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Written Answers — Homeless Persons: Homeless Persons (12 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will award adult rates of social welfare payments to young persons trying to get out of homeless accommodation. [34125/12]

Written Answers — Mortgage Interest Supplement: Mortgage Interest Supplement (12 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the instructions that have been issued to community welfare officers in relation to requesting documentary evidence from financial institutions regarding mortgage distress when processing mortgage interest supplement [34124/12]

Written Answers — Advertising Standards: Advertising Standards (12 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 164: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will deal with advertising standards and protocol in relation to the highly offensive and inaccurate youth defence advertisements. [34134/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Reports: Departmental Reports (12 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 174: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make public the report of the pyrite panel, which has been in his possession for a number of weeks and which is long overdue [34128/12]

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (12 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the registration of creative arts therapists to ensure that creative arts therapies are included in the list of professions covered by the Health and Social Care Professionals Act (2005). [34126/12]

Written Answers — Pilot Training Courses: Pilot Training Courses (12 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 262: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with Enterprise Ireland to ensure a satisfactory outcome for students left abandoned by PTC Ireland, whose contract has been terminated by the Florida Institute of Technology, to enable them to complete their studies. [34132/12]

Written Answers — Pilot Training Courses: Pilot Training Courses (12 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 268: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will assist students caught up in the PTC crisis in Florida, in view of the fact that the Irish Aviation Authority licensed this course, and that the State failed to ensure appropriate regulation. [34131/12]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 2: In page 7, to delete lines 14 to 20 and substitute the following: "3.—(1) This Act shall apply to any person (in this Act referred to as a "former resident"), whether or not he or she is resident in the State, who is a former resident of Irish institutions identified in the various approved schedules of institutions as applied within the Residential Institutions...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: It is crucial for us to step back and look at the reason we are here - the experience of horrendous abuse suffered by many in institutions. The State has a responsibility in that regard. The people concerned have been excluded during their lives and not listened to. However, in framing this legislation we are talking about excluding some of them who under other circumstances would have...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: The main points have been made.

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: I support the arguments made by Deputy Seán Crowe on this extremely important amendment. We should listen to those who have been excluded. It is indisputable that a large number of those who have contacted Deputies believe the fund, as constituted, will not meet their needs. The role of the Oireachtas in this matter is to address their needs. Deputies who participated in the Committee...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: While I accept that the purpose of the fund is to support victims, it is the victims who should make the call by defining what support they need. For some of the vulnerable persons in question, being able to care for their children would meet their needs, but the Bill, as constituted, prevents them from doing this.

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: The Minister says he is concerned about the amendments but he did not substantiate his concern, other than to say that it was akin to the earlier debate. I do not accept that. In some ways, this amendment restricts or qualifies the numbers involved by putting in place a procedure which would regulate the numbers seeking redress, in that it would be up to the board to assess them. The...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 10: In page 10, line 32, after "service" to insert the following: ", which shall be made available to the children and grandchildren of all former residents entitled to apply to obtain assistance from the Fund to advance their educational skills and employment opportunities". This proposal was discussed for a fair amount of time on Committee Stage. It is one of the...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: The Minister says it should be confined to former residents to meet their needs. Who defines their needs? It is the survivors themselves who are best placed to do so. In many instances, they have used the fund to break the transgenerational problems facing them and their families by, for example, availing of educational and other opportunities for their children. These are people who were...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 14: In page 11, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: "(3) Counselling services shall continue to be available to all former residents and they will be entitled to select their own counsellor, subject to their professional qualifications being recognised by the relevant professional body.". The purpose of this proposal, which was discussed on Committee Stage, is...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: I hope the Minister is right, but only time will tell. I appreciate his clear statement that survivors will be able to advise the fund of their preference to continue with their current counsellor. I agree that it is difficult to envisage a scenario in which such a request would be denied, but it is not impossible. A decision might be made, for instance, that a particular counsellor is...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: No, I will take the Minister's assurance in the spirit in which it was given.

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 15: In page 11, line 27, to delete "classes" and substitute "categories". This amendment, which we raised on Committee Stage, reflects a minor issue in regard to the use of language. Some survivors have objected to the reference in the Bill to "classes" of former residents. Specifically, there was a feeling, given that most of the people who ended up in these...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Bill 2012: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (17 Jul 2012)

Clare Daly: I have tabled the amendment because I wish to redefine the word "classes". The point is that most of the people who ended up in residential institutions were working class. In that sense, to label them accordingly in legislation is not appropriate. At any rate, we will not fall out on the issue.