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Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: It is not just in the health area that the Government and Ministers are running into difficulties. Has the Taoiseach given the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport an option on a job share, where he can balance his ministerial responsibilities with a role as a mouthpiece for the management of semi-State companies in their battles against the workforce? It seems that not content with...

Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: The Taoiseach's response was brief and he was very keen to trivialise some of the issues. The problem for the Taoiseach is that it is not about going around the globe - ranging from the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, to Dublin Bus, Shannon and An Post is not about being long-winded - but about a system and approach being adopted by the Government to systematically undermine decent wages and...

European Council: Statements (6 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: Obviously the time is limited. I wish to refer to one issue. Clearly the issue which unsurprisingly dominated the EU summit was the revelations of the wholesale spying by the United States Government on its European counterparts, including many leaders of European Union countries. Naturally, such a scenario would provoke outrage and condemnation across the board or almost across the board...

Finance (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: I am still in shock at the contributions from certain Government backbenchers who claim this is a great budget and that the Minister grappled creatively with the issues in these difficult times. Supposedly we are all making sacrifices and are about to turn a corner. The reality is that the times have not been hard for all of us and the times will not be hard for those who again escaped the...

Cannabis Regulation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: If I was not sure about supporting this legislation, any doubts I might have had have been quashed by listening to the last speaker. I very much welcome this discussion. I fully accept that it is inevitable that cannabis will be legalised in Ireland. That will not happen here tonight because the political establishment lags behind the attitudes of ordinary people on this issue, as on every...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Family Clinics (6 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 20. To ask the Minister for Defence if he has carried out a cost benefit analysis into the decision to cut medical services to the 484 families of serving soldiers who rely on same; and if he plans to offer the families affected some alternative service to alleviate the hardship that will ensue when this facility is taken from them. [46644/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (7 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been a cost benefit analysis conducted into the impact of planned further reductions in Government subvention to CIE and the consequential fare hikes being imposed on passengers. [46851/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Companies Law Issues (7 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not made the legislative changes requested by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement relating to the negative impact on its ability to tackle white collar crime as a result of the insertion of section 851A of the Taxes Consolidation Act into section 77 of the Finance Act 2011, which has restricted to ability of the ODCE to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Consumer Protection (7 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 86. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to regulate or outlaw the practice of money lending. [47619/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (7 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the fact that a number of concerns have been raised about the State funded groups which claim to represent institutional abuse victims, not actually reflecting the views of survivors, if he will facilitate and attend a national meeting with the survivors of abuse in relation to the statutory fund, the idea of a memorial and the...

Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) (Repeal) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: I found the Minister of State's tone unhelpful. It is a progressive move for us to discuss this topic today and I compliment Deputy Stanley on tabling the Bill. Despite the Minister of State's protestations, from the beginning of Ireland's attempts to fluoridate our water, this has been a controversial issue. Fifty years ago this year, Gladys Ryan took a High Court, and ultimately a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the lack of progress and the inordinate delays experienced by adopted persons attempting to trace their birth mothers and mothers trying to trace their born children; and her plans to resolve this matter. [47753/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: This question is essentially about the rights of adopted people and the delays they are experiencing in accessing information about their birth mothers, or vice versa where mothers are seeking information about their children. The problem is twofold. First, there is a problem with accessing the existing files. Second, there is a delay in legislative changes, which have been promised since...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: There is a great deal of information in that response and I respect the Minister's bona fides on this issue but that said, and sincerely meant, there are inordinate delays in this process. Two years ago, in an answer to a parliamentary question, the Minister told me about the Sacred Heart files being transferred to Glanmire. She has now confirmed that there are another 11 institutions whose...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: The Ministers reply raises two problems, first, far too many people have come forward with their experience of being frustrated when they sought to find their identity for it to be a coincidence. It is clear that there is a problem in the system. My office alone receives contact from many people who have been deliberately frustrated. The Minister's reply to questions I have tabled have...

Other Questions: Departmental Reports (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: From we have read, the role of the HSE and social workers was quite limited in both these cases - non-existent in one and hardly evident in the other. The Ombudsman for Children obviously has expertise in dealing with State agencies and children are the very clear victims in this scenario. The Garda Síochána is a particular State agency that is difficult to investigate. The body...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location where the records from the 42 mothers and baby homes that operated here and handled tens of thousands of adoptions over the decades are held; the amount of information held by the Health Service Executive in Glanmire; and the other information that is held in Glanmire, which can be made available to persons tracing their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the patronage of the new Balbriggan second level school has been decided; and if not, when a decision will issue. [47799/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 153. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to protect sub contractors whose companies are jeopardised by the main contractor failing to pay their invoices in a timely manner, undermining the viability of these companies and threatening the jobs in them. [47805/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to protect sub contractors on cases of large State contracts where the main contractor is fully paid, but leaves sub-contractors unpaid jeopardising these smaller companies and their employees. [47804/13]