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Seanad: Order of Business (26 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: I agree with Senator Mullen on the issue of mass cards. It is important people receiving mass cards are assured they are genuine. I hope the President and the Council of State will ensure the legislation is constitutional and that if it contains an error, that that will be rectified. Since the days of Punch vilifying the great Daniel O'Connell, the British media has done very little in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: I agree with Senator Harris's description of Christopher Nolan as a true hero, a man who, despite his illness, managed to rise above it and produce great works of literature. One of the backers of Libertas, Mr. McEvaddy, described the ten people who got a free bet at the expense of the taxpayer as heroes. I suggest that he get a new dictionary because the current description of "hero" in...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: I agree with Senators Mullen, Boyle and Leyden and in part with Senator Ross about Irish Life & Permanent which has engaged in high treason of an economic nature in recent years. I must declare an interest because my firm operated as an agency for Irish Life & Permanent which closed 50 such agencies in recent weeks. It did so because it was much cheaper to obtain money through interbank...

Seanad: Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Statements (5 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: I thank Senator Walsh for sharing time. I agree with his remarks regarding those in privileged positions. We should start with ourselves. The Houses of the Oireachtas Commission, of which Senator Walsh is a member, is considering the matter of expenses and remuneration. However, one cannot take action such as that announced yesterday and then state that Members' expenses are immune, as...

Seanad: Electoral Amendment Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Like Senator MacSharry, I am deeply concerned about the situation in Leitrim, to which I will refer later. I would like first to discuss the issue of Kerry. The speculation prior to emergence of the report was that Kerry would be a five-seater constituency, a reduction in the current number given that Kerry North and Kerry South both have three...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: I rise to address some of the issues, particularly the human rights protocol attached to the external trade agreements, raised by the independent Senators. The Israeli Ambassador came before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs, where he received quite a questioning. The same week, a motion by Fianna Fáil Deputies was put before the Joint Committee on European Scrutiny in which we asked...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: I thank the Senator for that, but it was the Minister, Deputy Martin, along with others. It was Fianna Fáil TDs who put forward that motion.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: The Labour Party Deputies also put forward a motion but, amazingly, the Fine Gael Members could not see their way to supporting us on that issue.

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: My point is that Senator Regan was in here going on about us and our external trade agreement, yet when all Members had the opportunity to support our motion at the Joint Committee on European Scrutiny, it was our party, along with Sinn Féin, the Independents and the Labour Party, that supported it. Now we are being lectured by others who do not seem to connect with their own party, because...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: Lack of funding?

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: It does not take much to go off and ask the UN Secretary General to compile a report. We asked for action. We were accused of not taking action, but we asked for action. We were not supported by all but we were supported by many. We will take that support and go on. We have been lectured by the Opposition, but I will send the transcripts to Senator Regan to let him know his party is not...

Seanad: Human Rights Issues: Motion (4 Feb 2009)

Mark Daly: I thank the Senator. A total of 75% of its produce comes to the EU. If we threaten that, as we did with South Africa, things may change. During the time of apartheid, the UK and the US stood idly by, but eventually things can change. The process takes a long time, however. It is not a matter of a triumphal entry into Baghdad and saying "mission accomplished", as some would have it, but...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Mark Daly: I support Senator Eugene Regan's point about the situation in the Holy Land. The Israeli ambassador and the representative from Fatah appeared before the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and to say it was a full and frank exchange of views is putting it mildly. To be balanced, I told the Fatah representative that their problem was that they were corrupt in the extreme and this was the...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Mark Daly: The ambassador eventually admitted that there was a phosphorus element in the shells the Israelis were using in Gaza. I am pleased to report that at a subsequent meeting of the Joint Committee on European Affairs, the Fianna Fáil Senators——

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Mark Daly: At a subsequent meeting of the Joint Committee on European affairs——

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Mark Daly: In reply to Senator Buttimer, I hope he is hiding the Cork hurlers.

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Mark Daly: At that meeting of the Joint Committee on European Affairs, Fianna Fáil Deputies Timmy Dooley and Michael Mulcahy proposed that the European Union and the United Nations Secretary General should compile a report on human rights abuses in Israel and Palestine and if human rights abuses were confirmed, Article 2 of our preferential trade agreement with Israel would be invoked and its...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Jan 2009)

Mark Daly: I regret that Fine Gael did not support the Fianna Fáil motion. Next month, I will put down the exact motion again at the EU-Mediterranean economic forum meeting. I hope we will get some support from the Opposition on that occasion.

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (5 Dec 2008)

Mark Daly: Welcome, Joe.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Dec 2008)

Mark Daly: I agree with Senator Quinn regarding the removal of cribs from shops and hospitals. As a republic, it is our job to welcome visitors and to respect their traditions and cultures but I also hope they respect ours. The replacement and removal of cribs at Christmas time is akin to taking Christ out of Christmas. Where that happens, he is being replaced by the new god of materialism, which is...