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Other Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child questioned the Minister about what it described as the "deficiencies" in child care in Ireland. The deficiencies are obviously fairly glaring, given that the average amount spent on child care is 12% of income per household across the OECD and 35% in Ireland. The average cost of child care for two children is €22,000 per annum nationally....

Other Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: I thank the Minister. I was struck by this issue during the episode of "The People's Debate with Vincent Browne", which the Minister managed to miss.

Other Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: During the debate, the Fianna Fáil Party candidate was ochóning the cost of child care, and stated that she paid an astronomical amount of money and asked what would happen if Fianna Fáil were returned. The exact same points applied ten years ago when Fianna Fáil was in power and the Government had loads of money. The problem is that we view child care the wrong way...

Other Questions: Child Care Services Provision (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: The Minister did not address the point. Unless those very talented school leavers had received free or affordable State-led child care in their youth, the Minister's answer was irrelevant. The key issue is affordability for many people. Some 70% of women earn less than €30,000 per year. Child care for two children in a Dublin crèche costs €27,000, leaving no money for...

Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: I thought this was agreed.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: There was a lack of clarity on this. We were not sure whether the item was being removed.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: Will Second Stage be completed today?

Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: It will carry on as the agenda was initially.

Order of Business (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: Sex workers and important human rights organisations like Amnesty International have expressed significant concerns about this legislation, which absolutely deserves further scrutiny. That is why we opposed the proposal made earlier.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance the arrangements he made with the Microsoft company in respect of being granted the status of being domiciled here; if that arrangement included a condition that it was required to retain manufacturing here; and if this arrangement is now non-existent given the decision of the Arvato plant in Swords in County Dublin to re-locate its packaging and...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Foreign Direct Investment (28 Jan 2016)

Clare Daly: 126. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the arrangements he made with the Microsoft company in relation to being granted the status of being domiciled in Ireland; if that arrangement included a condition, that it was required to retain manufacturing here; and if this arrangement is now non-existent, given the decision of the Arvato plant in Swords in County Dublin, to...

Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: 62. To ask the Minister for Health if he has recently met with representatives of the Reactions and Effects of Gardasil Resulting in Extreme Trauma, REGRET, group, to discuss available or potential health support services, and other supports for families represented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3892/16]

Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: This question relates to the parents who organise a group called REGRET. Almost 200 teenage girls have experienced serious side effects having taken the‎ human papillomavirus HPV vaccine. Has the Minister met with that group recently to discuss what supports might be put in place? While we might debate their origin the problems these young women are experiencing are undoubtedly real...

Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: It is important to say that these families are not anti-vaccine crusaders. They had their daughters vaccinated and now their daughters are severely unwell and as the Minister says, the side-effects are real. It is all very well to acknowledge the EMA review of the drug but it only examined it for two side-effects and did not take into account the full range of symptoms that some of the...

Other Questions: Vaccination Programme (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: The question was very carefully worded and asked what support the Minister would give to the young women who we all agree are undoubtedly unwell at the moment. The parents of some of them have had to give up work to care for them. They are just not coping and they want to know what support will be available to them. In some cases, individuals can access support but it is not always there....

Topical Issue Debate: Foster Care (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: We do not have time to go into the range of issues surrounding this case but it is a fact that more than one vulnerable adult was left in a situation where they were appallingly abused and exploited because of the mishandling of the situation by the HSE. I am very pleased that the Ministers have decided to have a commission of investigation. From the very beginning we believed that two...

Topical Issue Debate: Foster Care (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: That is the key point. One of the whistleblowers at the centre of this case has made the point that, sadly, it is not the only such case. In his opinion, it represents dozens of others in the same region over a 20 to 30 year time span. It is fair to say there is a systemic problem in the HSE. It is very much the old attitude that when the church or State is threatened, the response is to...

Establishment of a Statutory Commission of Investigation into a Foster Home in the South East: Statements (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that the only reason this is the last act of Government is the botched arrogance of senior officialdom in the HSE in its apology-non-apology to the Committee of Public Accounts. This is not going to go away. The first point I would make is that what is in the public domain is only the tip of the iceberg on this issue. There are a number of aspects in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staffing (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the chronic shortage of nursing staff in St. Joseph's Association for the intellectually disabled in Portrane, County Dublin; if he has consulted with the Health Service Executive on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3891/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (2 Feb 2016)

Clare Daly: 136. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the responsibility of employers in relation to health and safety and manual handling courses when persons take up a community employment scheme and to outline the person's rights with regard to concerns they may have about being asked to engage in unsafe practices, but being fearful of refusing to engage in them. [4300/16]