Parliamentary questions

Direct Provision System

Clare Daly

130. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the working group on improvement to the protection process including the direct provision scheme and support to asylum seekers. [15956/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Clare Daly

156. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15416/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Clare Daly

157. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the amount of money spent on daily newspapers in 2015; if this is appropriate expenditure given the available and far cheaper online alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15432/16]

Departmental Staff Data

Clare Daly

158. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15448/16]

Ministerial Staff

Clare Daly

159. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15464/16]

Departmental Staff Data

Clare Daly

160. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15480/16]

Defined Benefit Pension Schemes

Clare Daly

173. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he is concerned that the administration, consultancy and actuarial services to the Central Remedial Clinic pension plan were all provided by the same organisation (details supplied) and that this organisation also owned the trustee of the plan, given the abrupt wind-up of a plan that the actuary had said in 2014 was on track to meet the minimum funding standard by 31 December 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15967/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Clare Daly

186. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15414/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Clare Daly

187. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money spent on daily newspapers in 2015; if this is appropriate expenditure given the available and far cheaper online alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15430/16]

Departmental Staff Data

Clare Daly

188. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15446/16]

Ministerial Staff

Clare Daly

189. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff who work exclusively on constituency matters for him. [15462/16]

Departmental Staff Data

Clare Daly

190. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the changes in the numbers employed in his human resources section following the introduction of PeoplePoint. [15478/16]

Teaching Council of Ireland

Clare Daly

200. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills when he will implement Part 5 of the Teaching Council (Amendment) Act 2015. [15648/16]

School Patronage

Clare Daly

203. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to proceed with divesting primary schools and giving due regard to the problems associated with religious patronage. [15699/16]

School Transport Administration

Clare Daly

205. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if paragraph 11.5 of the 1975 agreed accounting arrangements for school transport means that either he or Bus Éireann can terminate the agreement on 12 months' notice, or earlier by mutual consent, and that he can vary the agreement by mutual consent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15740/16]

School Enrolments

Clare Daly

213. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills his views on national schools in receipt of public funds discriminating on religious grounds in their admission policies, in some instances requiring parents and children to adopt a religion or to change their religion, attend religious celebrations and get their children baptised, solely to be allowed to attend their local national school. [15948/16]

Direct Provision Data

Clare Daly

223. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in direct provision centres who are sitting the junior certificate and the leaving certificate examinations in 2016. [16043/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Clare Daly

233. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money his Department spent on purchasing copies of the Public Sector Times magazine in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15415/16]

Departmental Expenditure

Clare Daly

234. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of money spent on daily newspapers in 2015; if this is an appropriate expenditure given the available and far cheaper online alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15431/16]

Departmental Staff Data

Clare Daly

235. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff working in his human resources section. [15447/16]