by their bosses, who are only doing their job, that if they did not sign contracts by 24 February, they would be fired. The Minister for Health is blackmailing nurses by threatening to get rid of them if they do not accept a cut in pay. Nurses and graduate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Colombia Peace Process: Motion (13 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I do not have an issue with the tabling of motions. We listen to people's views when they come to meetings. We may not agree all motions. Motions may be cross-party motions. If we do not have motions then we are just a talking shop.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Recovery: Discussion with Chambers Ireland (13 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I would like to get Chambers Ireland's views on the Global Irish Economic Forum, which is a great initiative in terms of bringing people with an Irish heritage back to Ireland to discuss topics of interest to Ireland and our diaspora. In light of the fact we are coming up to the third such forum, what do the representatives of Chambers Ireland think of the fact there seem to be few tangible...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I support the call of my colleague, Senator MacSharry, for an urgent debate on the mortgage issue which I raised yesterday with the Deputy Leader. While there has been plenty of activity on the part of the Government in this regard there has been no action. Senator Coghlan hopes that the Central Bank will do the job of Government and instruct the banks to do something to help struggling...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: The Government could not be accused of haste.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Rural Transport Scheme (12 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: As the Minister of State will be well aware, the rural transport scheme in Kerry is a vital piece of infrastructure, especially in combatting social isolation for those who are living alone and who, except for the scheme, would be isolated not only from their towns and neighbours, but from those of their own age group whom the rural transport scheme manages to bring together. I note the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Rural Transport Scheme (12 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: In particular, Waterville.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Rural Transport Scheme (12 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State. The issue I wish to raise concerns the rural transport scheme especially in Kerry. I understand the 12 months contracts have been shortened to six months and I am concerned as to what will happen when the six month contracts expire.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2013)

Mark Daly: I support my colleague, Senator MacSharry, in his call for action by the Government on the banking issue. All we have seen so far is activity portrayed as action. The sight of the Governor of the Central Bank calling on the Government to do something tells us that even he is frustrated by the lack of action two years on.