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Other Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the problems of coastal erosion on the Portrane coastline, that damage to the dunes is endangering local homes and that public money was not availed of to implement protection measures recommended in the Portrane Coastal Erosion Management Study; the steps his department will take to ensure that...

Other Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The Minister of State is aware of this issue. Residents were grateful for his visit to the area in the past week or so. With every passing storm and change in the weather, homes are further threatened. Residents need to see remediation. What can the OPW do to ensure that the works are undertaken?

Other Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I do not share the Minister of State's confidence. I have correspondence with me from one of his predecessors, Mr. Brian Hayes, MEP, who similarly visited the region and was told that moneys were available and had been expended on a study. Two or three years later and the weather conditions and erosion have worsened, but Fingal County Council is proposing another study even though the...

Other Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The residents have been patient beyond belief with this situation. We are seeking vigilance and intervention by the OPW. It is mad that coastal protection measures that were assessed and recommended in a study two years ago, when we had a different liaison group and residents gave of their time to protect their homes, are not being implemented and the council now wants to undertake another...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It is quite poignant that we are moving this legislation on the afternoon when we discussed the victims' rights Bill and the transcribing of that legislation into Irish law. We are talking about victims, people who underwent traumatic, violent, sexual and mental abuse inside our State institutions. The experience of that abuse contributed...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I am grateful we have had another opportunity in this House to acknowledge the pain and damage done to children in the care of the State and the church and the great wrong that was done to them. However, people have moved on from that in many ways. How we got here is a horrible part of our dark history which, sadly, is still playing out in many different aspects. What we are trying to do...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to a planning application (details supplied) currently before Cavan County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10791/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 223. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 214 and 215 of 15 February 2017, if the table supplied as part of the response to that question relates to the actuarial estimated damages spend under the heading "maternity cases" or relates to the actuarial estimated spend on damages across the entire health service (details supplied). [10992/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 247. To ask the Minister for Health whether applications for registration to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland will be closed after a year if they have not been processed within that time, forcing persons to reapply and again pay an application fee. [11124/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 248. To ask the Minister for Health whether all notarised copies of passports, birth certificates and so on submitted by applicants for registration to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland are either destroyed or returned in the event that the person is unsuccessful or the application is closed. [11125/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Sport Ireland (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role played by Horse Sport Ireland in overseeing the welfare of horses used by hunt clubs. [10783/17]

Commission of Investigation into the Grace case: Motion (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 1:(a) To insert after "in the care and protection of Grace" the words "and other persons who were in foster care or on private placement in the same home"; and (b) To delete all words after "establishing a Commission under that Act;" and substitute the following:"calls on the Government to make the following amendments to the draft Commission of Investigation (Certain...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the case of the family of a person with special needs on the home tuition scheme that is offered a placement in a religious school or a school with an ethos contrary to their own and they reject the placement offer, his department will withdraw funding for home tuition. [11407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the operations of a company (details supplied) in schools are kept under review, with a view to ensuring that the work carried out by the company is up to the appropriate standards and to ensuring that expenditure by the State on this company's services represents value for money. [11963/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a tender process was run before giving the contract for occupational health services for teachers and SNAs to a company (details supplied). [11964/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to restore the pensions of the public sector workers who retired after March 2012 and whose pensions are above €12,000 and below €32,500, pensions which were de facto reduced as a consequence of the original FEMPI legislation and not restored as part of the FEMPI Act 2015. [11770/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hedge Cutting Season (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 377. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the negative impact on the welfare of the bee population, if there is an extension of licences to cut hedgerows into the month of August as proposed in the Heritage Bill 2016; if her Department conducted any study to determine the potential environmental knock-on effects of reducing the bee...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if plans for the new National Children's Hospital will be reviewed in view of the fact that the hospital will be the most expensive children's hospital in the world, according to international data; and if alternative sites will be considered and costed. [11480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 15 February 2017, his plans to investigate the organic status of the fish produced at those fish farms under investigation by his Department for overstocking. [11503/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Functions (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 688. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 15 February 2017, the way he can claim that his Department's regulatory function is separate from its industry development function when both functions operate within the fisheries and marine section of his Department. [11504/17]