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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a Student Universal Support Ireland application ( details supplied) was refused on the basis of insufficient documentary evidence for an independent student, despite the fact that the applicant submitted a bank statement and correspondence from a Government Department for the relevant period, which is clearly within the regulations...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 280. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm, in respect of the alleged defrauding of EU grants which had been the subject of a report to the DPP in 1999 causing the dismissal of the CEO of an NGO (details supplied), that the Department recorded in March 2002 that there had been no irregularities. [39219/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 281. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the irregularity reports on EU grants that the Department was required, and did send to Brussels, were accompanied by a detailed description of alleged fraud that bore no resemblance to what had actually occurred (details supplied). [39221/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 285. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, in relation to the Commission judgment of 2000 that significant EU expenditures in Ireland had been systemically maladministered, he will explain the way the Department then made it mandatory in July 2001 for audit trails to be based on all EU expenditures retrospective to 1994; the level at which this decision was taken; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 286. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, as a result of the introduction of EU regulation 2064/97, the rules governing grant expenditures here had been necessarily changed in 1997. [39357/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 287. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with reference to his Department's email of July 2012, which requested the former chairman of an NGO (details supplied) to identify his resolution and the action his Department took to implement that resolution. [39358/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 288. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason, despite the email sent by the Department in July 2012 and the outline resolution of the Department of Education and Skills, the Department refuses to acknowledge or reply to any follow on emails from the former NGO chairman (details supplied). [39359/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Board Appointments (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 294. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will explain the conflict of interest between the Government's chief scientific adviser and head of Science Foundation Ireland (details supplied). [39389/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Oireachtas TV Service (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 371. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when Oireachtas TV will be broadcast by Saorview. [39659/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Animal Welfare Issues (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 428. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the authority upon which the Garda refused to prosecute a club (details supplied) in County Wexford on the basis of not accepting evidence submitted from a National Parks and Wildlife Service ranger regarding animal cruelty; and the steps that will be taken to ensure that the law is upheld. [39374/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (24 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the report of Inland Fisheries Ireland in October 2010, critical of the Marine Institute's monitoring of sea lice in fish farms and expressing concern about the effect on wild stocks, was not passed on to the European Commission. [39617/13]

Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: I must inform Deputy Feighan that every citizen must be accountable for his or her actions and behaviour. Politicians must realise that the impact on their livelihoods of particular decisions often causes people to become upset and rightly so. Deputy Feighan states that he is not seeking people's thanks. If we seek re-election at the end of our terms of office and if our constituents see...

Other Questions: Irish Prison Service (25 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister will agree that solitary confinement is incredibly damaging and difficult for prisoners and should be avoided at all costs. In that context, I propose to ask him about the case of Aidan Hulme, a prisoner in Portlaoise prison who has been placed in what is effectively solitary confinement as a result of issues related to his serious physical and mental ill health. As a result of...

Other Questions: Magdalen Laundries Report (25 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: The attitude of the religious congregations is scandalous. Will the Minister indicate whether he has considered any legislative proposals which he could bring forward to compel funding from those organisations? What consideration has he given to that?

Fines (Payment and Recovery) Bill 2013: Second Stage (25 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: The Bill is obviously being presented by the Minister as a positive measure and a progressive move. That viewpoint was accepted by the spokespeople for the main Opposition parties. If one can end up in jail for not paying a fine, an alternative that involves not being in jail can sound progressive. It is reprehensible that people should end up in jail for this. However, this move would be...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (25 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 27. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress made in overcoming the difficulties which have been experienced by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission, GSOC, in working with the Garda; the steps that have been taken and will be taken to deal with delays and non-cooperation from gardaí. [39782/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Traveller-Roma Integration Strategy (25 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to an earlier Parliamentary Question and in view of the fact that there are no actions in the National Traveller/Roma Integration Strategy and no framework for evaluating progress, if he will agree to the immediate establishment of a steering group with Traveller and Roma representation, representatives from his Department and an...

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister is probably aware that yesterday there was a briefing in the House by the ESB group of unions. They represent 13,000 workers whose pension scheme is being unilaterally changed, from a defined benefit to a defined contribution scheme, along with serious funding problems whose cost is being transferred solely on to the shoulders of those workers. These people are about to join...

Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2013)

Clare Daly: It would eliminate the contributory philosophy which puts value only on paid employment rather than on other kinds of contribution. The best thing is that it would not cost the Government anything but would save it money if it stood the present pension policy on its head and directed some of the massive tax concessions given to the wealthy into this scheme.