Parliamentary questions

National Carers Strategy Status

Clare Daly

36. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the plans she has to support the thousands of children in the State who are currently acting as carers. [6524/14]

Forestry Sector

Clare Daly

109. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will explain the connection between Coillte and the Irish Forestry Unit Trust; and the steps he has taken to examine the trust deed of the IForUT committing Coillte to providing liquidity to the fund if needed and selling forests to the IForUT without these forests being put out to tender. [6324/14]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

116. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the extra resources he has targeted to deal with the increasing levels of animal cruelty and abandonment; and if he will ensure that those responsible face very considerable penalties. [6323/14]

Pensions Levy

Clare Daly

149. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will abolish the pension levy on pension scheme assets. [6419/14]

Autism Support Services

Clare Daly

203. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the National Council for Special Education is undertaking new research on advising him on the preparation of a policy document on educating children with autism in view of the fact that the NCSE commissioned research in 2008 which it described as the most extensive research in the area of special education. [6430/14]

Autism Support Services

Clare Daly

204. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if Project IRIS only included one ASD unit despite the fact that more than 500 such ASD units have been rolled out throughout the country over the past number of years. [6431/14]

National Monuments

Clare Daly

233. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he will take to ensure that the Croppies Acre monument to the insurgents of 1798 is cleaned and opened to the public by being appropriately monitored so that it can be used by residents and tourists as intended. [6174/14]

Pensions Legislation

Clare Daly

300. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will introduce legislative changes in order to emphasise employer responsibility for pension schemes and for funding future pension protection schemes, as is the case in most other EU countries. [6418/14]

Control of Dogs

Clare Daly

362. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will clarify whether section 9 of the Control of Dogs Act 1986 outlaws a person from tying up their dog outside a shop for a brief period; and what "keeps it under effectual control" means. [6422/14]

Garda Oversight

Clare Daly

461. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has read the Frontline Defenders report Breakdown in Trust published in 2010; if he has read the report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders on their visit to Ireland, published March 2013; the reason he has not taken into account the recommendations in both reports calling for the repeal of section 106 of the GSA Act 2005; and if he will finally and immediately repeal section 106 by which the independence of GSOC is compromised. [6731/14]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

509. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail the damage to aquaculture operations during the recent stormy weather; the number of fish which escaped as reported to his Department under the licensing conditions for fin fish operations, with specific reference to a company (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he is satisfied that fish escaping from salmon farms have not and will not have an irreversible impact on the genetic integrity of native wild salmon stocks. [6714/14]

Aquaculture Licence Application Numbers

Clare Daly

510. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of the current and any outstanding applications for temporary aquaculture licences, together with their terms. [6715/14]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

511. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a list of all unauthorised aquaculture operations of which he is aware; the method of inspections on which he bases this information; and his views on whether the current licence regulation is adequate. [6716/14]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

512. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 660 and 661 of 15 January 2014 if he is satisfied that his Department is fully compliant with the Aarhus Convention in regard to the provision of environmental information; if he will make available the aquaculture and foreshore licences applications with their maps online, together with the decisions when made; and the reasons requirements regarding copies of objections and instructions for lodging an appeal, as is the custom with development applications within the jurisdiction of local authorities, were not met. [6717/14]

Health Services

Clare Daly

568. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) has not been given the medical treatment they were promised [6176/14]

Environmental Policy

Clare Daly

635. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate the health implications arising from Professor Jacqueline McGlade's report for the European Environment Agency in terms of assessing the cost of air pollution, which the Irish Environmental Forum has put before him showing the effects emissions from the seven plants are causing to the health of people and the impact this is having on the health service. [6779/14]

Defence Forces Properties

Clare Daly

3. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will stop the eviction process which has been initiated against some former members of the Defence Forces who reside in family quarters in the Curragh Camp and instead engage in a dialogue with these families and members of PDFORRA to reach an agreed settlement in relation to these accommodation units. [5849/14]

EU Battle Groups

Clare Daly

12. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the State's commitment to participation in EU battlegroups in terms of the likely cost to the State; and the number of Defence Forces personnel that will be involved over the next five years. [5577/14]

Defence Forces Properties

Clare Daly

14. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will initiate a cross-departmental meeting with representatives from his Department and the Departments of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht; Environment, Community and Local Government,;Public Expenditure and Reform; and Heath, in order to evaluate how the history and heritage that exists in the Curragh Camp can be preserved; and if he will conduct a cost-benefit analysis of utilising the substantial amount of property that exists in the area. [5579/14]

Military Archives

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will ensure that the Curragh military history museum takes immediate steps to document and outline the history of the garrison community that existed at the Curragh Camp for almost 100 years, and is unique here, with particular reference to mapping and gathering oral histories. [5580/14]