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Written Answers — Taxi Regulation: Taxi Regulation (14 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing enforceable guidelines or legislation, if required, that prevents taxi drivers from being forced by taxi firms to bear the cost of uniforms and phone calls to customers. [14444/12]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulation: Taxi Regulation (14 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 208: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing enforceable guidelines or legislation, if required, that will regulate the power of taxi firms to disable taxi drivers off the air if the taxi drivers hand their job back. [14445/12]

Written Answers — Taxi Regulation: Taxi Regulation (14 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will explain the rationale whereby only taxi drivers whose licence numbers are above 45,000 must not have cars older than nine years. [14446/12]

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: The time for shrugging its shoulders on this issue has passed and the Government must take responsibility and intervene now. We have a situation where the banks are supposedly owned on our behalf and it is time for the Government to show them who is master. Reading the papers, one would have to wonder who is calling the shots when we see the banks lamenting the fact that the Central Bank...

Written Answers — Revenue Commissioners Investigations: Revenue Commissioners Investigations (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 162: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the progress of the Revenue Commissioners' investigation into an organisation (details supplied) which began in November 2011 arising from allegations of withholding of relevant contracts tax. [14115/12]

Written Answers — Third Level Courses: Third Level Courses (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 209: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will inquire with the Higher Education and Training Awards Council if, and if so, the reason, it approved the religion module in the higher diploma in arts in primary education in a college (details supplied) which contained statements that have caused extreme offence in the atheist community; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 289: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will consider this person's case and intervene so that a supplementary welfare allowance payment can be made. [14216/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Schemes: Departmental Schemes (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 326: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will change the criteria for grant aided conservation projects for home owners to a partially means tested scheme, in order that higher grants are available to those with lower incomes, on a sliding scale basis, in view of the fact that the present scheme means that the benefits of the scheme are...

Written Answers — Fire Safety: Fire Safety (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 347: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to fire safety concerns in any other developments apart from Belmayne, Dublin. [13532/12]

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 378: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will introduce an exemption for executors of wills who are charged with selling a house on behalf of the deceased and are currently landed with liability for the household tax and the non-principal private residence tax. [13986/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 392: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he queried the decision made by an organisation (details supplied), which receives its funds from his Department, to spend €2 million on an office block in 2004 while continuing to rent its prior premises up to 2007 at a cost of €3666.81 per month despite that premises being left vacant. [14116/12]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 420: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will introduce a protocol whereby vendors of property are required to have carried out a list of checks to ensure the property is legally in a position to be sold, in order to avoid costs and trauma to potential purchasers, in a similar way to the pre-approval that purchasers must get for purchase. [13533/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 479: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the source of the extra funding made available to Teagasc for works at Ashtown, Dublin. [14655/12]

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 514: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason extra funding has been made available to Teagasc for works in Ashtown; and from what budget have these moneys been made available. [14362/12]

Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 521: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will reverse the 6.5% cut in funding for youth services which will mean that many projects will have to axe summer projects and other vital youth support services at a time when there is increasing demand. [13633/12]

Written Answers — Abuse in Hospitals: Abuse in Hospitals (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 556: To ask the Minister for Health if he will launch a full inquiry into the complaints of sexual abuse of patients in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, County Louth, which were first logged in 1995, as sought by him in Dáil Éireann on 30 June 2009. [13632/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 609: To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit that there will be no reduction in service, level of care, number of staff or beds in St. Joseph's, Ardee, County Louth, in view of the fact that the early retirement scheme has resulted in savings of €250,000, which equates to 10% of the budget and exceeds the 7.7% targeted reduction. [14138/12]

Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (13 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 610: To ask the Minister for Health the reason County Louth appears to be disproportionately subjected to cuts in older persons' care, with two out of the 21 homes in DNE requiring special attention coming from County Louth. [14139/12]

Local Authority Charges (8 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: If the Ceann Comhairle had acknowledged me, I would have put my hand up.

Local Authority Charges (8 Mar 2012)

Clare Daly: The Minister said that the penalties will act as a disincentive and will encourage people to register but with 75% of the time elapsed before his deadline and only 12% of households registered, how does he intend to square that circle when his Department was not capable of even delivering to every household? How does he intend to pursue people with late interest payments given the State...