Parliamentary questions

Property Tax Exemptions

Clare Daly

217. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his views on a matter relating to pyrite and the property tax (details supplied). [8212/14]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Clare Daly

277. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm or deny that a report was done for the National Council for Special Education and his Department pre-2005, since the assumption is that they have used some guideline or report to base their recommendations based on the working hours of the 4,000 schools in the country, since his Department was responsible for the generation of the report, which has been used under appendix 5 of Sp. Ed. 01/05, since the NCSE did not have such information, or had come into effect. [7974/14]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Clare Daly

278. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the name of report used by his Department and the National Council for Special Education for creating Sp. Ed. 01/05, appendix 5, or request the NCSE to release the report which it used as the guideline based on the working hours of the 4,000 schools in the country, under the Freedom of Information Act; and if not, if he will provide a valid reason for same. [7975/14]

Pensions Reform

Clare Daly

354. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the terms of reference of the ad hoc group that she is chairing in relation to pensions in the State sector. [7465/14]

Inland Waterways Development

Clare Daly

427. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will amend the proposed draft canal by-laws to reflect the huge number of submissions from the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland. [7662/14]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

Clare Daly

547. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the seriousness of the surveillance on GSOC, when he was made aware of this; and if he will provide assurances that this surveillance not was carried out on behalf of members of the Garda who were being investigated by GSOC. [7508/14]

Hepatitis C Compensation Payments

Clare Daly

689. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason various figures outlined in Parliamentary Question No. 238 of 6 February 2014 contradict published accounts on the hepatitis C website; if he will explain the way payments figures were treated in the two accounts held by his Department; and if he will request a comprehensive, independent audit of the hepatitis C tribunal with particular reference to a fictitious surplus built up over two years. [7550/14]

Legislative Measures

Clare Daly

777. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he argued for any extra provisions to be made in the forthcoming legislation on protection of whistleblowers to protect any employees of airlines or companies associated with the provision or operation of aircraft or flight crew, who may wish to disclose information which they consider to be of significance to protecting the safety of the travelling public; and in view of some serious incidents which have occurred in the aviation sector. [7996/14]

Midwifery Services

Clare Daly

24. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will remove the public services recruitment embargo in respect of midwives as a matter of urgency in view of the closure of Mount Carmel Hospital, which is placing further pressures on maternity hospitals to accommodate 1,200 additional births every year, and in view of the confirmation of severe midwifery staffing shortages, which are jeopardising pregnant women’s care and which have been known to his Department since 2006 and to the Health Service Executive since 2008 when its own KPMG study reported a shortage of 221 midwives in the greater Dublin region. [6706/14]

European Court of Human Rights Judgments

Clare Daly

62. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he has assessed the implications of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in a case (details supplied) for the 250 or so legal actions for medical negligence taken by survivors of symphysiotomy and pubiotomy. [6707/14]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Clare Daly

113. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if persons are being employed under JobBridge or any other labour activation scheme in relation to operating Caranua; and his views on whether it is appropriate that unqualified persons would work in such a sensitive area with persons who are extremely vulnerable as a result of the abuse they suffered. [7345/14]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Clare Daly

114. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Linden Home in Blackrock was excluded from the residential institutions redress scheme; and the steps that are open to former residents to obtain redress. [7365/14]

Office of Public Works Staff

Clare Daly

128. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of engineers and technical staff who have left the flood management section over the past five years and not been replaced; the amount of money paid during that time on reports carried out by external engineers; and the number of those reports that were commissioned to Irish-based engineers and companies. [7347/14]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

148. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection in view of the Element Six Commercial Court decision delivered on 4 February 2014, if the Pensions Board guidance notes will now give formal recognition to compensation funds which are being proposed, as well as comments on the expected behaviour of employers and the relationship between a funding proposal and contract. [7360/14]

Social Welfare Code

Clare Daly

149. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason the monthly docket system for casual workers is being replaced by a requirement for workers to submit their dockets to the local social welfare office on a weekly basis. [7361/14]

Garda Vetting of Personnel

Clare Daly

193. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when gardaí will be told that their vetting process is to adhere to the National Vetting Bureau Act 2012, since this Bill became an Act of law upon the President's signature on 26 December 2012, under which those convicted under section 1(1) of the Probation Act 1906 would finally see the minor details of their offences deemed withheld upon the grounds of specified information, that is, upon the nature of the given offence, as such a conviction may not be revealed if it deems one not to be a threat to children or vulnerable people; and the reason citizens are not being vetted in accordance with the new law. [7335/14]

Asylum Applications

Clare Daly

194. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 459 of 25 June 2013, the number of persons living in direct provision and elsewhere here who made their application for protection more than five years ago and are awaiting or engaged in asylum related judicial review proceedings; and if he will provide a breakdown by duration of persons within this group who have has deportation orders made against them, and by duration and current stage of asylum process of persons within this group who do not have deportation orders against them. [7362/14]

Hospitals Building Programme

Clare Daly

256. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will direct the Health Service Executive to organise a public briefing for the community in Portrane and Donabate and elected public representatives with regard to the redevelopment plans currently on display by Fingal County Council relating to the redevelopment of lands at St. Ita's Hospital in Portrane. [7363/14]

Public Transport Initiatives

Clare Daly

299. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the terms of reference of the consultation for the bus rapid transit corridor and swiftway system which commences on 17 February 2014; with whom will the final route decisions rest; and the role of the local authorities in same. [7364/14]

Adoption Records Provision

Clare Daly

25. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the undeniable evidence, in writing, that religious run adoption agencies participated in and facilitated illegal adoptions, the reason neither her Department nor the Adoption Authority of Ireland has carried out an audit of every adoption record held in the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6523/14]