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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the issue of the unsafe and substandard prefab accommodation in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the further deterioration and leaking as reported to his Department in October, by sanctioning a permanent extension to the school as part of the building programme or a devolved grant, as the only viable and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the serious coastal erosion occurring in Portrane, County Dublin; and if he will make provision under the Coastal Protection Fund for emergency measures to protect the dunes to be implemented. [47581/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare benefits that have been stopped following persons being interviewed at Dublin Airport and other Irish entry points, upon returning to the country, and the number of these cases result in the benefit being restored. [47395/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if there is a problem having jobseekers' payments paid directly into bank accounts, and if so, the nature of problem and the way it can be overcome. [48223/12]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Transmission Network (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money the delay in the commercial operation of Eirgrid's East West Interconnector will cost electricity consumers and the reason for this delay. [47758/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will justify the recent announcement to stop the payment of allowances to all new army personnel; his views on the fact that the removal of ten allowance schemes will impact negatively on already low army incomes and create a two tiered system among the rank and file of the defence forces. [48560/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is currently a four year waiting list to see a consultant with regard to possible tonsillectomy at Waterford Hospital and the action he will take in regarding same. [47393/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the budget of Prosper Fingal is protected in next years overall departmental budget. [47394/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Arklow ambulance and hospital services that carry wheelchairs to St. Vincent's and Loughlinstown Hospital have stopped running and the action he will take regarding same [47392/12]

Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: Nothing sums up the tail of the two Irelands in which we live more than the issue of pension provisions and the double standards which prevail. Many of the Deputies have highlighted very well the absolute obscenity of the gilt-edged pensions paid to bankers and politicians, the very people responsible for the economic crisis in the first place, and those elderly vulnerable citizens being...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (7 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on whether most of the allowances paid to Defence Forces personnel form part of core pay, and will be protected in the event of any review of such allowances. [48562/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Archives (7 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Defence if there is a timescale for the release of the military pension records. [48561/12]

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: I wish to share time with Deputies Joan Collins, Seamus Healy and Finian McGrath.

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: The first point that has to be made is that credit unions are not banks. As other Deputies have said, this is something we should celebrate against the background of bankruptcy in which many of our banks' rogue practices have put the country and many of its citizens. It is a good thing we have a viable financial alternative to our banking system in the form of credit unions. The credit...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare Issues (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health if he will agree to animal welfare advice not to directly transpose a loophole in the ban on inflicting severe and prolonged pain on animals in experiments, article 55.3 of the Animal Experimentation Directive, and instead require the passage of secondary legislation for the licensing of such high levels of harm [48751/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that a company (details supplied) are refusing claims of homeowners with heave inducing pyrite of a level that they previously accepted based on the Pyrite Panels categorisation of the amber category; and the steps he will take to address this situation. [49334/12]

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: It is a practical question. If the Minister were to accept amendment No. 26 which I know is highly unlikely, we would not have to make the case for some of our fall-back amendments as they would no longer be necessary.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: I would like to be helpful. The point we are making is that amendment No. 26 proposes the prohibition of many activities, whereas many of the other amendments in this group relate to how these activities might be controlled. Amendment No. 26 would prohibit fur farming, whereas one of the others suggests how it might be controlled. It is obvious that if amendment No. 26 were to be accepted,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: Basically, yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: If amendment No. 26 is passed, the others will fall automatically because they will no longer be relevant. We should deal with that amendment first.