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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Speech and Language Therapy Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department collects data on the number of children turned down annually for speech and language classes in primary schools despite meeting the qualifying criteria; and if so, the data for each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [42207/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Grievance Procedures (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the fact that in certain cases school boards of management are taking judicial review proceedings to challenge the findings of section 29 appeals against refusals to enrol children in speech and language classes; and his further views on whether this is an appropriate use of public funds. [42208/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Professional Development (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reintroduce financial support for students of primary teaching for the mandatory Gaeltacht course (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42255/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Rights (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken in relation to investigating bogus self employment contracts in the English language teaching sector here (details supplied). [42375/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 189. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise with the Spanish government the recent and concerning actions of that government in Catalonia (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42209/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Services Regulatory Authority (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to amend legislation, secondary or primary, to tighten up regulation of companies which offer foreign property investment opportunities to ordinary investors in view of numerous instances of such companies retaining deposits on properties that are never built. [43002/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that the GSOC investigation into the death of a person (details supplied) has been ongoing for five years with no outcome for the bereaved family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42377/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Prison Service (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work or strategic planning that is underway to develop a non custodial approach for women offenders in view of the proven success of such models in reducing recidivism. [42383/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service Strategies (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his strategy to develop an open prison for women as an alternative to overcrowding in the Dóchas centre and Limerick women's prison. [42384/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Youth Justice Strategy (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 246. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to develop a distinct criminal justice strategy for young adults aged 18 to 24 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42452/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 247. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding requiring the Judiciary to take account of a young person's age and maturity as a mitigating factor in determining a penalty. [42453/17]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing Regulation (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 252. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if each coursing club affiliated to a club (details supplied) in the 2016 to 2017 season contacted their local ranger to advise them of the locations netting of hares was to take place; if so, if there are records of such contact; if contact has been made by clubs in the 2017 to 2018 regarding netting; and if it will be ensured...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hare Coursing (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 265. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if a NPWS ranger was present at the hare coursing meeting at Kilflynn, County Kerry on the weekend of 30 September 2017; and the timeframe for a report to be available regarding the welfare and release of the hares that were used as live targets at this event. [42251/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Drugs Availability (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 408. To ask the Minister for Health further to the refusal by the HSE to provide a person diagnosed with narcolepsy after receiving the pandemrix vaccine (details supplied) with a medical card, his views on whether it is appropriate that the HSE is refusing to accept a diagnosis of narcolepsy from an English hospital and is requesting that the person be diagnosed at enormous cost by one of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 531. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost to the State of the request by An Garda Síochána in July 2016 for new roadside breath test devices to have functional capacity to collect specific types of information and data which An Garda Síochána had previously requested (details supplied) in view of the fact that this request, so late on in the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Provision (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 631. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 28 September 2017, when the examination is likely to be published in view of the possibility that the use of private foster providers of emergency care placements may be unlawful. [42373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Expenditure (10 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: 757. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 28 September 2017, if the fuel costs quoted of €56,600 refer to full costs of the return journey from Cork to London, or only the fuel costs relating to the part of the journey that did not include travelling through the Irish exclusive economic zone en route to the UK; and if so, the fuel...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I believe the module is really important because it deals with the impact of Ireland's international legal obligations in terms of our domestic law. In that respect, some people might present international law as a sort of optional extra. Will the witnesses give a little bit more detail and explain why Ireland is bound by these obligations when we talk of violation and the State being sued?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I thank both contributors. I will direct more of my questions to Ms Zampas because I think her contribution was very evidence-based. We are dealing with changing our laws here. Professor Binchy is obviously entitled to his opinion. He explained very well how that opinion may be at odds with practically every human rights body on the planet, including with our own Irish Human Rights and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Clare Daly: I ask Professor Binchy to try to be a bit brief. I am not being rude but we have a time limit. One could view it as an international political conspiracy whereby everybody is trying to orchestrate a position towards broad-ranging abortion provision, or one could interpret it that Professor Binchy's views are very much out of kilter with established norms in terms of international human...