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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Obesity Strategy (17 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 516. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will undertake a study with regard to the way fast food outlets and supermarkets who undertake special cheap deals targeted at lunch times and schoolchildren can be curtailed in the interest of combatting the growing levels of youth obesity. [53837/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (17 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 521. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 145 of 4 December 2013, if she will clarify the nationalities of children in care on a national basis for the past ten years. [54179/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Development Projects (17 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 544. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the arbitration award due to the Northern Meath Community Development Association is paid without delay. [53686/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Irish Blood Transfusion Service (17 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 607. To ask the Minister for Health the policy of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service Board relating to donor acceptance criteria where third party information is received; and the way this policy is communicated to the donor. [54181/13]

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: It is important to put the amendments in the context of the backdrop to the legislation and the stated objectives of the Minister, and whether they have been addressed. We are dealing with a scenario in which some defined benefit schemes have run into difficulties. As it is constituted now, many active members and some deferred members are left with a very serious hit, whereas up to now...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: We must realise that this is the first time we are allowing the pensions of existing pensioners to potentially be reduced. That is a very serious matter. It is being done in the name of fairness, but the point of the amendments is to question if it is fair to allow this against the backdrop of a successful, profitable, viable company. The reality is that some employers have exploited the...

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister of State is aware that RTE's "Prime Time" programme recently shed light on the Government's handling of the thalidomide scandal in the 1960s. Documents produced show that the Government made a conscious decision not to issue a public warning on the dangers of thalidomide as such a move was regarded as "undesirable". That has serious ramifications for a scandal that has gone on...

Topical Issue Debate: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: While dealing with 32 survivors might seem a small figure, this process has trundled on for decades, over the lifetimes of these victims. The State did not consciously suppress the 1974 documentation but what is revealed is the extent of knowledge which was not shared. Had it been shared, lives could have been changed. In that sense, the State responded inappropriately and is culpable to a...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 3:In page 9, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following:“9. The Principal Act is amended by inserting the following new section after section 47:"47A Where the company is solvent the discharge of the liabilities of a relevant scheme under (1AB), the resources of the relevant scheme are not sufficient to discharge, in whole or in part, the liabilities of the...

Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: There is quite a range of amendments in this group and many of them involve complex issues which need time that we obviously do not have. I agree with the point made by Deputy O'Dea that the flat percentage being proposed by the Minister does not give any recognition to some important variable factors, such as length of pensionable service, the amount the person contributed over his or her...

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: Yes. The Minister will understand why there is no fanfare today. It is exactly a year to the day since we read the press release from his Department that up to €50 million in bank loans and levies to pay for the repair of pyrite-affected homes was on the cards. That was followed up by the Minister for Finance telling us that the victims of pyrite would have their property tax sorted...

Pyrite Resolution Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: I do not think the remediation is adequate. I will support this for no reason other than to prove the Minister wrong in some instances. We must be mindful of the fact many families have already paid hundreds and thousands of euro getting tests done. They have completed the building condition assessment and have been evaluated as category 2 damage. Their houses are deteriorating rapidly as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Claims (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 10. To ask the Minister for Health if he will alter his proposals for a redress scheme for the victims of symphysiotomy to take account of the concerns of their representative organisation SoS and instead that a mechanism for dealing with medical negligence and the lifting of the statute of limitations would be facilitated in order to secure proper compensation. [53985/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternal Mortality (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 35. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the disproportionate numbers of maternal deaths to women of black minority ethnic status and the action he will take regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53984/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Betting Legislation (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 168. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when updated legislation to control and licence gambling is likely to be introduced; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied ) have been guilty of criminal activity in relation to interactive gambling; and the plans he has to prevent such operators from being able to trade. [54632/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Garda Investigations (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 186. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made on the Garda investigation into cockfighting in County Monaghan; and his plans to increase penalties and enforcement of those guilty of this unlawful activity. [54631/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Management (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Collite is not contributing to increasing our extremely low forest cover in line with our national forestry targets; the reason public forests are being cleared to be replaced with concrete and steel for private wind energy companies; the reason Coillte is unable to supply the ESB with quality wooden poles to satisfy an...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Lands (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 200. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the millions of euro worth of public forests which were sold by Coillte to a pension fund company (details supplied) that Coillte is a partner of were put out to tender on international markets, or, was it the case that there was one seller and one buyer. [54627/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Crime (18 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 221. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reverse the funding cuts to the national drugs task force which has resulted in funding to policing forums being dramatically eroded; and the plans he has to ensure that the policing forums are adequately financed. [54513/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies Issues (19 Dec 2013)

Clare Daly: 3. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contact he has had with Aer Lingus management regarding the future of the airline; and his views on the State's 25% ownership. [54578/13]