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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: I am not asking if Mr. O’Brien thinks it was probable that the source was active on discovery. Is it possible that it was?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: In this debate there has been careful use of words by the Minister and Mr. O’Brien. There is a formula of words being repeated ad nauseamsuch as “no definitive evidence of unauthorised, technical or electronic surveillance.” Everyone does it by rote and it is a little eerie at this stage. Mr. O’Brien has confirmed he did not ask the Garda whether it had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Does the commission think it should have? We can ask him, but we do not know whether the surveillance was lawful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Language is important. Mr. O’Brien, as well as the Minister, has said there was no definitive evidence of any surveillance being conducted by An Garda Síochána. Is it not the case also that there is no definitive evidence to claim there was not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: It could have been is the answer. One of the questions we will pose is how we are going to get to those answers. Reasonable people watching this will ask who credibly could it have been. Mr. O’Brien has indicated there is an internal leak in the commission to the media. Why would the media then bother having to engage in surveillance if they could get the information anyway? I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Security and Protocol Issues: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: I have a question.

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: While it is always a pleasure to have the Minister, Deputy Hogan, in the House, it is unfortunate that the Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, is not here for this debate.

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Fair enough. We have been subjected to listening to this individual on the airwaves for some time.

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Perhaps so.

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: The Minister of State, Deputy Brian Hayes, has repeatedly said on the airwaves that we can never be prepared for every contingency or eventuality, which is true. However, that is to miss the essential point in this debate that contingency plans, flood relief mapping and preparation can prevent a problem from becoming a crisis. In essence, what we are experiencing is a crisis and a national...

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: There is a loss of expertise and knowledge from the OPW which is not being replaced. The people who are paying for this are the families who have lost everything in this current crisis. It is necessary that the Minister of State rectifies this if there is to be any change in this situation. We are spending an enormous amount of money on outsourcing flood relief planning work to third...

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Let us hear the statistics. How many of the engineers who have left have been replaced and how much money has been spent on outsourced reports? If the Minister has not done that, then it begs the question why he was not better prepared.

Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: The Minister is in favour of privatisation.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the undeniable evidence, in writing, that religious run adoption agencies participated in and facilitated illegal adoptions, the reason neither her Department nor the Adoption Authority of Ireland have not carried out an audit of every adoption record held in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6523/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: National Carers Strategy Status (12 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans she has to support the thousands of children in the State who are currently acting as carers. [6524/14]

Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Statements (11 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: The Minister took an interesting tack in his contribution, roughly akin to asking people "to move along now, there is nothing to see here". From his point of view, would that were so. I am sorry, but I do not think that history will be so kind to him. We have a scenario of a constant drip, which inevitably will lead to a situation where the damn will break. How many special debates will...

Reports of Unlawful Surveillance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission: Statements (11 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: Deputy Pringle is taking the next slot.

Other Questions: Fish Farming (11 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: I ask the Minister to deal with the damage to aquaculture operations as a result of the recent storms, not least the reports of the escape of 60,000 to 80,000 salmon from the Bantry Bay operation and what has been described as a potential ecological disaster. I believe BIM issued a statement today saying that there is no evidence that these fish escaped but 60,000 to 80,000 fish have...

Other Questions: Fish Farming (11 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: BIM said it could not be confirmed.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (11 Feb 2014)

Clare Daly: 109. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will explain the connection between Coillte and the Irish Forestry Unit Trust; and the steps he has taken to examine the trust deed of the IForUT committing Coillte to providing liquidity to the fund if needed and selling forests to the IFUT without these forests being put out to tender. [6324/14]