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European Summit: Motion (8 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Like my colleague, I am speaking as an internationalist in support of the ULA positive addendum to the Technical Group's motion. The idea that one cannot be pro-Europe if one is against the European Union is nonsense. The current position makes it clear to people everywhere that there is dictatorship by the markets is not an exaggerated claim by left wingers in respect of a global...

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (7 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 28: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will issue guidelines to all Departments and statutory bodies advising that when advertising job vacancies they make it known to the public if the post being advertised is new or if it is a vacancy of a post that previously existed as a fixed-term contract. [39114/11]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (6 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason €70 million was spent on the ABA pilot school, but no research was undertaken by him or the National Council for Special Education to evaluate the school's effectiveness; the reason he cannot produce a list of the evidence and advice he received regarding the policy on the education of children with autism (details...

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (6 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 174: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Dublin could sign on in their local office and collect their payment in their local office. [38528/11]

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (6 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 222: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has assigned funding for the Nevitt landfill, Lusk, County Dublin. [38562/11]

Written Answers — Waste Disposal: Waste Disposal (6 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 233: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm if Fingal County Council has requested him to re-examine the proposed major landfill at Nevitt, Lusk, County Dublin; and if he has made available funds for the acquisition of land through compulsory purchase order and to carry out the works necessary to develop the site. [38561/11]

Statements on Expenditure (5 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Austerity is not working and everybody knows it. Everybody outside the Chamber certainly feels it, yet it is the only medicine that has been dished out by the Government today. What a pitiful disappointment for the tens of thousands of people who voted for the Government parties in the hope that they would represent something different. Far from being a crusading Minister coming to deliver...

Written Answers — Prison Accommodation: Prison Accommodation (1 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the categories of female offenders that will be housed in the new dormitory-style accommodation at the Dóchas Centre; his views on whether dormitory accommodation may prove more problematic than traditional cell-based accommodation due to drug use and possession of other prohibited items; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (1 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 79: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a three-acre site was purchased in Thomastown, County Kilkenny, in 2009 for the Health and Safety Authority, although it was clear that the move would not take place and that the price was excessive. [38180/11]

Prison Accommodation (1 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider halting the prison building plans at Dóchas and instead divert resources to provision of community based residential and therapeutic alternatives to prison for women, which are proven to be cheaper, more effective and more capable of addressing the complex needs of women offenders; and if he will make a statement...

Prison Accommodation (1 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: I thank the Minister for the reply. Overcrowding is a serious issue in all of the prisons and, as the Minister stated, especially in the Dóchas Centre but what has arisen out of this crisis is a shift in the ethos around which that facility was built, namely, the idea of a more open and rehabilitative process. A consequence of the overcrowding is that it has been replaced by a somewhat...

Prison Accommodation (1 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Are the extra 70 dormitory spaces replacing the bunking up situation in the single cells? A previous governor resigned over the totally inadequate nature of that provision. Will that be discontinued as a result of these spaces? Has the Minister obtained any information on how many current prisoners are reoffenders? In my experience, many of the same people come back again. If moneys were...

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: Yes.

Health Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2011)

Clare Daly: This Bill draws attention to the debacle that is the Irish health service and the role of private health insurance. I find it absolutely shocking that 47% of the population have private health insurance. That is a huge number of families who are already overburdened with other bills and who have to scrape together the means to come up with those funds. It is interesting to note that this...

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (30 Nov 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 33: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that HomeBond is co-operating with the pyrite panel in revealing all the information in its possession relating to pyrite infill under ground floor slabs of houses insured by HomeBond against major structural damage; and if he has any proposals to deal with structural guarantees into the...

Social Welfare Benefits: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Clare Daly: Social Justice Ireland, hardly the most militant or revolutionary group in the country, made the point this morning at the Joint Committee on Jobs, Social Protection and Education that any cut in child benefit would be a red line issue for it and that if the Government thought that it could get away with replacing the idea of a €10 cut in child benefit with one of €5, then it would not...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Clare Daly: Everybody would support the idea of improving water quality and upgrading septic tanks but the issue before us is the way it will be done and who will pay for it. The Government can dress it up any way it likes but rural dwellers know that what is going on here is the use of an environmental cover or the threat of the European Union to bring in a new stealth tax. The proof of that is that...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)

Clare Daly: I am sorry, but I thought you would give me a minute's notice. Why does the Government not set up a task force and employ thousands of unemployed engineers, technicians, construction workers and so on to remediate these septic tanks as a public service and, where possible, connect those to the public sewer?

Building Regulations (30 Nov 2011)

Clare Daly: I do not understand how we can have improved inspection rates or performance against a backdrop of a public sector recruitment embargo and how the Minister can talk about pooling resources when those which exist are insufficient to do the tasks already on the shoulders of local authorities, never mind giving them more. Where there is a conflict between what a competent professional is saying...

Local Authority Housing (30 Nov 2011)

Clare Daly: I need the Minister to explain the contradiction between the impression he gives about his dealings with NAMA and some possible outcome that he might acquire the properties permanently and the reality of government social housing policy which is, as Deputy Boyd Barrett said, one of long-term leasing where local authorities are required to enter into an arrangement to lease a property for ten...