Parliamentary questions

Defence Forces Pensions

Clare Daly

968. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence , further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 29 September 2015, the reason section 13(2) had been predetermined as applying at that time even though no decision on the pension had been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26502/16]

Defence Forces Pensions

Clare Daly

969. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the circumstances or rules applied by his Department not to have section 13(2) applied on a case under the Army Pensions Act where previous compensation was awarded. [26503/16]

Defence Forces Pensions

Clare Daly

970. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether it is acceptable that a person who has been deemed permanently incapable of work as a result of an injury acquired in the Defence Forces which led to them being medically discharged would be granted a reduced pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26504/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

974. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Questions No. 308 of 2 June 2016, 88 of 21 January 2016 and 1950 of 16 September 2016, his plans to update the Defence Forces' data management systems such that important data regarding Defence Forces prescribing practices and their outcomes and consequences are available for analysis. [26909/16]

Boundary Disputes

Clare Daly

15. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 27 January 2016, if she is aware of research related to increasing property boundary disputes (details supplied); if she is concerned by the harm such disputes could have on the trust which the public has in the State authority; if she will address matters (details supplied) related to the PRAI mechanism; if a person lacking adequate professional oversight could be involved in registrations or applications for same without that being open to challenge; and in determining whether an application map is suitable for registration purposes, does that determination by the PRAI rest on a narrow range of technical issues or if it also employs a consumer protection analysis. [24404/16]

Policing Co-operation

Clare Daly

63. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person (details supplied) was paid by her Department or by An Garda Síochána for undercover work spying on Shell to Sea and Irish anti-war activists. [24869/16]

Departmental Contracts

Clare Daly

71. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for her Department's decision to award the contract for the State's privatised speed camera system to a company (details supplied), in view of the fact that when the contract was awarded a former director of another company (details supplied) which owns 16% of the company was awaiting sentencing in the United States having admitted to fraud, corruption and bribery; the reason the decision was taken to award the contract to this company in view of the fact that it is based in the Isle of Man; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24919/16]

Irish Prison Service

Clare Daly

77. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the scoring structure used in assessing applications for recruitment to chief officer 2 - work and training in the Irish Prison Service. [24969/16]

Prison Medical Service

Clare Daly

91. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of medical posts unfilled across the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25032/16]

Irish Prison Service

Clare Daly

92. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the production of a code of ethics for the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25033/16]

Prisoner Complaints Procedures

Clare Daly

93. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the publication of the audit and evaluation of the prisoner complaint procedure by the Inspector of Prisons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25034/16]

Prison Staff

Clare Daly

94. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that have been taken to appoint a director of prison health care services as required by the Care and Rehabilitation Directorate under Prison Rule 99(2). [25035/16]

Irish Prison Service

Clare Daly

95. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she has taken in relation to relocating the Irish Prison Service headquarters from Longford in order to improve the organisation of the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25036/16]

Prisoner Data

Clare Daly

96. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 21 April 2016, if she will provide information outlining the length of each sentence, such information having been provided in similar Parliamentary Questions submitted previously; the reason this is being withheld now; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25037/16]

Prison Service Strategies

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views regarding initiatives she has taken in relation to the possibility of converting some of the countries prisons to low security status, particularly for women prisoners, in view of the fact that the overwhelming majority of prisons are of closed medium security; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25051/16]

Commissions of Investigation

Clare Daly

129. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will initiate a commission of investigation into the case of a person (details supplied). [25390/16]

Equality Legislation

Clare Daly

132. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the implications of the ruling on 9 February 2016 by the High Court of Northern Ireland (details supplied); her plans to amend Irish equality legislation such that cohabiting partners are no longer discriminated against relative to their married peers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25462/16]

Law Reform Proposals

Clare Daly

133. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to update and amend the Succession Act 1965. [25473/16]

Direct Provision Data

Clare Daly

136. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons currently in direct provision for periods of three years and beyond; her plans to end this treatment of refugees and asylum seekers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25553/16]

Prison Service Strategies

Clare Daly

144. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason there is no published strategy for young adults in prison despite commitments by the Irish Prison Service that this would be in place by the end of 2015; the reason for the delay; the steps she has taken to address the lack of action to deliver a specific regime for young adults in prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25650/16]

