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Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: The comment was untruthful.

Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: This Government chose not to tackle the wealthy, the corporations or their own perks. The notion that we should be grateful that core payments were not tackled is a disgrace and an insult. The respite care grant is the core payment to 20,000 families in this State and it has been attacked. As a consequence of the cut, their core income will have to be stretched to bear the cost of...

Topical Issues: State Forestry Sector (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: There is a problem with the Minister's reply. He says the sale and acquisition of land takes place on a regular basis and is the responsibility of the company. The Irish people believe these forests are our land and our crop, to be managed on our behalf. Coillte is making decisions to sell our land behind closed doors. It is clearly necessary, even more so in view of the Minister's reply,...

Topical Issues: State Forestry Sector (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: We are discussing this issue against the backdrop of Coillte's decision to sell 1,000 acres of public forestry with the approval of the Minister, which is in addition to the 40,000 acres of public forest lands that have already been transferred into private ownership by Coillte. It is time for a rigorous public inquiry into the activities of this organisation. In the past three years it has...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if, in relation to the promised Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill and access to records by adult victims of illegal adoptions, she will ensure that the rights of the person, against whom a crime has been committed, to establish their identity shall supersede any claimed constitutional right to privacy of any other person. [56669/12]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Legislation (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will publish a list of the known location of adoption records and ensure that these records are immediately protected and secured. [56668/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the change over to Student Universal Support Ireland, the amount by which the costs will exceed the savings for year one and two. [56475/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in comparison to last year's figures the number of new or first time grant applications have been received this year. [56476/12]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Expenditure (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in future years will there be an overall reduction in the moneys allocated for student grants and the proposed figures for same. [56477/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Change Policy (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government noting that the Kyoto Extension negotiated in Doha will only cover 15% of the world's greenhouse emissions, the current expected compensation costs from 2020 that Ireland has signed up to. [56284/12]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternal Mortality (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health in relation to recent statements he has made in the press about Ireland having one of the lowest rates of maternal mortality in the world, if he will confirm that the recently published first Confidential Maternal Death Enquiry in Ireland Report for the Triennium 2009 – 2011 records that the maternal death rate in Ireland is at best average in comparison...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the Health Service Executive commissioned KPMG Independent Review of Maternity and Gynaecology Services in the greater Dublin area, published in 2008, found a 30% shortfall in necessary obstetric, midwifery, neonatal and theatre staff to meet international standards for safe care; and if in view of recorded recent maternal deaths in...

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: They will not thank the Minister.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: I would like to share my time with Deputies Boyd Barrett, Wallace, Donnelly and Higgins.

Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Second Stage (14 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: As a committed socialist, I can assure the Minister that, contrary to his earlier assertion that this tax on the family home is a tax on capital assets or some form of Marxist ideology, it certainly is not. The idea that a home for which people have spent a lifetime paying or to which, in other instances, they are shackled for another 20 or 30 years is some form of asset to be sweated is a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (13 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with the fact that almost two thirds of the raw sewerage pumped into the sea 50 yards from the coast at Rush, County Dublin, is untreated in view of the fact that this is in breach of EU and Environmental Protection Agency regulations. [56092/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (13 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review cases similar to Mallak v the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, following the decision of the Supreme Court in relation to the lack of transparency and fairness in the process of applying for Irish citizenship. [56090/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (13 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to progress with the introduction of an independent review mechanism for those whose applications for Irish citizenship were turned down, following the highlighting of the lack of transparency and fairness in the process by the Supreme Court Mallak v the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. [56091/12]

Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: One of the most disgusting and reprehensible speeches ever delivered in this institution was made in 1924 by the Cumann na nGaedheal Minister for Industry and Commerce, Patrick McGilligan. In response to an outcry from Labour Party Deputies about the proposal to reduce the old age pension by 10% - the Deputies in question spoke of the hardship, horror and starvation being experienced by...

Other Questions: EU Battlegroups (12 Dec 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of Ireland's participation in the German led EU battlegroup. [54756/12]