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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Agencies Staff Data (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 312. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will publish data in respect of the number of mediation officers who are employed by the Equality Tribunal, along with data for the same period in 2014. [32808/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Equality Tribunal Cases (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 313. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the waiting times in respect of lodging a complaint and reaching mediation and a hearing at the Equality Tribunal. [32809/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Equality Tribunal Cases (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 314. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps that are being taken by the new Workplace Relations Commission to reduce delays in dealing with cases before the Equality Tribunal. [32810/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Equality Tribunal Cases (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 315. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the maximum anticipated timeframes to reach, respectively, mediation and a hearing under the new Equality Tribunal structure as specified in the Workplace Relations Act 2015. [32811/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Pension Provisions (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 345. To ask the Minister for Defence the reason a person (details supplied) has been before the Army Pensions Board four times to ascertain an entitlement to a pension and to assess that person's level of disability, while, as yet, no payment has been made. [33331/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 352. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on concerns raised by the membership organisations of the National Women’s Council of Ireland arising from the 45% cut to its core funding since 2010; and her plans to restore its core funding in the upcoming budget. [32728/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Administration (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 365. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify remarks made (details supplied) in respect of a case of a person with disabilities. [32980/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Administration (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 366. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify previous statements made by her (details supplied) regarding the issuing of digital audio recordings. [32981/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 487. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the discussions he has had regarding the manner in which proposals to deal with the past as part of the Stormont House Agreement are being discussed, in relation particularly to the concerns highlighted by a number of non-governmental organisations and related victims, whereby the lack of consultation regarding the process, and serious...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft OperationsUndefined (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 489. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis for permission being granted to a United States of America military surveillance aircraft which spent hours over Ireland on 15 September 2015, and was permitted to make 13 overflights in August 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32982/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 577. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when the review of the National Standards Authority of Ireland's standard relating to pyrite will be concluded. [33138/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 578. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to Statutory Instrument No. 306 of the 1991 building regulations and the requirement for up-to-date standards to be implemented in cases where a material alteration to a dwelling is made, the impact of these regulations on situations where the housing agency discovers defective fire safety measures in place...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 579. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the role of a company (details supplied) as project managers in the pyrite remediation scheme, with particular reference to whom it was accountable and answerable. [33140/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Energy Policy (29 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 602. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the White Paper on Ireland's future energy policy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32943/15]

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the inequality experienced by persons who are in receipt of reduced pensions because of the marriage bar, the effect of which is that they have incomes below the supplementary welfare rate. [33019/15]

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: I am delighted to hear that the Tánaiste will be focusing on retired people in the budget. I am hoping she might give special attention to a category of women who are experiencing a discriminatory pension as a result of the marriage bar and an overhang from that situation. One of my constituents said recently that a colleague of hers had applied to pay the property tax to have it...

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: That is a bit of a minefield for someone to untangle. This person put the case that the pension she was expected to survive on was €150 per week. The Minister is clearly saying-----

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: Sixty-six.

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: That is something we will explore. The point that was being made was that potentially there were certain anomalies in the system. While welcoming the homemaker's scheme, which the Minister introduced in 1994, she made the point that it excluded people like herself who had to give up their jobs prior to 1973 and that there was an anomaly in the scheme relating to the way PRSI contributions...

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: That can be done but none the less, the point remains that if this discrimination is there and if she had never worked prior to the marriage bar and had commenced work in 1998, which she did, she would be entitled to a full pension. That anomaly needs to be addressed in any case.