Prison Service

Clare Daly

145. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will remove the present basic regime standard operating in prisons here and place all young adults on the enhanced accommodation standard on entry to prison. [25651/16]

Child Detention Centres

Clare Daly

146. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of boys detained each month on remand in St. Patrick's Institution since the enactment of the Children (Amendment) Bill 2015, giving child detention schools the responsibility for all children on remand or under sentence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25652/16]

Prisoner Data

Clare Daly

147. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of young adults between 18 and 20 years of age detained in prisons with adults, for each prison, in each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25653/16]

Prison Service

Clare Daly

148. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of each prison population detained in shared-cell accommodation for each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date. [25654/16]

Prison Service

Clare Daly

149. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on in-cell sanitation; the number of prisoners slopping out and the number who must use a toilet in the presence of others for each of the years 2013 to 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25655/16]

Prison Service

Clare Daly

150. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners that were placed on restricted regimes in each prison in 2015 and 2016 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25656/16]

Prison Service

Clare Daly

151. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners placed on 23 hour lock-up in each prison in 2015 and 2016, including the average time spent on this regime and the maximum number of days; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25657/16]

Sentencing Policy

Clare Daly

152. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to undertake a study of the possibility of introducing house or community house arrest or secure detention as an alternative to imprisonment for young adult women, given the special needs of young persons, the damage caused by imprisonment and the small numbers of young women where imprisonment is deemed the only option. [25667/16]

Prison Service Strategies

Clare Daly

153. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the consideration that has been given by her Department to the development of out-of-cell time of at least 14.5 hours per day for young adults in prison, with full educational, training, work, recreation and social interaction opportunities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25668/16]

Property Tax Data

Clare Daly

210. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the number of persons expressed in ordinary numbers who are in the category of owning 201 plus properties for the purpose of local property tax. [24453/16]

Budget 2017

Clare Daly

211. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his plans to backdate the first-time buyer's grant to the beginning of July 2016 rather than 19 July 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24554/16]

Tax Code

Clare Daly

297. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the number of times that the section 110 clause has been amended since it was put in place; the degree of lobbying that was involved relating to the last amendment to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25661/16]

Tax Code

Clare Daly

298. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his views on whether it is acceptable for a company (details supplied) to use charities to facilitate hedge funds cutting their tax bills; his proposals regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25662/16]

Revenue Commissioners Enforcement Activity

Clare Daly

299. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the number of Revenue Commissioners opinions or rulings similar to those offered to a company (details supplied) which have been made by the Revenue Commissioners, including the sectors and years involved and the details of the issues concerned. [25664/16]

Tax Credits

Clare Daly

300. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that corporation tax paid by multinationals can be reduced or even turned into a negative number by refundable research and development tax credits, the sectors which have claimed most such credits; and the net rate of tax paid by these companies. [25665/16]

Property Tax Deferrals

Clare Daly

301. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his plans to address the fact that those who cannot afford to pay the local property tax have interest levies imposed to claim a deferral, essentially placing an extra tax on economic hardship. [25666/16]

Revenue Commissioners Powers

Clare Daly

319. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that the Revenue Commissioners are refusing to issue cheques and are requiring those who seek a refund for overpayment of taxes to open bank accounts in SEPA format, even though they may usually use credit unions and post offices. [26048/16]

Educational Disadvantage

Clare Daly

386. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills when he will announce the terms of reference for the review into DEIS; if there will be an interim report; the level of consultation with stakeholders which will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24481/16]

Third Level Facilities

Clare Daly

387. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the current situation at DIT whereby the governing body has failed to sign funding agreements with the Students' Union leaving staff without wages and students without welfare and supports in place for the new term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24482/16]

School Transport Appeals

Clare Daly

433. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the School Transport Appeals Board sits only once a month to make decisions on appeals; and the steps he will take to reform the system in order that appeals can be dealt with as and when they are lodged. [25436/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

560. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 335 of 12 July 2016, if dogs seized on welfare rather than control grounds become the responsibility of the local authority. [24694/16]

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Clare Daly

564. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will amend the pyrite remediation scheme to reflect the present situation for homeowners trying to source rented accommodation during the remediation works where those in larger families moving from a four bedroom home, for example, are going to have to pay more than a single person moving from a one bedroom and that the allowance should be increased for larger families accordingly. [24706/16]

