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Other Questions: Aer Lingus Sale (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: Careful assurances of information that we are not party to, and opinions that we do not get to see, are becoming the mantra of this Government. It is just not good enough. If the Minister is not prepared to give us information on some of these things, maybe he could comment on the outstanding pension problem. There seems to be a belief that the IASS pension scheme issue has been resolved....

Ombudsman for Children Appointment: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I do not know Dr. Niall Muldoon but I suspect his qualifications are considerable, as he saw off competition from excellent advocates of children's rights such as Senator Jillian van Turnhout and others. I can only trust that his capability is considerable and I wish him well in his post. Our examination of the appointment of a new ombudsman gives us the chance to look at the role of the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: The Venezuelan political scientist, Professor Edgardo Lander, wrote of the current climate crisis, stating:The total failure of climate negotiation serves to highlight the extent to which we now live in a post-democratic society. The interest of financial capital and the oil industry are much more important than the democratic will of people around the world. In the global neoliberal...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: -----employ them and then go for it because the private sector will not do it. We need a little bit of the vision that we had when the ESB was set up all those years ago. There are engineers and we need to get many more involved. We need to do that, and not to waste our time on the likes of fracking or nuclear energy.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: We need a radical shift because we are at a tipping point. We need to examine how society is organised. Addressing climate change is in people's interest. It is the clumsy handling of it that has alienated people. We need to devolve it locally but we also need to see that climate action is a massive job creator. A project is being promoted in South Africa under the banner of 1 million...

Child Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I will share time with Deputies Boyd Barrett, Mick Wallace, Joan Collins and Catherine Murphy. It is very well documented, and people know, that every dollar invested in high-quality early childhood programmes for disadvantaged children produces a 7% to 10% annual return on investment through increased productivity and lower social costs. Investment in child care is beneficial not only...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of Assets (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to privatise further State assets in the remaining time in office of this Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5609/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Value for Money Reviews (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 70. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the independent value for money assessments his Department has scrutinised, in order to sanction the co-funding for the operational programme for fisheries and aquaculture, in view of the limited employment created by aquaculture, in comparison to the tourism and angling industries. [6247/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Applications (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 75. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 15 January 2015, the specific services and-or data that were provided by the Marine Institute to Bord Iascaigh Mhara for the Galway Bay licence application; the services and-or data of these that were provided by the Marine Institute from in-house resources; the services and-or data of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Applications (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine , further to Parliamentary Question No. 98 of 15 January 2015, if the delay in deciding on the application by the Marine Institute on the Galway Bay licence amounts to the recognition by him that this application is going nowhere; and that giant fish farms cannot succeed in Irish waters. [6245/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Value for Money Reviews (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 77. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the independent value for money assessments that have been commissioned by his Department to assess the previous and forthcoming operational programmes for fisheries and aquaculture. [6246/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Job Creation Data (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 78. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of jobs that will be created if he agrees to licence the proposed marine harvest fish farm at Shot Head, County Cork; and if the promised jobs are sufficient to justify the damage to the bay's environment from this proposed fish farm. [6248/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 136. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of reports that the Government of the United States of America is evaluating the question of military aid to Ukraine, the steps he will take to ensure that no military aircraft of the United States of America landing at Shannon Airport or overflying our airspace are transporting lethal or non-lethal military equipment to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (11 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deal with the lack of regulation in relation to agencies and persons that recruit students from outside the European Union for college courses here, particularly in relation to those dropping out of, or failing to turn up for, the courses, and the lack of any monitoring or check-up on their attendance, in conjunction with colleges...

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (12 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the fact that the Workplace Relations Bill failed to include a mechanism for retired workers to access the State's industrial relations machinery when their pensions are affected, his plans to deal with this issue. [5858/15]

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (12 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: The Workplace Relations Bill passed by the Dáil a few weeks ago was a missed opportunity to deal with an issue that, as the Minister has previously acknowledged, must be addressed. Normally, when an employee severs his or her relationship with an employer, he or she no longer has access to the State's industrial relations machinery. In most instances this makes perfect sense, but the...

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (12 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: That is not adequate at all. The reason this difficulty has arisen is that, under existing procedures, trustees already must inform everybody. Notifying people of something is not the same as engaging or negotiating with them. This is the difficulty. will use the example of the Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme, IASS, because it highlights well the point being made in this regard. At...

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (12 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I am afraid I do not agree. Sadly, if we do not change tack, I imagine I will be proven right. There are problems with the Pensions Authority and with trustees taking decisions that members are not happy with, and there is a problem with having an appropriate investigation into some of the activities. The difficulty is that we are talking about people's retirement in their twilight years....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Superannuation Schemes (12 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 15. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the extent and basis of his Department's involvement with the expert panel dealing with the IASS, including the initiative proposed on 2 December 2014 by the Secretary General of his Department and by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport; and the subsequent action taken. [5857/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (12 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 46. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will repeal section 247B of the Social Welfare Consolidation Act of 16 January 2012 which precludes community employment scheme participants from receiving the widow's/widower's pension, in view of the Minister for Finance's declaration that austerity is over. [6406/15]