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Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 63:In page 12, to delete lines 11 to 15 and substitute the following:“(2) There shall stand established, on the establishment day, a body which shall be known, in the Irish language, as An Chomhairle Chomhairleach um Athrú Aeráide or, in the English language, as the Climate Change Advisory Council (in this Act referred to as the “Advisory...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 66:In page 12, between lines 15 and 16, to insert the following:“(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or of any other enactment, the members of the Advisory Council shall be independent in the performance of their functions under this Act.”.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: It has stopped now. Deputy Boyd Barrett was asking whose phone was ringing but it has magically stopped. I assure the House it was not mine.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: I will be brief. The purpose of these amendments is to enshrine the independence of the advisory council into law. It is very much based on the statutory framework for the Fiscal Advisory Council. The amendment is modelled on a provision in the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014 and section 8(1) of the Fiscal Responsibility Act 2012. If it is sufficiently important to enshrine...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 47:In page 8, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following: "(j) the principle of climate justice.".

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 50:In page 8, to delete lines 33 and 34 and substitute the following: "(10) A national mitigation plan shall be approved by a resolution in both Houses of the Oireachtas as soon may be after it is approved by the Government.".

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: I move amendment No. 34:In page 6, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following:“(e) specify the projected total national emissions for the period of the plan on the basis of all the policy measures specified in the plan.”.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: The response to everything we have raised in terms of projections and targets is that we do not need these things in Ireland because we are already the subject of EU targets. Of course, that is to be completely blind to the reality that, while we may be subject to those targets, we are also on target to miss them and be well off the radar in terms of achieving them in any meaningful way by...

Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: It is still going on.

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: That is a bit of a minefield for someone to untangle. This person put the case that the pension she was expected to survive on was €150 per week. The Minister is clearly saying-----

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: Sixty-six.

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: That is something we will explore. The point that was being made was that potentially there were certain anomalies in the system. While welcoming the homemaker's scheme, which the Minister introduced in 1994, she made the point that it excluded people like herself who had to give up their jobs prior to 1973 and that there was an anomaly in the scheme relating to the way PRSI contributions...

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: That can be done but none the less, the point remains that if this discrimination is there and if she had never worked prior to the marriage bar and had commenced work in 1998, which she did, she would be entitled to a full pension. That anomaly needs to be addressed in any case.

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 9. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to address the inequality experienced by persons who are in receipt of reduced pensions because of the marriage bar, the effect of which is that they have incomes below the supplementary welfare rate. [33019/15]

Other Questions: Pension Provisions (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: I am delighted to hear that the Tánaiste will be focusing on retired people in the budget. I am hoping she might give special attention to a category of women who are experiencing a discriminatory pension as a result of the marriage bar and an overhang from that situation. One of my constituents said recently that a colleague of hers had applied to pay the property tax to have it...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will urgently increase rent supplement to enable persons remain in their current rented properties and to stem rising homelessness. [33024/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that persons who rent a room in their primary residence are exempt from tax on income generated, according to the limits set, regardless of the basis upon which they rent that room, and whether they are involved with Airbnb or other similar networks. [33575/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Equality Tribunal Cases (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 94. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views that the Equality Tribunal lacks the powers to compel respondents in discrimination cases to furnish complainants with information and-or documentation relevant to the complainants' cases, thus hampering a complainant in the preparation of a case in the run-up to a hearing before the tribunal, which compromises their right...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Equality Tribunal Cases (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 95. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on very lengthy delays between the lodging of complaints with the Equality Tribunal and those complaints going forward to mediation and hearing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33577/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (30 Sep 2015)

Clare Daly: 105. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason his officials confirmed to the Information Commissioner on 31 July 2015 (details supplied), after a review requested by the commissioner, that they hold no records showing compliance or otherwise with the European Communities (Control of Dangerous Substances in Aquaculture) Regulations, 2008, Statutory...