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Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: That trade union movement yesterday challenged the Tánaiste to produce the figures and the research that backs up the waffle he has been giving the Chamber this morning.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It asked him to provide the research that shows that cutting young people's benefits will create jobs and not lead to poverty.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: The only guarantee for young people is if there is a job at the end of it. As the Tánaiste has not answered the question and has demonstrated that he has done no research on this-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I am using the Tánaiste's answer. He talks about additional funding. In his answer to Deputy McDonald, he lauded the fact the Government is, for example, recruiting extra gardaí. However, he glosses over the fact that the changes to the pension scheme are going to result in about 1,000 gardaí walking out of their jobs, so the net result will, in fact, not be any extra job...

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I wish to share time with Deputies Mick Wallace, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, Finian McGrath, Catherine Murphy, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Halligan and Mattie McGrath.

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It is almost unbelievable for two reasons that we are having today’s debate. First, because there are so few children affected by the measure and, second, because the procedure under discussion is life-altering and is also time-restricted. It is criminal that parents have had to turn themselves into full-time campaigners. I welcome their initiative. I recognise that their drive has...

Other Questions: Departmental Customer Charters (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that the customer charter action plan of her Department is implemented in all local and district offices; and the steps that are open to those who believe it has been breached. [43679/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will justify the rationale in changes to community employment schemes which has resulted in for example, golf clubs having to let go staff where there was a strong history of training and subsequent employment. [43680/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation Expenditure (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representational allowances paid to staff working overseas in embassies, consular offices and other areas, under the following headings; the grade of staff to whom these allowances are paid; the amount of the allowance per person per year; the reason for the allowance whether they are vouched or unvouched; the number...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Debt (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a discount rate was applied to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loans but this did not apply to residential mortgage holders. [44031/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be able to access a school place to meet their special needs. [44029/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Sale of State Assets (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of wind farms and wind farm assets of Bord Gáis it is envisaged they will sell; the number of wind farms this amounts to; and if he will supply a list of locations. [43918/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Postcode System Implementation (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Loc8 postcode system which was developed after ten years, consultants reports, and three years of research costing €1million is not being used for the new postcode system even though it is capable of doing everything that Capita have been asked to devise. [44030/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Administration (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 172. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 10 October 2013 the reason he stated he had no function in determining the content of protocols and if this is the view of both the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and the Garda Síochána, considering that the protocols provide a basis for timely and complete co-operation and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if he will justify the fact that there has been no paediatric urologist at Temple Street Hospital despite the absolute requirement for such a position to be available for treating children with spina bifida who could die from kidney failure and that they will commit to the provision of a urology monitoring system at the hospital [44081/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 was refused access to the Health Service Executive treatment abroad scheme although they cannot access the necessary treatment here [44035/13]

Other Questions: Arts Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 60. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will restore the 30% cut in arts funding which has taken place over the past five years, as a necessary measure to protect our culture and local artistic jobs and centres. [43519/13]

Other Questions: Arts Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I honestly believed that the Minister was answering a different question at the start. While it is heartening that he is confident that the money will go a long way, he is probably the only person in that category. He is missing the essential point, namely, that the trajectory of funding for the arts has been spiralling downwards in recent years. This year, it reached a critical point that...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: The fact that it was a smaller cut under the Minister's budget last year is missing the central point, which is that the Arts Council alone has had a cut of 34% since 2008. Obviously the arts cost money but we get that money back in multiples by investing in it. The Minister has not really dealt with that issue. If these organisations are given money to promote local groups, but that money...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for that. The Taoiseach's responses to the previous speakers reveal what a fantasy world he lives in, one which has no bearing on the real lives of ordinary citizens. Does he not think it is an indictment of his Government that the grey army has had to take to the streets again on this wet and miserable day, not to enrich themselves and not for their own...