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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 256. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will remove the proposed undertaking in section 41 of the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9261/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 257. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason the compelling reasons ground for refusing the release of information in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 only applies when adopted persons are seeking information. [9262/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 258. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the claim that the release of information to an adopted person may endanger the life of a person. [9263/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (22 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 259. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that the national adoption contact preference register is put on a statutory footing in the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016. [9264/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 260. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will ensure that information sources holding records pertaining to illegal adoptions, particularly instances where no adoption order exists, will be compelled under the Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill 2016 to transfer their records to the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [9265/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (22 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 261. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans in place to reach out to the 2,000 plus people who were sent from Ireland to America for adoption from the 1940s to the 1970s. [9266/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Authority of Ireland (22 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 262. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reinstate the stakeholder adoption advisory groups established by her predecessor (details supplied). [9267/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (22 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 292. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the person or body she consulted prior to the files on persons (details supplied) held by Tusla being deleted; if the metadata was copied before the deletion of the files; if her attention has been drawn to the identity of the person that created the files and that accessed it subsequently; if she consulted Tusla's data protection...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Parental Leave (21 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 114. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has any means of monitoring the uptake of parental leave across all employment sectors; if so, the details of the uptake rates across sectors; and if she will provide the rates in relation to gender, socioeconomic profile and any other categories. [8733/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Standards (21 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the action he will take to ensure an improvement in the standard of one bedroom rental accommodation; if he is satisfied with the current level of inspections on such properties being carried out by local authorities; the steps that can be taken by local authorities to compel landlords to improve the standards of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Land Issues (21 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the way in which land costs for residential developments are measured and tracked by his Department or any agency under the remit of his Department; and the latest publication his Department is relying on to inform trends in this area. [8473/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (21 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 331. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 308 of 14 February 2017, and recent media reports (details supplied), if he will outline the Government's plans with regard to the recognition of Palestinian statehood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8606/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Cultural Policy (21 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 375. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the administration and management structures in Creative Ireland; the way in which the Creative Ireland advisory committees will be structured and their membership; her plans to maintain the so-called arm's length approach to Creative Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8617/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (21 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 472. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to ending the mandatory retirement age for those persons involved in nursing in the public sector in order to help improve staffing levels in view of the current shortage of nurses within the health service and the difficulties in recruiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8554/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (21 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: 540. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the legislation governing the sale, importation and welfare of exotic animals; his plans to update this legislation; if a record exists of such animal imports; and if so, the location that such records are published. [8260/17]

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: On a point of order-----

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: The Tánaiste said that she would check it out.

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: There is no point in checking it out after the terms have been agreed.

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: She said that she would check it out.

Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Róisín Shortall: Why should we decide our position on this before we have that clarification?