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Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I support Senator Jim Walsh's call for openness and transparency in the drafting of the Personal Insolvency Bill. As I indicated earlier in the week, if the banks drafted legislation on this issue, one would probably not be able to tell the difference between it and the Personal Insolvency Bill. The Government is duty-bound to find out-----

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I hope the Minister will be able to provide all correspondence and the minutes of all meetings concerning the Bill. It is unacceptable that the banks are lobbying to ensure the legislation is designed to suit their interests. More important, what changes are they seeking and what changes are being made?

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Sugar Beet Industry (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I look forward to Senator Fidelma Healy Eames informing the House what she has learned from the Government about lobbying by the banks to have the Bill suit their interests. If the legislation suits the banks, it will not suit citizens or those who owe money to the banks. One in five mortgages is in distress and a new group of vulnerable people, namely, the middle class, has emerged. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I support Senator Jim Walsh's call for openness and transparency in the drafting of the Personal Insolvency Bill. As I indicated earlier in the week, if the banks drafted legislation on this issue, one would probably not be able to tell the difference between it and the Personal Insolvency Bill. The Government is duty-bound to find out-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I hope the Minister will be able to provide all correspondence and the minutes of all meetings concerning the Bill. It is unacceptable that the banks are lobbying to ensure the legislation is designed to suit their interests. More important, what changes are they seeking and what changes are being made?

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I look forward to Senator Fidelma Healy Eames informing the House what she has learned from the Government about lobbying by the banks to have the Bill suit their interests. If the legislation suits the banks, it will not suit citizens or those who owe money to the banks. One in five mortgages is in distress and a new group of vulnerable people, namely, the middle class, has emerged. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: -----that is someone who believes they are still in opposition and not in government. The Government must do the work.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: The Members opposite are in government to do something and not give out about the appalling situation.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: School Transport (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State. I raise this matter in the context of comments made by the Minister for Education and Skills to the effect that two and three-teacher schools should consider their future. According to the Minister, rural schools such as scoil naisiúnta Realt na Mara which is located next to Ardea post office in County Kerry and to which this matter relates do not have a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: School Transport (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister of State for coming before the House and accept that this matter does not fall within his area of responsibility. Perhaps he might convey to those who wrote the reply he read - a Labour Party Senator referred to this on the Order of Business this morning - that I asked a specific question about a particular school. I did not receive a reply to that question; the reply...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: School Transport (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: The Minister of State is aware of what those phrases mean. As a result of the Minister for Education and Skill's policy, families are going to be split up and siblings will be obliged to attend different schools. What we are talking about is parishes being allowed to wither away as a result of schools being closed. The reply from the Department falls very short in answering the question I...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: School Transport (18 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: On the next occasion on which he meets the Minister for Education and Skills, perhaps the Minister of State might convey my views on the matter to him.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: Like others, I ask the Leader to organise a real debate in regard to the mortgage issue and the disturbing case reported in the The Irish Times today of a Garda sergeant and his wife who, as Senator Norris pointed out, have cornflakes days because that is all they can afford to eat. These are the new vulnerable in Irish society. Former President Bill Clinton said in October 2011 that we...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: John Allen asked me to name him on the record of the House. I ask the Leader to organise that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I think that is what the privilege of the House is for.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: If a person asks me to bring his or her case before the House, I will bring it before the House. If he asks me to name him-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: I am respecting it. It is for that reason I am using it. I thank the Cathaoirleach. I have asked the Leader to organise a debate in regard to those cases and so many other serious cases.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: Fundamental change is needed. I ask the Leader to organise an immediate debate on the report, which will increase the democratic deficit by pushing Ireland to the bottom of the European league table in respect of public representation.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: As my colleagues opposite congratulated Sligo Rovers, I had better strike a balance by congratulating Kenmare GAA Club on its victory in the county junior championship final. Uniquely, the club is in both the all-Ireland hurling final and the club championship final. Very few clubs have managed to achieve this.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: It is relevant in terms of voluntarism, an issue on which I ask the Leader to arrange a debate, as it is at the core of what Ireland is about. All of the people who contribute ensure we have teams such as Sligo Rovers and Kenmare on the field. It is a very important aspect of Irish society.