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European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: The depths to which the Government is prepared to sink in terms of its boot-licking and doffing of the cap is unparalleled. It is bad enough that the Government would not agree to support a debt conference but it really beats all that it would boycott the ad hoccommittee on sovereign debt restructuring processes agreed by the United Nations General Assembly last September. Ireland was one...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to simplifying the criteria for the way a homeowner can acquire an exemption to the local property tax as a result of having significant pyritic damage, a commitment which he gave during discussions on the Finance Bill 2014. [4698/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding whether it is appropriate that the Revenue Commissioners would deduct the tax credits of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin because the person did not pay enough tax in 1998, despite the fact that they had got balancing statements for all of the subsequent years. [5057/15]

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: While the decision to extend the period within which a complaint must be made from six months to one year is welcome, it is not sufficient. Even the period of two years prescribed in our amendment will not be adequate in some instances. Perhaps we should consider writing into the legislation a series of special circumstances for which the deadline could be extended beyond two years. The...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I would be interested to see the figures on the timescale, which would help to inform us. I believe Deputy Wallace will be shown to be correct that the numbers are relatively small in terms of the difference between one and two years, and I believe it would bring a certain consistency to this. For example, where somebody was to initiate civil proceedings against An Garda Síochána,...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: In an ideal world, where things work smoothly on the basis of mutual respect and co-operation, co-operation between GSOC and An Garda Síochána would be advisable. Mandatory co-operation, if this does not sound like a contradiction, would be better. While there have, undoubtedly, been some improvements, the problem remains that if it is not specified, in cases in which tensions are...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: This is the easiest limitation to identify in the Bill. It probably reflects a decision by the Government to tinker around the edges of Garda reform in the teeth of a massive public outcry on foot of the heroic efforts by a number of Garda whistleblowers, followed by which members of the public began to speak about their own experiences. These interventions led to a change in mentality both...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: Incidentally, the former Minister told us we were a disgrace when we raised the points that were subsequently vindicated. I too can think of many instances where an offence might be alleged against the Commissioner that needed to be investigated and a Minister would not consent. Picture the scene - a Garda whistleblower goes to the Minister, says that senior gardaí are involved in, for...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: Yes.

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: The Minister alluded earlier to the fact that she will be tabling some other amendments to deal with GSOC in the context of the imminent Garda authority legislation. The UN Human Rights Committee, in its periodic review last summer, made the point that there is an urgent need for Ireland to deal with this issue and strengthen the independence of GSOC while ensuring that the Garda authority...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: In some ways this is a reflection of the reactionary nature of the proposals rather than a proactive approach and engagement in substantial reform. In a sense, a piecemeal approach does not work and that is part of the problem. It is a little rich to suggest we cannot have an amendment referring to the Garda authority but someone can be politically appointed to chair the Garda authority,...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: The Minister implied that we were saying nothing had changed. We have not said that, but this is a good, or poor, example of how things are half-changing or quarter-changing. That is the point we are trying to address. It is very good that, for the first time, section 103 inserts a statutory and legal obligation on the Commissioner to provide information to GSOC. That is good and we are...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Industrial Relations (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the discussions she has had with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in order to deal with the way pensioners can get access to the State's industrial relations machinery when their retirement income is being altered, an issue which she has acknowledged needs to be addressed. [4906/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on amending section 50 of the Pensions Act 1990, as amended by section 35 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012, in order to offer more protection to employees against reductions in their pension entitlements, in view of the growing number of cases like IASS and Tara Mines pensioners experiencing pension cuts when their former...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the establishment of a travel subsidy scheme to replace the motorised transport grant and the mobility allowance scheme; when the new scheme will be put in place; his views on whether it is acceptable that a new scheme has yet to be put in place a full two years since the schemes were closed to new applicants; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of Article 42.1 of the Constitution only allowing for parents to avail of exclusive religious schools where such schools are exclusively privately funded according to their means with no State funding, the reason her Department allows schools in receipt of State funding to exclude children on religious grounds. [5255/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the location presently occupied by a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, but which will be vacant in September this year, as a site which could be developed for special needs educational service education in the area. [5315/15]

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I find it somewhat unbelievable that it is nearly three years since Deputies Mick Wallace, Joan Collins and I first introduced legislation to try to deal with the X case ruling in what was the first proactive discussion on Ireland's abortion reality. It was at that time four incredible women - Arlette, Amanda, Ruth and Jenny - went public...

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: A referendum.

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: When will the Deputy propose it?