Results 9,701-9,720 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services (17 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 503. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to initiate a national discussion on a long-term strategy to transform the childcare sector into a public service. [43647/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Expenditure (17 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 505. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 197 of 21 September 2017, the proportion of the €14,569,718.70 expenditure on legal fees by Tusla in 2016 which was spent on external legal counsel; the firms employed by Tusla to provide same; and the total value of fees that accrued to each firm. [43684/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme (17 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 547. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a passenger survey on public transport will be commissioned to assess the true costs of the free travel scheme to CIÉ, thereby making payment patterns from her Department more transparent. [43649/17]

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 1 to Seanad amendment No. 23:In section 29, in the inserted section 14AA proposed to be inserted by Seanad Amendment no. 23, to delete“(i) the nature and circumstances of the case, and (ii) the personal characteristics of the victim.”,” and substitute the following: “(i) the type and nature of the offence; (ii) the circumstances of the...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: It is interesting that the helpful official chose to telephone Deputy O'Callaghan and did not seem to try to telephone us. That might have assisted matters but we know how new politics works.

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I have an incredibly efficient office which I supervise diligently so I would find it incredible if that were the case - it would be an absolute first. In any case, I am joking slightly. I really do not mind that much, although it would have helped.

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: The Minister of State makes a very good argument. The amendment to the Seanad amendment was proposed in consultation with people who work with victims. Those from the Victims Rights Alliance, who were to the forefront of this matter, read it in the context of the Article. They viewed the changes as meaning that, for people who would previously have been included in the net to get the...

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I will withdraw it.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: EU Bodies (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 32. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has satisfied himself that all correct procedures were followed prior to the nomination of a person (details supplied) for election to the position of chair of the European Union Military Committee. [44216/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: EU Bodies (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: My question is about the procedures followed in making the decision to nominate the Chief of Staff as chair of the European Union Military Committee. The decision was taken on 18 September, two days before we resumed after the summer break, without any consultation with the Dáil. There was an arrogance in the timing and the fact that the House had not been consulted. No doubt the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: EU Bodies (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: The Minister of State's response is largely technical, whereas the issue is probably broadly political. I have no problem whatever with the individual involved, which is not at issue. There are implications for Irish neutrality in this nomination to one of the European Union's permanent political and military structures which sits snugly beside the European Defence Agency. Let us not kid...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: EU Bodies (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I never said he could not. Previous Chiefs of Staff might have something to say about that as they were also capable of being nominated, but that is not at issue. It is not about a skill set but about a political decision. The Minister of State is correct in that the decision is completely in line with other policies adopted that have chipped away at our neutrality. They include the US...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 50. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the participation of the Defence Forces in Operation Sophia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43974/17]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: Some 56 Irish men and women have been sent on the LÉ Niamhto take part in Operation Sophia, along with the disgraced Libyan coastguard. This coastguard's purpose is really to wage war on refugees trying to get to Europe. Let us be clear about this. It is not correct to call the Libyan coastguard by that name. Much of it is made up of militias which have appointed themselves to patrol...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: It is very well known that returning migrants to Libya is condemning them to indefinite detention in what are essentially concentration camps, torture, rape and human trafficking. The International Criminal Court began gathering evidence in May regarding the treatment of migrants in Libya and the violent attacks on them and the NGOs working to rescue them in this region involving the very...

Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 37. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views regarding the nomination of a person (details supplied) as chair of the European Union military committee, in particular the way in which this nomination fits with Ireland's stated military neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43973/17]

Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: This question is similar to my earlier one but such is the bounce of the ball in the Priority Question lottery. It relates to the nomination of the Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces to the position of chair of the European Union military committee. When the nomination was announced, the Minister of State told us proudly that Ireland is one of the strongest contributors to common security...

Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: Every time a decision is made that compromises our neutrality we are told it does not compromise our neutrality, and we are getting increasingly concerned about the Government's approach to neutrality being especially cavalier. When we raise concerns, as we did earlier, about the Irish Defence Forces being sent off to join the military offensive in Operation Sophia, we were told not to worry...

Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: In September, the Minister of State sent the LE Samuel Beckett to one of the world's biggest arms fairs. Along with it, he sent a delegation of departmental officials to browse the stands of the arms manufacturers. There was, correctly, an outcry at the time. I do not know whether the Minister of State is blind to, or arrogantly ignoring the fact the vast majority of Irish citizens are...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Protected Disclosures (18 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 47. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to commission a second review of claims by former Air Corps staff that say their exposure to toxic chemicals from the late 1980s to the early 2000s caused chronic illnesses in view of the fact that the person commissioned to perform the first review (details supplied) has stated that they were not in a position to consider the...