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Other Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (10 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: Flexibility in the rates system is critical. I am not sure of the timescale the Department has in mind or how creative local authorities will be allowed to be in this regard. A fundamental departure from the current system is required to critically support companies that are struggling and may have been operating in an area for some considerable time. This issue needs to be addressed. The...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Scheme Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 107. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures she has put in place, or will put in place, to ensure that FÁS scheme supervisors against whom complaints are made by scheme participants do not use their position to campaign against those who have made complaints against them, once the scheme participants have moved on to other employment, including instances where the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Offices (10 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 122. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the areas nationally where social welfare offices were closed in the past two years; and if she will justify the rationale for same. [42978/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 130. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the earlier response this Deputy received from him, if he will clarify the accessibility features for severely vision impaired persons that were specified in the recent procurement contract for water meters; if this contract is illegal, given that it contravenes the Disability Act 2005 which states that every...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (10 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 154. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the communication his Department has had with Fingal County Council in relation to assisting them to deal with the crisis in the operation of libraries as a result of retiring librarians who have not been replaced as a result of the recruitment embargo. [42297/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues (10 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 158. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason he has not enabled GSOC to access the PULSE system under the new protocols, despite their outlining on a number of occasions that this was necessary to enable them to carry out their function effectively. [42873/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (10 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the number of local health centres or clinics which were closed over this Government's term in office. [42979/13]

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: When I hear Fianna Fáil berating the Minister for using the lotto funds as a slush fund for next year’s local elections, it is a real case of the pupil becoming the master. The Government has become more Fianna Fáil than Fianna Fáil itself. That contribution was a fitting conclusion to act one of the annual budget pantomime when we sit here through set-pieces with mock...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister is correct that this Government certainly does not create jobs but other Governments have. With 500,000 people unemployed and this Government’s rate of job creation, we will be waiting 30 years for it to be tackled when many of us will be long dead. The Government is driving people into scam labour schemes to massage the figures. Its policies have failed and its...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: At the same time, the Minister will be driving down the public service pay bill by €500 million. How is this genius going to accomplish this miracle? The only way is by a race to the bottom, slashing public sector wages - which the Budget Statement reveals - outsourcing decent jobs, yellow-packing and driving down wages in the private sector. What is the result? There will be less...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: He says nothing about the €8.5 billion that we will be paying on interest on the national debt. Who is paying for this? Our children. While the Minister for Education and Skills makes the big claim he has not increased class sizes, he has created a hellhole for teachers and students. A teacher in my constituency wrote to me on how they coped pre-cuts because children and teachers...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: Ministers are immunised in their cosy little club in here but they do not actually know what is going on outside these doors. If they did, they would realise that to take away mortgage interest supplement when so many families are about to lose their homes is lunacy. Unfortunately we do not have much time but it is ironic that the Government can come here some evening and change the law...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It is an insult to dress up this measure as a behaviour-altering measure. In reality, it is simply revenue generating. If this Government were serious about tackling the tobacco industry, it would start at the top with those companies that poison tobacco users rather than with the victims. Tobacco smoking is an addiction. People need to smoke and unless they get help to come off the drug,...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tax Compliance (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 110. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will remove the condition in the Consolidated Companies Act 2012 whereby small and medium businesses are subject to a compulsory audit for late filing of returns and instead apply a financial penalty, thereby removing the risk of significant costs to the business for accountants and auditors while simultaneously removing the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address high youth unemployment. [42575/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 302. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Bord Iascaigh Mhara are hiring new staff in Clonakilty at salaries of between €65,000 and €75,000 despite the fact that staff in Dun Laoghaire are already doing the work that is advertised in the vacancy. [42991/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (16 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 70. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Local Authority National Partnership Advisory Group undertook and funded an international trip to New York from 7 to 15 September 2001; if it has been brought to his attention that the total cost of flight and accommodation for the six person delegation was...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Any young person unfortunate enough to be watching this spectacle on a flat-screen television or a black and white portable might be somewhat shocked to see the leader of the country before us failing to answer any of the questions put to him. He talked about a €500 million investment in jobs and glossed over the fact that this is an equal sum to the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It is an ideological question. It is political treachery but it is also not even original. My question to the Tánaiste is whether he got his idea from David Cameron and the Tories, because David Cameron announced his plan for young people a couple of weeks ago. He wants to remove those under 25 from entitlement to jobseeker's and housing benefit because they should be earning or learning.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: That is the Tánaiste's rhetoric. My questions to the Tánaiste are as follows. His Government has stood over a revolution in social policy, overturning the benefits fought for by the trade union movement.