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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Registered Employment Agreements (22 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the current status of the REAs in view of the recent Supreme Court ruling. [24137/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Radio Broadcasting Issues (22 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views regarding efforts to silence and censor online radio stations through targeted intimidation; and his plans to deal with this issue. [24737/13]

Topical Issue Debate: State Banking Sector (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: We are told that in less than ten days' time, Permanent TSB will shut down its payments into the defined benefit pension scheme and move to a defined contribution scheme. The points made by the other Deputies are very relevant. This is an absolutely enormous blow to over 1,200 people who had a reasonable expectation that they could retire with some degree of certainty that their living...

Topical Issue Debate: State Banking Sector (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister has attempted to swat away the problem and say it was as a result of a management decision and had nothing to do with him. We do not accept that is the case. Unfortunately, the attempts to close down defined benefit schemes are becoming all too common. It happened recently in the national theatre - the Abbey Theatre - and there is a threat to the scheme at the airport. This...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 8. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will lift the public sector recruitment embargo which is resulting in important public facilities having to close down as vacancies from retirements remain unfilled. [24514/13]

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister has given the impression that the system is quite flexible, that there is not an outright ban and that services can be delivered. He said that areas such as education and health are prioritised, does this mean that local authorities are prevented from recruiting people? In my area Fingal County Council has to reduce library hours significantly because on the one hand, it needs...

Other Questions: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: I know the Minister does not know the detail but theoretically is there anything to stop the local authority from taking on 12 people? Is there a ban in place, stopping the authority from recruiting 12 people? The Minister says it must be done within a cost framework but assuming these savings were made elsewhere could the embargo be lifted to provide librarians? Librarians have a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 41. To ask the Minister for Finance the tax relief available on pension contributions to a person who has a workplace pension, but who also makes contributions to another pension scheme for which they have no associated income payments. [24926/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Directives (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there have been any EU Directives signed into Irish law which alter responsibility for coastal protection. [24927/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Proposed Legislation (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 131. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to allow an amendment for the Building Control Act 2007 to include an amendment for self trained, trained or unlicensed architects to benefit from a genuine grandfather clause. [24828/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 152. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of progress made regarding pilot restorative justice programmes in Wheatfield Prison and the Dóchas Centre, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24882/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 153. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if the joint Irish Prison Service and Probation Service proposal on Social Impact Investment has been completed; the details of the proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24883/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Detention Centres (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 154. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the postion regarding the planned review of St. Patrick's Institution, Dublin, following the transfer of all prisoners under the age of 18 years in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24884/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 155. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details regarding the joint Irish Prison Service and Probation Service feasibility study on pre and post release programmes for short term prisoners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24885/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 156. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide information on the current number of prisoners occupying cells in the new block in Midlands Prison, County Laois; the extent to which the new block is currently being utilized; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24886/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 157. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the current number of prisoners currently occupying the recently refurbished Mountjoy B wing, Dublin; the number of overall bed capacity of Mountjoy Prison for the months of February, March and April 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24887/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 201. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the works to be carried out in the Sacred Heart Hospital, Castlebar, County Mayo, as a result of the Health Information and Quality Authority report are allowed to be carried out in a reasonable timeframe in order that the hospital can survive and that any idea of €10 million having to be found by 2015 from within the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 209. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the company that undertook the national audit of the fluoridation process at water treatment plants commissioned by the Irish Expert Group on Fluorides and Health in 2008/2009; and the full operational and labour costs excluding chemicals associated with the 250 water fluoridation plants nationally [24878/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Water Fluoridation (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 210. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 15 May 2013, the exact nature of the capital costs specified for the small sized plants; and if the figure given for the larger plant related to the cost of a complete new facility or the replacement of equipment [24879/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (23 May 2013)

Clare Daly: 216. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) has to wait 19 months for a video EEG monitoring test in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin; the alternatives or supports available to enable this person to access the urgent medical attention they require [24925/13]