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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Reviews (10 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated financial saving from having teachers correct their own students work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47434/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (10 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to have resources and training to support the proposed changes in each subject areas and that these resources are available to all schools in each educational sector so all our students will have equal opportunity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47431/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Appeals (10 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals at junior certificate level in the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and to date in 2014. [47432/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the extended executive powers of chief executives of education and training boards; her further views on having so much power vested in one person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47435/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Administration (10 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on circular letters and directives from her Department that may be interpreted differently by chief executives in the 16 education and training boards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47436/14]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 33. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide assurances to Dáil Éireann that due to the serious risk associated with fracking that because of our dependence on tourism and agriculture and also the health implications for the population, that a company (details supplied) will not be granted an exploration licence; and that this matter of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Strategy for Renewable Energy (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 38. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the supports provided through REFIT or otherwise by his Department, the Sustainable Energy Authority Ireland and ESB to small scale hydro-microgeneration; and the supports provided through REFIT or otherwise to persons who install small-scale wind turbines including those turbines not requiring planning...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Retirement Scheme (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 112. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 20 November 2014 the information requested has not been furnished, in view of the fact that the number of members of the Defence Forces who were retired by the President have been very small and those retired in the interests of the service under section 47(2) even fewer. [47503/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 16 October 2014, in which she states that she has asked the commissioner for information on the specific issue referred to by this Deputy and that she will reply directly to this Deputy; if she will provide the information as requested. [47538/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Regulation (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 142. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the Better Start programme entailing a third regulatory inspection of child care establishments, if he will improve the payments to early educators in line with the level of responsibility being imposed upon them. [47515/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Funding (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 181. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the delay in the processing of the show racism the red card scheme to support national organisations application; if he will deal with the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47501/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 194. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been drawn to his attention that section 136(2) of the Local Government Act 2001, as inserted by section 51 of the Local Government Reform Act 2014, places an obligation on the chief executive of a council to prepare a monthly management report on the performance of their executive functions during the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authorities Management (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 195. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been drawn to his attention that under section 134 of the Local Government Act 2001, as amended by section 49 of the Local Government Act 2014, in an election year, the local authority corporate plan must be prepared and brought before the council for consideration within six months of the annual general...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (11 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 196. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council has been incurring revenue deficits in its budget over the past six years and that the cumulative revenue debt stands at €19.67 million while the council's long-term debt is in excess of €120 million; if his attention has been drawn to...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: I move the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014 with a mixture of sadness, feeling a bit mad as well as glad. This Bill seeks to repeal the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Act 1983 to protect women’s lives, health and choices. It is regrettable that we have to do this, that we have to acknowledge the background...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (16 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 102. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to improve access to State contracts for Irish firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47712/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 134. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that the changes made to the Christmas bonus are payable to all social welfare recipients and not just those on jobseeker's payments. [47928/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme Review (16 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 318. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has acted on the recommendations of the Second Review of Ireland’s nitrates action programmes for an assessment of current levels of storage capacity and future needs for agricultural waste, that is, slurry and soiled water, to determine if in view of the growth in the national herd over the past three years and that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Waste Management (16 Dec 2014)

Clare Daly: 319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in encouraging farmers to utilise farm waste to provide an alternative source of energy through anaerobic digestion, as is done in other countries. [48227/14]