Results 12,161-12,180 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation (23 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 29. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that the €50 million initially promised for remedial works to houses damage by heave due to pyrite has not been delivered and these home owners have been abandoned by the structural guarantee company, HomeBond, if he will request that HomeBond now contribute its €25 million surplus to...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: Millions of euro are given out every year in public private partnerships for roads that are not being used yet buses which are being used cannot get an adequate level of subsidy. It is upside down economics and it demonstrates how out of touch the Taoiseach is.

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for that. The Taoiseach's responses to the previous speakers reveal what a fantasy world he lives in, one which has no bearing on the real lives of ordinary citizens. Does he not think it is an indictment of his Government that the grey army has had to take to the streets again on this wet and miserable day, not to enrich themselves and not for their own...

Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I am beginning to wonder if the purpose of the Taoiseach's response was to put us into some sort of hypnotic trance whereby he just mumbled back the same nonsense we have been hearing for weeks and does not address any of the issues raised. When one cuts through the waffle, what he is actually saying is that the citizens who built this country over decades of work and who are outside the...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: The fact that it was a smaller cut under the Minister's budget last year is missing the central point, which is that the Arts Council alone has had a cut of 34% since 2008. Obviously the arts cost money but we get that money back in multiples by investing in it. The Minister has not really dealt with that issue. If these organisations are given money to promote local groups, but that money...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I honestly believed that the Minister was answering a different question at the start. While it is heartening that he is confident that the money will go a long way, he is probably the only person in that category. He is missing the essential point, namely, that the trajectory of funding for the arts has been spiralling downwards in recent years. This year, it reached a critical point that...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 60. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will restore the 30% cut in arts funding which has taken place over the past five years, as a necessary measure to protect our culture and local artistic jobs and centres. [43519/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Council Funding (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 95. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action he will take to ensure that the Heritage Council is in a position to award grants to local authorities and other bodies as it did previously. [43520/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a benchmark of 32 hours exists for special needs assistants when the school working week is 28 hours 20 minutes. [44348/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the benchmark of 32 hours used for allocating a full special needs assistant post is reflective of the working week for the majority of primary schools. [44349/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 408. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has considered giving members of the Garda Reserve preferential treatment in applications for full membership of An Garda Síochána, in view of the fact that many of them would have undertaken a number of courses and training relevant to An Garda Síochána, that they would have put in years of loyal service and that...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Civil Aviation Regulation (22 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 601. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in relation to replies given by him regarding the concerns in relation to Ryanair safety, in respect of which he relies on statements made by the Irish Aviation Authority, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that statements regarding the safety of particular airlines are not normally issued by aviation authorities; if he will...

Other Questions: Departmental Customer Charters (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 8. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that the customer charter action plan of her Department is implemented in all local and district offices; and the steps that are open to those who believe it has been breached. [43679/13]

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I wish to share time with Deputies Mick Wallace, Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, Finian McGrath, Catherine Murphy, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Halligan and Mattie McGrath.

Cochlear Implants: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It is almost unbelievable for two reasons that we are having today’s debate. First, because there are so few children affected by the measure and, second, because the procedure under discussion is life-altering and is also time-restricted. It is criminal that parents have had to turn themselves into full-time campaigners. I welcome their initiative. I recognise that their drive has...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Any young person unfortunate enough to be watching this spectacle on a flat-screen television or a black and white portable might be somewhat shocked to see the leader of the country before us failing to answer any of the questions put to him. He talked about a €500 million investment in jobs and glossed over the fact that this is an equal sum to the...

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It is an ideological question. It is political treachery but it is also not even original. My question to the Tánaiste is whether he got his idea from David Cameron and the Tories, because David Cameron announced his plan for young people a couple of weeks ago. He wants to remove those under 25 from entitlement to jobseeker's and housing benefit because they should be earning or learning.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: That is the Tánaiste's rhetoric. My questions to the Tánaiste are as follows. His Government has stood over a revolution in social policy, overturning the benefits fought for by the trade union movement.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: That trade union movement yesterday challenged the Tánaiste to produce the figures and the research that backs up the waffle he has been giving the Chamber this morning.

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It asked him to provide the research that shows that cutting young people's benefits will create jobs and not lead to poverty.