Parliamentary questions

Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure

Clare Daly

706. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to risks or improprieties which led to his decision to overhaul completely the staff of the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation tribunal in Autumn 2012; and his views on the manner in which the tribunal operated its financial affairs from 2007 to 2012. [3768/14]

Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure

Clare Daly

707. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will put on record any financial data, consultants' reports or relevant disclosures that he relied upon to overhaul the staff of the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation tribunal. [3769/14]

Tribunals of Inquiry Expenditure

Clare Daly

708. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if there was a budget deficit carried over on the Hepatitis C and HIV Compensation tribunal accounts of €17 million in 2007, which improved to a €106.6 million surplus in 2009; and the reason the tribunal switched the format of its online reports in 2010 in a manner which prevented tracking and public accountability of this item on its accounts. [3770/14]

General Practitioner Services Provision

Clare Daly

741. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when the free general practitioner care system for children aged five and under will come into effect. [3980/14]

Company Closures

Clare Daly

22. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the outcome of discussions that he had with Lufthansa Technik in relation to saving the hundreds of jobs at the company's plant; the reason for the closure, including addressing the level of State investment that had been made in the facility over the past number of years; the future plans for the site and buildings; the options that exist for alternative employment; and if he raised the fact that the company approvals were transferred from the IAA to its German counterpart during the year, which would indicate that they had made a decision to close substantially earlier than the announcement. [2777/14]

Coastal Protection

Clare Daly

34. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the amount of funds that will be available to deal with the serious problem of coastal erosion at the Burrow in Portrane, both in terms of the emergency works required as a result of recent damage and in respect of a more sustainable longer-term solution. [2576/14]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

39. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason, if the principle of sovereign immunity does not interfere with obligations arising from the international treaties, the laws giving effect to the international treaties are not being enforced; and given that the Geneva Conventions Act 1962, as amended in 1998, provides that any minor breach of the 1949 Geneva Convention is a punishable offence, if gardaí should be ensuring there are no breaches of the convention taking place at Shannon. [3110/14]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

41. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the laws which give effect to the principle of sovereign immunity. [3273/14]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

182. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will investigate the circumstances in which a dog owned by an organisation (details supplied) was found abandoned and abused on 18 December, 2013; if he will ensure that those responsible for this outrageous incidence of animal cruelty are brought to justice. [3081/14]

Education and Training Provision

Clare Daly

139. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will re-examine his decision to require apprentices to fund the part of their apprenticeship when they attend college as this will have a serious impact on participation rates in apprenticeships. [2321/14]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Clare Daly

151. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he has taken to avoid the problems he noted his predecessor was facing in February 2008 with regard to institutional rigidities and being bullied by teachers' interests and Civil Service conservatism when it came to providing ABA interventions for children with autism. [2318/14]

School Textbooks Rental Scheme

Clare Daly

154. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all schools are treated equitably with regard to book rental schemes; and that those schools which proactively introduced schemes will not find themselves disadvantaged by not being awarded the financial support being made available to those setting up schemes. [2322/14]

Special Education Review

Clare Daly

157. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the National Council for Special Education literature review will not be published until 2015 in view of the fact that those tendering for the project were informed that it should be completed by January 2014; the reason he is not requesting a systematic review; the reason, given professional criticisms of the 2001 task force report, tendering parties were told they would not be allowed to re-evaluate evidence presented in that review. [2320/14]

Consultancy Contracts Expenditure

Clare Daly

180. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach the amount his Department spends on an annual basis in payments to consultancy firms (details supplied). [2484/14]

Consultancy Contracts Expenditure

Clare Daly

184. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount his Department spends on an annual basis in payments to consultancy firms (details supplied). [2478/14]

Consultancy Contracts Expenditure

Clare Daly

204. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the amount his Department spends on an annual basis in payments to consultancy firms (details supplied). [2477/14]

European Central Bank

Clare Daly

205. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the reason he has not taken action under Articles 35:1 and 340 of ECB statutes and initiated the taking of a case to the ECJ seeking clarification of the legality of the ECB's actions in October-November 2010 in forcing Ireland to repay unsecured debts. [2486/14]

Tax Credits

Clare Daly

217. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify comments made during discussion on the Finance Bill in relation to changes to the single parent credit to the effect that the higher band would be retained by single fathers, resulting in them losing the credit of €1,650 but not the credit of €840 associated with the higher band, whereas it has now emerged that they will in fact lose both amounting to a very serious cutback for this category of person; and the action he will take regarding same. [2701/14]

Tax Credits

Clare Daly

220. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will clarify the statement made during discussions on the recent Finance Bill that the cuts to the single parent tax credit would not cost the full amount in the first year, as these changes seem to have come into effect immediately. [2806/14]

Consultancy Contracts Expenditure

Clare Daly

244. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount his Department spends on an annual basis in payments to consultancy firms (details supplied). [2475/14]