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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (22 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of demand for junior school places in Swords, County Dublin (details supplied); if he is satisfied that a strategy is in place that will cater for the demand and enrolment needs for the 2018-19 school year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22396/18]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 116. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will request an independent and effective investigation into reports that Israeli soldiers in recent days have been unlawfully killing Palestinian civilians using live fire, other firearms and a variety of excessive force means against unarmed protesters; and if the unequivocally excessive, disproportionate and lethal use of force...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Property Construction (22 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance if the development under way in Malahide beside the old rugby club site is part of the promised delivery of housing by NAMA; the number of units that will be delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22291/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (22 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide specially trained nurses, home care packages and multidisciplinary care for persons with Huntington's disease (details supplied) which is seen in other countries as a valuable approach in ameliorating matters for persons with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22279/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (22 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 476. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the residents of Bower in Balbriggan, County Dublin, will be in a position to access high speed broadband. [22423/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Service Provision (22 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 477. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the role of his Department in the oversight of the introduction of broadband by commercial operators in rural areas. [22424/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund (22 May 2018)

Clare Daly: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the basis upon which his Department approved the grant of funding under the local infrastructure housing activation fund for the Donabate distributor road in circumstances in which the road is being constructed in breach of planning permission granted by An Bord Pleanála on 19 July 2011 (details supplied); the oversight...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: It is hard to follow that one. I will go back to the issue at stake. The Minister is correct that there are aspirations regarding the encouragement of gender equality and diversity throughout the Bill. The difference between an aspiration and what Deputy Ó Laoghaire is trying to do is that the amendment provides a lot more meat. I put it to the Minister that amendment No. 3 is very...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: Of this grouping, Sinn Féin's amendment No. 3 is probably the most interesting. The rest are concerned with tidying up, providing rules around the Irish language and so on. I support amendment No. 3, which is similar to the proposal that Sinn Féin tabled on Committee Stage of a merit or diversity principle. Under the amendment, when the commission is proposing a list of people...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: This is incredible stuff. The whole thing is unbelievable. The Minister, Deputy Flanagan, has acknowledged that because what we did on Committee Stage was inconsistent with Government policy, the Government is trying to bring us back to where we were before Committee Stage. Has the Minister, Deputy Ross, not realised, two years on, that he is in a minority and that he has to suck it up and...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: We put in hours in trying to improve the Minister's Bill. He has now come up with hare-brained arguments around unconstitutionality that were never made on Committee Stage. The Minister has said that he is reinstating the President of the Circuit Court and the President of the District Court, but he is wrong about that because it was everyone of us who argued for the presidents of the...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: I agree that there is something utterly demoralising about having to be here today and the manner in which this incredibly important issue is being dealt with by the Government. The judicial appointments process is in need of radical reform. We, as legislators, have a job to do which we take very seriously. Bringing forward legislation requires a hell of a lot of work in our offices at all...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Report Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: In our engagement we all tried to put together better legislation. We all agreed in our own way that we wanted the Presidents of the Circuit Court and the District Court to be involved and on Committee Stage grappled with the different ways of doing this. The amendments in this group are a tidying-up exercise to deal with leftover references to the relevant committees - the Government's...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: The amendment seeking that the legislation be enacted in no more than 12 months is the only amendment we have before us. We should accept this amendment, with the understanding that the general feeling is that the timeframe for implementation should be lowered when it gets to Report Stage. The amendment must be passed now to allow us to do that.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: We definitely will not get an answer to that question in this session. That is for sure but the question needs to be asked. I fully support the amendment being included in this Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017 because this is a scourge on our society. I will not go on about it because we could be here all day. Deputy O'Dea read out the list of the conditions and they are...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: We all got a written letter about the amendments being out of order.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: We would all agree with flexibility where the employee would choose to have that option, but this Bill is designed to eliminate exploitation. The point is one can have a flexible working arrangement and yet get the minimum of three hours. Nobody wants it so flexible that he or she will get less than three hours' pay. It is correct to say that these were linked with the other groups but...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: While I accept the Minister's bona fides as regards examining this matter, if the boss of a small company is doing all of the work and his or her 21 employees come forward on the same day, he or she might need to diversify and employ a few more to share the burden.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: Those numbers do not stack up because a small employer de facto means a small number of employees. It is grand if the Minister is considering a balance, but she must take that point on board, too.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (17 May 2018)

Clare Daly: This amendment is why I am sitting through this committee meeting. It is critically important and would be an enormous addition for many in the State who are underemployed. The study of the prevalence of zero hour contracts revealed the prevalence of part-time workers who were not part time out of choice. When we look back and consider other payments that have been changed by the...