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Senator Mark Daly Annual Report SENATOR MARK DALY ANNUAL REPORT SENATOR DALY PRESENTING CERTIFICATES OF IRISH HERITAGE WITH AMERICAN AMBASSADOR MR DAN ROONEY TO THE NEW YORK ROSE ANNE-MARIE LYNCH AND BOSTON ROSE LISSA BRAMLEY CONGRESSMAN BRUCE MORRISON JOB CREATION INVITED BY SENATOR DALY TO THE MOST BRIEF MEMBERS OF SENATE AND IMPORTANT DAIL ON UNDOCUMENTED IRISH IN ISSUE OF OUR THE UNITED STATES TIME: 75% US Congressman, Bruce Morrison GRANTS visited Ireland in November and I arranged for him to address Members AVAILABLE of the Oireachtas on proposals to With the number of unemployed resolve the huge issue of the currently standing at 14.8% and undocumented Irish in the US. with emigration at 87,200. Job The issue of the undocumented Irish creation is the most important is going to be given huge prominence issue of our time. The challenge in the US over the coming months as of creating and sustaining jobs the United States Presidential election in the current economic climate has made Members of Congress economy and would love to gain is made all the more difficult by reconsider their stance towards legal status. With the economic the lending policies of the banks. undocumented workers. Congressman circumstances we have here, people Many in business are finding it Morrison has been one of the feel they can’t go home and in many impossible to get loans from most prominent advocates of the cases are stuck in limbo. These are financial institutions. As more of undocumented Irish and a recognised hard-working people who went out our school leavers and college leader in the United State on the to America to seek a better life; some graduates see no alternative immigration issue, including his have been there over 20 years and but to seek work overseas, the Morrison Visa initiative which offered are now settled within communities importance of alternative options over 40,000 green cards to the Irish with their children and even can not be emphasised enough. community during the 1980s. His grandchildren. It is tragic that 50,000 75% grants are now available address to Members of the Oireachtas Irish people can’t go home to see their to those who have business was informative and extremely loved ones for weddings, birthdays worthwhile. proposals that will help create and family occasions. With the new new jobs for themselves and for There are as many as 50,000 political reality in the United States their community. If you have any undocumented Irish living in the US the time is now right to resolve the queries on this or would like more at the moment who hold down good undocumented Irish issue along with information, please do not jobs and contribute to the American comprehensive immigration reforms. hesitate to contact me. ON THE 2ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE ISSUING OF THE LEGALLY BINDING AGREEMENT, NEGOTIATED BY SENATOR MARK DALY, GLENBEIGH CONSTRUCTION AND THE HSE, CONSTRUCTION OF KENMARE HOSPTIAL IS ON TRACK FOR COMPLETION IN 2013 2 years ago on the 3rd December 2010 the legally binding agreement that ensured the construction of the new 40 bed Kenmare Hospital was issued. The agreement followed weeks of intense discussions and negotiations between the HSE, Glenbeigh Construction and I. The urgency of an agreement at the time is important to remember as there was no guarantee that the budget of the 7th December 2010 would pass through the Dáil thus triggering an automatic election. Also at the time a general election was imminent and anticipated within months if not weeks. There was much speculation in the first half of 2011, by the media, local politicians, HSE officials in Kerry and the new Minister for Health as to whether the Hospital would go ahead. This BRIAN CROWLEY MEP WITH SENATOR MARK DALY AND UNA speculation was exemplified by the Kerryman Newspaper CLINTON O’NEILL OF THE KENMARE HOSPITAL ACTION GROUP headline on the 1st June 2011 which stated “Kenmare deserve a new hospital, as do the people, and if it is Hospital may be put off until 2014”. In the same provided, the capital expenditure involved will be paper I stated “The reason Kenmare Hospital is on the minuscule when compared to the service that will be list is because of a legally binding agreement, which provided for many years to come. I sincerely call on the cannot be overestimated. When I was talking to the new Government and the Minister to allow construction HSE, they said they were tied into it. If they were not tied to go ahead” Since December 2010 I had been into it, you can be sure we would be gone”. This lack of consistently on the record stating that the future of the certainty by others was shown when a local TD asked new hospital was secure. I am glad to report the estimated a parliamentary question