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Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: The Minister knows well there are major problems in this area and the bias, although not specific, comes from the manner in which the contracts are constructed and the reality, as a result, is that small and micro-businesses end up being unfairly disadvantaged. The proof is that Irish manufacturers which may have previously made uniforms for State services or provided school books and so on...

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: What we see is really neoliberalism unleashed. The centralisation of these-----

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: If the Minister buttoned it for a bit, he might listen. The centralisation of these contracts has resulted in the de factoexclusion of small and medium-sized businesses. That is a fact. These are the employers that make up the majority of employment prospects for Irish citizens. The point I am making is that other EU countries have managed EU rules to protect their own employers.

Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: The Minister has been found wanting and with the Government imposing a turnover limit on companies, the European Commission has found that it wrongly excluded SMEs from competing, for example, for the Eircom contract. Businesses are arguing that many of them cannot tender for the work; large companies are tendering but the actual work is contracted out afterwards. That the Government has...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: The Taoiseach is the only one who is saying that.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: It is all their fault; the Taoiseach is in a bunker.

European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: The Government's abject failure to behave as a sovereign nation and put its stamp on a different type of foreign policy for the EU is incredibly disappointing for many people. The EU is now complicit in the world being much more unsafe and unstable than it has been at any time previously. Not only is Europe turning a blind eye, it is actually profiting from that. From the Taoiseach's...

European Council: Statements (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: No.

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: Deputy Wallace and I are very glad that the issue of surveillance and intrusion into the lives of citizens is finally being addressed and a topic of conversation. We have consistently tried to raise it in this House but to the complete disinterest of the media and political establishment. There is a certain double standard in the outcry over GSOC accessing of journalist phone records and...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: I have to say the Minister's response is completely inadequate and off the mark. The review of the 2011 Act in regard to journalists is not enough. All citizens deserve to have their privacy and human rights protected, and the rightful outcry in regard to journalists' phones being intercepted should be shared in regard to other citizens' rights. The Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 66. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to ensure that the local knowledge of residents regarding patterns of flooding in their areas is taken into account as part of the medium-term and long-term efforts to deal with the flooding problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1941/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Services for People with Disabilities (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 283. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 328 of 1 December 2015, if she will provide sign language interpreters to deaf persons for a certain number of hours each year free of charge, as put forward in the Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2013, as one of the mechanisms for the promotion and recognition of Irish Sign...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (19 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funds distributed by Caranua, by heading and by the number of persons in 2015; and the amount of funds remaining to be distributed. [2058/16]

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: That is another clue.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: In one minute I will be saying he is not qualified.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: It is said that the bite of a dying snake is the most vicious. We have seen that here tonight. Venom has been spewing from the mouths of Government Deputies and Ministers.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: The brazenness on the part of the Labour Party in its attempt to address this indefensible appointment as some sort of a crusade for gender equality takes the biscuit. It is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard in this House, and that is up against some pretty stiff competition. I do not generally agree with the having of motions of no confidence. They should only be tabled in...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: In that sense, I would not normally have contributed to this debate but I felt I had no choice but to do so on behalf of the 15,000 members of the Irish Aviation Superannuation Scheme, IASS. Half of them probably do not know that the Tánaiste was involved in the appointment of David Begg or that there was any question mark over the process. However, prior to that getting into the...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Reports (20 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 20. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation why information regarding the location in Saudi Arabia of the ultimate end-user of €1.7 million worth of military exports in 2013 and €13.2 million worth of military exports in 2014 was not contained in the 2013-2014 report on the operation of the Control of Exports Act 2008, with that data being subsequently published...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Export Controls (20 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 33. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation given recent high-profile human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia, including the beheading of 47 persons in a single day, and given that Ireland exported €23.4 million worth of military items to Saudi Arabia between 2011 and 2014, if he will review the export of military items to Saudi Arabia through the appropriate channels. [2020/16]