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Seanad: Tourism Promotion (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: The Minister should not forget the hurleys. If he is taking in surfing lessons, he might just bring in hurleys and sliotars too.

Seanad: Tourism Promotion (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: We won the first All-Ireland final, I remind the Senator.

Seanad: Community Development (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, to the House. We had an interesting discussion while we were waiting.

Seanad: Community Development (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: We could dispense with the debate, but it will be held in public none the less. It was an entirely different topic we were talking about. My question was about the need for the Minister with responsibility for local government to clarify, with regard to the interim report of the local government and local development alignment steering group, whether he seeks closer amalgamation or...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: I welcome the motion and the Minister of State. This is an important debate. I look forward to continuing the debate over the coming years. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was not ratified by the previous Government and is not being ratified by this Government. I received replies from the Minister for Justice and Equality recently. The Government takes the...

Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: I propose to cite comments published in the Irish Examiner of 28 June 2010: I'm against water charging. Water is a necessity. I've always believed essential services such as water should be delivered as a public service. I believe the speaker, the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Eamon Gilmore, sits at the Cabinet table of a Government that is introducing water...

Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: It is mostly roads.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: Last Saturday marked not alone the 93rd anniversary of this House but also that of the Lower House. It says a lot for us as a Parliament that this event was not marked. Saturday was also the 93rd anniversary of the start of the War of Independence. I was honoured to be in Soloheadbeg for the commemoration and am also honoured to be on the 2016 commemoration committee to which a former...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: Will the Leader invite the associated Minister, who I assume is the Minister for Justice and Equality, to this House to discuss how we should be able to scrutinise statutory instruments as part of our workload in the Seanad, given that 733 of these were passed in a 12-month period without anybody looking at them, scrutinising or amending them to see how they might affect Ireland? This shows...

Seanad: Report of Advisory Group on Small Business: Statements (Resumed) (19 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Our topic of discussion is the No. 1 issue in the country and I will speak on the solution to the problem. Several people from Valentia and I published the Valentia Island Red Tape Report, which examined how bureaucracy was preventing job creation on the island. Expanding on this microcosm highlights the number of private sector jobs that the...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to organise a debate on the forthcoming European Union treaty and the proposals that will be made in the coming days to Ireland and other member states. It beggars belief that the interdepartmental group has not met and that Ireland has not formulated a position on the issue. It appears all we will be doing when we enter the negotiations is accepting what is put in front of...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: -----and responsibility for the running of the fiscal affairs of the country to the European Union, it is important that the people have their say. There is a provision in the Constitution, Article 27, whereby a majority of the Seanad, with the support of one third of the Dáil, can petition the President to ask for a referendum. I hope that democracy will prevail and my colleagues...

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: I ask that the new public consultation process would organise groups and organisations to come into the House every month and propose detailed legislation as to what-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: -----can be done that will cut red tape and allow job creation.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: The Government has not put the interdepartmental committee together.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: The Government does not have a position.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: The Government should have a position.

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Mark Daly: The Government should take a position in advance of that.

Seanad: Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2011: First Stage (16 Dec 2011)

Mark Daly: I move: That leave be granted to introduce the Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2011.