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- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: -----the fact Government Members are willing to do this again today is absolutely reprehensible. The subject being debated on the floor of this Chamber at present is the future of Ireland's water supply infrastructure, which will leave a lasting legacy for the citizens of this country and it is extremely important. It is regrettable that it is being overshadowed by the other events,...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: A new recruitment drive already is under way, in which staff in the local authorities are being invited to avail of jobs in a secondment process to Irish Water. A total of 80 positions are on offer at present, covering 15 different categories and grades of work. These jobs are being advertised for engineers at various levels and qualifications below those at which such people would work in...
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: We may as well continue the farce.
- Water Services Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: Obviously, the whole thing is a bit farcical at this stage. I do not know why the Government and the Whips have not adjourned this business and allowed us to discuss the key issue of the day. However, we will now attend to these matters which are, in many ways, as important and will also have long-standing implications but which are clearly being overshadowed by the other events of the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Defence following the EUFOR Chad/CAR deployment in which Irish army troops were the second largest contingent after France, if he will rule out the involvement of Irish troops in any proposed EU intervention in Mali. [6413/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: I hope you are not using up some of those minutes.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: It would be a serious mistake to send troops in any form to Mali. The mission to Chad, where Irish troops were the second biggest contingent, was really to further French interests. At that time, we were told its purpose was to protect internally displaced people and refugees from Darfur. In reality, the EU troops were used to free up the forces of the dictator and allow him to crush the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (7 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: I am glad my view of the world is not the same as the Minister's. My opinion is shared by people such as Jeremy Keenan, who is an acknowledged expert on the Saharan peoples and has written many articles on Algerian state terrorism and atrocities in northern Mali. He has shown how Washington helped to foster the Islamist uprising in Mali, and so on. We know atrocities have been carried out...
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in relation to the Peter Bacon report, showing that it will actually cost the State money to sell the Coillte harvesting rights, if he will place the terms and conditions, that have been agreed to impose on any proposed sale agreements, into the public domain. [6910/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (12 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position in relation to the Coillte review that was a separate component of the Forestry review, being conducted by his Department in 2010, in relation to informing and drafting the new Forestry Bill. [6911/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (12 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the safeguards that exist for somebody to challenge the soft evidence permitted in the 2012 Vetting Act, whereby GardaĆ or the National Vetting Unit could make a disclosure which bypasses the courts; and the redress does an individual has to challenge these assertions [7202/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services (12 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the State has not funded Helping Helps Adoption Mediation Agency, in accordance with Hague conditions that such organisations should be state funded, in order to avoid profiteering from adoptions. [7200/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (12 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health if he will instruct the Health Service Executive to sanction all necessary recruitment of nurses, and EEG technologists to allow the Epilepsy Monitoring Units in Cork and Beaumont Hospitals to open without further delay. [7197/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (12 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health his plans to investigate the role played by consultant psychiatrists and medical staff in having people incarcerated into mental institutions for deviant behaviour in the 1950s and 1960s, when medically there was nothing wrong with them; the way redress and an apology can be delivered to these victims and their families [7198/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive Funding (12 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive did not fund Helping Helps Mediation Agency, as agreed, when it was re accredited last October; his plans he has to deal with this situation. [7199/13]
- Magdalen Laundries: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: I am sharing time with Deputies Seamus Healy, Catherine Murphy, Finian McGrath and Luke 'Ming' Flanagan. We only have two minutes each but even if one had two days one could not begin to scratch the surface of the decades of tyranny and abuse inflicted on women incarcerated in the Magdalen laundries. One of our key functions as a Parliament is to give a voice to those women and I want to...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services (13 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 15 May 2012 if he will report on the progress of the Health Service Executive's search for birth related and other documents in the possession of the HSE and previous organisations now within the HSE organisation relating to persons identifying as Adopted and for whom no adoption record exists. [7274/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Strategies (13 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to develop strategies that improve self-esteem and promote positive body imaging among young adolescents. [7273/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Extra Curricular Activities (13 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to promote volunteerism and collective activities outside school hours in view of the fact that all the evidence shows that involvement in these activities improves confidence and academic achievements. [7621/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 Feb 2013)
Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he intends to take to develop a more targeted approach to the way self-esteem and confidence building can be promoted within the curriculum. [7622/13]