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Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: I am sorry I was late for the debate. I was visiting Coolock, one of the communities at the heart of the resistance to water charges. Having returned to the House, I am sorry I did not stay because the reality of life in working class communities in Dublin, districts and towns and villages of this country is a million miles away from some of the nonsense that has spewed from the Government...

Other Questions: Aer Lingus Sale (25 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: I can understand the Government's position, but a slice of cake is better than no bread at all. While I would like the airline to be 100% in State ownership, 25% is certainly better than nothing in terms of securing the objectives which the Government has outlined. The Minister has alluded to the other significant shareholder, but their silence against the backdrop of this bid is of...

Other Questions: Aer Lingus Sale (25 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: 11. 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 attitude adopted by his Department in the interdepartmental steering group in response to the bid by International Airlines Group, IAG, for Aer Lingus. [11688/15]

Other Questions: Aer Lingus Sale (25 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: This question is fairly straightforward. It seeks an update on the discussions in the interdepartmental group that is considering the potential IAG takeover of Aer Lingus. This issue has dominated the minds of the thousands of people who work for Aer Lingus, as well as the 15,000 members of the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, IASS, the overwhelming majority of whom are former Aer...

Other Questions: Aer Lingus Sale (25 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: There is not much clarity in the Minister's reply. I appreciate the stage at which the bid is in but that said, this will not provide much comfort for those who are particularly concerned about it. It is regrettable that this proposition was included in the programme for Government at all. Many workers are shocked that the Labour Party did not use its position to ensure that would not...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (25 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: 110. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent of the Garda enquiries into the Tuam mother and baby home scandal; and the reason a full-scale Garda investigation was not undertaken. [12234/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commissions of Investigation (25 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: 118. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the terms of reference in the mother and baby homes inquiry in terms of whether section 19 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 means that any person who provides evidence to the commission on their involvement in crimes committed against the women and children involved cannot be prosecuted on foot of that evidence; and the way...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (25 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: 187. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reinstate funding under the scheme to support national organisations funding to the 23 disability organisations which lost that funding in 2014, in view of the fact that the temporary bridging system put in place has almost expired, with no communication or clarity for the groups involved. [12269/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: It is difficult to speak in two minutes about the unending horror being faced by people in Syria. We tabled this topical issue on the fourth anniversary of the start of the conflict because after four years of unrelenting struggle, desolation reigns and there is no end in sight for the country's citizens. It is not that Syrian people support one political faction or another but that they...

Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Conflicts (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: While we could all sign up to the aspirations set out in the Geneva communiqué of 2012, they are a million miles away from the reality on the ground in Syria. The communiqué refers to a constitutional process and calls for a democratic Syria, yet it is no longer certain that Syria exists as a country. It is certainly not multiethnic or multi-religious in character and is falling...

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: Are we not just coming towards the end of time for questions?

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: It is customary for the Chair to call the next speaker. The Chair was not at all democratic.

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: The Minister of State seems to be wearing his rose tinted glasses tonight. He mentioned several times that the European Union had a unified approach on Ukraine and, in particular, the sanctions. Is that not a little bit of a glossy version of the truth? Is it not the case that the Czech President, for example, has come out and said that the Union should recognise the Russian takeover of...

European Council: Statements (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: I am not the only one who was embarrassed beyond belief by the conduct of this Government in its approach to our colleagues in Greece. The Government is behaving like the teacher's pet, sitting up in the front row sniggering and delighting in the teacher turning on the poor boy at the back of the class and giving him a beating. It is pathetic. I thought was unrivalled until I listened to...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: They are here already.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: As the Minister stated, we have discussed this issue on many occasions. Unfortunately, however, we have never addressed the matters which lie at the core of it. Perhaps the Minister is of the view that his repeating the same banalities on each occasion will encourage us to give up and to stop asking questions. I assure him that will not be the case. On 28 February, a US military EC-130H...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: That is regrettable because that was the matter with which the Minister was originally requested to deal.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: Yes, it was. The Minister was asked about his particular concerns regarding the two emergency landings to which I refer. He has informed the House that the did not bother to obtain any information on that matter and that he has no such information with him. I contest that there were some peculiar circumstances with regard to some of the landings in question. The Minister has an obligation...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: 121. To ask the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied with the manner in which Defence Forces personnel are being deployed for ATCP duties at Shannon, with particular reference to the two emergency landings that were made by US military aircraft at the end of February 2015; if he has discussed these circumstances with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of Justice...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (24 Mar 2015)

Clare Daly: The question is whether the Minister is satisfied with the manner in which Defence Forces personnel are being deployed on an almost daily basis for aid to the civil power, ATCP, duties at Shannon Airport, with particular reference to addressing the so-called emergency landings of very strange military aircraft in February, in clear breach of our neutrality and potentially endangering the...