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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: That covers that they are licensed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We agreed last week that there would be no speeches and that we would move to voting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: The amendments follow on from the public sessions and information that is in the public domain. We need to vote now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We discussed these issues in public session in recent weeks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: We are at the stage where we are making conclusions. We decided last week to take this approach.

Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: It is nice to finish the year, almost, on a positive note. Like everyone else, I am delighted to see this Bill before the House tonight. There is no doubt that a huge number of people have campaigned on this issue for so long. It was a great shame that it was voted down by the previous Administration. There are over 70 million users of sign language worldwide and after this legislation is...

Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 8:In page 4, line 17, to delete “and the corresponding duty” and substitute “which is an indigenous language in its own right used by a sizeable minority in the State and the duty”. As this is my only amendment that has not been ruled out of order, I will make some points on it and on some of my other amendments. I do not know if somebody has...

Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: No.

Recognition of Irish Sign Language for the Deaf Community Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: I thank the Deputies who contributed. My points were in no way a reflection of any decision by the Ceann Comhairle's office or the ruling out of order; I understand fully how that process works and I fully accept it. It was more to do with the fact that because there has been so much dedicated and hands-on work behind the scenes in preparation for bringing the Bill here, between...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 22. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to develop a coordinated national coastal plan to prioritise the most at risk inhabited and to develop a unified approach to the management of coastal erosion nationwide. [53063/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 24. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the steps being taken to prevent further damage to dunes at Portrane, County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53466/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Data (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 242. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 266 of 5 December 2017, if he will clarify that while the absolute numbers of prisoners on restricted regimes have decreased, the percentage of prisoners on restricted regimes has doubled between October 2013 and October 2017. [54017/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Marine Institute (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 557. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has confidence in the Marine Institute after it issued a statement on 8 December 2017 in relation to the viral disease he identified in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 8 November 2017 (details supplied). [53694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Marine Institute (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 558. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will instruct the Marine Institute to issue a correction of equal prominence to its erroneous statement on 8 December 2017 claiming that only salmon contract cardiomyopathy and inform the public of the highly transmissible nature of the cardiomyopathy virus as made clear in peer reviewed published research. [53695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Marine Institute (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 559. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he plans to take to ensure that the Marine Institute is properly staffed to guarantee that information provided to the public is scientifically accurate. [53696/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 560. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the recent regulation (EU) 2016/429 on transmissible animal diseases (details supplied); and if he will reconsider his refusal to release information with regard to the outbreak of cardiomyopathy resulting in 200,000 mortalities of farmed salmon and numerous wild mackerel reported to Inland...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 561. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the virus cardiomyopathy has been found in the lice that infect farmed salmon. [53698/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the cardiomyopathy virus revealed by him in reply to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 8 November 2017 is not now nor will become transmissible to human beings. [53699/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 643. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when Ireland will ratify the second optional protocol of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child; and the legal reason Ireland has not done so. [53518/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medical Services (14 Dec 2017)

Clare Daly: 770. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if director medical branch instruction number 52 amendment number 1 of 24 August 2016 is still relied upon by the Defence Forces for vaccinations and other preparations for overseas deployments. [53529/17]