Results 1-12 of 12 for 5 million speaker:Mark Daly

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (5 Mar 2021)

Mark Daly: ...The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide funding to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for harbours that were transferred to it under the Harbours Act 2015. I have also received notice from Senator Aidan Davitt of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to make a statement on the closure of passport services...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2021)

Mark Daly: Today is Australia Day. We hope the 30,000 Australians living in Ireland, the 25 million Australians living in Australia and around the world, 5 million of whom have Irish heritage, and the 70,000 Irish men and women living down under have a happy and safe Australia Day. Although we are divided by time zones and Australia is half a world away, we are united by a shared history. This year...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (11 Dec 2019)

Mark Daly: ...by road hauliers. The Committee of Public Accounts is also examining that matter but, given it concerns the RSA, it also falls under the remit of this committee. I did not realise the RSA has €25 million in the bank. That is a serious amount. It has €25 million in the bank while charging €72 million per year to people who are trying to export goods out of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination, and Public Display) Bill 2018: Discussion (16 Oct 2019)

Mark Daly: ...is nearly €10 billion, which is big money. How much would be saved if we were to put in place the system Professor Egan, Mr. Conroy and all others in the health service want? We would save millions of euro. Croatia had a system of presumed consent for kidney transplants and so on, but it did not work. It realised that what was needed was nurses and a system for retrieving...

Seanad: Councillors' Conditions: Statements (29 Mar 2018)

Mark Daly: ...representations to Senators and Deputies and some are represented in the Gallery. They are also examining a scheme that would be appropriate and workable. The abolition of town councils saved €5 million in direct payments to town councillors and €45 million overall. These savings should be used to improve the terms and conditions of the smaller number of local authority...

Seanad: Petroleum (Exploration and Extraction) Safety Bill 2015: Committee and Remaining Stages (1 Jul 2015)

Mark Daly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 16, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following:“(c) the requirement for any operator, who is granted an exploration licence or petroleum prospecting licence by the Minister, to put a bond in place, so that in the event of the decommissioning of petroleum infrastructure, the licensee not dismantling the infrastructure within 2 years of extraction...

Seanad: Radical Seanad Reform Through Legislative Change: Statements (3 Oct 2012)

Mark Daly: ...law in Ireland and the rest of the European Union. In addition, 164 EU directives became law by the stroke of a ministerial pen and without debate in the Dáil, the Seanad or any committee. Up to 594 statutory instruments became law without scrutiny by this House or the Dáil, while in 2009 only 47 Acts were debated in both Houses. Up to 98% of the laws made were not debated in these...

Seanad: NAMA and Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Transparency Bill 2011: Second Stage (6 Jun 2012)

Mark Daly: ...we would then have is a post mortem examination of sales when what we should be looking for is transparency at every step of the process. The NAMA Act set out clearly what should happen. Section 35 of the NAMA Act stated that a code of practice should be set up by NAMA on how it would dispose of assets. This code of practice was adopted three months later, when it said all credit...

Seanad: Access to Central Treasury Funds (Commission for Energy Regulation) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Oct 2011)

Mark Daly: ...Fianna Fáil does not oppose the Bill in principle, I have several questions about the legislative measures proposed. The anticipated implementation costs of the programme are approximately €5 million. The levy on the industry will not be imposed until the regulatory structures are in place. After that one expects it to be paid back within a year or two through the imposition of the...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Jun 2011)

Mark Daly: I ask the Leader to bring the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Varadkar, before the House to discuss why the Irish Coast Guard Service has €5 million of equipment sitting in a warehouse in Blanchardstown despite being purchased two years ago. It has still not been installed in the marine rescue co-ordination centres in Malin and Valentia but the equipment in those stations...

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Statements (25 Mar 2009)

Mark Daly: ...years, and then for it not to be open when people come to visit it and Muckross House during St. Patrick's week. It would be a disgrace to find that its doors were closed even though we had spent millions trying to open them. That campaign carried out by the chamber of commerce, the hoteliers and the tourism industry shows, as will the other examples I will outline, how the private...

Seanad: Government's Irish Aid Strategy: Statements (13 Nov 2007)

Mark Daly: ...Ireland's overseas aid budget in perspective in terms of its size and historical growth rate and by comparing it with that of other nations. Ireland's total aid budget has increased from €22 million in 1981 to €815 million in 2007. The goal is to double this to reach a target of €1.5 billion, or 0.7% of gross national income, ahead of the EU target date of 2015. In real terms,...