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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Construction Industry Register Ireland (19 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 463. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review the membership of the Construction Industry Register Ireland, and to remove construction companies (details supplied) which have failed to deal with substantial breaches in planning regulations. [19215/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (19 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 464. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to require local authorities to refuse planning permission to developers who have been responsible for serious breaches of planning regulations previously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19216/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Electoral Reform (19 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 494. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 587 of 12 May 2015, the way he plans to end the discrimination faced by women who are due to be hospitalised to give birth on polling day, in view of the fact that it is not an illness and does not qualify them for a postal vote, in the context of his reply that he has no plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Applications (19 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 543. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if favourable consideration will be provided to the sports capital programme grant application by Fingal County Council for the refurbishment of Slaugh Hall, on behalf of the Swords Boxing Club and Fingallians Gaelic Athletic Association club, County Dublin, a project which the council will co-fund. [19784/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: We must stand back and consider the horrendous circumstances that force individuals and families to make the treacherous journey to try to seek a better life in Europe. It does not bear thinking about. People give up their life savings and essentially entrust their children to pirates who put them on a ship that they know has a good chance of not making it to the other side. It is beyond...

Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Numbers (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: I welcome that we are taking 300 refugees; I am sorry it is not more. I hope the Minister and the Government will proactively consider and argue that we should take more when the EU moves to deal with these tens of thousands of people who are incarcerated in holding centres, particularly in Greece and Italy. The real issue is what condition those people will be in when they come to Ireland....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TB Eradication Scheme (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 18. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the continued culling of badgers, and the impact on the badger population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18655/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 32. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to restrict live exports, particularly to countries with little or no animal welfare regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18654/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the needs of the families affected by autism in Counties Laois and Offaly, in relation to the pressing disadvantage, and long waiting lists for essential services, that exist in these counties. [18912/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Control of Dogs (14 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 208. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware of the peer-reviewed research that highlights that it is impossible to accurately identify a dog's breed or mix of breed; his views on the research, based on international best practice, which recommends the introduction of restrictions based on a dog's behaviour rather than the current regulations; and...

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 21 April 2015, if oriented basic research is counted, along with pure basic research, under the umbrella of basic research for the purposes of the survey of investment in higher education research and development, HERD, for 2012 and 2013; and if the figure of 50.9% of the HERD budget spent...

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: The background to this question is the growing unrest in the scientific research community about the serious imbalances at policy level between funding for oriented basic research, that being, applied research, and pure basic research, which can have a greater social and economic impact in the long run. What is the breakdown between the two in terms of the figures for funding that were...

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: I do not know whether it was the accent or the sound in the Chamber-----

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: -----but I found it difficult to follow the Minister of State's answer. It seems convenient that we have subsumed pure basic research under the umbrella of oriented basic research when the latter is really applied research. The amount of investment in the former has fallen disproportionately. The issue that the scientific community and even the business community is putting to the...

Other Questions: Research and Development Funding (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: The consultation period was rushed even if people knew that it had been flagged. The statistics bear out the claim that a decreasing proportion of funding is going towards basic research. The Government's policy deliberately sets out the research prioritisation. The last time we discussed this matter, the Minister did not shift away from that. It is the nub of the problem. No one is...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2014: Committee Stage (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: This section relates to public provocation. We want to remove the clause of public provocation on the basis that it is too loose, general and open to misinterpretation. We are raising the matter now so that we can table an amendment on Report Stage.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Strategies (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 44. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views that the consultation period for a successor to the Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation was too short and too rushed for meaningful stakeholder engagement and consultation; and if he will consider extending it. [18338/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (13 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 104. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that it is appropriate that the Irish Greyhound Board has been deemed suitable for inclusion in a Bord Fáilte campaign, when there are many more deserving organisations and institutions which could benefit from the advertising boost that a Bord Fáilte campaign could offer, and that this organisation is millions...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Aer Lingus Sale (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 210. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the fact that he is responsible for the sale of State assets, if he will provide an update on the discussions and the report of the interdepartmental group that is considering the potential International Airlines Group takeover of Aer Lingus. [18223/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (12 May 2015)

Clare Daly: 255. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps the Pension Authority has taken to ensure that the resolution to the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme pension dispute, which involved the winding up of the supplementary pension scheme 2, has been undertaken. [18599/15]