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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 3. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to introduce legislation to ensure part-time workers have a legal right to seek or avail of extra hours; if he discussed this matter with the Department of Social Protection prior to the introduction of recent changes to the one-parent family payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28705/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: This question relates to the Minister's plans to introduce legislation to give part-time workers the legal right to seek extra hours. The background is obviously the Dunnes Stores strike, the abuse of 15-hour contracts by that employer, the explosion of zero-hour contracts and, in particular, the Government's decision to reduce the lone parent's allowance citing circumstances whereby lone...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unfair Dismissals (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 16. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware of employers dismissing employees with long service as a cheaper option than giving a severance package; his plans to address this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28416/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will bring forward legislation to insert a social responsibility clause into the Insolvency Act and the Companies Act, to ensure the rights of workers are protected. [28631/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Living Wage (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has read the report of the Living Wage Technical Group; and whether he proposes to bring forward legislation to deal with this issue. [28630/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Aviation Industry Regulations (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation whether he has conducted any research or investigation into employment practices in the aviation sector given the particular importance of staff welfare in an employment which has critical functions in terms of the safety of passengers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28415/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Vaccination Programme (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 156. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 8 July 2015 if he will explain his statement that the use of anti-malaria medication, including Lariam, is in line with current Health Products Regulatory Authority approved summary of product characteristics, given that Primaquine in the formulary has also been included and it is not licensed by the authority....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 205. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who has been referred to the United Kingdom for mitrofanoff surgery in 2013 has still not had the surgery; and if he will clarify the possibility of the patient being referred back here for surgery. [29395/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: I actually believe it was important to give the Minister of State the extra time to contribute so forcefully and agree with the points I was making. I fully appreciate her bona fides on the issue of identification. The identification was outrageously insensitive, almost cruel, thoughtless and really clumsy. That somebody made this mistake was just ridiculous after all the women had been...

Topical Issue Debate: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: I cannot believe we are in the Chamber discussing this again. This is another circumstance which, to my mind, represents an utter betrayal of the women who survived the Magdalen laundries. In their youth these women were violated and abandoned by the State. They had to fight for decades to receive redress for the damage done to them by the State. Now, we are about to implement this...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Provision (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 120. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has been briefed on a case (details supplied) and the trial currently under way in Glasgow in Scotland; if consular assistance has been offered to the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28221/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland Issues (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views regarding any contact he has had with the Northern Ireland Justice Minister, Mr. David Forde, or with the British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Ms Theresa Villiers, regarding prison conditions in Maghaberry; the implementation of the stocktake, with particular reference to the need for the establishment of the forum,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pension Provisions (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 316. To ask the Minister for Finance the basis upon which, from 1 January 2015, only 4% of approved minimum retirement funds can be drawn down. [29168/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Plant Protection Products (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 382. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the use of the chemical Cypermethrin, a hazardous chemical used in Irish forests; and if there has been an impact study into the effects of this chemical on the woodland bio-diversity. [28543/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Development (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 400. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department received an application, dated 24 March 2015, from Sligo County Council for funding for the Rosses Point Pier and pontoon scheme under the marine leisure and marine tourism scheme; if his Department offered the council a grant for the scheme; and if so, on what date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 409. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposed expenditure on developing the marine salmon farming industry directly and indirectly under the national strategic plan for aquaculture development; and the specific development targets planned as a result of the proposed expenditure, including expected timescales. [29120/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Agencies (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to previous parliamentary questions, his views that placing responsibility for the governance of the Marine Institute and Sea Fisheries Protection Authority under the control of his Department's fisheries division creates an obvious conflict of interest for these advisory and regulatory agencies, and as this amounts to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 411. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 25 June 2015, his views that the targets for aquaculture production growth set out in the national strategic plan for aquaculture development are based on production peaks for various species achieved in different years, and are predicted on the highly implausible likelihood that the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 412. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 25 June 2015, if the definition of offshore aquaculture used by his Department in the national strategic plan for aquaculture development can be applied to salmon farms anywhere on the foreshore, and therefore that his previous strategy concerning the placement of salmon farms in deeper...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Aquaculture Development (14 Jul 2015)

Clare Daly: 413. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 25 June 2015, in view of the role of the Marine Institute as scientific contributor to Bord Iascaigh Mhara's 15,000 tonne salmon farm licence application, as scientific adviser to his Department on the board's licence application, and as the scientific source for scaling guidelines set...