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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Complaints Procedures (26 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 287. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to initiate a statutory inquiry and criminal investigation into the death of a person (details supplied). [3051/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Human Rights Issues (26 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 301. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will adopt the recommendation of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission that contracts for subcontracted State services for children, including health, care work, immigration and asylum services, be awarded subject to mandatory requirements for human rights compliance. [2838/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Anti-Poverty Strategy (26 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 302. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs what steps he intends to take to ensure that anti-poverty and social inclusion targets in the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020 are met within a specified timeframe, as recommended by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission report submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Animal Welfare (26 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 462. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a raid on a property (details supplied) found 200 dogs, of which the local authority subsequently destroyed 120; if this is an appropriate response under the Dog Breeding Establishment Act; if a more enlightened response to reports of cruelty is needed, particularly from the point of view that those...

Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 7. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to review the Interception of Postal Packages and Telecommunications Messages Act 1993 and the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009 to protect the privacy and human rights of citizens. [3014/16]

Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: This question relates to the previous one on foot of the Minister's decision to have a review of the 2011 Act regarding journalists' records. It obviously arose from the controversy and media backlash over GSOC accessing journalists' phone records, which was a little ironic given that some of the most vociferous objectors to the powers of surveillance for GSOC over the Garda are some of the...

Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: Nobody suggests that every householder in Ireland is under surveillance or anything like that. It comes down to how serious crime is defined and what oversight is provided. What some people might deem to be a peaceful but robust protest, other people would deem to be kidnapping and so on. The problem is that we have weak monitoring and oversight of the surveillance powers that exist, which...

Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: We already have that knowledge. The Government's human rights watchdog has stated that we need to review this. Internationally Ireland is out of kilter. The Minister has repeated that the information cannot be given for security reasons and so on. Even in Britain the report that is published runs to hundreds of pages and details the numbers of operations, the reasons for each operation...

Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: I agree with the Minister 100%.

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: I would like to echo some of the points made by Deputy Pringle on this incredibly important amendment. The whole basis of this legislation is that a mistake made by someone in his or her past should be left in the past. By ensuring that mistake stays in the past, we will give the person in question the ability to learn from it and to move forward with his or her life. That is the whole...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: The caveats and exclusions provided for in the legislation as drafted were supposedly designed to ensure we have a just and proportionate system. However, I do not think it was drafted in a sufficiently careful manner. I agree with the first point made by Deputy Pringle, which is that there is no reference to previous convictions being "relevant to the crime being tried". To be honest, I...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: Are we discussing amendment No. 49 as well?

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: As Deputy Pringle said, amendment No. 48 deals with the provision in the Bill whereby if somebody is being interviewed by gardaí and is asked about previous convictions, he or she must tell them about a conviction even if it has been expunged. This is utterly ludicrous. When is a spent conviction actually spent? There are so many exclusions that the idea of providing a template...

Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report Stage (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: Regarding the subject matter of amendment No. 49, why is the Minister doing this? The interests of the insurance industry are being prioritised above the interests of the citizen. The inference, one that everyone makes instinctively, is "Once a fraudster, always a fraudster," and there is an assumption that the person will do it again. Even if someone who committed insurance fraud, which...

Social Housing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: I am delighted that Fianna Fáil has robbed some of the points originally raised by Deputy Wallace a long time ago. The Government should compel the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, to allocate at least 50% of the 20,000 units it is providing for social housing. Perhaps one of the reasons the Government is failing to address that sensible and practical solution to the delivery of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the proposed actions of the independent review mechanism, with particular reference to the number of cases where follow-on action was recommended; the nature of the follow-on action. [3015/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who was advised to maintain a carer's allowance. [3380/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of this horrific incidence of animal cruelty (details supplied) in County Carlow; the action he will take to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice; and his views that this is totally unacceptable [3398/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 96. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 479, 489 and 490 of 9 June 2015 regarding information on salmon farms operating outside their licensed areas and operating without the required warning lights or radar reflectors by site and by operators and given the level of non-compliance after warnings, if he will include the last element...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (27 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if stocking levels on Irish salmon farms are within their licensed tonnage; the details of breaches, by site and by operator; the actions he will take to bring operators under their licensed limits, given that he informed this Deputy on 9 June 2015 that this was a key operational priority. [3458/16]