Results 81-100 of 166 for cork speaker:Mark Daly

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (16 Dec 2020)

Mark Daly: ...received notice from Senator Tim Lombard of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Education to make a statement on the site acquisition for Summercove National School, Kinsale, County Cork. I have also received notice from Senator Gerard Craughwell of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to provide an update on the provision of overseas...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (1 Dec 2020)

Mark Daly: ...notice from Senator Tim Lombard of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Transport to provide an update on the project appraisal plan for phase 2 of the Bandon southern relief road in County Cork. I have also received notice from Senator Paul Gavan of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to make a statement on the...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (24 Nov 2020)

Mark Daly: ...from Senator Tim Lombard of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Transport to provide an update on the project appraisal plan for phase 2 of the Bandon southern relief road in County Cork. I have also received notice from Senator Rónán Mullen of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Health to make a statement on the continuing Covid-19 restrictions...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (10 Nov 2020)

Mark Daly: ...consideration be given to inviting President-elect Biden to come to Ireland and to address a joint sitting of these Houses. I know the Mayo and Louth contingents, and now I hear the Wexford and Cork contingents, where he has relatives would welcome such an address.In our letter to President-elect Biden, we quoted one of his favourite poets, W.B. Yeats, who is a former Member of the...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (5 Nov 2020)

Mark Daly: .... I have also received notice from Senator Tim Lombard of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to make a statement on the allocation of funding to Cork County Council for the repair works following the flood damage in August 2020. I have also received notice from Senator John Cummins of the following matter: The need for...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (7 Oct 2020)

Mark Daly: ...also received notice from Senator Jerry Buttimer of the following matter: The need for the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works to provide an update on the Lower Lee, Cork city, flood relief scheme. I have also received notice from Senator Maria Sherlock of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (29 Jun 2020)

Mark Daly: ...years ago, of being the deputy leader of our group and of being allowed to second him. He outlined his long service to the State and, for that, on behalf of all the Members of the Seanad but also the people of Cork, I would like to thank him for his long service to Ireland and to his community. Senator Lisa Chambers, as leader of our group, proposed me, and I want to thank her. It is a...

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (29 Jun 2020)

Mark Daly: ...s name was also on the sign language Bill for the deaf community. I thank her for her support on that and for her kind words. I am going out of sequence but I wish to call my great colleague from Cork, Senator Buttimer, the former Leader, who did outstanding work as Leader of the Seanad. We did not always agree. In fact, we very rarely agreed but we can always agree to disagree. That...

Seanad: Sustainable Tourism: Statements (16 Oct 2019)

Mark Daly: ...the entire community benefits. Ireland Reaching Out was not mentioned in the Minister of State's speech. It is something that will bring sustainable tourism and not just in areas such as Kerry, Cork, Clare and the more well-known tourist destinations.It would be of benefit to all of them. We talk about the fact that cheaper air fares are a benefit for tourism but they also mean we do...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: ...health service and that must be addressed. A trolley crisis, equivalent to that in the annual January peak period, occurs daily. That is another systems failure. People arriving by ambulance at Cork University Hospital may wait for three hours before the ambulance can release them to the care of the accident and emergency department to receive treatment. Step-down beds are available in...

Seanad: Declaration of Independence Day Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (5 Jul 2018)

Mark Daly: ...have already marked the 100th anniversary of the first action in the War of Independence, although the people in County Tipperary would tend to disagree that it happened on 21 January 1919. The boys in Cork claim that the first action of the War of Independence happened on St. Patrick's Day 1918. We need to have a plan. I know there is an expert group and I know the officials are...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Jun 2018)

Mark Daly: ...Senator Norris would lead us off in a tune later. He is most welcome to Kerry, of course. I am surprised to see the Leader of the House here because I would have assumed he would be down in Cork, welcoming the Prince of Wales and the Duchess.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 May 2018)

Mark Daly: My God. There will be no votes in Cork for Senator Boyhan.

Seanad: Corporate Manslaughter: Statements (8 May 2018)

Mark Daly: ...things happen because of breaches of the fire code such as fire exits being locked? The answer is yes. The train crash near Cherryville junction in County Kildare in 1983 and at Buttevant, County Cork in 1980 were the result of serious mismanagement. The Whiddy Island disaster was the result of a decision taken by the owner of the Betelgeuseat board of management level not to renew...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Apr 2018)

Mark Daly: ...them by the Taoiseach's spin unit, which obviously has not gone out of existence. The Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Damien English, was in Cork last week and said the Government had built 7,000 houses. The cumulative figure for social housing from July 2016 to date was put at 2,592 which, less the total completed in 2016 of 652,...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: ...on it; I just want to ask the Minister to come to the House to provide clarity and to discuss the capital plan. Obviously those of us from Kerry welcome the announcement of a new hospital in Cork to provide acute care. Regarding that acute care, as the Leader knows very well, simple systems failure, which we frequently discuss in this House, can lead to up to six ambulance waiting to...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: It is in Cork.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Mark Daly: It is Cork University Hospital. It happens time and again. The paramedics are sitting around with acute-care patients sitting in the ambulances waiting to be handed over. It is a pure systems failure. Meanwhile people are in dire need waiting for an ambulance to come to them. That is a systems failure that needs to be rectified. It does not require money; it just requires improved...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Mark Daly: ...the issue as well as Grace Coyle and Alani Caridan for their work in my office on this issue over many years. I also thank those who made submissions to the public consultation process. The Lord Mayor of Cork, Tony Fitzgerald, has been working since his election to ensure that the children of Cork receive a copy of the national anthem and learn the words as Gaeilge. He will talk to us...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Status, Treatment and Use of the National Anthem (5 Dec 2017)

Mark Daly: .... I thank Mr. Raymond for his valuable contribution. He might share with us information on the national anthem project that was done in the US. It would tie in well with what the lord mayor of Cork, Mr. Tony Fitzgerald, has done. Opportunities to sing the national anthem pose the main issue. If one is in Croke Park, at a GAA match or at an international match, that is the...