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Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: I could talk about my friend Dermot, whose 87 year old mother went into hospital this day last week with chronic pain. She ended up breaking her hip in that hospital - the Bon Secours - and was sent to Beaumont Hospital over the weekend, where they would not operate on her. She was then sent to the Mater Hospital and was only operated on days later after sitting on a trolley. I could talk...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: Unfortunately, I have to leave at 9.50 a.m. so I apologise to the Data Protection Commissioner as I will not be able to stay for that presentation. This is the first day of what will be a sizeable body of work for the committee. It is incredibly technical work in some ways, and a bit of snoozefest in some ways as a result, although I am not talking about the presentations, of course....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: I am not sure I am very clear as a result of that reply. People would obviously understand the issue of consent in regard to Revenue matters because the public understands there is an overriding public interest as to why people should pay their taxes. The sharing of information in that regard is broadly understood. However, the health database does not have a legislative base. Mr. Carroll...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (14 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: Thank you.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Welfare (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 83. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times NPWS officials attended at hare coursing meetings in the 2016/2017 coursing season; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27349/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Animal Welfare (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 110. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the attention of NPWS officials has been drawn to suspected cases of badger baiting in the past 12 months; if so, the details of those cases; and the outcome of investigations. [27348/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Citizens Assembly (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 116. To ask the Taoiseach the full costs of the Citizens' Assembly. [26514/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Trade Relations (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 212. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to make arrangements to ensure that companies here can trade with Iran and overcome restrictions on banking transactions in a manner which has been successfully done by most other European countries. [26745/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 218. To ask the Minister for Finance if there has been an audit of the tax relief at source, TRS, scheme since its establishment in 2002 in regard to the operation of the TRS scheme; and, if so, the person or body that conducted the audit. [26840/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners have audited the methodology used by banks to apply tax relief at source to the funding account (details supplied). [26841/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners apply an agreed definition of funding account; and the location this definition can be found. [26842/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 221. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount the tracker redress scandal has cost the State to date as a result of tax relief at source payments being applied incorrectly to the higher interest that was applied to these mortgages. [26843/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Data (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 222. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners has the power to investigate and to compel the bank to pay the tax relief at source in full in cases in which a shortfall arises between the value of TRS paid by the Revenue Commissioners to a bank and the value of TRS received by the mortgage holder from the bank. [26844/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Schemes (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 228. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 1991 code of practice on the transfer of mortgages and section 117 of the Central Bank Act 1989 has been effectively revoked or amended in legislation in order to render either piece of information as inoperable. [26915/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 237. To ask the Minister for Finance the structures in the tax code which were used to arrive at a tax ruling in relation to a company (details supplied) enabling it to lower the tax it owed here to as little as 0.005%; and if these structures are still in place or are being used in other tax rulings. [27037/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 238. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement in relation to obligations regarding information in relation to structures in the tax code which were used to arrive at the tax ruling with regard to a company (details supplied); and if this is part of the information Ireland is bound to exchange with other EU countries since 1 January 2017. [27038/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Retirements (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 355. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of progress on work on the abolition of the mandatory retirement age in the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26686/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 366. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the standardised test of high-speed verbal and numerical reasoning administered as part of the civil service recruitment process discriminates against persons with mental health or neurological conditions which impinge on their ability to complete such high-speed tests that are otherwise highly qualified for...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans regarding retaining the link between occupational pensions received by public service pensioners and the wages or salary of the person's grade at retirement. [27292/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (20 Jun 2017)

Clare Daly: 383. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the body that pays the shortfall in transfer value in circumstances in which the benefits accruing to a member of a pension scheme in a public service transfer network organisation have been reduced on foot of a section 50 direction with the effect that the transfer value paid by the transferring organisation is reduced but the amount...