Results 12,221-12,240 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (9 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the closure of Abbey College in August 2011 and the fact that staff members were awarded a judgment for outstanding wages by both the LRC and EAT and yet remain unpaid, the measures in place to ensure the directors of this company cannot open another educational facility. [42678/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cochlear Implants (9 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the provisions being put in place for the implementation of a programme to provide for bilateral cochlear implants. [42662/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (8 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason, in the context of 20% of children being educated in classes of over 30, for the way teachers are expected to cope with these numbers which are combined with the erosion of learning support, resource teaching hours, Traveller support, special needs assistants and EAL, which are causing an unmanageable crisis in many instances and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (8 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons for the removal of the DEIS Rural category for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin, which has pressures that would traditionally be associated with a disadvantaged school; the steps he will take to deal with the particular pressures being experienced in the area as a result of poor planning and housing decisions. [42121/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Issues (8 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money that was refunded to his Department following investigation into irregularities in an office (details supplied) including any refunds in relation to the amounts charged under the 13% agreement in relation to administration fees, where these refunds appear in the school transport accounts, his Department's accounts; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (8 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure there are no further cuts to protect services at providers such as Prosper Fingal. [42267/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly Provision (8 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 569. To ask the Minister for Health if the policy document Towards a Restraint Free Environment is being implemented at the Yeats ward in the Fairview Community Unit, Dublin 3 [42220/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Unions Issues (3 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 46. To ask the Minister for Finance the role of the Central Bank in appointing a special manager to Newbridge Credit Union; his views on whether it is appropriate that to date no detailed reasons have been given to the members for the appointment of the special manager. [41301/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Payments (3 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a taxi company (details supplied) was levied with a bill for almost €500,000 for VAT on radios supplied to taxi drivers, despite the fact that no such payments have been sought from other taxi companies. [41300/13]

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: It does not restore the system to one of best practice, of which a civilised society would be proud. Every public body and citizen knows, if they are doing their job properly and are prepared to be accountable and as long as we respect an individual's privacy, giving that information is good. Information is empowering and belongs to the people. It should not be given at the diktat of...

Freedom of Information Bill 2013: Second Stage (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: I welcome the discussion of this legislation. There is no doubt that the butchering of the 1997 Act by Fianna Fáil was absolutely and utterly reprehensible, and it was somewhat amusing to listen to its spokesperson's contribution earlier in this context. That said, the idea that the Minister has moulded himself into some great liberator and defender of democracy, going boldly where...

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 10. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the number of citizens being held in prison in Northern Ireland without being tried or charged, in one case for over three years; and the steps he has taken to address this issue. [41052/13]

Other Questions: Human Rights Issues (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: The use of language is important. Revocation of a licence can sound harmless but in reality what we are talking about is people convicted of crimes who did their time and were released on licence but who were picked up many years later and put in prison without any charges being put to them or without any questions. The reality is people on this island have been de facto interned. Other...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he will take in response to the statement from the Council of Europe's human rights chief, Nils Muiznieks, on 11 September 2013, stating that countries like Ireland, which colluded with the kidnapping and torture of terror suspects by the CIA, must investigate and atone for their actions; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money refunded to his Department following the investigations into corruption and/or irregularities in the Limerick office of Bus Éireann's school transport section. [41283/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in relation to the Limerick office, where the refunds following the investigations into corruption and irregularities appear in the school transport accounts and in the acccounts of his Department. [41285/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will be informing the Garda of the irregularities in the Limerick office of Bus Éireann's school transport section. [41286/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money that was charged, under the 13% agreement with Bus Éireann in relation to the administration fees paid to it that was refunded. [41284/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff Recruitment (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that the recruitment process for the appointment of a position (details supplied) was carried out in an open and transparent manner. [41316/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Correspondence (2 Oct 2013)

Clare Daly: 174. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way a memo dated 20 March 2002 from the Department and the facts therein, which had been the subject of numerous parliamentary questions in 2004, were denied and concealed by the Department until they were disclosed in a freedom of information inquiry to a third party in 2008. [41401/13]