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Order of Business (9 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: How does the Government propose to deal with this morning's groundbreaking international decision issued against Ireland by the UN Human Rights Committee where Ireland, as a state party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, was found guilty of violating the human rights of a woman who was denied a termination in the case of a fatal foetal abnormality? Not only is the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Functions (9 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 22. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the desirability of her Department assuming responsibility for young adults in the judicial system, responsibility which currently rests with the Department of Justice and Equality; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14658/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Preschool Services (9 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 31. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is aware of an integrated preschool unit at a school (details supplied) and the possibility of expanding services of this nature to other communities; if she had any meetings with the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of these matters; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14657/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (9 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 105. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to recognise the mass killing of up to 1.5 million Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 as genocide. [15165/16]

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: It has been given already.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: The Taoiseach should read the Official Report of the Dáil.

Leaders' Questions (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: Was it only people who worked for it?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hare Coursing Regulation (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: This is another sort of Irish solution to an Irish problem, because the rules belie a reality that is very different. We have an incredible contradiction where, on the one hand, hares are protected under the Wildlife Act but, on the other, under the Animal Health and Welfare Act all animals are protected with the exception of hares to be coursed. This resulted, in 2015, in a situation where...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hare Coursing Regulation (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: My solution is to ban coursing outright. I speak as a Deputy who represents the only part of Dublin where this practice still continues. The Irish Council Against Blood Sports has a video of this barbarity in Balbriggan, which is in my constituency. It shows agitated hares running up and down within the confines of a coursing field while coursing members shout and scream at them in that...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Export of Greyhounds (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: If the Minister of State has met representatives of the ISPCA, he will know that it, the Irish Blue Cross and Dogs Trust are implacably opposed to the export of greyhounds to China. The Minister of State's response today is contradictory, as were the responses of his predecessors. On the one hand, as the Minister of State has tried to do today, we have been told previously that once the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hare Coursing Regulation (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 55. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to prohibit hare coursing. [14455/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 61. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Acts to remove the exemption for fox hunting from the legislation. [14456/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 54 of 26 May 2016, if she intends to introduce legislation to provide that where an Irish sign language interpreter cannot be present for a court hearing involving a deaf defendant, the proceedings must be suspended until an interpreter is present. [14414/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Criminal Assets Bureau (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 115. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her proposals to establish a mini-Criminal Assets Bureau. [14759/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 125. To ask the Minister for Finance why a person registered disabled due to mobility has to apply for a primary medical certificate and value added tax and vehicle registration tax relief when purchasing a modified car; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14309/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) has been informed that a property will only be exempt from local property tax with effect from 1 November 2016 and that the exemption will apply for the years 2017 to 2022, given that the person is in possession of certificates of damage dated 9 April 2014 and 30 January 2015. [14625/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Directives (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 158. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 58 of 18 May 2016 the care he uses in gathering advice from the Revenue Commissioners and other independent taxation experts before his attendance at European Council meetings such as the Economic and Financial Affairs Council on 25 May 2016, where it is clear from his comments that he does not support the draft...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider the inclusion of basic sign language on the primary and secondary school curricula to enable more people to communicate with the deaf community. [14538/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Educational Institutions (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why an educational institution (details supplied) does not have an anti-bullying policy or established procedures for dealing with complaints of bullying. [14679/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions Staff (8 Jun 2016)

Clare Daly: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why an educational institution (details supplied) has a large student to staff ratio despite the teaching council's Initial Teacher Education: Criteria and Guidelines for Programme Providers recommending a ratio of 15:1 and despite the institution having substantial cash reserves. [14680/16]