Housing Assistance Payments Administration

Clare Daly

584. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on changes relating to the HAP scheme whereby persons are now being asked to forfeit their place on local authority housing lists. [24843/16]

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Clare Daly

618. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to revise the pyrite remediation scheme to increase the amount of accommodation costs covered in view of the spiralling of rental prices since the inception of the scheme (details supplied). [25663/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

638. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will release the inspection records in relation to a case (details supplied) from Cavan County Council to the ISPCA, in view of the level of public reaction over a television programme (details supplied) in May 2016. [25965/16]

Control of Dogs

Clare Daly

640. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will review the targeting of dog breeds following the advice of Veterinary Ireland to end the targeting of dog breeds with restrictions (details supplied). [26006/16]

Rent Supplement Scheme Administration

Clare Daly

666. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review the process whereby private landlords are asked to sign welfare forms for tenants giving them undue control over on individual tenant's right to apply for welfare such as rent assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24780/16]

Employment Rights

Clare Daly

668. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps he has taken to deal with a company (details supplied) and its treatment of its workers in terms of holiday pay and redundancy payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26023/16]

Pensions Legislation

Clare Daly

678. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if, in view of the fact that the introduction of the total contributions approach acknowledges that the previous system threw up unfair anomalies such as, for example, in cases where women subject to the marriage bar are denied a full contributory old age pension despite having more than the minimum number of PRSI contributions and years worked necessary to qualify; and if he will apply this total contributions approach retrospectively in the case of these women, such that women who have well over the minimum number of PRSI contributions necessary to qualify for a contributory pension can gain access to such a pension. [24364/16]

JobPath Implementation

Clare Daly

733. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will investigate the practices of a company (details supplied) which has been engaged by the State to work on the JobPath scheme. [25406/16]

JobPath Implementation

Clare Daly

734. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will investigate allegations that a company (details supplied) is demanding that JobPath participants apply for jobs from the company's office as a means to get the contact details of the persons responsible for recruiting in companies from those participants, with the intention of using that data for their own ends. [25407/16]

JobPath Implementation

Clare Daly

735. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the legal minimum number of job applications per week for persons receiving jobseeker's allowance; and if it is legal for private companies involved in JobPath to threaten participants with their social protection payments ceasing if they do not make a certain number of job applications per week. [25408/16]

JobPath Implementation

Clare Daly

736. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the options for jobseekers to leave JobPath if they are not satisfied with the scheme. [25409/16]

Social Welfare Code

Clare Daly

739. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will review and amend the situation regarding entitlements for bereaved partners in cohabiting couples in view of the Northern Ireland High Court ruling on 9 February 2016 (details supplied). [25461/16]

Employment Rights

Clare Daly

798. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps he has taken to ensure that the staff of a company (details supplied) staff are paid their redundancy expeditiously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26022/16]

Social Welfare Payments Administration

Clare Daly

799. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on the practice of moneys owed being refunded through electronic payments on a system that is not capable of transferring to post office or credit union accounts; and if he will revert to cheques until this is rectified. [26049/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

827. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the position regarding the pension entitlements of a person (details supplied). [24394/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

831. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Number 488 of 19 July 2016, the locations from where the US military aircraft in question were coming and going; the operations they had been engaged in in the country that the flights originated from; and the operations they were to engage in in the country they were destined for. [24501/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

832. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question Number 488 of 19 July 2016, the reason it is necessary for the US military to engage in airport familiarisation in a small airport in the west of Ireland, given the United States has thousands of airports of its own adequate to such a task. [24502/16]

Irish Aid

Clare Daly

847. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set down the amount donated to the Clinton Foundation for each of the years from 2008 to 2016 to date. [25658/16]

Public Sector Pensions

Clare Daly

885. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline his plans to review the spouses' and children's pension payment, specifically the mandatory nature of payment into the scheme for all public servants regardless of marital status or whether they have children, in light of the fact that this matter was last reviewed 16 years ago, in 2000, by the Commission on Public Service Pensions. [24664/16]

