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ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: I fully support the Private Members' motion and I reject totally the efforts of the Government to engage in a salami-style privatisation of our semi-State companies starting with the ESB. I am not surprised this route is being taken. Under the guise of EU-IMF intervention attempts are being made to foist similar programmes on Greece at present. In reality this is the neoliberal agenda. It...

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: They are stealing the clothes the Deputy is wearing in this Chamber.

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: To think Deputy Keaveney is a SIPTU official.

European Financial Stability Facility and Euro Area Loan Facility (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: I am amazed by the previous speaker who referred to austerity as not being the solution. Naturally, it is not, but it is the only recipe in town for the Government, of which Deputy Spring's party is part. He is not an idle bystander, rather he is part of that process. It is an absolute scandal that an issue of such seriousness is being discussed in this manner. This matter should be put...

Official Engagements (21 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Defence his plans to visit Irish troops serving in Lebanon; and if he will use the opportunity to visit Gaza and extend Irish solidarity to the oppressed Palestinian people. [25255/11]

Official Engagements (21 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: I am glad the Minister is to visit the troops in Lebanon, although I am not sure of the timescale for the visit. The purpose of the question was to make the point that, given that the Minister would be in the region, it would it be an ideal opportunity to lead from the front and extend solidarity with the people of Gaza by attempting to incorporate a visit there? I would like the Minister...

Official Engagements (21 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: Whatever is the Minister's official role, he has an important role to play in this situation. It is totally remiss of him not to take the opportunity when he is in the region to attempt to visit Gaza. If he is suggesting his schedule is so tight that he can only fit in a visit to Lebanon, that is one issue. However, he should consider my suggestion and if he plans to visit anywhere else,...

Official Engagements (21 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: The Minister was not in his current role at the time.

Building Regulations (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: I thank the Minister for his reply but it does not deal with the content of the question. Clearly, the pyrite issue is devastating for the tens of thousands of affected householders. The Minister's response is an attempt to say that the State has no role or responsibility in this regard. The nub of the question is that the State is responsible for bringing in building regulations and that...

Building Regulations (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: With respect, the question was not answered. The question was twofold. Why is the standard in the building regulations deemed to be inadequate vis-À-vis the standard put forward by Premier Insurance? The Minister's answer was that it has a different standard from us. It has a higher standard and surely we, as the guardians of householders, should stand by the highest standards. The...

Building Regulations (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: It attributed liability to the quarry owners. It did not say the building regulations were fine.

Building Regulations (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: It said the quarry owners were liable.

Introduction of Water Charges (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: Exactly.

Septic Tank Regulation (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: A lot of people were employed on temporary contracts. Does the Minister expect them to go out inspecting septic tanks?

Septic Tank Regulation (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: I am flabbergasted at the Minister's lack of knowledge about what is happening in local authorities and the idea he would say that some local authority staff have no work to do. Everybody knows the local authorities cannot even undertake the functions which have been assigned to them because of the public sector recruitment embargo.

Septic Tank Regulation (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: I am sorry, Leas-Cheann Comhairle-----

Septic Tank Regulation (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: I am shocked that the Minister is so off the beam on this matter. Will the Minister lift the public sector recruitment embargo? The question has been asked and people are concerned about funding. Many septic tanks will be deemed to be defective and why would rural dwellers not be entitled to funding when billions of euro have been spent on upgrading the wastewater treatment plants? The...

Written Answers — Building Regulations: Building Regulations (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 101: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the scope and powers of the three person committee to address the pyrite issue with reference to the likely timescale; the way it will deal with HomeBond on its unilateral withdrawal of offers to householders whose homes have heave inducing pyrite. [24440/11]

Building Regulations (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: Question 3: To ask the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 222 of 20 July 2011, the reason the revised NSAI Standard recommendation, which amended the Building Regulations Technical Guidance Document TGD C, is deemed inadequate by the main non-homebond insurer of houses affected by heave-inducing pyrite, and that this insurer...

Order of Business (15 Sep 2011)

Clare Daly: Given the Tánaiste's announcement of the salami-style privatisation in which the Government is engaging, is it not appropriate to amend the Order of Business to discuss the McCarthy report and put this issue in context? Nobody would be conned by the Tánaiste's assurances this morning that only a minority of the company is up for sale in the ESB. As one who worked in Aer Lingus, a small...