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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: By all means, specify them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: I have to correct that point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: I asked a question about Mr. Begg's personal pension incomes. What other people have said about it is no concern of mine. It is strange that Mr. Begg took offence at such a question, given that he had no problem describing in detail his wife's pension entitlements. There is a problem there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: I did not interrupt Mr. Begg.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: The point I am making is that it is a perfectly appropriate question to ask in the context of Mr. Begg's appointment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: Have we had a head of The Pensions Authority come before the committee before? Probably not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: This is the Pensions Authority. It is different, and that is the basis for the question. Regarding Mr. Begg's point on hostility, it is surprising that somebody with the record of briefs Mr. Begg has had would take any offence. Again, if I made any specific remarks today or last Wednesday that are inaccurate in any way, I ask Mr. Begg to please put them to me. I will have no hesitation in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: In Mr. Begg's new brief, will he commission an investigation into the activities and the investment decisions relating to the IASS which caused serious financial strain on that scheme? Mr. Begg answered the Chairman's question as to whether it was a DC or DB scheme. That was a tactic the companies used to delay the process. There was a firm ruling that it was a DB scheme, with no question...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: I find it surprising that anybody would say the past is the past. I hope Mr. Begg will examine the matter because fraudulent or poor, possibly criminal, decision making was engaged in. The time lag does not-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: I am sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: I was actually speaking. The Deputy was actually interrupting me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: The Pensions Authority: Chairperson Designate (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: When I am finished, the Deputy can speak.
- Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: 7. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to review the Interception of Postal Packages and Telecommunications Messages Act 1993 and the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009 to protect the privacy and human rights of citizens. [3014/16]
- Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: This question relates to the previous one on foot of the Minister's decision to have a review of the 2011 Act regarding journalists' records. It obviously arose from the controversy and media backlash over GSOC accessing journalists' phone records, which was a little ironic given that some of the most vociferous objectors to the powers of surveillance for GSOC over the Garda are some of the...
- Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: Nobody suggests that every householder in Ireland is under surveillance or anything like that. It comes down to how serious crime is defined and what oversight is provided. What some people might deem to be a peaceful but robust protest, other people would deem to be kidnapping and so on. The problem is that we have weak monitoring and oversight of the surveillance powers that exist, which...
- Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: We already have that knowledge. The Government's human rights watchdog has stated that we need to review this. Internationally Ireland is out of kilter. The Minister has repeated that the information cannot be given for security reasons and so on. Even in Britain the report that is published runs to hundreds of pages and details the numbers of operations, the reasons for each operation...
- Other Questions: Criminal Law Review (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: I agree with the Minister 100%.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Misconduct Allegations (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: 19. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the proposed actions of the independent review mechanism, with particular reference to the number of cases where follow-on action was recommended; the nature of the follow-on action. [3015/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Appeals (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: 43. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who was advised to maintain a carer's allowance. [3380/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Jan 2016)
Clare Daly: 88. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of this horrific incidence of animal cruelty (details supplied) in County Carlow; the action he will take to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice; and his views that this is totally unacceptable [3398/16]