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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-----

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: If she replied to me, I will reply to her.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: If Senator Healy Eames believes that Europe is democratic in nature while the Germans and French dictate to everyone how it should be run, she is the one who is not living in the real world.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: I second the Sinn Féin amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: The principal of Lauragh national school organised a public meeting on rural schools in Kerry last night. I thank the Leader for facilitating several debates on this issue. A positive development in this regard is the GAA's decision to support the issue because it realises its own vested interests are at stake. Rural schools must be maintained if the social and sporting life of communities...

Seanad: Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: I move amendment No. 1: In page 33, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following subsection: "(6) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (5), energy efficiency improvement measures include the provision of dry lining or any other form of wall insulation, or the provision of double glazed windows.". The purpose of the amendment is to add a small subsection on dry lining...

Seanad: Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: I am concerned about primary legislation not being prescriptive. As the Minister is aware, a report was published by the Joint Committee on European Scrutiny that indicated 75% of legislation in any given year was implemented by way of statutory instruments signed by Ministers to give effect to EU law and often to amend legislation where that power had been given to the Minister under...

Seanad: Energy (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: I thank the Minister for his comments and wish him well in his portfolio. I thank him for coming to the House. As he said, this uncontroversial Bill did not attract robust exchanges on Second Stage. We were glad to co-operate with the Minister and point out to him some of the improvements that could be made to the legislation. I wish to mention what I find amazing about the statutory...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: They did not get a receipt either.

Seanad: Undocumented Irish (15 Feb 2012)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Tánaiste to the House. I know that on 4 October 2011 he answered questions on this issue raised by Deputy Naughten. Things have since moved on. The Tánaiste had several meetings on the issue of the new visa programme and the E-3, the most critical of which was with Senator Brown of the US Senate. The Australians have an E-3 visa programme and we are looking for an Irish...