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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (28 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 119. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will ensure that community development is provided a separate funding steam away form the SICAP. [3951/15]

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the fact that the intention of the Scottish Government is that Torness and Hunterson nuclear stations will be closed and replaced by renewables energy generation, whether his view that nuclear power is an option for this country is mistaken in view of the potential for renewable energy off the coast. [3671/15]

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: As the Minister is aware, some of the most successful developments in renewable energy have been in countries that have made a decision to end their connection with nuclear power. The question relates in this instance to Scotland, where the decision has been made to shut down nuclear power stations. Scotland has invested heavily and strategically in renewable energy. The two decisions are...

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: Nuclear energy is dirty power and is on the way out in other areas, and I, like most citizens, would be happy if it never saw the light of day here. We are not focusing on where our potential might lie by even entertaining it or putting it on the list. Renewable energy creates massively more jobs per unit of energy than fossil fuels. We have examples, as I said, in Germany and in Scotland....

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: The point is that we have an advantage, coming a little bit late, in that we can start by adopting what is already international best practice. In Germany, 25% of energy comes from renewable sources, locally controlled in many instances. There are hundreds of thousands of jobs connected with it. We in Ireland are probably unique in a global sense in terms of our wave energy potential....

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: The State should lead development. The millions I referred to were for research. The Minister did not listen.

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: It is almost two years since the Taoiseach stood here and apologised to the women of the Magdalen laundries. There are many of us who remember that day - the hope evident and the good spirits of the women in the Gallery, knowing and understanding that it was not a case that the wrong that had been carried out against them would be righted but at least there had been an acknowledgement by the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Employment Data (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 23. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the employment of 11,695 persons in the renewables sector in Scotland in 2013, the number employed in the renewable sector here; the reason for the variance; and his plans regarding same. [3672/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will confirm that a person (details supplied) was one of the gardaí involved in the Kieran Boylan case, against whom GSOC recommended that criminal charges should be brought. [4212/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the action that has been taken against the six senior gardaí found to have breached the penalty points system in the recent report. [4213/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 120. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views regarding whether a comparison has been made between the footage used in a television programme to the Garda closed circuit television footage from Coopers on 11 February, 2000 in regarding the disappearance of a person (details supplied). [4265/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Data (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 282 of 25 November 2014 and her referral of the matter to the Garda Commissioner, that no information had been received. [4266/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 136. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to a query in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4115/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Conventions (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in order to comply with our obligations under Article 4 of UNCAT, when he plans to comply with this article, in respect of complicity in torture; if he will ensure compliance; and when he will initiate an investigation into activity at Shannon Airport under this heading between 2001 and 2006. [4111/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the initiative proposed on 2 December 2014 by the Secretaries General of his Department and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to the expert panel in relation to the IASS dispute was not acted on until 14 January 2015, creating needless anxiety for workers at the three State airports; and if he will direct the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: The Minister will be aware that thousands of workers employed by the DAA and the Shannon Airport Authority have been instructed that they must sign a waiver by 15 March or they stand to lose lump sum payments into a new pensions scheme. On 2 December 2014 the Secretary General of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport sought to initiate a process aimed at addressing some of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I do not think the Minister will be able to kick this matter solely to the trustees. I am not sure whether he was ill-informed or deliberately misled on was what the position. The facts are that the Secretaries General of his Department and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation contacted the expert panel to ask it to engage in a process aimed at resolving some of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: These were the issues which were being sought to be addressed, but the problem is that SIPTU has not been asked to engage in this process or to contact the panel. In fact, while it is the only body to have put in a submission, meetings have been held from which SIPTU has been excluded. That is a recipe for disaster given that the workers whose living standards are being impacted by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I am absolutely not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: Why was SIPTU not at the meeting?