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Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: The report which the Minister's Department has had for almost a year concluded by referring to the children who died, who had never had a name, a birth certificate, a death certificate or a baptism. It concluded that the adoption regime in Ireland was directly responsible for and guilty of the most truly evil crimes against humanity, a slaughter of innocence, a war waged against pregnant...

Topical Issue Debate: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: For anybody to say that these events are surprising would be untrue. The scandals of the mother and baby homes have long been an open secret. The horrors of Tuam were investigated in 1944, when children were found to be emaciated, pot-bellied and uncared for, and there were a far greater number of them than there should have been. The records from that home were handed over to Galway City...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: This legislation has many aspects to be considered but I will concentrate on the changes to the Pensions Act rather than the social welfare provisions which have been addressed by other Deputies. I agree with the points made by Deputy Pringle about our obsession with alleged social welfare fraud which has been shown in most cases to be incidents of error when it occurs. The Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Company Closures (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 13. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the closure of a company (details supplied) and other long-standing printing companies, if he has any initiatives planned to protect and develop what is left of the printing industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23813/14]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Relations (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding progress in relation to giving pensioner groups access to the State's industrial relations machinery in dealing with grievances in relation to their pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23814/14]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will intervene with the Pakistani authorities and condemn in the highest possible way the stoning to death of Farzana Parveen in Pakistan on 27 May. [24050/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Review (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 71. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to the review of free travel, which her Department is currently undertaking, if the intention of the review is to restrict the free travel arrangement currently in place; and when a decision is likely. [24040/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (5 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 79. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who were employed in carrying out the count and the election monitoring during the recent local and European elections that were taken from the ranks of the unemployed. [24039/14]

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: I am responding to the point the Minister made.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: The Government is a large shareholder in Aer Lingus. The combined shares held by Aer Lingus staff and the Government account for a majority shareholding in the company. As such, the Government is not an idle bystander in the current dispute. In stating that it would be useful for the parties involved to use the industrial relations machinery of the State, the Minister did not pass comment...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: As the major shareholder in Aer Lingus, does the Government believe it is acceptable for people to be bullied and driven out of a career on the basis that they cannot have a family life, as is afforded to pilots and every other cabin crew member? Is it unreasonable for people to ask to work in a more family friendly way? If that is not an unreasonable request, what is the Minister doing...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: They travelled on the day before the dispute.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: I hope the Minister has had the opportunity since last week to familiarise himself a little more with some of the issues behind the Aer Lingus cabin crew dispute. I am hoping that the Minister may have had a chance to send someone along to the picket lines at Shannon to talk to the workers there and to understand why, for the first time in many years, over 1,000 workers believed they had no...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: -----who made his mark cheerleading a race to the bottom. Does the Minister wish his Government to be synonymous with this type of employment, the type of employment in Ryanair where nobody is directly employed, people are hired and fired at will, with no promotions, no pensions and no progression because nobody stays long enough? The Minister and the staff are the biggest shareholders in...

Leaders' Questions (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: I note the Minister did not take the opportunity of the intervening week to read up on the issues at stake. Ryanair has the biggest shareholding in Aer Lingus. If the Minister had read any of the newspapers at the weekend he would have seen that Michael O'Leary spent his weekend goading and cajoling Aer Lingus management to take precisely the action they took.

Other Questions: State Properties (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: The point here is that the State has to lead in this regard and subsidising the private sector is not the way forward. I would be interested in the detail that the Minister stated he would furnish in terms of the State's portfolio. I repeat that it is fine if it is the remit of the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, but somebody has to take stock of all of the...

Other Questions: State Properties (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 6. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the initiatives the Office of Public Works has undertaken to make empty State property and facilities available to local authorities to assist in dealing with the housing crisis. [23650/14]

Other Questions: State Properties (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: It is an incredible contradiction that the State, which expends hundreds of millions of euro on subsidising private and emergency accommodation, continues to be one of the largest landlords. The Office of Public Works has properties in every town and village and has one of the largest property portfolios in the State. What initiatives has the OPW taken to make State properties available to...

Other Questions: State Properties (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: Given the scale of the current housing crisis, the Minister's reply failed to provide sufficient detail. I note that one property has been available for homeless accommodation. I put it to the Minister that many more properties must be provided. It is ironic that the State is paying tens of millions of euro to subsidise private hoteliers who are providing short-term accommodation to meet...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (4 Jun 2014)

Clare Daly: 19. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on whether the public sector procurement policies are playing a role in driving small companies out of business; and his plans to change them. [23649/14]