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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Systems, Governance and Procedures in Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I ask Mr. Kavanagh to send me the details of the legal costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Systems, Governance and Procedures in Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: Mr. Kavanagh uses the argument that people have to pay, they need to register the foals. They must pay to register the foals, but that does not mean they are happy about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Systems, Governance and Procedures in Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The person who took the court case pays it. He is compliant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Systems, Governance and Procedures in Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: That is the point I am making. Mr. Kavanagh stated that HRI tried everything it could to resolve the matter so that it would not go to the court. However, HRI is missing the point that there is an ideological difference between what many people in the industry believe and what the board of HRI believes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Systems, Governance and Procedures in Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: Contrary to what Mr. Kavanagh stated earlier, that HRI was introducing what a previous Minister had brought it, that HRI did not have an opinion on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Systems, Governance and Procedures in Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: The point I am making is that HRI has a developed opinion on supporting the present arrangement. It is a yes or no answer. HRI has a very developed opinion on defending the status quo.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the case of the family of a person with special needs on the home tuition scheme that is offered a placement in a religious school or a school with an ethos contrary to their own and they reject the placement offer, his department will withdraw funding for home tuition. [11407/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the operations of a company (details supplied) in schools are kept under review, with a view to ensuring that the work carried out by the company is up to the appropriate standards and to ensuring that expenditure by the State on this company's services represents value for money. [11963/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 241. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a tender process was run before giving the contract for occupational health services for teachers and SNAs to a company (details supplied). [11964/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 367. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to restore the pensions of the public sector workers who retired after March 2012 and whose pensions are above €12,000 and below €32,500, pensions which were de facto reduced as a consequence of the original FEMPI legislation and not restored as part of the FEMPI Act 2015. [11770/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Hedge Cutting Season (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 377. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to the negative impact on the welfare of the bee population, if there is an extension of licences to cut hedgerows into the month of August as proposed in the Heritage Bill 2016; if her Department conducted any study to determine the potential environmental knock-on effects of reducing the bee...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 524. To ask the Minister for Health if plans for the new National Children's Hospital will be reviewed in view of the fact that the hospital will be the most expensive children's hospital in the world, according to international data; and if alternative sites will be considered and costed. [11480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 687. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 15 February 2017, his plans to investigate the organic status of the fish produced at those fish farms under investigation by his Department for overstocking. [11503/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Functions (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 688. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 250 of 15 February 2017, the way he can claim that his Department's regulatory function is separate from its industry development function when both functions operate within the fisheries and marine section of his Department. [11504/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 689. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to his decision not to revoke the aquaculture licence held by a company (details supplied) for its Lough Altan site in view of the serious commercial consequences for the company and in order to provide a proportionate response from his Department, the specific sections of the 1997 Act that allowed these considerations to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Licence Data (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 690. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to his decision not to revoke the aquaculture licence held by a company (details supplied) for its Inishforward site in view of the fact his Department cannot provide a definition of a smolt, if all smolt licences issued by his Department are now void. [11506/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Fund (7 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 713. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the allocation of public moneys to the horse and greyhound fund will be scrutinised as part of his Department's 2017 expenditure review, announced on budget day 2016. [10506/17]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I am grateful we have had another opportunity in this House to acknowledge the pain and damage done to children in the care of the State and the church and the great wrong that was done to them. However, people have moved on from that in many ways. How we got here is a horrible part of our dark history which, sadly, is still playing out in many different aspects. What we are trying to do...

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." It is quite poignant that we are moving this legislation on the afternoon when we discussed the victims' rights Bill and the transcribing of that legislation into Irish law. We are talking about victims, people who underwent traumatic, violent, sexual and mental abuse inside our State institutions. The experience of that abuse contributed...

Other Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2017)

Clare Daly: 14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his attention has been drawn to the problems of coastal erosion on the Portrane coastline, that damage to the dunes is endangering local homes and that public money was not availed of to implement protection measures recommended in the Portrane Coastal Erosion Management Study; the steps his department will take to ensure that...