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Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The Minister for Education and Skills is aware that I recently tabled legislation to amend the residential institutions statutory fund. The fund was charged with assisting and administering some sort of redress to the people who had experienced abuse in residential institutions. Subsequent to that, there was an explosion in the media, particularly on the radio airwaves, concerning some of...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I appreciate the Minister taking the Topical Issue matter and I very much appreciate his comments in publicly acknowledging on the floor of the House the problems that exist with the scheme. I also appreciate his very clear utterances that any scheme that deals with the victims of abuse of the State or while the State stood by must be carried out in a sensitive, fair and compassionate...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Recruitment (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The signing up to the Lansdowne Road agreement is welcome, as is the fact that some increases will be paid and arrears for those who earn under €30,000 but it is not enough. It does not level the playing field or restore it back. It does not deal with the excruciating and excessively poor working conditions experienced by many members of the Defence Forces. The Minister of State is...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Recruitment (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: There is no point in lauding the record recruitment figures when the problem is that we are not retaining people. As I said in respect of an earlier question, between 50 and 60 personnel are leaving every month. In the past three years, one out of ten officers at lieutenant, captain or commandant grade left the Defence Forces. This is incredible. One of the key reasons for this is the...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: It is precisely the rights and wrongs of what is happening that we should be getting into before we take any stance on international relations. The Minister of State is aware that the UN General Assembly has called on Israel to desist from changing the physical character, demographic composition, institutional structure and legal status of the occupied Syrian Golan, and in particular to...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Recruitment (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 24. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on the recruitment and retention crisis in the Defence Forces, including the fact that low morale and pay in the Defence Forces is causing a large number of members to leave every month; the steps he will take to address these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15262/17]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: We can take it from the Minister of State's reply that an ongoing review means that he is going to do nothing, that he will just wait and see what other people do and that he might tag along afterwards if it suits his agenda. The prohibition on trade union membership for members of the Defence Forces is effective under the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990. That Act states that the Minister can...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The granting of rights in this case is going to have to be dragged out of the Department. It is the same as the Garda Commissioner refusing to go until she has to do so. The Department of Defence is eventually going to have to give in but, as it drags its heels, a lot of damage is being done. The current arrangement is not a substitute for real negotiating power. This is important to...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the detail of the imminent deployment of a further contingent of Irish troops to the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, UNDOF, mission in the Golan Heights in view of the recent statement by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, that he has asked the US President to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I have raised this issue previously with the Minister. It concerns the imminent deployment of a further contingent of Irish troops to the Golan Heights. As the Minister is aware, Israel, in violation of international law, has established an Israeli administration using Israeli as the official administrative language. It has enforced the implementation of Israeli curricula in schools and...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: With every passing day, Israel is tightening its illegal stranglehold on this piece of Syrian land. Our concern is that Irish troops are being used as pawns in yet another Israeli land-grabbing exercise. The Minister is aware that a huge oilfield was discovered in the Golan Heights in recent years. In 2013, the Israeli Government gave a concession to exploit this oilfield to Genie Oil and...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reviews of a matter (details supplied) that have been conducted by his Department; the outcomes of those reviews to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15261/17]

Other Questions: Defence Forces Representative Organisations (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: This is the third question being put to the Minister on the issue of the inadequate representation of members of the Defence Forces. The Minister of State's response to my two colleagues was to tell us of the lack of access for the Defence Forces to the industrial relations machinery. We do not want know what the present arrangement is. We want to know what the Minister of State has done...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Simon Communities of Ireland (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: In some ways, the questions are obvious but the answers might be slightly be more complicated. The witnesses' presentation has been comprehensive and has supported the view put forward by others to this committee that the provision of secure housing is key in terms of penal policy in the future. We have the precise contradiction referred to by Deputy Jack Chambers. I am sure it was always...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Penal Reform: Simon Communities of Ireland (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: No. That was great. Thanks a million.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel currently in receipt of family income supplement and housing assistance payments; his views on pay levels in the Defence Forces in view of the fact that in 2013 over 20% of Defence Forces personnel were in receipt of FIS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15260/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 46. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Army was called on to perform aid to the civil power duties at Shannon Airport on 23 and 24 January 2017; and if aid to the civil power duties were requested for a plane (details supplied). [15263/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 60. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the total spend on translation services used to translate the new application form for international protection, IPO2. [15610/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 61. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if free online translation services were used to translate the new application form for international protection, IPO2, into any language; and if so, the languages for which a programme (details supplied) was used. [15611/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Administration (29 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 62. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if persons who submitted completed application forms for international protection in the midst of confusion in February 2017 over the deadline for submission of the form, and did not, consequently, receive legal advice before submission, will be permitted to resubmit those application forms, not just submit supplementary information following...