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Other Questions: Live Exports (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: I tabled this question and I assure the Minister I am not being in any way mean-spirited. Like my colleague who spoke last week, I do not doubt that, on a personal level, Government representatives are absolutely committed to the release of Ibrahim Halawa. However, the point we were trying to make last week was that the tactics the Government has employed in trying to secure that end have...

Citizens' Assembly: Motion (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 5:To delete all words after “notes that” and substitute the following:“— membership of the Assembly will consist of 100 persons as follows: — a Chairperson to be appointed by the Government; — 66 citizens entitled to vote at a referendum, randomly selected so as to be broadly representative of Irish society; and — 33...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 56 of 8 June 2016, specifically that international trade takes place in a legally complex environment and that national legislation is not legally binding on activities in other states, to impose a ban on the export of greyhounds to China, given that it is not within the power of the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 126. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the prices paid for social housing units in an estate (details supplied); if he achieved value for money in this instance.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21460/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Data (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 128. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the research he conducted into the environmental cost of the domestic water metering programme prior to that programme commencing. [21523/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Data (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 129. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the research he conducted into the environmental cost of the domestic water metering programme since that programme began. [21524/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters Data (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 130. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the research he conducted to measure the environmental cost of the domestic water metering programme including the carbon footprint of same against any potential environmental benefits arising from that programme. [21525/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 139. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why the payment day for jobseeker's allowance for some persons was changed from a Friday to a Tuesday; why some persons were only given 24-hours notice of this change; his view on whether 24-hours notice for such a change is adequate, given persons in receipt of this payment, will now have to wait an extra four days before receiving their...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 154. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade how he will respond to the open letter from Palestinian civil and political society sent to all Oireachtas Members entitled Palestine’s Call; and the action he will take to exert pressure on the State of Israel through the use of sanctions and other parliamentary actions, to end its illegal occupation of Palestine and to grant the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 171. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 30 June 2016, to clarify that the provisions under section 42 of the Wildlife Acts, are not appropriate or sufficient for dealing with large-scale problems with seagulls across a large area of north County Dublin. [21479/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Wildlife Regulations (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 172. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views regarding the fact that the National Parks and Wildlife Service has said that it does not undertake wild bird control programmes; has advised that control measures are a matter best raised at a local level in the first instance with relevant local authorities, advice contradicted by local authorities which say control...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish guidelines on the integration of complementary and traditional medicine in the health care services. [21542/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultant Recruitment (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the delivery of an interim sarcoma specialist pending a full-time replacement in three months as agreed with families and patients at his meeting on 6 July 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21545/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Care Policy (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 214. To ask the Minister for Health if he will direct his officials to attend the International Congress for Integrative Health and Medicine in Berlin, Germany in 2017; if it would be of educational benefit for his officials to attend, given that none of his officials attended the International Congress for Integrative Health and Medicine in Stuttgart, Germany in May 2016, which was attended...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Internship Schemes (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 278. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware of the continuing exploitation and advertisements for unpaid internships at an Irish-owned company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21470/16]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Internship Schemes (13 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 279. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is concerned by the practice of businesses with multi-million euro annual profits advertising internships to final-year students and recent graduates via their colleges and universities, as for example in one case of a hotel group (details supplied) which recorded an €11.1 million increase in its after-tax profit in...

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing (14 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: 12. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consult the group, Concerned Health Professionals of Ireland, regarding the human health effects of the process of hydraulic fracturing. [21508/16]

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing (14 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: I note the comment of the Minister of State in response to an earlier question from Deputy Catherine Murphy that he did not want to pre-empt the outcome of a report into hydraulic fracturing or fracking. It is not necessary to await the report because a large amount of information is available that allows a conclusive judgment to be made on the matter, namely, that we should not proceed any...

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing (14 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: There is a major problem with all of this. The former Deputy, Mr. Colreavy, accurately warned the Oireachtas committee last year that fracking was essentially taking on a momentum of its own against the backdrop whereby we still do not fully understand the extraordinary health impacts. That is frightening, especially given that in Antrim, the oil extraction company InfraStrata recently...

Other Questions: Hydraulic Fracturing (14 Jul 2016)

Clare Daly: The scary thing is that the evidence is already available for us to be able to say that we really should not go any further. It is not unfair to say that the EPA study was probably compromised from the start. There is no great degree of public confidence in it given the involvement of an oil and gas provider in drawing up the terms of reference and given that some of the contractors are...