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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 258. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a timeframe for the review of the insolvency payments scheme, specifically the promised review into the eligibility of former employees of companies which have been informally wound up without a liquidator, or receiver to apply for payment from the scheme, in view of the fact that such a review has been promised since 2013,...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Insolvency Payments Scheme Eligibility (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 259. To ask the Minister for Social Protection in view of the review of the insolvency payments scheme not having being completed to date, the options available to a person (details supplied) in County Dublin, in order to access their entitlements. [18624/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 270. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide to Dáil Éireann estimates of the overall total loss of revenue to the State in each of the years 2009 to 2014 due to the tax exempt status granted to an institution (details supplied), and other similar institutions, and the consequent non-payment of taxes by all religious groupings within the State. [18189/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Independent Review Mechanism (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 417. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the case of a person (details supplied) was not considered by the Independent Review Mechanism. [18652/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 489. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the current policy on food intolerance testing. [18540/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme Administration (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 223 of 30 March 2013, the reason her Department made an exception in this case, and entered into an agreement with one private commercial organisation, which involves the annual payment of millions of euro to that organisation, in respect of the home tuition scheme; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 569. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 408 and 410 of 28 April 2015, if he will correct the link in his reply (details supplied) in view of the fact it does not include the names and addresses of establishments, or the number of breeding bitches and puppies. [18229/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Postal Voting (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 587. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to address the discrimination against women who cannot avail of a postal vote when they are scheduled to give birth by caesarean section on polling day when obviously no such impediment exists for men; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18453/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 635. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the safeguards in place in relation to the outstanding pension dispute with regard to the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme part of the resolution, which involves the winding up of the supplementary pension No. 2 scheme, which has not yet been finalised; and to ensure that this matter is resolved, prior to any...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Archaeological Sites (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 643. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to introduce the portable antiquities scheme in order for constructive metal detecting to complement regular archaeological work, reduce the heritage budget and increase archaeological knowledge, in view of the fact that archaeologists concede that items left in the soil will, over time, degrade and in the case of plough...

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 21 April 2015, if oriented basic research is counted, along with pure basic research, under the umbrella of basic research for the purposes of the survey of investment in higher education research and development, HERD, for 2012 and 2013; and if the figure of 50.9% of the HERD budget spent...

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: The background to this question is the growing unrest in the scientific research community about the serious imbalances at policy level between funding for oriented basic research, that being, applied research, and pure basic research, which can have a greater social and economic impact in the long run. What is the breakdown between the two in terms of the figures for funding that were...

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: I do not know whether it was the accent or the sound in the Chamber-----

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: -----but I found it difficult to follow the Minister of State's answer. It seems convenient that we have subsumed pure basic research under the umbrella of oriented basic research when the latter is really applied research. The amount of investment in the former has fallen disproportionately. The issue that the scientific community and even the business community is putting to the...

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: The consultation period was rushed even if people knew that it had been flagged. The statistics bear out the claim that a decreasing proportion of funding is going towards basic research. The Government's policy deliberately sets out the research prioritisation. The last time we discussed this matter, the Minister did not shift away from that. It is the nub of the problem. No one is...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Strategies (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 44. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views that the consultation period for a successor to the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation was too short and too rushed for meaningful stakeholder engagement and consultation; and if he will consider extending it. [18338/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that it is appropriate that the Irish Greyhound Board has been deemed suitable for inclusion in a Bord Fáilte campaign, when there are many more deserving organisations and institutions which could benefit from the advertising boost that a Bord Fáilte campaign could offer, and that this organisation is millions...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: This section relates to public provocation. We want to remove the clause of public provocation on the basis that it is too loose, general and open to misinterpretation. We are raising the matter now so that we can table an amendment on Report Stage.

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: I welcome that we are taking 300 refugees; I am sorry it is not more. I hope the Minister and the Government will proactively consider and argue that we should take more when the EU moves to deal with these tens of thousands of people who are incarcerated in holding centres, particularly in Greece and Italy. The real issue is what condition those people will be in when they come to Ireland....

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: We must stand back and consider the horrendous circumstances that force individuals and families to make the treacherous journey to try to seek a better life in Europe. It does not bear thinking about. People give up their life savings and essentially entrust their children to pirates who put them on a ship that they know has a good chance of not making it to the other side. It is beyond...