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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Overseas Missions (13 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: The point I am making is not that we should stop participating in overseas missions but rather that we should take a step back and consider where and how we engage in such missions. The Minister referred to "effective peacekeeping" and that is precisely what I am talking about. Our current policy has been described as a type of scattergun approach which sends Irish soldiers as unarmed...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (13 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 19. To ask the Minister for Defence the number of occasions that members of the Defence Forces have been called to undertake aid to the civil power ATCP duties at Dublin, Cork, and Shannon airports, respectively, in the past 12 months; and the way these operations are funded. [41264/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Aircraft Landings (13 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 22. To ask the Minister for Defence the steps taken by the Irish Defence Forces, and in particular the Air Corps in monitoring US military aircraft while on Irish territory and in Irish air space to ensure that they comply with Irish neutrality regulations. [41266/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (13 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 28. To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to withdraw the seven Irish soldiers currently stationed in Afghanistan on 31 December 2014, as there will be mainly only US troops left on that date making the Irish soldiers much more vulnerable as the Taliban insurgents will seek to overthrow the western supported government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41262/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (13 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 29. To ask the Minister for Defence noting the US Department of Defence Africa command document published in September 2011 stating that Lariam should be the drug of last resort after Malarone and Doxycycline, and other international moves away from usage of this drug, the reason for the Irish Defence Forces' continued use of same. [41263/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Medicinal Products (13 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 94. To ask the Minister for Defence to set out the process used for selecting anti-malaria drugs for use in the Defence Forces and the precise reason Lariam was selected despite the obvious faults in the drug with regard to the dangers of increased risk of suicide for users. [43330/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Overseas Missions (13 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 95. To ask the Minister for Defence to outline his views regarding the operation of Defence Forces overseas missions in the context of being involved in missions that have run for decades and failed to deliver peace and have in fact enabled the conflict participants to avoid making peace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43331/14]

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: I support the amendment. What we are discussing here is the fairly extensive, in some ways, practice on the part of some unscrupulous employers to deliberately breach employment law while hiding behind a company set-up. That is just not on. Given that we are deliberating on legislation designed to improve workplace relations, we must deal with this issue. I accept that some matters are...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: While the complaints being made by Opposition Deputies might be tiresome, there is a real legitimacy to them. Deputy Calleary was on his feet when he got the letter telling him that his amendments were ruled out of order. We all got the same letter. As Deputy Wallace was the representative of the Technical Group on Committee Stage, some of the amendments that were tabled in his name...

Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Instruction to Committee (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: It is ironic that we are having a special session today to move amendments which the Minister of State wants to bring forward but that Deputies received telephone calls this morning to tell them that amendments they had submitted were not relevant to this Bill. It shows, as Deputy Tóibín said, a ham-fisted approach to what is supposed to be the most comprehensive review of the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare Bodies (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 29. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the operation of the DSPCA, which has received substantial funds from his Department in order to carry out important animal welfare functions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42806/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 34. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views regarding the amount of prosecutions for animal cruelty under the Animal Health and Welfare Act; his plans to improve the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42807/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Numbers (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 165. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that over the past five years the number of outdoor general operatives on the staff of Sligo County Council has been reduced by 28; the number of drivers and plant operators has been reduced by five; the number of craftworkers reduced by 11; the number of handymen reduced by seven...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Numbers (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Sligo County Council is designated as a level 5 local authority and the range of senior management staff recommended at each level is outlined in the Workforce Planning in the Local Government Sector document prepared by his Department's working group in September 2012; if...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Finances (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been drawn to his attention that Sligo County Council had a deficit of €2,815,649 on its revenue account for the year ending 31 December 2008, a deficit of €3,232,961 for the year ending 31 December 2009, a deficit of €2,463,505 for the year ending 31 December 2010, a deficit of...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff (12 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 168. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if it has been brought to his attention that eight full-time staff in Sligo County Council engaged in the Cranmore regeneration project are 100% externally funded by his Department; if he will provide in tabular form the number of local authority staff who are 100% externally funded by his Department in each regeneration...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (11 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 110. To ask the Minister for Health in view of his undertaking to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children that there will be a consultation process as part of an overall national review of maternity services here, with special reference to best evidence international models, the reason he is permitting the Office of Nursing and Midwifery Services in the Health Service Executive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Surgical Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme (11 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 145. To ask the Minister for Health to set out his views regarding his proposed redress scheme for the survivors of symphysiotomy. [42795/14]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Accommodation (11 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 283. To ask the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 35 of 18 Spetember 2014 of the failure of Kildare County Council to assist in addressing the accommodation needs of former Defence Forces personnel and their families currently residing in the Curragh Camp, if he will meet the families in order to explore a solution. [43094/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (11 Nov 2014)

Clare Daly: 290. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality in relation to the direct provision of care for asylum seekers and refugees, her views that it is appropriate that the companies who have benefited in the tendering process have decided to register outside the State; and her plans for same. [42844/14]