Results 7,661-7,680 of 8,400 for speaker:Mark Daly
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Did the House of Lords pass the relevant Bill presented it to it?
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Who was the Martin who blocked it?
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: In reply to the amusement we caused-----
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: On a point of information-----
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: ----- we fully support the Bill. If it is put to a vote we will support it and we will vote for it on Committee and Remaining Stages if we get the chance. Question put and agreed to.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: That is a good question.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: I look forward to seeing it next week.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and look forward to hearing her reply on whether she will propose that the Bill move forward to the next Stage. This is an interesting Bill. While we are not opposing it we seek more study of the issue. This whole area needs to be regulated. Unfortunately, as we have seen from other issues, whether mobile telephone masts, pylons or wind...
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Kilcummin.
- Seanad: Wind Turbines Bill 2012: Second Stage (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: They have.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: They would sell tickets for that.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Down with that sort of thing.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: They are still taxiing on the runway to allow the Minister to take off.
- Seanad: Media Standards: Statements, Questions and Answers (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Thomas Jefferson said that if one expects people to be ignorant and free one expects what never was and never shall be. At the time he was talking about education. In today's world he would be talking about the media and the importance of its role in ensuring freedom. We have seen in the Arab spring how media, in particular social media, played its role. We need a free media in order to...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Ireland and the EU have a democratic deficit. The direction the EU is taking is not democratic in nature. Since the failure of the euro started, we have seen that it was designed to fail. According to many commentators, it was not structured correctly. The new EU structures being put in place are also designed to fail. They lack consultation with-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: If Senator Healy Eames believes that a lack of consultation with the citizens of Europe-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: If one designs a democratic structure without consulting the people-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: I am not saying that the Senator opposite is part of the political elite, but the political class and the bureaucrats are telling the citizens of Europe how it should be run.
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Yes. We need a debate on this issue. I welcome the constitutional convention, which is a positive step taken by the Government. It is consulting the people. It will select 100 people from all walks of life to feed into this welcome process. I suggest that Europe should travel in a similar direction when designing its new structures instead of following its current path, whereby the...
- Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)
Mark Daly: Will the Leader arrange for a debate on the new constitutional convention? It is important that the issues under discussion and the proposed changes be debated in the House. We could have a series of debates. To the Senator opposite, Europe-----