Mark Daly (politician)
Mark Daly | |
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.jpg) Daly in 2025 | |
| Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann | |
| Assumed office 12 February 2025 | |
| Deputy | Maria Byrne |
| Preceded by | Jerry Buttimer |
| In office 29 June 2020 – 16 December 2022 | |
| Deputy |
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| Preceded by | Denis O'Donovan |
| Succeeded by | Jerry Buttimer |
| Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann | |
| In office 16 December 2022 – 12 February 2025 | |
| Cathaoirleach | Jerry Buttimer |
| Preceded by | Joe O'Reilly |
| Succeeded by | Maria Byrne |
| Senator | |
| Assumed office 13 September 2007 | |
| Constituency | Administrative Panel |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 12 March 1973 Cork, Ireland |
| Political party | Fianna Fáil |
| Alma mater | |
| Website | senatormarkdaly |
Mark Daly (born 12 March 1973) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann since February 2025. He previously served as Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from December 2022 to February 2025 and as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from June 2020 to December 2022. He has served as a senator for the Administrative Panel since July 2007.[1][2]
Early and personal life
[edit]Daly was born in Cork in 1973, but is a native of Kenmare, County Kerry. He is a qualified estate agent. He finished third on the RTÉ reality television show Treasure Island in 2002.[3]
Political career
[edit]He previously worked as an assistant to MEP Brian Crowley.[4] Daly was previously Seanad spokesperson for Fianna Fáil on Overseas Development and deputy spokesperson on Innovation, Office of Public Works and Youth Affairs. He is also a member of the Joint Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee and a member of the Foreign affairs Committee on human rights. He was the spokesperson for Irish Overseas and Diaspora. He is a member of the All-Party Decade of Commemorations working group.
On 30 May 2010, he was one of three Irish politicians who were prevented by authorities from leaving Cyprus to join an international flotilla carrying aid to the besieged Gaza Strip.[5]
In 2011, he was appointed Fianna Fáil Seanad spokesperson on Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.
Daly succeeded in having the Seanad recalled from its 2013 summer recess in an unprecedented debate to discuss an EU directive transposed into Irish law by Minister for Health James Reilly without debate in the Dáil or Seanad.[6][7] The vote was tied and won by the Government through the casting vote of the Cathaoirleach of the Seanad.[8] Alex White, Minister of State at the Department of Health, told the chamber that no case had been made of any strength why the legislation should be annulled. The government dismissed the recall as a "stunt".[8]
In 2018 Daly travelled with Eamon O Cuiv to Omagh to endorse the campaign of Independent and former Sinn Féin Cllr Sorcha McAnespy who had joined the Fianna Fáil party and who sought to contest the 2019 Fermanagh and Omagh District Council election for the party as an approved candidate. Party President Micheal Martin and Party HQ in Mount Street vehemently opposed this initiative about contesting elections in Northern Ireland and summarily sacked Daly from his position as Deputy Leader in the Seanad as a result.[9] McAnespy later resigned from Fianna Fáil.
In Seanad Eireann Daly has worked to implement the Irish Sign Language Act and from 2017-20 he published 6 Reports on the topic of Uniting Ireland, Brexit and the future of Ireland and Uniting Ireland and its people in peace and prosperity the first such report by a Dáil and Seanad Committee.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ "Mark Daly". Oireachtas Members Database. Archived from the original on 7 November 2018. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
- ^ "Mark Daly". ElectionsIreland.org. Archived from the original on 21 February 2011. Retrieved 21 December 2009.
- ^ "About the show". RTÉ Television. Archived from the original on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
- ^ Collins, Stephen (2011). Nealon's Guide to the 31st Dáil and 24th Seanad. Dublin: Gill & Macmillan. p. 196. ISBN 9780717150595.
- ^ "Delegation blocked from joining Gaza flotilla". RTÉ News. 30 May 2010. Archived from the original on 31 May 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
- ^ "Organ donation legislation will not increase transplantations". The Irish Times. 13 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
- ^ "European Union (Quality and Safety of Human Organs Intended for Transplantation) Regulations 2012: Motion". Houses of the Oireachtas. 20 August 2013. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
- ^ a b "Government narrowly wins organ donation vote". The Irish Times. 20 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
- ^ "Fianna Fáil sacks Daly over NI Candidate". Belfast Telegraph. 7 November 2018.
- ^ research reports http://www.senatormarkdaly.ie/Daly's research reports.
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External links
[edit]- 1973 births
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Greenwich
- Fianna Fáil senators
- Harvard Kennedy School alumni
- Members of the 23rd Seanad
- Members of the 24th Seanad
- Members of the 25th Seanad
- Members of the 26th Seanad
- Members of the 27th Seanad
- Participants in Irish reality television series
- Politicians from County Kerry
- Cathaoirligh of Seanad Éireann
- Administrative Panel senators