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Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: The only guarantee for young people is if there is a job at the end of it. As the Tánaiste has not answered the question and has demonstrated that he has done no research on this-----

Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I am using the Tánaiste's answer. He talks about additional funding. In his answer to Deputy McDonald, he lauded the fact the Government is, for example, recruiting extra gardaí. However, he glosses over the fact that the changes to the pension scheme are going to result in about 1,000 gardaí walking out of their jobs, so the net result will, in fact, not be any extra job...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 11. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will justify the rationale in changes to community employment schemes which has resulted in for example, golf clubs having to let go staff where there was a strong history of training and subsequent employment. [43680/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation Expenditure (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 68. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the representational allowances paid to staff working overseas in embassies, consular offices and other areas, under the following headings; the grade of staff to whom these allowances are paid; the amount of the allowance per person per year; the reason for the allowance whether they are vouched or unvouched; the number...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Debt (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a discount rate was applied to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation loans but this did not apply to residential mortgage holders. [44031/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be able to access a school place to meet their special needs. [44029/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Sale of State Assets (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the percentage of wind farms and wind farm assets of Bord Gáis it is envisaged they will sell; the number of wind farms this amounts to; and if he will supply a list of locations. [43918/13]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Postcode System Implementation (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Loc8 postcode system which was developed after ten years, consultants reports, and three years of research costing €1million is not being used for the new postcode system even though it is capable of doing everything that Capita have been asked to devise. [44030/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Administration (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 172. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 10 October 2013 the reason he stated he had no function in determining the content of protocols and if this is the view of both the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission and the Garda Síochána, considering that the protocols provide a basis for timely and complete co-operation and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 231. To ask the Minister for Health if he will justify the fact that there has been no paediatric urologist at Temple Street Hospital despite the absolute requirement for such a position to be available for treating children with spina bifida who could die from kidney failure and that they will commit to the provision of a urology monitoring system at the hospital [44081/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (17 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 9 was refused access to the Health Service Executive treatment abroad scheme although they cannot access the necessary treatment here [44035/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Expenditure (16 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 70. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Local Authority National Partnership Advisory Group undertook and funded an international trip to New York from 7 to 15 September 2001; if it has been brought to his attention that the total cost of flight and accommodation for the six person delegation was...

Financial Resolutions 2014: No. 2: Tobacco Products Tax (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It is an insult to dress up this measure as a behaviour-altering measure. In reality, it is simply revenue generating. If this Government were serious about tackling the tobacco industry, it would start at the top with those companies that poison tobacco users rather than with the victims. Tobacco smoking is an addiction. People need to smoke and unless they get help to come off the drug,...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: When I hear Fianna Fáil berating the Minister for using the lotto funds as a slush fund for next year’s local elections, it is a real case of the pupil becoming the master. The Government has become more Fianna Fáil than Fianna Fáil itself. That contribution was a fitting conclusion to act one of the annual budget pantomime when we sit here through set-pieces with mock...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: The Minister is correct that this Government certainly does not create jobs but other Governments have. With 500,000 people unemployed and this Government’s rate of job creation, we will be waiting 30 years for it to be tackled when many of us will be long dead. The Government is driving people into scam labour schemes to massage the figures. Its policies have failed and its...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: At the same time, the Minister will be driving down the public service pay bill by €500 million. How is this genius going to accomplish this miracle? The only way is by a race to the bottom, slashing public sector wages - which the Budget Statement reveals - outsourcing decent jobs, yellow-packing and driving down wages in the private sector. What is the result? There will be less...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: He says nothing about the €8.5 billion that we will be paying on interest on the national debt. Who is paying for this? Our children. While the Minister for Education and Skills makes the big claim he has not increased class sizes, he has created a hellhole for teachers and students. A teacher in my constituency wrote to me on how they coped pre-cuts because children and teachers...

Financial Resolutions 2014 - Budget Statement 2014 (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: Ministers are immunised in their cosy little club in here but they do not actually know what is going on outside these doors. If they did, they would realise that to take away mortgage interest supplement when so many families are about to lose their homes is lunacy. Unfortunately we do not have much time but it is ironic that the Government can come here some evening and change the law...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Tax Compliance (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 110. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will remove the condition in the Consolidated Companies Act 2012 whereby small and medium businesses are subject to a compulsory audit for late filing of returns and instead apply a financial penalty, thereby removing the risk of significant costs to the business for accountants and auditors while simultaneously removing the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Employment Initiative (15 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 120. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to address high youth unemployment. [42575/13]