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Written Answers — Access to Higher Education: Access to Higher Education (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills noting the Higher Education Authority document Towards a Future Higher Education Landscape and the success of the institutes of technology, RTCs over forty years in enabling hundreds of thousands of students to be the first in their family to access higher education and to graduate from IOTs, RTCs if he will outline his plans to...

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 74: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will intervene with AIB in view of speculation regarding thousands of job losses and ensure that management engage fully with the Irish Bank Officials Association. [19637/12]

Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 75: To ask the Minister for Finance the way service levels in the State owned AIB will be protected in view of the fact that thousands of bank officials are being threatened with redundancy, while already temporary workers have had to be employed to deal with the running of the bank, and the way these redundancies can possibly benefit the economy. [19638/12]

Written Answers — School Management: School Management (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 88: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of national schools currently with no board of management and in each case the reason for same. [19551/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 137: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in view of his Departments funding of remedial works for Clancarthy Court owned by Dublin City Council, damaged by pyrite, that similar moneys would be made available to all homeowners affected by pyrite. [19567/12]

Written Answers — Environmental Regulations: Environmental Regulations (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 142: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the certificates required by local authorities for dry cleaning businesses are only available from one company (details supplied) who have increased their prices from €300 to €475 within one year; the reason for such an increase, which is putting...

Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: We are against the fiscal treaty for the economic reasons outlined already in this debate by some of my ULA colleagues, but also on the grounds of the attack that it represents on democracy. Quite a fundamental shift is taking place. It is really a fundamental attack on the basic democratic right to elect a Government and have that Government decide on budgetary and economic strategy. Of...

Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: If I get extra time, I will.

Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: I would not. I would require considerably more than two minutes to unravel the undemocratic mess that is the European Commission and Council, and how people end up there. The fact that a number of governments across Europe may be slightly more dominated by right wing elements is neither here nor there. What we are talking about is enshrining the policies of those right wing governments...

Private Members' Business. Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Deputy Flanagan is always a hard act to follow. It is a welcome development that we have spent almost three hours discussing for the first time in the State the issue of abortion rights in a relatively positive way, albeit within limited scope. The discussion has been generally cordial and courteous, with a good tone and engaging debate. People constructively engaged in a balanced way and...

Social Welfare and Pensions Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: It is probably ironic that we are debating this Bill on the same day on which I introduced a Private Members' Bill designed to allow for abortion. In the run-up to its introduction, many were clamouring and demanding rights for so-called unborn children. I contrast this with the virtual silence on the deprivation and dire straits many children born in this country experience on a daily...

Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 370: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money he has made payable to an organisation (details supplied) per annum; the reason these moneys were awarded; the reason accounts were not audited; if previous commitments that this group would be investigated were carried out and the findings of same. [19015/12]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 371: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene at a school (details supplied) in County Dublin to immediately address serious health and safety concerns and provide permanent classrooms as the only viable solution to the fact that rot degradation of the prefab floor has resulted in rooms being condemned from usage. [19016/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 407: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide the dates of meetings, from the establishment of the task force on Autism in October 2000 up to July 2010, that he, his predecessors, senior officials from his Department and or task forces held with professional bodies in applied behaviour analysis and provide the minutes of those meetings. [19530/12]

Written Answers — Policy Reviews: Policy Reviews (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 408: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views that, when matters of science impact directly on education policy decisions, professionals not trained in a particular science to international standards should not be relied upon for clarification on issues pertaining to that science. [19531/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 531: To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 29 November 2011, regarding social welfare fraud statistics for 2010: the portion of the €25.9 million cited in her reply that represented suspected fraud and the portion of the €25.9 million saved that represented actual fraud. [18081/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 558: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the length of time it is currently taking to process claims for carer's allowance and if she will address these delays by allocating more resources to dealing with claims. [18315/12]

Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 840: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the steps he will take in order to implement the Kenny Report. [18355/12]

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 841: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) was brought on to the Building Regulation Advisory Board, in view of the problems experienced by residents in their dealings with that person to attend the Joint Committee on Environment, Transport, Culture and the Gaeltacht. [18356/12]

Written Answers — Asylum Applications: Asylum Applications (18 Apr 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 960: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the 2011 figures for the number of decisions made by Refugee Applications Tribunal and the number of these rulings which overturned the decision of the Office of the Refugee Applications Commissioner. [18088/12]