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Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: If that loss were extended to cover other fire sales in similar properties, including section 23 properties, the cost to the taxpayer would be in the hundreds of millions, if not billions, of euro. If section 23 relief is withdrawn unilaterally, there will be a double crash. I raised a related point during the week that NAMA was not following the legislative provisions in the selling of...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I will.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I have not. I am not an investigator, but NAMA is not following the code of conduct. It says it does do not have to. Transparency is the key factor in this matter, but NAMA is not following the code of conduct.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: As I am not a member of the Garda, I cannot do that. When I have information of wrongdoing, I will put it before somebody.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2011 (Certified Money Bill): Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: NAMA has turned around and said it does not have to follow the code of conduct for the sale of State assets. I maintain these are State assets because we provided the money. NAMA owes us the money. I do not care whether NAMA follows the code or not, but there is no transparency and there are bad practices going on. I do not want to be doing a post mortem here in a year's time when it has...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Fine Gael could have blocked the Finance Bill.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: We could have begun the election campaign last Tuesday.

Seanad: National Monument at 14-16 Moore Street, Dublin: Statements (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I welcome the relatives of some of those who fought in 1916 and gave their lives for the country. Thomas Davis who was from Mallow would be proud today that a fellow Corkman was elected leader of Fianna Fáil. In his famous song, "A Nation Once Again", he wrote the line, "three hundred men and three men" to describe how the Greeks had taken on the Persians. As far as the British were...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Will we move it to the following week?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Senator Bacik should come up with solutions not with problems.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Why did the Labour Party not push the motion?

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: She is making claims that do not stand up.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I have been a Member of this House for three and a half years.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I just want to tell Senator Alex White, in case he is inquiring, that I am Senator Mark Daly and have been a Member for three and a half years. Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance to attend the House to debate the absence of legislative provisions in the Finance Bill to deal with bankers' bonuses? I saw my colleague from County Kerry, Senator Coghlan, nod in agreement that these...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: Despite this, NAMA is not following the legislation passed by this House. If it did, such bids would not be occurring.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: I am looking for a debate.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: If there were more time in this Government, amendments to the NAMA legislation could be introduced.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: We had that debate yesterday.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: The issue is still the same as yesterday. The Labour Party could have had an election yesterday if it had wanted to and had the guts to do it. It did not do it. The Labour Party funked it.

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2011)

Mark Daly: You lot did not do it. You funked it.