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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Industrial Relations (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the discussions she has had with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in order to deal with the way pensioners can get access to the State's industrial relations machinery when their retirement income is being altered, an issue which she has acknowledged needs to be addressed. [4906/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 52. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her views on amending section 50 of the Pensions Act 1990, as amended by section 35 of the Social Welfare and Pensions Act 2012, in order to offer more protection to employees against reductions in their pension entitlements, in view of the growing number of cases like IASS and Tara Mines pensioners experiencing pension cuts when their former...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance Review (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the establishment of a travel subsidy scheme to replace the motorised transport grant and the mobility allowance scheme; when the new scheme will be put in place; his views on whether it is acceptable that a new scheme has yet to be put in place a full two years since the schemes were closed to new applicants; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of Article 42.1 of the Constitution only allowing for parents to avail of exclusive religious schools where such schools are exclusively privately funded according to their means with no State funding, the reason her Department allows schools in receipt of State funding to exclude children on religious grounds. [5255/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the location presently occupied by a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, but which will be vacant in September this year, as a site which could be developed for special needs educational service education in the area. [5315/15]

European Debt: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: The depths to which the Government is prepared to sink in terms of its boot-licking and doffing of the cap is unparalleled. It is bad enough that the Government would not agree to support a debt conference but it really beats all that it would boycott the ad hoccommittee on sovereign debt restructuring processes agreed by the United Nations General Assembly last September. Ireland was one...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: These amendments raise an extremely important issue in terms of the areas in which difficulties emerge in the interaction between the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and the Garda Síochána. This was a key issue when the previous Garda Commissioner and Minister for Justice and Equality were in office. The perception at that time, which I believe reflected reality, was...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I wish to respond to some of the points in the discussion. Let us suppose someone goes to the Garda or GSOC with a complaint and that person has never had a previous interaction and the response is that the same Garda station decides to investigate the complaint. That is absolutely not on. Certainly we are not suggesting that the Garda could not be involved in these matters but the faulty...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: This amendment clearly attempts to get to the heart of who is allowed to carry out investigations against the backdrop of a scenario where GSOC is incredibly stretched and under-resourced. For example, I have a complaint with GSOC which is now two years old. It is hardly a rocket-science or complex case. It involves the criminal activity of gardaí leaking information to the media and...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Report Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: We are discussing the functionality of GSOC, which is a critically important issue. It is not just us or members of the public saying so, the United Nations Human Rights Committee also expressed concern at the functioning of GSOC and made the point that Ireland should proceed with strengthening the organisation. I view this amendment as a step in that direction. Some excellent...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Wildlife Act 1976 and the Wildlife (Amendment) Act 2010; and to provide for related matters.I am aware that my colleague, Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan, will introduce a similar Bill in the next period. My Bill proposes to address unfinished business concerning the 2010 ban on stag hunting and to deal with the barbaric...

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I hope the Minister of State will have an opportunity to explain his opposition.

Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2015: First Stage (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Tax Exemptions (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance the discussions he has had with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to simplifying the criteria for the way a homeowner can acquire an exemption to the local property tax as a result of having significant pyritic damage, a commitment which he gave during discussions on the Finance Bill 2014. [4698/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (4 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance his views regarding whether it is appropriate that the Revenue Commissioners would deduct the tax credits of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin because the person did not pay enough tax in 1998, despite the fact that they had got balancing statements for all of the subsequent years. [5057/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: These were the issues which were being sought to be addressed, but the problem is that SIPTU has not been asked to engage in this process or to contact the panel. In fact, while it is the only body to have put in a submission, meetings have been held from which SIPTU has been excluded. That is a recipe for disaster given that the workers whose living standards are being impacted by the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I am absolutely not.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: Why was SIPTU not at the meeting?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: I said that but SIPTU was not invited to the discussion.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 125. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the initiative proposed on 2 December 2014 by the Secretaries General of his Department and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to the expert panel in relation to the IASS dispute was not acted on until 14 January 2015, creating needless anxiety for workers at the three State airports; and if he will direct the...