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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: There is a great deal of information in that response and I respect the Minister's bona fides on this issue but that said, and sincerely meant, there are inordinate delays in this process. Two years ago, in an answer to a parliamentary question, the Minister told me about the Sacred Heart files being transferred to Glanmire. She has now confirmed that there are another 11 institutions whose...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: The Ministers reply raises two problems, first, far too many people have come forward with their experience of being frustrated when they sought to find their identity for it to be a coincidence. It is clear that there is a problem in the system. My office alone receives contact from many people who have been deliberately frustrated. The Minister's reply to questions I have tabled have...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 11. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason for the lack of progress and the inordinate delays experienced by adopted persons attempting to trace their birth mothers and mothers trying to trace their born children; and her plans to resolve this matter. [47753/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: This question is essentially about the rights of adopted people and the delays they are experiencing in accessing information about their birth mothers, or vice versa where mothers are seeking information about their children. The problem is twofold. First, there is a problem with accessing the existing files. Second, there is a delay in legislative changes, which have been promised since...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location where the records from the 42 mothers and baby homes that operated here and handled tens of thousands of adoptions over the decades are held; the amount of information held by the Health Service Executive in Glanmire; and the other information that is held in Glanmire, which can be made available to persons tracing their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the patronage of the new Balbriggan second level school has been decided; and if not, when a decision will issue. [47799/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 153. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to protect sub contractors whose companies are jeopardised by the main contractor failing to pay their invoices in a timely manner, undermining the viability of these companies and threatening the jobs in them. [47805/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts Expenditure (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to protect sub contractors on cases of large State contracts where the main contractor is fully paid, but leaves sub-contractors unpaid jeopardising these smaller companies and their employees. [47804/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Opportunities (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 201. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if letters were sent out by her Department, to applicants on jobseeker's allowance, requesting their CV's to apply for positions available for qualified tradespeople in Canada; and the action she will take regarding same. [47996/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Electricity Transmission Network (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 245. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources to whom the benefits from the Grid 25 scheme will accrue, with particular reference to the benefit that will accrue to private owners; and if private companies which set up wind farms are required to make a proportion of the output for the national grid as a public service obligation. [47801/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Wind Energy Strategy (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason wind farms are not being located offshore, eliminating the need for putting turbines across the land and the resulting electrical infrastructure of pylons and minimising the impact on communities. [47802/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 272. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he has taken to ensure that Fingal County Council has exercised its enforcement powers under the Fire Safety Act 1981 in relation to dwellings at Martello in Balbriggan in view of the serious fire safety breaches and the fact that residents in Foxford Court had to be evacuated; and if he is satisfied that the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service Issues (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 307. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the entitlements a citizen has to access all court records and papers relating to a case to which he or she was a party a number of decades ago; the way he or she may access that information; and his plans to improve this access. [47807/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Records Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 390. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will indicate in relation to cases where the identity of the birth mother has been established, the way information can be withheld on the grounds of protecting her identity. [47800/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 391. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will instruct the Adoption Authority of Ireland to de-register an organisation (details supplied) in view of the fact that it has been involved in organising illegal adoptions; and if she will conduct an inspection of all of its files as part of a thorough investigation into its operation. [47857/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that some people are losing out on their medical cards because they are under the care of the Money Advice and Budgeting Service for assistance with mortgage arrears and appear to have false positive income bringing them over the limit of a medical card; the action he will take regarding same. [47995/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (12 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 510. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will sanction funding to Fingal County Council to enable it to complete the new link road near Moylaragh in Balbriggan which is ready to go to tender and urgently needed for road safety in the area. [47803/13]

Health (Fluoridation of Water Supplies) (Repeal) Bill 2013: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: I found the Minister of State's tone unhelpful. It is a progressive move for us to discuss this topic today and I compliment Deputy Stanley on tabling the Bill. Despite the Minister of State's protestations, from the beginning of Ireland's attempts to fluoridate our water, this has been a controversial issue. Fifty years ago this year, Gladys Ryan took a High Court, and ultimately a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Fares (7 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been a cost benefit analysis conducted into the impact of planned further reductions in Government subvention to CIE and the consequential fare hikes being imposed on passengers. [46851/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Companies Law Issues (7 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason he has not made the legislative changes requested by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement relating to the negative impact on its ability to tackle white collar crime as a result of the insertion of section 851A of the Taxes Consolidation Act into section 77 of the Finance Act 2011, which has restricted to ability of the ODCE to...