Results 9,381-9,400 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: The Minister says this is moving on from the ISAF. It does not make any sense for the Minister to expect the same people who wreaked havoc and destroyed a country to be involved in rebuilding it. The Minister talks about helping governance and security and so on. The seven people may be very able, and I do not doubt their abilities or their intentions in any way, but really, what can they...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 111. To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the continued presence of Defence Forces personnel in Afghanistan, with particular reference to the prospect of the extension of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation mission there. [21537/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: This question is on the numbers and activities of our Defence Forces personnel who remain in Afghanistan given that they do so after the exodus of British troops and large numbers of US troops and the current and continuing destabilisation and insecurity that exists in that country. I am particularly concerned about this in light of the prospect of the extension of the NATO mission in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: Am I to take it from the Minister's response that the seven people who are there will remain there until the end of 2015? While the Minister says they are there to bring stability and support for Afghanistan, I put it to him that if that is their goal, it has been an abysmal failure.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: If they have only just begun, let us look at why they are there. Thirteen years ago, the Bush Administration went into Afghanistan supposedly to quash al-Qaeda and drive out the Taliban. Later, we were told the exercise was to eradicate poppy growing and emancipate women. The statistics show the loss of hundreds of British troops, thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Afghanis....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: It has left a great legacy.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: We have one of the worst records in Europe for accommodating refugees. I would have no problem whatsoever with the resettlement of 1,200 people, or many more, in Ireland. They would not have to be transported by the LE Eithne. Moving them to a direct provision centre in Italy or Malta is not the solution. Ireland has a part to play in that resettlement programme, way beyond what we have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: I am very glad that the Minister has stated clearly that our naval forces are not involved in Operation Triton. The reality is that they are operating side by side with that exercise, which is run under Frontex and the EU border control agency. We must consider that the humanitarian mission run by the Italians since 2013 under Operation Mare Nostrum, which they were pressurised by the EU to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 109. To ask the Minister for Defence his views regarding whether it is appropriate for the LE Eithne to take part in Operation Triton in view of the fact that it is primarily an exercise in border control rather than in humanitarian rescue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21536/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: This question is similar to that posed by Deputy Mac Lochlainn. While I agree with the Minister that there are multiple reasons for the large number of refugees, the predominant cause is Western-instigated wars and exploitation in countries such as Libya, Syria and Eritrea. While I am glad that the LE Eithneand the Naval Service have rescued people in the Mediterranean, we need to dig...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 132. To ask the Minister for Defence his views regarding the progress made, and the contacts he has had with the person concerned, in relation to the process that he indicated, during Question Time on 14 January 2015, he would initiate in relation to the case of the only person in the history of the State to be retired in the interests of the service, as per Defence Forces Regulation A15,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 135. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is aware of the freedom of information request, released by the British Ministry of Defence in April 2015, which revealed almost 1,000 former servicemen and servicewomen required psychiatric treatment and are suffering serious mental health problems after being prescribed Lariam; and his plans to review the Irish Defence Forces' use of this...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 137. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is aware of any under-reporting to the Health Products Regulatory Authority of the suspected adverse effects of the use of Lariam by members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21354/15]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 139. To ask the Minister for Defence his views in relation to the number of occasions that members of the Defence Forces were deployed on aid to the civil power duties at Shannon Airport in 2015; the nature of the duties undertaken and the cost to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21353/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 230. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will conduct public hearings along the lines of those under way at the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs in the European Parliament in relation to the institutions for occupational retirement provision directive and the implications for cross-border pension schemes. [21988/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Placements (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 272. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she is aware of any social work positions being advertised under the JobBridge scheme; and her views on whether this is appropriate in the context of the time and resources required to become a social worker. [22474/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fuel Charge Card Contract (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 381. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the contract for fuel cards for staff of the Office of Public Works transferred to a company (details supplied); and the basis for the change. [21823/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 432. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for refusing to provide the inspection and check lists for marine fish farms, for the years 2012 to 2014, for the installation in Bantry Bay, County Cork, where 230,000 salmon were lost in February 2014, in view of the fact that his Department released all the other 91 inspections reports 2012 to 2014 requested. [21391/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 433. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the issue of his officials withholding the reason for their refusal to provide the inspection and checks lists for marine fish farms, in the years 2012 to 2014, for the installation in Bantry Bay, County Cork, where 230,000 salmon were lost in February 2014, in view of the fact the requirement to specify a reason...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fish Farming (9 Jun 2015)

Clare Daly: 439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of serious and continual overstocking of certain finfish farms. [21490/15]