Public Sector Pensions

Clare Daly

886. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set out his plans to implement a transitional pension such that civil servants who are currently required to retire at 65 years of age but who are not eligible for the state pension until aged 66 years are not left with only a jobseeker's benefit payment for that period. [24665/16]

Public Procurement Contracts Data

Clare Daly

890. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to set down the number of State contracts allocated to a financial service company (details supplied) in each of the years 2014 to 2016 to date. [24846/16]

Public Inquiries

Clare Daly

909. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the process whereby staff are recruited to work on non-statutory inquiries. [25326/16]

Public Service Contracts

Clare Daly

910. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the widespread use of agencies to staff Government projects, in particular the low rates of pay and overtime often offered by such agencies, as for example by an agency (details supplied), which pays general operatives €10.25 per hour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25327/16]

Public Sector Pay

Clare Daly

925. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe of the Public Service Pay Commission, with particular reference to addressing the pay inequality issue for teachers, some of whom have effectively lost €20,000 over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26019/16]

Drug Treatment Programmes

Clare Daly

993. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the work that has been undertaken to deliver well resourced custodial drug treatment centres that could provide an alternative to standard custodial sanctions for suitable persons, and as provided for in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. [25669/16]

Health Services Data

Clare Daly

1006. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to outline the reason a person (details supplied) was told there are minimal case notes available in his or her case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24383/16]

Blood Donations

Clare Daly

1042. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his new policy and the revised criteria for donating blood; and the date upon which gay persons can present themselves to blood transfusion services in order to perform their civic duty [24476/16]

Local Drugs Task Forces

Clare Daly

1087. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has not recruited a person for the role of task force co-ordinator with the Canal Communities local drugs task force following the retirement of the person who had filled that role. [24627/16]

Bereavement Counselling Services Provision

Clare Daly

1127. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason there are no institutionalised referral pathways from Irish hospitals to the specialist counselling and information services provided by the IFPA to women who have received a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality; the steps he will take to institute such official referral pathways in view of the fact that, as it stands, women do not receive essential information (details supplied) from hospitals and are referred to the IFPA's information service on an entirely ad hoc basis. [24868/16]

Health Services Data

Clare Daly

1133. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will secure the release of files for a person (details supplied) given that the review report referred to in a television programme of 14 July 2016 involved the examination of 1,080 files spanning a 30-year period. [24927/16]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

1137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 225 of 14 July 2016, if he will take steps in order that a staff member from St. Joseph's Service in Portrane, County Dublin, is available to residents while they are patients in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 (details supplied). [24935/16]

Hospital Appointments Delays

Clare Daly

1140. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views in regard to the fact that a person (details supplied) has been told by the Mater Hospital that they will have to wait 16 months for laser eye surgery, particularly in view of Government statements regarding the commitment to reduce waiting times for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24943/16]

Psychological Services

Clare Daly

1148. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that the Dublin north city and county child and adolescent mental health service lacks any primary care psychology service to which persons under 18 years of age in Dublin North may be referred, causing major difficulties (details supplied); the steps he will take to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25002/16]

Psychological Services

Clare Daly

1149. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the fact that, in the absence of any primary care psychology service for persons under 18 years of age in Dublin North, adolescents in this catchment area are being denied services that are available to adolescents elsewhere in Dublin; the steps he will take to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25003/16]

Consultancy Contracts Expenditure

Clare Daly

1188. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 633 of 19 July 2016, if he will provide a breakdown of all expenditure to date by the CRC on outside consultancy services specifically connected to the wind-up of the CRC pension plan, both leading up to the announcement that the plan was to be wound up and afterwards in tabular form. [25203/16]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Clare Daly

1252. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the respective roles of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics and Irish Platform for Patients' Organisations in Science and Industry in making decisions regarding the drugs that will be reimbursed by the HSE. [25470/16]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Clare Daly

1253. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the source of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics funding. [25471/16]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Clare Daly

1254. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the process involved in the HSE agreeing to reimburse any given drug. [25472/16]

General Medical Services Scheme

Clare Daly

1273. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will intervene to resolve the issue of general practitioners charging GMS patients for routine blood tests that has been tabled at HSE national level for discussion, but has remained unresolved for well over a year. [25549/16]

