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Employment Equality (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: The fact that less people are offering on this debate and that others are not taking their allocated time is a reflection not of the fact that this is not an important issue or that it is a controversial issue but that it is an absolute no-brainer. There is nobody who could oppose, on principle, a Bill that seeks to ensure that no person, regardless of where they work, is discriminated...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: I am unsure whether I am sad or embarrassed to be here again at the annual charade, whereby we are asked to wave through draconian legislation in order that it can operate for another 12 months. It bears emphasising that the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act was supposed to be passed as emergency legislation in 1998 but yet we renew it every year. The reason we are asked to renew...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aer Lingus Sale (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 23. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1186 of 9 June 2015, if consideration was given at any stage of the process to using a percentage of the proceeds of the sale of the State's shareholding in Aer Lingus to alleviate the hardship being faced by the Irish airlines (general employees) superannuation scheme's deferred and current...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 1002 of 26 May 2015, and in view of his awareness of the University of Ghent report on atypical employment in aviation and its potential impact on safety as indicated in his reply, if his Department or the Irish Aviation Authority made any specific contact with the airlines, or undertook any...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding his previous commitments that prior to the summer recess he would have sorted out the anomaly in the statutory instrument and legislation which means that owners of home that have pyrite have to undertake a hard-core infill test analysis, costing thousands of euros, in order to claim their lawful entitlement to a property tax exemption....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 223 of 3 April 2014, the reason he replied regarding the inspection of licensed aquaculture sites that he was satisfied that the current inspection regime is satisfactory, when at the same time he provided the European Commission with a programme of measures intended to avoid daily fines for...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline the very substantial enhancement of the existing regulatory procedure which supplements all other inspections of sites, specifying how it supplements the inspection checklist for marine fish farms which was first published in 2000 and which is currently the sole record of fish farm inspections made available to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the structure, staffing, and resources allocated to the marine fish farms monitoring and compliance unit; the date it was established; the number of meetings it has held; and any work it has undertaken. [24149/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that the majority of site inspections undertaken by his Department do not check the condition of the shackles, an important structural component of fish farm installations, when an inspection of these shackles is required on his Department’s Checklist for Marine Fish Farms; and the measures he plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 128. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that there is no requirement to ensure operators of marine fish farms undertake appropriate and regular inspections of every item of the mooring system by divers, cleaned down where necessary to allow such inspections, with its conditions recorded and submitted to his Department, as recommended to him by his...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 161. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 667 of 26 May 2015, his views on the appropriateness of the reply of the Health Service Executive where it was questioned concerning its attitude in refusing a request from the family of a vulnerable adult for a cognitive assessment to be carried out independently, at the expense of the family, and shared fully with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 169. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 506 of 31 March 2015, if he will direct the Health Service Executive to answer the question posed, which was to explain the reason the executive took speedy action against a person (details supplied) in relation to a complaint, where no mother and baby suffered harm, but delayed in dealing with complaints where babies...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Hydraulic Fracturing (16 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recent Leitrim County Council vote of no confidence in a company (details supplied) appointed to carry out a 24-month research programme looking at the potential impacts on the environment and human health of hydraulic fracturing. [22991/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views that it is acceptable that there is no solution identified to provide broadband in substantial parts of County Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22990/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (16 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 272. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps his Department has taken, or plans to take, to address the regulatory and consumer protection issues arising from massive consolidation in the insurance market, a consolidation which is likely to increase when the Solvency II regime comes into force on 1 January 2016. [23795/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Loans (16 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 273. To ask the Minister for Finance if any Ministers, former Ministers, or their immediate family members had loans with Anglo Irish Bank or with the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation which benefited from a write-down, in view of the potential conflict of interest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23846/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Operations (16 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance his views that there was a conflict of interest where some former directors of the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation became directors of companies (details supplied) which handled mortgages sold by the corporation to another company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23847/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (16 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 405. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 132 of 9 June 2015, when he expects to have considered the Office of the Attorney General's advice in view of the length of time that the person concerned has been waiting for a review. [23848/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 525. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the financial records for Bessborough mother and baby home were not handed over to the Health Service Executive in the 2011 transfer of files. [23832/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 526. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Bessborough mother and baby home was offered any indemnity against material in the files that it handed over to the Health Service Executive in 2011. [23833/15]