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Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: The Minister's excuses are getting ever thinner. The only thing these aircraft do is engage in military operations, so what does the Minister think they are doing, for example, on the two occasions every day that the US military land in Shannon, if they are not involved in such miliary operations? The point is that it is clearly insufficient for the Minister to rely on diplomatic...

European Council: Statements (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: I echo the points made by Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan in respect of the settlements in Palestine. The activities of the Israelis are absolutely reprehensible. My main comment relates to the refugee issue. I welcome the fact that the last European Council agreed that member states had to increase their relocation pledges according to allocation and that from December the Council would seek...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2016: Minister for Justice and Equality (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: We are all very new to this process. It is a different scenario for everyone here. I do not want to repeat points that have already been made but we had tabled a number of amendments to Deputy O'Callaghan's Bill. Indeed, we had amended our own amendments before we got to the committee and events developed. In advance of today's meeting, we prepared a detailed critique of the Minister's...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 710 of 17 January 2017, his views on the fact that there was a sharp increase in the number of requests for landings of military aircraft at Shannon airport in June 2016, the same month in which NATO ran a military exercise in Poland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3058/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Co-operation (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 102. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 150 of 17 January 2017 and in view of the fact that both the German Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Scottish Government have both made formal requests of the British Government to extend the Pitchford inquiry to their respective jurisdictions (details supplied), the reason she is choosing not to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Administration (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she can confirm the operation of a digital audio recording system in the justice system; when it commenced; when any refinements occurred; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3432/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 44 of 19 January 2017, if she will clarify that when she states that the experts appointed under section 47 are required to act in accordance with the standards and codes of conduct of their professional bodies, there may be cases whereby a non-accredited psychotherapist compiling a section 47 report is...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobPath Implementation (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the provisions within the JobPath rules for persons to be precluded from selection for JobPath again if they have already completed a full 52 week course of the scheme. [3508/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an aircraft (details supplied), that passed through Shannon Airport on 17 January 2017 and again on 18 January 2017, was contracted to the US military; if there were troops on board on either occasion; the reason the plane switched call sign on the next leg of its journey after Shannon, from Athens to Qatar; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 240. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has concluded his investigation into the matter of the felling of approximately 30 specimen oaks between 60 and 80 years old, with some older, in a heritage woodland (details supplied) in County Longford without a licence, which was indicated on 24 November 2016 was being undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 241. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that in a heritage woodland in which specimen oaks were felled (details supplied) the licensee was instructed, when issued with the licence on the basis of the National Parks and Wildlife Service conditions, to replant the field not with the sitka spruce as planned but with broadleaves, in view of the fact the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 284. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the facilities which will be provided to help adopted persons to trace their relatives under new legislation. [3286/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Residential Institutions (25 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 285. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her Department has considered introducing a help line for survivors of institutional abuse. [3287/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 69. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his views regarding the future viability of defined benefit schemes here in view of the planned closure of a defined benefit pension scheme (details supplied); his plans to address the crisis in this sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2600/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Defined Benefit Pension Schemes (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 76. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he plans to take to prevent solvent and profitable companies from closing their defined benefit pension schemes and moving pension risk to employees which is a growing issue in pension schemes across different employments here. [2601/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 98. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform legislation such that persons who are unhappy with the professional conduct of psychologists, psychotherapists or psychiatrists during the compiling of a section 47 report can have their complaints investigated by the relevant accrediting bodies in view of the fact that accrediting bodies currently refuse to investigate such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid Service (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 122. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to streamline the legal aid process to enable one application to cover the inclusion of a solicitor on the legal aid panel for all counties rather than the current situation whereby each county operates their own system of paperwork and applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2958/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Advice (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 123. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to reform the legal aid custody advice scheme, particularly with regard to any consideration being given to the fees associated with same. [2959/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Staff (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 124. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 22 November 2016, whereby she stated that 22 of the present District Court judges were presiding in jurisdictions in which they had previously practised as a solicitor, if she will clarify those judges of the 22 that are in a permanent placement in their area of previous practice rather than a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (24 Jan 2017)

Clare Daly: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views regarding the range of flexibility afforded within the operation of the pyrite remediation scheme in relation to adding on properties to be remediated as part of particular phases, in the interests of co-ordinated development and securing economies of scale (details supplied). [2810/17]