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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Issues (21 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 205. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the response he received from the Health Service Executive in relation to a person (details supplied), if he will inform the Health Service Executive that contrary to their statement that they had not received a referral to the north Dublin early intervention team for the child in question and that their waiting list was not closed, that such...

Government Decision on Exiting Programme of Financial Support: Motion (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: We should be exiting the programme without a precautionary credit line because we should never have been in the programme in the first place, but that does not mean we are on the verge of a new dawn, that we are regaining our sovereignty, or that the Government's policies are working. The Labour Party in particular would do well to remember the words of its founder when he spoke about how it...

Other Questions: Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: A Newbridge resident took a case to the Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal, IFSAT, in regard to the making of a special management order under section 58 of the Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) Act 2011. The appointment of the special manager has caused considerable disquiet among the members of Newbridge Credit Union. Millions of euro have been spent on the manager...

Other Questions: Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: The problem is that the horse has already bolted and the conclusions from the examination of the appointment of the special manager, which the Minister says will issue shortly, are somewhat irrelevant given that the credit union has now been handed over. However, people still want answers. They wanted the gag on the directors of the credit union to be lifted so they could examine the...

Other Questions: Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 9. To ask the Minister for Finance if the effectiveness of the Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal, has been impeded by the decision of the High Court to allow the Central Bank convert Newbridge Credit Union as part of Permanent TSB, in relation to case 010/2013 White v. Central Bank of Ireland; and his plans to change the system. [49076/13]

Other Questions: Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: This question deals with the High Court handling of Newbridge Credit Union being handed over to Permanent TSB, which has important implications for the future of all credit unions but also gets to the heart of the area of accountability in relation to the financial institutions in that the Irish Financial Services Appeals Tribunal had commissioned a hearing into the operation of Newbridge...

Other Questions: Property Taxation Administration (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 7. To ask the Minister for Finance the full costs of the implementation of the property tax to date, with particular reference to the cost of reissuing the latest letter seeking payment; the amount that has been paid to contractor providers; the number of staff of these providers that are working full time for the Revenue Commissioners and the cost of same; and the cost of the operation of...

Other Questions: Property Taxation Administration (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister may believe that, as a result of the draconian manner in which the property tax was implemented, the Government has secured acquiescence to the tax. That is not the case. I wonder what is the cost of the recent debacles in handling the tax which added insult to injury among homeowners. I refer to the recent letters issued by the Revenue Commissioners and the cost of that...

Other Questions: Property Taxation Administration (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: I will study the reply as it was difficult to follow the detail on the costs of envelopes, stamps, etc., without having the written information to hand. As the Minister indicated, the introduction of the property tax is a major change to the taxation system. Does he accept that the manner in which the Government forced through the draconian property tax legislation last year caused great...

Other Questions: Property Taxation Administration (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: While the Government may have succeeded in securing majority compliance, resistance to the property tax continues. The draconian nature of the legislation compelled compliance but that does not mean people agree with the tax. How much did the error regarding first-time buyers cost? Is it anticipated that other mistakes will come to light?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information Legislation (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 104. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform where the index of precedents requirement is covered in the Freedom of Information 2013 Bill. [49774/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Sector Pensions Issues (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 142. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in a reply to a parliamentary question on 27 September 2012, he divulged that the payments to the Westmeath county manager who retired on the 3 January 2006 consisted of a lump sum-gratuity payment of €200,000 and an annual pension of €51,000; and that the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Sector Pensions Issues (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 143. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform told Dáil Éireann that payments to everybody in the public purse should be known; if his Department received any form of representations or communications from the County and City Managers Association and or the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Mountain Rescue Teams (20 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the Dublin and Wicklow Mountain Rescue Team and the Glen of Imaal Red Cross Mountain Rescue Team becoming the first rescue teams to carry out 100 operations in one calendar year, if he will consider allocating funding and extra supports for their mountain rescue teams. [49721/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Job Protection (19 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: I also highlighted the same part of the Minister of State's contribution. It is incredibly defeatist and will not be good news for the workers involved. This exposes the problem of over-reliance on the Government's strategy for multinational corporations. The problem is not the viability of the sector but that these operations do not fit in with the parent companies' plans. That is its...

Topical Issue Debate: Job Protection (19 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: There is a certain irony in the fact that the Minister with responsibility for jobs is in India trying to scrape up a few jobs for us while in the background hundreds of highly skilled and important aviation maintenance jobs are on the line. We must view this against the backdrop of the loss of 1,000 such jobs in SRT. Ireland was a world leader in aviation maintenance. If these two...

Other Questions: Ministerial Meetings (19 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: The Tánaiste will be aware that Ireland has one of the lowest corporation tax rates in Europe. In fact, our effective tax rate is even lower. Does he see a certain irony in the fact that he, as somebody who claims to be a socialist, would staunchly defend that low rate yet he does not show any shame in attacking elderly citizens, etc.? Should he be agreeing with his socialist...

Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (19 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: I am not sure I am any the wiser following that response. What the Tánaiste seems to be saying is that there is sovereign immunity but that it is subservient to other aspects of international law, that it is not something that is sought. He goes on to say military aircraft landing at Shannon Airport require permission from him as Minister and that they are required to adhere to certain...

Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (19 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: The problem is that they are not. Last week I asked the Tánaiste in a question tabled for written reply about a specific Hercules aircraft that had been at Shannon Airport on 6 November and whether it had been carrying passengers or cargo. We were led to believe it had been carrying passengers because of where it had landed. However, the Tánaiste's response to me was that he was...

Other Questions: Military Aircraft Landings (19 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there is a new special arrangement in place regarding refuelling for Canadian military aircraft at Shannon; if sovereign immunity has been granted to them by the Irish Government; the international law or treaty under which this is being permitted and whether it should not be superseded by our neutrality and the UN...