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Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: This legislation has many aspects to be considered but I will concentrate on the changes to the Pensions Act rather than the social welfare provisions which have been addressed by other Deputies. I agree with the points made by Deputy Pringle about our obsession with alleged social welfare fraud which has been shown in most cases to be incidents of error when it occurs. The Minister...

Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: For anybody to say that these events are surprising would be untrue. The scandals of the mother and baby homes have long been an open secret. The horrors of Tuam were investigated in 1944, when children were found to be emaciated, pot-bellied and uncared for, and there were a far greater number of them than there should have been. The records from that home were handed over to Galway City...

Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: The report which the Minister's Department has had for almost a year concluded by referring to the children who died, who had never had a name, a birth certificate, a death certificate or a baptism. It concluded that the adoption regime in Ireland was directly responsible for and guilty of the most truly evil crimes against humanity, a slaughter of innocence, a war waged against pregnant...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Closures (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the closure of a company (details supplied) and other long-standing printing companies, if he has any initiatives planned to protect and develop what is left of the printing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23813/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding progress in relation to giving pensioner groups access to the State's industrial relations machinery in dealing with grievances in relation to their pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23814/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will intervene with the Pakistani authorities and condemn in the highest possible way the stoning to death of Farzana Parveen in Pakistan on 27 May. [24050/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Review (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to the review of free travel, which her Department is currently undertaking, if the intention of the review is to restrict the free travel arrangement currently in place; and when a decision is likely. [24040/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 79. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who were employed in carrying out the count and the election monitoring during the recent local and European elections that were taken from the ranks of the unemployed. [24039/14]

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: There is no doubt this is an incredibly painful discussion for many people. The horrors of Tuam have opened up wounds. All Members received correspondence from the American wife of a man forcibly adopted from an institution in Ireland to America. He has been searching for his mother for a lifetime. A man in Galway talked about bringing his grandmother to a field where the bodies of her...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 89. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the arrangements in place to enable persons who are in danger of homelessness to access increased levels of rent supplement. [24228/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will increase the funding for the school meals programme. [24113/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sick Pay Scheme Reform (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) cannot get their pregnancy related sick leave discounted, because they have not got enough sick days yet, although the delay in Medmark assessing their case will mean that by September they will have to revert to half pay in the event of being sick. [24174/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Sick Pay Scheme Reform (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assessment that has taken place of the changes to the sick leave scheme whereby pregnant woman in the public sector are having their pay cut because of pregnancy-related illness being counted as sick leave; and his views that this is an incredibly backward step and discriminatory. [24175/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Investigations (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 214. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the version of the report into corruption in Bus Éireann's running of school transport is the same version that was given to An Garda Síochána. [24210/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Investigations (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) who highlighted corruption in 2012 and who is named over 20 times in the report into corruption was interviewed by Bus Éireann in relation to the completion of the report investigating corruption in Bus Éireann that has been passed on to An Garda Síochána by the Joint Committee on Transport,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Investigations (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 216. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of different versions of the report written by Bus Éireann investigating corruption in school transport that exist; and if he will confirm that the version on the Bus Éireann website has been altered significantly and is not in fact a true and accurate copy of the original report. [24212/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 29 May 2014, regarding two other schools in the areas accepting additional stream of junior infants, that a school (details supplied) are not offering places to parents of children from another school despite this; the remedies open to these families; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Commercial Rates Valuation Process (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 268. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is the intention of Dublin City Council to charge an organisation (details supplied) commercial rates. [24656/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 282. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when Ireland will sign the EU free trade agreement with Colombia. [24209/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (10 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 308. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to protect pensioners in terms of allowing more flexibility to recognise service and pension contributions, in view of the serious undermining of defined benefit schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24116/14]