Parliamentary questions

Proposed Legislation

Clare Daly

258. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing legislation to halt evictions from family homes until solutions to the housing crisis are in place. [17227/16]

State Pension (Contributory)

Clare Daly

274. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 9 of 30 September 2015, if he will take steps to address the anomaly in how PRSI contributions are calculated for pension purposes in order to correct the anomaly that in some cases women who were subject to the marriage bar and who worked thereafter, are not entitled to a full contributory pension and are worse off than if they had not worked at all prior to the lifting of the marriage bar. [16677/16]

Community Employment Schemes Administration

Clare Daly

275. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the amount of money being spent by community employment schemes on mandatory health and safety training, which in many instances can absorb the entire training allowance; and his plans to enable this training to be funded separately, as it leaves very little else for other training which would assist in the employability of community employment participants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16682/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

315. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to ascertain whether the sharp increase in military aircraft of the US landing and overflying Shannon Airport in County Clare between 4 June and 12 June 2016, (details supplied) was linked to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Annaconda military exercises in Poland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16949/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

316. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is concerned at the activity of two aircraft (details supplied) which made multiple take-offs and landings from Shannon Airport during the period 4 June to 12 June 2016; if these aircraft were involved in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization exercises in Poland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16950/16]

Disability Services Provision

Clare Daly

343. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to outline the steps he will take to ensure the vocational training department in a school (details supplied) will continue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16684/16]

Health Products Regulatory Authority

Clare Daly

369. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health based on the Health Products Regulatory Authority adverse reactions database, the ten worst drugs for suicide related reactions, that is, suicidal ideation, suicide attempt or self-harm and completed suicide based on the number of reported suicide related cases expressed as a percentage of the total number of all reported adverse reaction cases for each drug listed; and to provide the actual percentage for each of the drugs. [16799/16]

Health Products Regulatory Authority

Clare Daly

370. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health based on the Health Products Regulatory Authority adverse reactions database, the ten worst drugs for completed suicide based on the number of reported completed suicides expressed as a percentage of the total number of all reported adverse reaction cases for each drug listed; and to provide the actual percentage for each of the drugs. [16800/16]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Clare Daly

476. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 183 of 14 April 2016, if he will appoint an independent person from outside his Department to undertake the review of his Department’s aquaculture licensing system in order that non-industry stakeholders and the general public can have confidence that the review is balanced and genuine. [16824/16]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

477. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 97 of 27 January 2016 and 181 of 14 April 2016, when he will complete the examination of overstocking at the sites; if he will publish the findings; and if he will ensure that the requirement to comply with European Union environmental legislation on aquaculture will not be ignored by his Department in the handling of these cases. [16825/16]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

478. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will suspend the granting of aquaculture licences until the proposed review of his Department’s aquaculture licensing regime, as promised in Food Wise 2025, is completed. [16826/16]

Sports Events

Clare Daly

542. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the remit of the National Horse Arena in Abbotstown and to whom it is accountable, with particular reference to where income from the equestrian activities that it hosts goes. [16992/16]

Sports Events

Clare Daly

543. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that activities and shows being run by the National Horse Arena are impacting upon local businesses which traditionally provided Dressage Ireland shows, and other riding club qualifiers, with particular reference to the fact that such activities are being organised with the support of taxpayers' money, which went into establishing the facility, thus giving an unfair advantage. [16993/16]

EU Directives

Clare Daly

557. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps she will take to implement the European Union Directive 97/81/EC to protect part-time workers here. [16877/16]

Postal Codes

Clare Daly

34. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the progress of operations of the Eircode system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16117/16]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund

Clare Daly

116. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the long promised review of the Caranua scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16472/16]

Public Sector Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

188. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he engages in a due diligence process including a review and analysis of professional conduct, competence and background prior to appointing legal advisers to public bodies including the Standards in Public Office Commission. [16558/16]

Export Controls

Clare Daly

37. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the checks she performs during the application process for the export of dual-use items to ensure that they will be put to commercial and not military use in their country of destination; and if the findings of the small arms survey regarding the lack of transparency around the arms trade in countries like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have caused her to strengthen and intensify the checks involved in exporting to countries with poor records of transparency or to consider banning exports to these countries outright. [15630/16]

Trade Relations

Clare Daly

39. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department engaged in negotiations, consultations, exploratory talks or other communications since 1 August 2013 on trade missions to Egypt; and if these took human rights violations into account, particularly concerning a person (details supplied). [15631/16]

Social Welfare Schemes

Clare Daly

118. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection why persons (details supplied) enrolled through the Swords Intreo service are not receiving a grant towards the cost of essential training tools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16250/16]