on the 17th of May 2011 “They opening date of mid 2013 is now on target. SIGN-LANGUAGE BAN ON SMOKING IN INTERPRETERS NOW CARS WHERE CHILDREN AVAILABLE TO ALL ARE PRESENT MAKES MEMBERS OF THE PROGRESS IN SENATE DEAF COMMUNITY On the 3rd May 2012 Senator Dr John Crown, Senator Jillian van Turnhout and I introduced the Children’s Health WHEN MEETING WITH Protection Bill which would ban smoking in cars where children are present. This legislation will make Ireland MEMBERS OF THE one of the few countries in Europe to have such a ban in place. Research shows that a child who inhales second DÁIL AND SENATE hand smoke in a car for an hour inhales the same amount of toxins as a fire-fighter who is working on a forest fire FOLLOWING PRESSURE for 8 hours. Department of Health officials have proposed FROM SENATOR a few small amendments which will be added to the Bill during the committee stage. This will be taken by the MARK DALY Minister for Health when he attends the Senate in the I was extremely proud to be nominated by the Irish coming weeks. Deaf Society to run as a candidate in the 2007 Senate election. Since then I have worked on many issues on their behalf in the Senate. Currently I am drafting legislation that would have Irish Sign Language (ISL) recognised as an official language here. This would allow the 50,000 users of ISL in Ireland access to a government service that up until now has not been possible. Access to their Public Representatives is also a topic that was of concern to the deaf community. Following a number of meetings with the Ceann Comhairle’s office they have agreed to allow members of both the Senate and Dáil to hire Irish Sign Language Interpreters for meetings with people in the deaf community. FIGHTING THE NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT: ONLY 2% OF THE LAWS MADE IN IRELAND EVERY YEAR ARE DEBATED BY DÁIL AND SENATE On the 29th of August the Irish Examiner published an article which I wrote on the growing National Democratic Deficit. The research which I undertook showed that only 2% of the laws and regulations that take effect in Ireland every year are debated by the Dáil and the Senate. Following on from the article, I published the Scrutiny of EU Directives and Transparency in Government Bill which would ensure that the Senate review all the EU Directives, WITH UNA MCGEOUGH WHO SPOKE TO MEMBERS OF LEINSTER Regulations and Government Statutory Instruments. This HOUSE ABOUT HER FATHER GERRY I VISITED GERRY IN MAGHABERRY PRISON. GERRY IS IN FAVOUR OF THE PEACE piece of legislation will ensure a rebalance in the current PROCESS YET IS BEING HELD IN JAIL CONTRARY TO THE democratic deficit. WESTON PARK AGREEMENT BETWEEN IRELAND AND ENGLAND In 2011, 1,234 EU Regulations and 105 EU Directives were transposed directly into Irish law without debate, SENATOR DALY while Ministers signed into law 741 Statutory instruments without scrutiny by the parliament. Only 41 Acts were HELPS WITH THE initiated by the national parliament. This suggests that 98 percent of all laws passed in Ireland are done so without ESTABLISHMENT OF any legislative scrutiny and merely enacted by ministerial “IRELAND TODAY” authority. Even in the limited circumstances where the Oireachtas TV CHANNEL WHICH has been handed an opportunity to conduct meaningful scrutiny of EU legislation, it has failed miserably and WILL GET IRELAND’S embarrassingly so when compared to other EU states. MESSAGE OUT TO The Lisbon Treaty permits each national parliament eight weeks to make submissions on proposed EU legislation. 38 MILLION HOMES In response to the 139 pieces of legislation which were released for comment and consideration by member state IN THE UNITED STATES parliaments in the first two years since Lisbon, the EU Since last July I have been working with a received 428 submissions, of which Ireland made only one. Washington DC based TV Distributions Company, MHz Worldview USA. They are a public television leader in broadcasting international television programmes such as China Today, France 24 and Al Jazeera to 38 million American homes, 1 million of MHz households are in Washington DC where some of America’s key decision makers live. During a series of meetings which I helped arrange with broadcasters in Ireland, MHz has negotiated the terms of content distribution agreements. It is the objective, that within 12 months of its launch, in March 2013 Ireland Today will be broadcasting daily news, current affairs, politics/business/drama/adventure/cultural/ educational series, sport and special events, 24 hours a day from Ireland into the United States. The power of Ireland Today for our country is that it will get the message out that Ireland is a good place to do business and a great place to visit.
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