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Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2015)

Clare Daly: ...guidelines, which it is unlikely the Minister will change all that much when he updates and publishes the new guidelines, the minimum size for a two-bedroom apartment is 73 sq. m, which is 15 sq. m less than the minimum in Germany. That amount of space is the size of a living room in a family home. That is the issue we are trying to address. I agree with the points made by Deputy...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Clare Daly: ...- many of the measures included in the budget have been designed to make those who already have a greater share of the wealth even wealthier. The special assignee relief programme will cost the guts of €5 million, money which I believe could have been better used on public services. Points have been made about the inheritance tax measure which will benefit approximately 2,000...

Patents (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (6 Oct 2011)

Clare Daly: ...deals with Irish patents lists an average figure of 320 patents granted each year between 2007 and 2009, with roughly one third of those applying being granted a patent. Of the patents granted, 250 were granted to people within the State. In a European context, the European Patent Office granted 33,844 patents with an effect in Ireland, of which only 151 were granted to applicants from...

Climate Change: Statements (4 May 2016)

Clare Daly: ...to reaching a peak on greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible and keeping the global temperature increase well below 2° Celsius, as well as pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels. After 2020 we will have to rein in our remissions extensively, but the plans are not in place to realise this. The intended nationally...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: ...the lands for Intel, which wished to expand its operations in Ireland and it wanted to do it on the land owned by Thomas Reid. Three years and one very lonely battle against the State later, on 5 November 2015 Thomas Reid won a stunning Supreme Court victory against IDA Ireland. Let us remember it was a unanimous verdict. The five judge court ruled that IDA Ireland had acted ultra vires...

Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (11 Jan 2012)

Clare Daly: ...is that the introduction of the provision has been delayed. The legislation should have been passed before Christmas. I note that the Government is respecting the provisions of the directive from 5 December but we all know what happened when the word got out that this provision was to be given legislative status - many employers started banging the drum. One would think they were going...