Results 9,261-9,280 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (24 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 192. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to recent figures released by the State Claims Agency, regarding 67 extreme incidents in our 19 maternity units last year, the number of these incidents currently under external review; if these reviews are in addition to those otherwise announced for Portiuncula Hospital in County Galway, and for Cavan General Hospital; the total costs of these...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Levy (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make provision for the recovery of the 2.53% stamp duty pension levy to members of the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme, through the taxation system, particularly if it is proposed by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, as per the Lansdowne Road agreement, to reduce, from 2016, the pension levy deductions for...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Staff (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 121. To ask the Minister for Finance as the representative of Allied Irish Banks' principal shareholder, if he will oppose any plans to outsource work and staff from that bank's application and development management teams within its information technology division to a third-party service provider. [24523/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 193. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will withdraw the use of application forms which recommend the use of commercial banks in preference to the use of post offices in relation to social welfare payments. [24997/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 244. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will rectify the situation whereby property owners who have expended thousands of euro in securing infill tests to prove that the damage caused to their property was as a result of pyrite are unable to have the relevant certificate to claim exemption from the local property tax signed, as the regulation states that the test must have been carried out...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 245. To ask the Minister for Finance the action he will take to enable a property owner to achieve a lawful exemption from the local property tax (details supplied) given that the owner carried out infill testing which showed the presence of pyrite, but the Revenue Commissioners refuse to accept this test as it was done prior to the new standards in 2013. [24829/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Incentivised Regimes Policy (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 380. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality given that the incentivised regime programme introduced in the Irish Prison Service in 2012 was supposed to be cost neutral, if she has undertaken any research to ensure that costs are not used to keep prisoners from accessing enhanced regimes and work, due to budget restrictions. [24974/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Provision (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 415. To ask the Minister for Health if he will respond to queries that the Health Service Executive or the National Ambulance Service are refusing to engage Dublin Fire Brigade ambulances, with particular reference to an incident (details supplied). [24644/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 468. To ask the Minister for Health the number of incidents in the maternity services that are currently out for external review; and the cost of these reviews [24933/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternal Mortality (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 469. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider home care packages where women die in childbirth and their baby is returned home to their partner or family, who needs to cope with very difficult circumstances. [24934/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 487. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce a scheme, similar to that in the National Health Service, where in vitro fertilisation treatment is covered, as a public entitlement, by the Health Service Executive [25101/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 507. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the United States of America Air Force KC 135 mid-air refuelling aircraft, No. 80106, from Alabama Air National Guard was given permission to be at Shannon Airport over the weekend of 14 and 15 June 2015; if this refuelling aircraft participated in military exercises in which US Air National Guard planes and airmen from several...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1000 of 9 June 2015, the reason why certain teachers had to pass the CL47/00 in order to keep their jobs, but other tutors, who failed to pass the CL47/00 requirements, were kept in teaching positions and not bound by productivity measures contained in the Croke Park and Haddington Road agreements. [24831/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1001 of 9 June 2015, the reason it would be necessary for a person who is over 80 years of age to be employed in order to carry out one hour of work per day, particularly in the context of significantly high levels of youth unemployment. [24832/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Control of Dogs (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 602. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the huge disparity in the percentage of dogs killed in various pounds (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24898/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Control of Dogs (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 603. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there is no standardisation between dog pounds; the reason there are no universal standards of operation, as some pounds will not re-home dogs on the restricted breed list; and the section of the Control of Dogs Act which permits this discrimination based on breed. [24899/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Contamination (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 627. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 811 of 16 June 2015, his views on the discrepancy between his statement that the allowable level for lead was 10 micrograms per litre, with the information on the Health Service Executive website, which states that no level of lead in drinking water is now considered to be completely...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 633. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he has taken with regard to the six-point action plan put forward by the Irish Postmasters Union to sustain the post office network and support local communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24998/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 644. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has considered increasing the speed limits for electric pedelecs from 15 mph and increasing the engine size to above 250 watts in view of the fact that the current limits were set in 1978. [24648/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Sites (23 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 657. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will halt the sale of valuable artworks bequeathed to the people of Ireland by the Beit Foundation; and if she will support an alternative financial plan for keeping Russborough House in County Wicklow open. [24610/15]