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Third Interim Report of the Disclosures Tribunal: Statements (17 Oct 2018)

Clare Daly: ...are no ifs or buts. This was crucial for Maurice and his family, for his wife Lorraine and his father, the two rocks who stood behind him on this very difficult road. I am delighted that everybody is patting Maurice on the back now and that he is the people's hero, but it was not always so. Mr. Justice Charleton pinpointed that "The facts do not amount to an exoneration of the...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Budget Statement 2019 (9 Oct 2018)

Clare Daly: There is something demoralising and abstract about this annual pantomime and the hype that belies the real lives of citizens. I am sure the Government thinks it is great, patting itself on the back that there are no obvious banana skins and that there are crumbs for everyone in the audience. However, not only will this budget fail to transform the lives of ordinary people, it will not make...

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Clare Daly: ...motion. If we do not address its content the crisis in our health service will accelerate. We all know the important role nurses play in our society. I am not going to reiterate those points and patronise those people because they do not want a pat on the head. They need a reversal of the policies of austerity, which have been to no-one's benefit since 2012. It was a bit ironic...

Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: The point is that it is irrefutable that the culture in An Garda Síochána has not changed, that there is a systemic problem at the top with senior management and the pathetic measures which the Government has put in place in setting up a Policing Authority, which is now part of the problem, urgently need to be addressed. The women do not want a pat on the head or to be told how...

Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Clare Daly: I will be relatively brief because I am losing the will to live listening to some of the contributions we have had to endure here tonight. I do not say that lightly. However, nobody should be patting themselves on the back because of this legislation. This is one of the worst examples of the misnamed “new politics”. What we have is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory....

Garda Síochána (Policing Authority and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (15 Dec 2015)

Clare Daly: ..., for example. That resulted in the analysis of crime figures having to be withdrawn for a period. It is a very serious matter. We know for a fact that the massaging of the figures is still continuing. In recent weeks, in Superintendent Pat Murray's station in the midlands and in Athlone, we have seen direct evidence of at least eight cases where crimes were written down so that the...

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Oct 2015)

Clare Daly: ...of public sector State pensions. This is brilliant, given the butchery the Government carried out on the livelihoods of pensioners. However, it is doing nothing in the legislation to deal with occupational pension schemes such as the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, IASS. IASS pensioners will find themselves in exactly the same position after the Bill is passed as they did before,...

European Council Meeting: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Clare Daly: ...'s role and complicity by allowing the US military to continue to use Shannon Airport as a "virtual forward airbase" for its forces, as described by Dr. Tom Clonan. This Government wants a pat on the back for accepting 4,000 refugees, and I am glad that we are accepting them. I note that the Minister for Justice and Equality said last week that the refugees would not be put into the...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: ...be exercised in the case of those in the middle and ordinary ranks, the men and women who give excellent service, both in Ireland and internationally, as part of peacekeeping operations. There is no point in patting them on the back and telling them they are doing a great job and then refusing to remunerate them appropriately to allow them and their families to have a decent standard of...

Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: ...mother and baby scheme and so on. The power of the Church has waned but we are still dealing with that legacy. As I said, that is what is at the root of this issue. The Labour Party Deputies are all patting themselves on the back for their achievements in terms of the delivery of social progress but this measure has not yet been delivered. In regard to schools, in 2012, Deputy...

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: ...that affect the public interest and cost the public purse money. My starting point is that the fact that we have a commission of investigation is not necessarily something about which we should be patting ourselves on the back. The Minister, Deputy Heather Humphreys, says the public has a right to know and this is the best way forward. The Government did not think this was the best way...

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: ...diagnosis and sent home to wait for the child to die. The Bill deals with the others, those who cannot bear the prospect of carrying on, with people congratulating them on the impending arrival, patting the bump and so on. They believe the best and most humane option for them is to terminate the pregnancy. I will not repeat the stories and testimony we have all heard, but the mental and...

Private Members' Business - Cuts in Education: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: Speaking on "Morning Ireland" earlier today, the general secretary of ASTI, Mr. Pat King, said, "Our intention is to protect education as far as we can. Our dispute is about the quality and disintegration of education." I salute the members of ASTI for rejecting the Haddington Road agreement and for making that stand. I absolutely and utterly disagree with the points made by the Taoiseach...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2013)

Clare Daly: ...links. The greatest irony of the visit was the protestations of President Obama in his speech about peace to children in Northern Ireland, in which he stated the following:To those who choose the path of peace, I promise you, the United States of America will support you every step of the way. We will always be a wind at your back. Is the US President seeking the hypocrite of the...

Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: ...tonight is to remind Members opposite that the issue is not resolved and we will not let it be forgotten. We will not forget the insult given by the hypocrisy of the likes of the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, who went on the airwaves to say it was a choice between cutting the respite care grant and cutting the core carer's allowance payment. He tried to give the impression that Labour...

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: One of the most disgusting and reprehensible speeches ever delivered in this institution was made in 1924 by the Cumann na nGaedheal Minister for Industry and Commerce, Patrick McGilligan. In response to an outcry from Labour Party Deputies about the proposal to reduce the old age pension by 10% - the Deputies in question spoke of the hardship, horror and starvation being experienced by...

Northern Ireland Issues (22 May 2012)

Clare Daly: ...a pardon in 1980 yet last year she was arrested and an order was signed by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland revoking a licence under the Good Friday Agreement. It is maintained by the Pat Finucane Centre that she was never subject to that licence. No evidence has been produced to dispute that and the pardon seemingly no longer exists. She was freed under a pardon and does not...

Northern Ireland Issues (22 May 2012)

Clare Daly: ...professionals have recommended she should be in hospital and I ask the Tánaiste to take up that question. He might examine the information on the existence of that royal pardon as stated by the Pat Finucane Centre, which is highly reputable and does not have any agenda or axe to grind. Seemingly, nobody can put their hands on that pardon and assertions are being made about it without...

Private Members Business. Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion (Resumed) (9 May 2012)

Clare Daly: ...that has been perpetrated on some of our most vulnerable citizens has to stop. These people have exposed it and now the knowledge is there to be seen. These parents and families do not want a pat on the back. All they want is that to which they are entitled. They want something that is not too much to ask for - the right to raise their children with dignity and support. We are a long...

Private Members' Business: Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: ...back on that decision. Decades of wavering have intervened. Not a single piece of legislation has been enacted throughout that period to give effect to that ruling. Sometimes we look back and pat ourselves on the back that we have left behind a country of the Magdelene laundries, of women's babies being basically sold, of the Kerry babies, of Ms Ann Lovett who died secretly giving birth...