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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views on concerns that a State agency, applying an element of discretion in deciding on cases of extreme hardship for persons who were outrageously abused under the State's watch, and her Department not performing either regular or ongoing audits or having oversight of this application of discretion has the effect of inflicting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that it is appropriate in the case of the rejection of an application for funds from Caranua that the only recourse for a person who may have suffered horrendous abuse in a residential institution is to an appeals officer, whose decisions are entirely opaque since the appeals officer is not subject to oversight by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scientific Research (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will seek to rebalance the funding of science research such that the Government's preference for funding oriented basic research, applied research and over-basic research in view of the fact that this preference has led to steadily decreasing numbers of research staff in Irish universities, the unavailability of hands-on laboratory...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scientific Research (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her plans to review the imbalance of funding between applied and basic science and engineering research in view of the fact that this imbalance has led to a systemic distortion of research incentives that is at odds with her Department's role as overseer of education rather than industrial innovation. [15707/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare and that person's correspondence with her the action the person in question can take, in view of the clear fault in the system of marking in the leaving certificate examination process and the fact that there has been a clear injustice done; and if a change in the marking system should...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 636. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the chief executive of Sligo County Council has recommended that the council provide financial assistance of €45,000 to Ireland West Airport Knock in County Mayo; if his Department plans to provide matching funds for the airport; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Harbours and Piers Maintenance (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 638. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Sligo County Council intends to carry out dredging at the channel to Sligo Harbour; that his Department has granted a foreshore licence to the council for the dredging works; that the council must now submit an application to the Environmental Protection Agency for a dumping at sea licence; that the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 645. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the trade unions representing staff of Sligo County Council have indicated a wish to see a fair and negotiated resolution in respect of the regularisation of acting posts in the council; that the unions have stated acting posts should be regularised by confined competition and that all posts of senior...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Functions (22 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she has taken to bring science policy within the ambit of her Department in view of the fact that scientific research, particularly basic research, is inappropriately served when it falls under the aegis of the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, which, by definition, is committed to short-term job creation, rather than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (22 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 26. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her promised review of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund will take place; and if she will consider including a provision to allow funding to be received by children or partners of victims of abuse, in view of the fact that without such funding, particularly for children, it will be very difficult to break the inter-generational...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (22 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 89. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when legislation concerning spent convictions is likely to be enacted, in view of the fact this is a critical issue for those who may have had a minor misdemeanour in their youth which has impacted on their prospects in education or employment. [15937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, the targets in megawatts for electricity generation for each county, that has been set down to meet our international obligations under various treaties for renewable energy; if he will provide in tabular form, in megawatts, the contracted renewable electricity generating capacity...

Statute Law Revision Bill 2015: Second Stage (23 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: The Minister of State will be delighted to learn that I will not be taking my full time in this slot. Without disrespecting anyone involved in the process, it has been said by someone in my office that this legislation is a bit like a mega-snoozefest. That is not to be disrespectful. It is titillating and amusing to look back at some of these old statutes and laugh at how things used to be...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (23 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 33. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the discussions or contacts his officials have had with the Department of Finance in 2015, in relation to overcoming the difficulties of the criteria outlined in the statutory instrument to enable homeowners with significant damage as a result of pyrite to avail of their legitimate local property tax exemption. [15676/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Resolution Board Remit (23 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has provided guidance to the Pyrite Resolution Board in relation to the manner in which it is dealing with homeowners whose properties have a damage condition rating of 1, particularly where these properties are a dwelling that has been approved for remediation. [15675/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (23 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on an appointment (details supplied), in view of the examination by the independent review panel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16089/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (23 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 109. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she sought information from the independent review mechanism as to whether complaints had been lodged against senior members of An Garda Síochána on the promotions list, prior to approving the recent list of promotions; and if not, the reason, given that the findings are imminent and could result in disciplinary or other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Military Aircraft Landings (23 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 393 of 15 April 2015, the reason, for the purposes of record keeping, a distinction is made between the issue of extraordinary rendition and the more general matter of requests to carry out searches, in view of the fact that the latter could cover suspicions of drugs on board, or of guns, or other...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (23 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will clarify his earlier replies to parliamentary questions (details supplied) regarding the landing of an EC-130H aircraft at Shannon Airport in February 2015. [16109/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (23 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way in which sanction was given to the EC-130H that landed at Shannon Airport on February 2015 to overfly Irish airspace or land in view of the fact that it is an airborne weapons system and that he indicated that landing-overflight permission is not granted for military aircraft that are armed. [16110/15]