Results 13,241-13,260 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Homemakers Schemes (13 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in Budget 2013 for a backdating of the home-makers scheme from 1994 back to 1964 in order to ensure that workers with and interrupted PRSI record do not lose out on their contributory State pension. [49913/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (13 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of reviews that have been carried out by the Chief Appeals Officer each year since 2005. [49923/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (13 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the expected timeframe for developing a stand alone specification for hard core as outlined in recommendation 15 of the Pyrite Panel Report. [49969/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (13 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made on his dealings with the stakeholders regarding a solution to the pyrite issue. [49970/12]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (13 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in the publication of the Mental Capacity Bill 2008; and if he will address this matter urgently. [49633/12]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will conduct a review of the location of speed cameras and the inconsistency in speed limits signage in order to improve road safety. [49402/12]

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: I wish to share time with Deputies Joan Collins, Seamus Healy and Finian McGrath.

Credit Union Bill 2012: Second Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: The first point that has to be made is that credit unions are not banks. As other Deputies have said, this is something we should celebrate against the background of bankruptcy in which many of our banks' rogue practices have put the country and many of its citizens. It is a good thing we have a viable financial alternative to our banking system in the form of credit unions. The credit...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Business of Select Committee (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: How much time will the meeting on 22 November take? It starts at 11.30 a.m., but when does it finish?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: Can the report be circulated beforehand?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: It is a practical question. If the Minister were to accept amendment No. 26 which I know is highly unlikely, we would not have to make the case for some of our fall-back amendments as they would no longer be necessary.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: I would like to be helpful. The point we are making is that amendment No. 26 proposes the prohibition of many activities, whereas many of the other amendments in this group relate to how these activities might be controlled. Amendment No. 26 would prohibit fur farming, whereas one of the others suggests how it might be controlled. It is obvious that if amendment No. 26 were to be accepted,...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: Basically, yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: If amendment No. 26 is passed, the others will fall automatically because they will no longer be relevant. We should deal with that amendment first.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Animal Welfare Issues (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Health if he will agree to animal welfare advice not to directly transpose a loophole in the ban on inflicting severe and prolonged pain on animals in experiments, article 55.3 of the Animal Experimentation Directive, and instead require the passage of secondary legislation for the licensing of such high levels of harm [48751/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme (8 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that a company (details supplied) are refusing claims of homeowners with heave inducing pyrite of a level that they previously accepted based on the Pyrite Panels categorisation of the amber category; and the steps he will take to address this situation. [49334/12]

Pensions and Retirement Lump Sums: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: Nothing sums up the tail of the two Irelands in which we live more than the issue of pension provisions and the double standards which prevail. Many of the Deputies have highlighted very well the absolute obscenity of the gilt-edged pensions paid to bankers and politicians, the very people responsible for the economic crisis in the first place, and those elderly vulnerable citizens being...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (7 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on whether most of the allowances paid to Defence Forces personnel form part of core pay, and will be protected in the event of any review of such allowances. [48562/12]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Archives (7 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Defence if there is a timescale for the release of the military pension records. [48561/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Reports (6 Nov 2012)

Clare Daly: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine as the main shareholder of Coillte Ireland, if he will indicate a timeline for publication of the geographical survey carried out on Coillte lands in 1989. [47689/12]