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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the undeniable evidence, in writing, that religious run adoption agencies participated in and facilitated illegal adoptions, the reason neither her Department nor the Adoption Authority of Ireland have not carried out an audit of every adoption record held in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6523/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Carers Strategy Status (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans she has to support the thousands of children in the State who are currently acting as carers. [6524/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: I have a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: I am delighted the commission is present and that there are more members present now than the last time. As conditions in the committee room are difficult, with many people now wilting, I will put my questions. They may be disjointed, but I hope they will fill in a few gaps for me. There is a certain contradiction between the idea that the commission had always intended to carry out this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Would a correct analysis be that the reason for the apology - or the acknowledgment of wrongdoing - was not that the commission had not informed the Minister of the sweep but that it had not informed him something had been found as a result of the sweep?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: It is indisputable that an A list security firm did the sweep for the commission. It has been disputed by nobody that three anomalies were found on or near the commission’s premises. It is disputed by nobody that these were capable of breaching the commission’s communications security. The only fact we do not know is whether an actual breach took place. Does Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: I am not asking if Mr. O’Brien thinks it was probable that the source was active on discovery. Is it possible that it was?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: In this debate there has been careful use of words by the Minister and Mr. O’Brien. There is a formula of words being repeated ad nauseamsuch as “no definitive evidence of unauthorised, technical or electronic surveillance.” Everyone does it by rote and it is a little eerie at this stage. Mr. O’Brien has confirmed he did not ask the Garda whether it had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Does the commission think it should have? We can ask him, but we do not know whether the surveillance was lawful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Language is important. Mr. O’Brien, as well as the Minister, has said there was no definitive evidence of any surveillance being conducted by An Garda Síochána. Is it not the case also that there is no definitive evidence to claim there was not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: It could have been is the answer. One of the questions we will pose is how we are going to get to those answers. Reasonable people watching this will ask who credibly could it have been. Mr. O’Brien has indicated there is an internal leak in the commission to the media. Why would the media then bother having to engage in surveillance if they could get the information anyway? I do...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Midwifery Services (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 24. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the public services recruitment embargo in respect of midwives as a matter of urgency in view of the closure of Mount Carmel Hospital, which is placing further pressures on maternity hospitals to accommodate 1,200 additional births every year, and in view of the confirmation of severe midwifery staffing shortages, which are jeopardising...

Written Answers — Department of Health: European Court of Human Rights Judgments (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 62. To ask the Minister for Health if he has assessed the implications of the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights in a case (details supplied) for the 250 or so legal actions for medical negligence taken by survivors of symphysiotomy and pubiotomy [6707/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if persons are being employed under JobBridge or any other labour activation scheme in relation to operating Caranua; and his views on whether it is appropriate that unqualified persons would work in such a sensitive area with persons who are extremely vulnerable as a result of the abuse they suffered. [7345/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Linden Home in Blackrock was excluded from the residential institutions redress scheme; and the steps that are open to former residents to obtain redress. [7365/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Staff (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of engineers and technical staff who have left the flood management section over the past five years and not been replaced; the amount of money paid during that time on reports carried out by external engineers; and the number of those reports that were commissioned to Irish-based engineers and companies. [7347/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 148. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the Element Six Commercial Court decision delivered on 4 February 2014, if the Pensions Board guidance notes will now give formal recognition to compensation funds which are being proposed, as well as comments on the expected behaviour of employers and the relationship between a funding proposal and contract. [7360/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 149. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason the monthly docket system for casual workers is being replaced by a requirement for workers to submit their dockets to the local social welfare office on a weekly basis. [7361/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting of Personnel (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 193. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when gardaí will be told that their vetting process is to adhere to the National Vetting Bureau Act 2012, since this Bill became an Act of law upon the President's signature on 26 December 2012, under which those convicted under section 1(1) of the Probation Act 1906 would finally see the minor details of their offences deemed withheld...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications (13 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 194. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 25 June 2013, the number of persons living in direct provision and elsewhere here who made their application for protection more than five years ago and are awaiting or engaged in asylum related judicial review proceedings; and if he will provide a breakdown by duration of persons within this group...