Results 521-540 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is the case that the total VAT currently being charged on ESB bills is being charged on the total bill including the carbon tax and if this is so the basis for same. [8184/12]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way staff in Longford Vocational Education Committee who are availing of the early retirement scheme are being re-employed into the same positions on a part time basis; the number of these cases that exist; the positions to which they relate; and in view of the cuts at VEC level, the budgets from which these payments are being...

Written Answers — Personal Vacation Days: Personal Vacation Days (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the decision made by the previous Government to cut extra personal vacation days to teachers who engage in voluntary overseas work. [7604/12]

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be eligible to complete a FÁS plumbing apprenticeship under the scheme for redundant apprentices and when the funding will be available for them to do so. [8185/12]

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 402: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Saorview service which is imposing additional charges on householders is necessary; if householders will be allowed to retain their existing satisfactory service; and if not, the reason therefore. [8126/12]

Written Answers — Property Management Companies: Property Management Companies (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 413: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with the substantial problems faced by residents whose dwellings are part of management companies, in view of the large number of such companies that are insolvent, causing legal problems for owners, combined with the problems of local authorities being unable to offer a level of service...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 431: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the household tax database was not put out to tender in accordance with departmental procedures. [7840/12]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 608: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual costs of promoting and pursuing inter-country adoption in her Department and at the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [8133/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 609: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual costs of providing search and reunion services to adopted persons and natural parents; and the amount of Adoption Authority of Ireland and Health Service Executive annual budgets that are spent on these activities. [8134/12]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 737: To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding budget cuts in the Lusk Nursing Home, County Dublin, at which it is being proposed that rather than receiving freshly cooked meals the residents will instead receive reheated meal that are to be precooked in St. Ita's Hospital in Portrane [8283/12]

Finance Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: The statement that the Finance Bill has, at its heart, the primary objective of job creation, is an insult to the half a million people on the dole. Their talents are wasted at a time when such necessary work remains to be done. Nothing in the Bill will change that situation and we can say that categorically because the legislation is more of the same. Even by the Government's own...

Private Members' Business. Stroke Services: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: It needs to be registered that we are discussing thousands of unavoidable deaths and thousands of people who could escape lives of unnecessary disability and dependency if we invested adequately in suitable stroke services. This, of itself, is of major significance. As previous speakers noted, 10,000 people will suffer a stroke this year and the condition is the third biggest killer in...

Private Members' Business. Stroke Services: Statements (Resumed) (15 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: There are no standards in place in private nursing homes in respect of minimum staffing levels. Private nursing homes also engage in cherry-picking, as all Deputies are aware. The reality is that Government resources are transferred from the public sector into funding private nursing homes that will not accept high dependence patients. It is a fact that hospitals such as Tallaght Hospital...

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (15 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the cuts in pay and hours that have been applied to personal assistants who provide support to persons with severe disabilities; and if he will respond to the demands of the newly formed leaders' alliance, which is advocating on the full restoration of this service by the Health Service Executive [8494/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (15 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 217: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he can make it a requirement that non-governmental organisations that receive funding from him in return for such funding respect recommendations from the Labour Court. [6379/12]

Written Answers — Road Network: Road Network (16 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the works in regard to the east-west interconnector have disrupted traffic between Ballyboughal and Oldtown, County Dublin, for more than 18 months; and when residents can expect that the roads will be repaired and the disruption cease. [8952/12]

Written Answers — Mortgage Repayments: Mortgage Repayments (16 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 63: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take with mortgage providers to request that they would freeze all mortgage accounts of residents of Priory Hall, Dublin, with no effect on credit rating, pending resolution of the problems in the area. [8944/12]

Written Answers — Water Services: Water Services (16 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 158: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason he is proposing to proceed with universal domestic water metering prior to establishing the source of leaks while unaccounted for water is running at 60% in some areas and nearly 50% nationally; and his views that such a proposal is directly contradictory to commitments to sustainable...

Written Answers — Domestic Fire Statistics: Domestic Fire Statistics (16 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 159: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of fires reported in domestic houses since the introduction of the building regulations and separately the number of timber frame houses; and the number of occasions on which the fire spread to adjoining houses. [8967/12]

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (16 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 160: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of houses that have been accepted as complying with the building regulations without any inspection by building control on the basis only of a certificate of substantial compliance by an architect or engineer. [8968/12]