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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Postal Services (4 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason parcel companies (details supplied) have no revenue customs on their premises and An Post is the only parcel depot that has customs personnel present. [42507/12]

Other Questions: Bullying in Schools (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: The problem of bullying goes beyond social media and technology. The question asked related to the policy position. One positive aspect of the technology and its use in schools is a pilot programme in my area where the students, rather than being issued with books, are being issued with iPads. The teachers maintain the use of this technology is a valuable tool in terms of all-inclusive...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of recent trial schemes at second level schools involving replacing traditional school books with portable devices such as ipads and ebooks, if there is a timescale for the widespread introduction of this technology in the State's second level schools. [43041/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the continued high demand for second level places in schools across north County Dublin, if there have been any changes in capacity to facilitate current demand. [43040/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: FÁS Training Programmes (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all FÁS course places are allocated in a timely manner to enable parents to have adequate time to organise appropriate child care. [43036/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will to take to deal with the claims for redress made by victims of the Bethany Homes, who have produced evidence to show that the meet the terms of redress schemes. [42768/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider implementing a scheme whereby immediate family members of patients who are in long term hospital care due to the seriousness or terminal nature of their illness, in specialist hospitals or facilities, far from the family home, will be furnished with a travel pass to enable them to visit [42702/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Code Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views regarding that fact that social welfare payments are not being made to civil servants who ended a career break in June 2012 as a result of inadequate PRSI contributions being paid on their behalf; and if she will consider a back dated payment of these contributions as being acceptable to rectify the situation. [42610/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has had contact with the Housing Finance Agency with regard to whether, as suggested by the pyrite panel, they will be considering providing money or resources for testing homes for heave inducing pyrite, when such homes have been provided through funding by the agency under council affordable housing schemes. [43189/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Repayment Scheme (9 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health the steps he proposes to take to assist those incorrectly charged for nursing home care while in receipt of a medical card as allowed under the 1970 Health Act; if he will recover this money as previously specified in a Supreme Court ruling. [42614/12]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Career Breaks (10 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the incentivised career break for civil servants in 2009 which finished in June 2012 in view of the fact that many of the staff have now been told that they will not be re-employed within their Departments for a period of up to twelve months but because of the PRSI contributions paid while they were out, they will not receive...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Legislative Programme (10 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he intends to take to review the valuation process in relation to business rates, with particular reference to enhancing the appeals process which prevents a business which has been assessed in error from being reviewed, if the original applicant did not appeal it in the first instance. [41289/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (10 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way he can justify the cutback in guidance and counselling services to students in a college (details supplied) in County Dublin in the context of the economic downturn and the severe pressures that are on young people to-day. [43614/12]

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: I wish to share time with Deputy Mick Wallace.

Fiscal Responsibility Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: The political approach referred to by Deputy Harris as "the days of auction politics" actually involves democratically elected Governments introducing policies that meet the needs of people and being accountable to the electorate. This Bill, which represents a move away from that approach, proposes to enshrine neoliberal policies in law forever and in perpetuity. If it is passed, we could...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Resources (11 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to enable the State sector including the ESB to develop the offshore wind industry using European Investment Bank funding or otherwise in view of (details supplied); his views on whether the basis for the development of our renewable energy resource has been funded by the State through Sustainable Energy Ireland,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Resources (11 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: My question was about how the State would benefit from our substantial resources with reference to wave, wind and tidal energy, particularly as Ireland has one third of all renewable resources in north-west Europe. Decades ago the Minister was one of the stalwarts and leading lights in the resources protection group which produced some good material about our oil and gas industries, as well...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Resources (11 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: Somehow, I doubt it.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadcasting Service Provision (11 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which the RTÉ Network Limited will begin transmission of UK public service broadcasts on the Saorview system to complete the reciprocation as envisaged in the MoU (details supplied). [43721/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (11 Oct 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the extent of discussions she has had with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the introduction of new community employment type schemes to undertake work currently being carried out by council workers. [43963/12]