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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the adequacy of responsibility for management of applications to Caranua being solely a matter for Caranua, a process in which her Department has no role, meaning that persons who have suffered outrageously, due to State failures of oversight in the past, must now advocate on their own behalf with yet another State agency, Caranua, without...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a date for review of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund or a date upon which she might consider the question of a review of the operation of the fund; and whether she plans to leave survivors of institutional abuse in limbo once again, uncertain as to whether their partners or children, whose needs are often a huge...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views on concerns that a State agency, applying an element of discretion in deciding on cases of extreme hardship for persons who were outrageously abused under the State's watch, and her Department not performing either regular or ongoing audits or having oversight of this application of discretion has the effect of inflicting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 604. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that it is appropriate in the case of the rejection of an application for funds from Caranua that the only recourse for a person who may have suffered horrendous abuse in a residential institution is to an appeals officer, whose decisions are entirely opaque since the appeals officer is not subject to oversight by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scientific Research (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 605. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will seek to rebalance the funding of science research such that the Government's preference for funding oriented basic research, applied research and over-basic research in view of the fact that this preference has led to steadily decreasing numbers of research staff in Irish universities, the unavailability of hands-on laboratory...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Scientific Research (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her plans to review the imbalance of funding between applied and basic science and engineering research in view of the fact that this imbalance has led to a systemic distortion of research incentives that is at odds with her Department's role as overseer of education rather than industrial innovation. [15707/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 607. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Clare and that person's correspondence with her the action the person in question can take, in view of the clear fault in the system of marking in the leaving certificate examination process and the fact that there has been a clear injustice done; and if a change in the marking system should...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 636. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the chief executive of Sligo County Council has recommended that the council provide financial assistance of €45,000 to Ireland West Airport Knock in County Mayo; if his Department plans to provide matching funds for the airport; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Harbours and Piers Maintenance (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 638. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Sligo County Council intends to carry out dredging at the channel to Sligo Harbour; that his Department has granted a foreshore licence to the council for the dredging works; that the council must now submit an application to the Environmental Protection Agency for a dumping at sea licence; that the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (21 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 645. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the trade unions representing staff of Sligo County Council have indicated a wish to see a fair and negotiated resolution in respect of the regularisation of acting posts in the council; that the unions have stated acting posts should be regularised by confined competition and that all posts of senior...

Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: I utterly condemn the bully boy tactics of Margaret Heffernan and management in Dunnes Stores and stand in solidarity with all of the workers who took to the picket lines and sympathy with those who did not have the courage to do so. We must register that the tactics of management at Dunnes Stores are, in some ways, an indication of weakness rather than strength. It is desperate to see off...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Investigations (16 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 34. To ask the Minister for Health the action he has taken in relation to the fact that, rather than referring the suspension of a person (details supplied) for investigation by the regulator of midwifery, the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, as per the terms of the contract between the Health Service Executive and self-employed midwives, the area manager of the executive for Dublin...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Television Licence Fee Collection (16 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the basis upon which citizens are obliged to purchase a second television licence when transferring a television from their family home to a mobile home; and his plans to address this matter. [15076/15]

Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: This is a question regarding a person who contacted the Taoiseach last year and told him he had information on gardaí being present in a room when a civilian was shot by gardaí and being ordered by his superiors to say he was not present. The Taoiseach passed this case on to the review panel. I ask him to consider the fact that in the past few months not one person from the review...

Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: I do not think the workers or passengers will take solace from the Taoiseach's "no privatisation" comments given the number of broken promises he has already stood over. On the last day the Dáil met, Deputy Wallace tried to jolt the Taoiseach's memory regarding his inaction on problems with senior gardaí in the Athlone area. Little did we know that at the very same time...

Leaders' Questions (15 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: The information to which I have access is contained in the Official Report of the Dáil. I presume that if the Minister for Justice and Equality was in contact with the Taoiseach, she would have told him what she has stated on the public record, namely, that because of the passage of time and other issues she expects no action to be taken in a majority of cases. It is not good enough...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: Everyone welcomes the independence of the commission. I was impressed by the manner in which the Minister set it up and am glad it places an emphasis on the historical context of what went on at that time. However, within that we must be very careful that this is not used as an excuse. No matter what the historical context, I cannot believe neglecting and abusing children and leaving their...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: 6. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the role of the mother and baby homes commission of investigation in relation to its powers to order exhumations and excavations of graves. [14403/15]

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: My question relates to the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. Earlier this year the Minister stated the commission would have the power to order exhumations where appropriate, but its terms of reference contain nothing specific in this regard. Will it be ordering exhumations and, if not, why not? Do the families concerned not deserve the opportunity to know with...

Other Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Apr 2015)

Clare Daly: There is a certain logic to the Minister's reply. I raise this question on behalf of a resident whose two brothers were in Tuam, who is trying to get as much information as possible about what happened to them as she does not know for sure whether they are buried there. She is one of those who wants the graves exhumed and wants DNA testing. She wants to bury her brothers if they are there....