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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he plans to take to prevent solvent and profitable companies from closing their defined benefit pension schemes and moving pension risk to employees which is a growing issue in pension schemes across different employments here. [2601/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform legislation such that persons who are unhappy with the professional conduct of psychologists, psychotherapists or psychiatrists during the compiling of a section 47 report can have their complaints investigated by the relevant accrediting bodies in view of the fact that accrediting bodies currently refuse to investigate such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to streamline the legal aid process to enable one application to cover the inclusion of a solicitor on the legal aid panel for all counties rather than the current situation whereby each county operates their own system of paperwork and applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2958/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Advice (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the legal aid custody advice scheme, particularly with regard to any consideration being given to the fees associated with same. [2959/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Staff (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 22 November 2016, whereby she stated that 22 of the present District Court judges were presiding in jurisdictions in which they had previously practised as a solicitor, if she will clarify those judges of the 22 that are in a permanent placement in their area of previous practice rather than a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views regarding the range of flexibility afforded within the operation of the pyrite remediation scheme in relation to adding on properties to be remediated as part of particular phases, in the interests of co-ordinated development and securing economies of scale (details supplied). [2810/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 350. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Question No. 1627 of 17 January 2017, the status of the liaison with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in regard to the further actions that might be taken to ensure US airlines on charter to the US military comply fully with regulations here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3233/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Meetings (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 351. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position taken and the points raised by Ireland at the joint meeting of EU Foreign Affairs and Defence Ministers on 14 November 2016 to discuss the implementation of the EU Global Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3234/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Visa Agreements (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Saudi Arabia's human rights record, in addition to the issue of potential war crimes having been recently committed in Yemen by Saudi Arabia and its allies, will form part of his Department's exploration of the possibility of Ireland negotiating a bilateral agreement with Saudi Arabia. [3235/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Sanctions (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise the issue of an EU-wide boycott of goods from Israeli settlements with his EU counterparts in view of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 which describes Israel’s settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as illegal and a flagrant violation under international law. [3236/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 412. To ask the Minister for Health his views on recent reports in the media that service users from a Health Service Executive, HSE, funded centre (details supplied) in Ballina have been facilitated by that service to attend hare coursing events, including two outings to coursing meetings in Loughrea, County Galway, and Liscannor, County Clare. [2628/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Bodies (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 547. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process that will be undertaken for the replacement of the CEO of the Irish National Stud whose tenure commenced in 2010 and is presumably about to expire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2961/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 548. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will initiate an external independent audit of racecourse attendance in order to verify the claims being made by Horse Racing Ireland in that regard. [2962/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Ireland (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has satisfied himself with the independence of two appointees which he recently nominated to Horse Racing Ireland in view of the fact that both persons had a connection with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2963/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Racing Industry (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 550. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process of regulation of drug testing in the horse racing industry; if he has satisfied himself with same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2969/17]

European Council: Statements (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: I echo the points made by Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan in respect of the settlements in Palestine. The activities of the Israelis are absolutely reprehensible. My main comment relates to the refugee issue. I welcome the fact that the last European Council agreed that member states had to increase their relocation pledges according to allocation and that from December the Council would seek...

Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Question No. 712 of 17 January 2017, if his Department will perform an audit of all landings of military aircraft at all airports here with a view to establishing the number of other military planes that have landed at airports here without first seeking permission to do so from his Department. [3057/17]

Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: The Minister revealed to me in response to a question last week that the RAF had landed an airplane without permission at Shannon. He told me this was an accident and that the RAF was very sorry. It is a little like the time the Hercules C130 landed with the 30 mm cannon visible, which the Minister told us was an administrative error. At best, this demonstrates a lack of oversight, at...

Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: The Minister's excuses are getting ever thinner. The only thing these aircraft do is engage in military operations, so what does the Minister think they are doing, for example, on the two occasions every day that the US military land in Shannon, if they are not involved in such miliary operations? The point is that it is clearly insufficient for the Minister to rely on diplomatic...

Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: "Thorough and robust" is an abuse of language in this scenario. When an aircraft changes its sign to a military sign, when the Minister knows that this week the aircraft proceeded to an airbase engaged in bombing raids in Syria, what does he think that aircraft was doing there, if it was not involved in military operations, when another one went to a position on the Syrian border that is...