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

Clare Daly: The Minister will be aware that thousands of workers employed by the DAA and the Shannon Airport Authority have been instructed that they must sign a waiver by 15 March or they stand to lose lump sum payments into a new pensions scheme. On 2 December 2014 the Secretary General of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport sought to initiate a process aimed at addressing some of the...

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

Clare Daly: I do not think the Minister will be able to kick this matter solely to the trustees. I am not sure whether he was ill-informed or deliberately misled on was what the position. The facts are that the Secretaries General of his Department and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation contacted the expert panel to ask it to engage in a process aimed at resolving some of the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Penalty Points System Investigation (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views following the latest Garda report revealing widespread continued breaches in the penalty point system, in view of the importance of the system operating correctly in the interests of road safety and the need for all drivers to have confidence in the system. [4332/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sale of Aer Lingus (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reject the International Airlines Group take-over bid for Aer Lingus, in the interests of maintaining the future of the airline, its jobs and key strategic role in providing connectivity with the rest of the world for business and tourism. [4333/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the six short listed schemes in the Fingal-north Dublin Transport study appraisal report; and when there will be a long overdue high capacity light rail public transport solution serving the Swords-Dublin Airport-Dublin city corridor. [4335/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is satisfied with existing arrangements between his Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the processing of exemptions for carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft under the Air Navigation (Carriage of munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order 1973, and his plans to change the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contact his Department has had with Aer Lingus and the Shannon Airport Authority regarding the way different actuarial assumptions were used in both companies in their recent proposals for future pension provision; and his views regarding same. [4334/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Registration of Births (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 205. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to IT difficulties being experienced in the Dublin office of the registrar of births; if these IT difficulties have resulted in difficulties for clients in obtaining certificates (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4785/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft Landings (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 500. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 618 of 27 January, 2015 if he is responsible for authorising the transiting of foreign military personnel through Irish territory on civil aircraft, and if so under what legislation. [4844/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 529. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a recent form issued by her Department to be completed by primary school students seeking information on their ethnic background contains the terms white Irish and black background when these terms do not identify ethnicity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4748/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Conservation Grant (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 586. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if households which have not registered with Irish Water before 2 February 2015 will still be able to avail of the water conservation grant after that date. [4933/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 558. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exact circumstances in which a homeowner can have their property remediated when their home deteriorates from a damage rating over one to one with progression within a year. [4391/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aer Lingus Sale (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 614. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views confirming that the current 25.1% State shareholding in Aer Lingus prevents the airline from disposing of any of the Heathrow slots without the Government's agreement; the way these slots will be protected in the context of the Government disposing of its 25.1% stake; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4688/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (3 Feb 2015)

Clare Daly: 637. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the criteria or conditions on which munitions permits are granted to civilian aircraft carrying foreign troops under Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order 1973. [4904/15]

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: It is almost two years since the Taoiseach stood here and apologised to the women of the Magdalen laundries. There are many of us who remember that day - the hope evident and the good spirits of the women in the Gallery, knowing and understanding that it was not a case that the wrong that had been carried out against them would be righted but at least there had been an acknowledgement by the...

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: 7. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in view of the fact that the intention of the Scottish Government is that Torness and Hunterson nuclear stations will be closed and replaced by renewables energy generation, whether his view that nuclear power is an option for this country is mistaken in view of the potential for renewable energy off the coast. [3671/15]

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: As the Minister is aware, some of the most successful developments in renewable energy have been in countries that have made a decision to end their connection with nuclear power. The question relates in this instance to Scotland, where the decision has been made to shut down nuclear power stations. Scotland has invested heavily and strategically in renewable energy. The two decisions are...

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: Nuclear energy is dirty power and is on the way out in other areas, and I, like most citizens, would be happy if it never saw the light of day here. We are not focusing on where our potential might lie by even entertaining it or putting it on the list. Renewable energy creates massively more jobs per unit of energy than fossil fuels. We have examples, as I said, in Germany and in Scotland....

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: The point is that we have an advantage, coming a little bit late, in that we can start by adopting what is already international best practice. In Germany, 25% of energy comes from renewable sources, locally controlled in many instances. There are hundreds of thousands of jobs connected with it. We in Ireland are probably unique in a global sense in terms of our wave energy potential....

Other Questions: Energy Policy (29 Jan 2015)

Clare Daly: The State should lead development. The millions I referred to were for research. The Minister did not listen.