Psychological Services

Clare Daly

1274. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a position of assistant psychologist on the HSE's pay scale, given that over 50% of early career psychologists are employed in a voluntary capacity, completely undermining the quality of service to patients and undermining the profession. [25550/16]

Vaccination Programme

Clare Daly

1275. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to conduct an independent review of the Gardasil HPV vaccine. [25551/16]

Medical Goods Regulation

Clare Daly

1276. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on potential conflicts of interest in relation to the Irish Cancer Society holding public talks supporting the use of certain drugs while at the same time receiving donations from the makers and licence holders of those drugs; his plans to regulate this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25552/16]

General Medical Services Scheme

Clare Daly

1306. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the issue of general practitioners charging GMS patients for routine blood tests is under discussion by the HSE nationally and deemed to be unresolved, and patients not reimbursed despite clear correspondence previously making it clear that this practise was not permitted (details supplied). [25660/16]

Horse Racing Ireland

Clare Daly

1480. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will correct the record of Dáil Éireann in regard to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 12 July 2016, in which it was stated that a business case submitted to him by Horse Racing Ireland for the reappointment of the incumbent CEO for a further five-year term had been submitted by the board or HRI, in view of the fact that the board had not, in fact, been consulted about this business case before it was submitted, nor had the board considered or agreed to any motion to reappoint the incumbent. [24390/16]

Horse Racing Ireland Expenditure

Clare Daly

1488. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to, and if he agreed with, the board of Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) which sanctioned for the CEO of HRI an annual salary of €190,773 which breaches the specified salary range for the position of HRI CEO by an excess of €26,542; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25745/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

1553. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will continue to monitor the situation regarding the impending closure of a company (details supplied) with a view to ensuring the re-homing of the animals currently in its possession. [25405/16]

TB Eradication Scheme

Clare Daly

1556. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will supply farmers with the exact results of gamma blood tests on cattle rather than just a positive or negative result. [25474/16]

Food Labelling

Clare Daly

1570. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to undertake research into the introduction of warning packaging for meat products or warnings in all areas that meat is sold outlining the health and environmental consequences of meat production. [25673/16]

Bord na gCon Funding

Clare Daly

1571. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of State funding provided to Bord na gCon for each of the past five years; and the numbers employed and amount of this funding which went on wages and salaries. [25699/16]

Horse Racing Ireland Expenditure

Clare Daly

1575. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he agreed with and sanctioned the Horse Racing Ireland board's breach of salary guidelines for the CEO of Horse Racing Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25746/16]

Bord na gCon Funding

Clare Daly

1591. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will refuse any further State funding to the Irish Greyhound Board and the greyhound industry (details supplied). [26047/16]

Postal Services Provision

Clare Daly

1699. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he has taken with the Department of Social Protection and the Department of Finance to ensure that repayments from the Revenue Commissioners and the Department of Social Protection enable funds to be transferred to An Post accounts. [26050/16]

Horse Sport Ireland

Clare Daly

1717. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 542 and 543 of June 2016, if pay as you go public hire, as envisaged by Horse Sport Ireland in its proposal for the development of a dedicated training facility at the Abbotstown campus site, was understood to include weekly commercial jumping shows when this proposal was agreed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24329/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

1740. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 19 July 2016, if the 25,890 US soldiers that passed through Shannon Airport on civilian aircraft from January to end June 2016 were accompanied by weapons. [24498/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

1741. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 19 July 2016, if the 25,890 US soldiers that passed through Shannon Airport on civilian aircraft from January to the end of June 2016 were engaged in military exercises or operations; and if so, the military operations or exercises they were engaged in. [24499/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

1742. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 19 July 2016, the reason for each refusal for a permit to land at Shannon Airport or pass through Irish airspace while carrying munitions in 2016, by country. [24500/16]

Private Bus Operators

Clare Daly

1772. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views in relation to the reason no action has been taken by the NTA regarding allegations that a company (details supplied) uses bus stops that it is not licensed to collect or drop passengers at; the reason this company is subject to a different supervisory arrangement than others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25052/16]

Rural Transport Services

Clare Daly

1822. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the future and status of Nifti, the rural transport operator in Fingal, in view of invitations being sent for a rural transport day organised by Flexibus on 4 November 2016 regarding rural transport in areas; and the source of funding for this event. [25983/16]