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Written Answers — Diplomatic Representation: Diplomatic Representation (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 129: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount that has been spent on Irish embassies, by location, for each of the past five years. [8025/12]

Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Finance if it is the case that the total VAT currently being charged on ESB bills is being charged on the total bill including the carbon tax and if this is so the basis for same. [8184/12]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way staff in Longford Vocational Education Committee who are availing of the early retirement scheme are being re-employed into the same positions on a part time basis; the number of these cases that exist; the positions to which they relate; and in view of the cuts at VEC level, the budgets from which these payments are being...

Written Answers — Personal Vacation Days: Personal Vacation Days (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 196: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the decision made by the previous Government to cut extra personal vacation days to teachers who engage in voluntary overseas work. [7604/12]

Written Answers — FÁS Training Programmes: FÁS Training Programmes (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 244: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) will be eligible to complete a FÁS plumbing apprenticeship under the scheme for redundant apprentices and when the funding will be available for them to do so. [8185/12]

Written Answers — Broadcasting Services: Broadcasting Services (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 402: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason the Saorview service which is imposing additional charges on householders is necessary; if householders will be allowed to retain their existing satisfactory service; and if not, the reason therefore. [8126/12]

Written Answers — Property Management Companies: Property Management Companies (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 413: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to deal with the substantial problems faced by residents whose dwellings are part of management companies, in view of the large number of such companies that are insolvent, causing legal problems for owners, combined with the problems of local authorities being unable to offer a level of service...

Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 431: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason the household tax database was not put out to tender in accordance with departmental procedures. [7840/12]

Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 608: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual costs of promoting and pursuing inter-country adoption in her Department and at the Adoption Authority of Ireland. [8133/12]

Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 609: To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual costs of providing search and reunion services to adopted persons and natural parents; and the amount of Adoption Authority of Ireland and Health Service Executive annual budgets that are spent on these activities. [8134/12]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (14 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 737: To ask the Minister for Health his views regarding budget cuts in the Lusk Nursing Home, County Dublin, at which it is being proposed that rather than receiving freshly cooked meals the residents will instead receive reheated meal that are to be precooked in St. Ita's Hospital in Portrane [8283/12]

Departmental Agencies (9 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: While I thank the Minister, there are a couple of problems with that response. It is not acceptable to have a statement to the effect that it is not appropriate for the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to interfere in this area. I do not count it as interference when the State body responsible for horticultural development in the State makes decisions that are, at best,...

Departmental Agencies (9 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: How could this be rationalisation if Teagasc is obliged to spend more money to acquire lands when such lands already exist at the Kinsealy facility? Everything it needs already is located there. Can the Minister comment on the fact that a further €2.5 million will be spent by Teagasc on doing up classrooms for the Office of Public Works in the Botanic Gardens to train students, when such...

Written Answers — Departmental Agencies: Departmental Agencies (9 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 22: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Teagasc is spending millions on classrooms in the Botanic Gardens, when such facilities already exist in Kinsealy, Dublin, and all the practical work has to be undertaken in that area. [7005/12]

Departmental Agencies (9 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Agriculture; Food and the Marine the costs associated with the plans to move the Teagasc facility to Ashtown from Kinsealy, County Dublin; and if he will ensure that these moves are halted in view of the fact that the site is unsuitable and too small. [7006/12]

Written Answers — Banking Sector Regulation: Banking Sector Regulation (8 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will, holding ownership of AIB for the Irish people and holding a major shareholding in Bank of Ireland, inform Dáil Éireann of the amount of Government bonds swapped by each institution on 25 January 2012. [7136/12]

Written Answers — Water Services: Water Services (8 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 122: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government noting that the recommended design figure for water usage is 180 litres per head per day, EPA 1999, that the allocation per house allowed when a commercial user shares a meter with a domestic user is 225 cubic metres annually, DOELG Circular WSP5/06, equivalent to 154 litres per head per day for a four...

Written Answers — Departmental Bodies: Departmental Bodies (8 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: Question 154: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has received a revised proposal from Bord na gCon in regard to assisting in the management of greyhound racing in China; if he will confirm that animal welfare will be prioritised in any submission received from Bord na gCon in regard to assisting in the management of greyhound racing in China; and if he will make a...

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: I propose to share time with Deputy Seamus Healy.

Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Feb 2012)

Clare Daly: The operation of the legal services and the manner in which they are regulated forms the basis of a critical debate. Many points have been made about the public interest, with suggestions that it is synonymous with the interests of barristers and solicitors. They are not necessarily one and the same. There also has been a great deal of reference to the Minister's motivation in this Bill....