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Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: This discussion is part of that on the reform of education. However, there are much more significant issues than those encompassed by this Bill, including those associated with the need to have patronage examined, the concept of secularisation in education and overall educational standards. That said, none of the discussions should be divorced from the overall question of resources and...

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: You obviously have not seen it, Deputy. It is of a quality that I do not think is printed in Ireland. You can make the point when you speak yourself in a minute.

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Fair play to you, so you can make that point yourself in your own contribution.

Education (Amendment) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: My point is, why do we need to have that? The Teaching Council sends out receipts and letters to 73,000 people at a minimum postage cost of 55 cent each, not including the cost of the unusually heavy paper. What is this about? That is the guts of €40,000 in postage alone. We can take it that all these teachers are online, so what about the smart economy and using online receipts? If we...

Community Employment Schemes (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Will the Minister explain the contradiction between on the one hand, the shortening of the CE schemes and the opportunities for training for people on the lower end of the skills base who need that training and on the other hand, her drive to ensure that people with higher qualifications, such as professionals, nurses, skilled crafts people and so on, are driven on to training programmes that...

Control Savings (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: The Minister would make Margaret Thatcher proud. Nobody is arguing that fraud should be tolerated but the Minister has elevated this issue to the extent that people who, through no fault of their own, may be in receipt of an inaccurate payment, are being demonised as people who are robbing the State, more or less. She speaks about protecting public money. It is also her duty to ensure that...

Written Answers — Private Rented Accommodation: Private Rented Accommodation (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 56: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will detail the methodology behind the rates of rent allowance cuts in budget 2012; and her views that this will force some persons in vulnerable situations to move to cheaper areas, which may mean a move away from the schools their children are in and from family support. [11706/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Code: Social Welfare Code (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 59: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if it is true that persons in receipt of jobseeker's allowance currently engaged in casual work will have their benefits cut; the rationale behind this; and her views that this will not be practical for some of the categories of persons who are employed on a casual basis, such as lone parents. [11707/12]

Written Answers — Mortgage Interest Rates: Mortgage Interest Rates (1 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 71: To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take with the PTSB in relation to the levels of variable interest applied which is pushing thousands of homeowners into arrears. [12067/12]

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: I wish to share time with Deputies Joan Collins, Wallace and Boyd Barrett.

Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (6 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: In essence we are talking about a managed default position, where the establishment throughout Europe has understood that what was posed for Greece, given the scale of the debt, amounted to a disorderly default position. It did not want to envisage such a scenario and so the debt was rescheduled in the manner before us today, with a scheme for extending the period for repayments in return...

Turbary Rights: Motion (6 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Like my colleagues, I am pleased to speak in favour of this motion. It is fitting that when we vote on it tomorrow night, it will be the first anniversary of the election of this Dáil. To me, that is quite fitting because what we have seen on this issue in the course of the past year is a process of democratic engagement, the likes of which has never been seen in this country. As part of...

Written Answers — Constitutional Convention: Constitutional Convention (6 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 100: To ask the Taoiseach if he will consult with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties as a relevant stakeholder in the establishment of the constitutional convention. [12008/12]

Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (6 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will instruct fellow Departments and State agencies to implement, as employers, recommendations made by the Labour Court over matters brought before it when industrial disputes arise in said Departments or State agencies. [12386/12]

Written Answers — Humanitarian Aid: Humanitarian Aid (6 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will allocate moneys from the emergency flood relief fund to ease hardship to residents (details supplied) during this very difficult time. [12453/12]

Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (6 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 359: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the name of the company which was awarded the contract for printing the household charge leaflet; the amount the contract was worth; if the contract was honoured; and the tendering process used in the awarding of the contract. [12451/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (6 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 465: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason extra funding has not been made available to Teasgasc for works in Ashtown, Dublin; and the budget from which these moneys have been made available. [12807/12]

European Council: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: It is an incredible indictment of the weakness of the Government's position that the best reason advanced by the Taoiseach for voting in favour of signing the treaty is that if we do not, Ireland will be frozen out in terms of access to funds in the future. We all know that the reason is the insertion of the so-called blackmail amendment. Even if the Taoiseach did not initiate that...

Electricity Transmission Network (7 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied with the EMF evidence submitted by Eirgrid in relation to the east west interconnector. [12637/12]

Electricity Transmission Network (7 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: It was a specific question to which the part the Minister addressed was where he stated he had no reason to believe that any information was withheld or that An Bord Pleanála was misled. That is a factually inaccurate statement because the Minister has evidence to the contrary. There was the meeting the Minister held with Rush Community Council where it was reported, and EirGrid itself has...