Parliamentary questions

Waste Disposal Charges

Clare Daly

127. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if it is within the terms of the price freeze agreed by the Government with waste companies for a company (details supplied) to demand that customers who wish to stay on their existing plan and not transfer to pay-by-weight have €199 credit in their accounts by 1 August 2016, despite those customers having already paid an annual service charge at the beginning of the year to cover all of 2016. [20242/16]

TB Eradication Scheme

Clare Daly

271. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the claim by the Irish Wildlife Trust that his Department regularly breaches the terms of special licences to snare and shoot 6,000 badgers a year as part of the State’s bovine tuberculosis eradication programme. [20130/16]

Defence Forces Investigations

Clare Daly

331. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 28 June 2016, when he will issue a reply (details supplied). [20225/16]

Waste Disposal Charges

Clare Daly

120. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is concerned over announced plans by a waste company (details supplied) to change the charges levied on pay-by-use customers following the price freeze announced by the Government and if he is concerned that companies may try to recoup some of the losses from the capping of fixed-charge accounts by massively increasing charges for pay-by-use customers. [19931/16]

Interdepartmental Working Groups

Clare Daly

178. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the terms of reference of the cross-departmental working group on fuller working lives; and to publish its draft report when it is available. [20030/16]

Primary Care Services Provision

Clare Daly

229. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health why there are no primary care psychology services for children in north County Dublin; why no child has been seen by Swords Mater child and adolescent mental health services from the routine waiting list in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20049/16]

Consumer Protection

Clare Daly

253. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is concerned at the consumer protection implications of a company (details supplied) changing the terms of a customer's contract, but refusing to release the customer from the contract and refusing to refund moneys already paid under the contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19922/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

52. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 316 of 21 June 2016, if he has reconfirmed details in respect of the aircraft and if he is quite sure that the aircraft in question did not participate in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization military exercises in Poland which took place in early to mid-June 2016. [19086/16]

Departmental Staff

Clare Daly

142. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance why staff who have held temporary contracts on a rolling basis over a number of years in the Revenue Commissioners in Ennis, County Clare, are not being awarded permanent contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19348/16]

Waste Disposal Charges

Clare Daly

247. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if a company (details supplied) is in breach of consumer protection legislation and-or the customer charter for household waste collection by automatically opting customers into its pay-by-weight system unless the customer contacts the company themselves by 1 August 2016 to state that they wish to opt out and avail of the 12-month price freeze announced by Government; if the company gave customers sufficient information regarding their options; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19447/16]

Local Authority Housing Eligibility

Clare Daly

258. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to change the net income limits for social housing applicant households. [19568/16]

Bereavement Counselling Services Provision

Clare Daly

465. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to publish, without further delay, the Health Service Executive standards for bereavement care following pregnancy loss and perinatal death, including reference to fatal foetal abnormalities so that consistent compassionate standards can be applied across the health service. [19205/16]

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Reviews

Clare Daly

466. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to establish a dedicated unit within the Health Service Executive with suitably qualified staff adequately supported and resourced to deal with the implementation of the protection of life during pregnancy and abortion issues. [19206/16]

HSE Funding

Clare Daly

467. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to organise for the Health Service Executive to cover the cost of repatriation of remains to parents in a suitable manner in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities where the woman has to leave the country for a termination. [19207/16]

Bereavement Counselling Services Provision

Clare Daly

468. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to ensure that suitable post-loss counselling services are available to affected family members within a short timeframe in cases of fatal foetal abnormalities. [19208/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

587. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the location of greyhounds (details supplied); the steps he has taken to ensure their safety and that standards of transparency and accountability are upheld in the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19228/16]

Waste Disposal Charges

Clare Daly

662. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a company (details supplied) is in breach of consumer protection legislation by automatically opting customers into a pay-by-weight system on 1 August 2016 unless customers contact the company themselves before 1 August 2016 to state that they wish to opt out and avail of the 12-month price freeze announced by Government last week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19448/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

699. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views as to whether officers travelling to sub-Saharan areas are prescribed Malarone or Doxycycline, rather than Lariam; when this policy was initiated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19386/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

700. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views confirming that Lariam is prescribed for a six-month period when Defence Forces personnel are on a four-month tour of duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19387/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

31. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if he is concerned that the administration, consultancy and actuarial services to the Central Remedial Clinic 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 21 December 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18699/16]

Pensions Reform

Clare Daly

53. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the steps he will take to reform and improve pension governance, given several high profile pension scandals, including the abrupt winding up of the Central Remedial Clinic plan. [18698/16]

Garda Expenditure

Clare Daly

66. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a company (details supplied) tendered for the contract for towing services for Dublin region gardaí in March 2016; and if the 36 month contract granted to this company in March 2013 was thus renewed. [19020/16]

Garda Expenditure

Clare Daly

67. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the charges companies who hold contracts for towing and storage services for An Garda Síochána charge; and if any of these fees revert to the State. [19021/16]

Garda Expenditure

Clare Daly

68. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procedures An Garda Síochána has in place in respect of recovering the cost of unpaid storage fees for cars that have been towed away. [19022/16]

Garda Expenditure

Clare Daly

69. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to request An Garda Commissioner to provide details of the safeguards An Garda Síochána has in place in respect of private information it holds in respect of persons whose vehicles have been towed and put into storage. [19023/16]

Customs and Excise Controls

Clare Daly

71. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance why military personnel who disembarked from a plane of the United States of America (details supplied) on 26 June 2016 at Shannon Airport with military rucksacks and travelled to a Limerick city hotel did not go through customs prior to leaving the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19017/16]

Shannon Airport Facilities

Clare Daly

140. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade why a plane of the United States of America (details supplied) was given permission to land at Shannon Airport in County Clare on 26 June 2016, given that the plane is a multi-role warplane; if he is aware that the military personnel who disembarked were special forces of the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19018/16]

Shannon Airport Facilities

Clare Daly

141. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he gave permission on 25 June 2016 for a United States of America military plane (details supplied) to land at Shannon Airport in County Clare, given that these aircraft are used to provide cargo and passenger transportation, as well as forward deployment logistics support and special missions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19019/16]

Wildlife Regulations

Clare Daly

148. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has concerns about the large number of herring gulls in coastal towns in north County Dublin and her plans to deal with them in a non-lethal manner. [18999/16]

Pyrite Incidence

Clare Daly

39. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to carry out a review of the number of properties that have pyrite but are not displaying damage that would register a damage condition rating of 2 in a building condition assessment; and his plans to devise a strategy regarding how these properties can be remediated. [18303/16]

Pyrite Issues

Clare Daly

44. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding the issuing of a green certificate for pyrite properties, particularly in cases where remediation has not taken place, as many persons have been unable to sell their properties due to difficulties in receiving certificates. [18304/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

218. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he accepts the World Health Organization malaria unit figures of approximately 130,000 worldwide malaria deaths annually in patients over the age of five. [18601/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

219. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he accepts that as per Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency literature, Lariam can cause neurologic side effects that can last for months, years and can become permanent; and if not, if he will produce fully referenced analysis that proves otherwise in each case. [18602/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

220. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he accepts that unlike doxycycline and Malarone, Lariam adverse drug reactions are predominantly neuropsychiatric in nature and that Lariam is the only one of the three drugs that carries a boxed safety warning, the most serious type of warning. [18603/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

221. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the director of the medical corps accepts that according to the Health Products Regulatory Authority's Malarone licence, the drug can be prescribed for periods of six months. [18604/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

222. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the director of the medical corps accepts that as per the World Health Organization International Travel and Health 2015, mefloquine, doxycycline and Malarone are all effective malaria chemoprophylaxis options for the various countries of Defence Forces deployments in sub-Saharan Africa. [18605/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

223. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the director of the medical corps accepts that the absorption of Doxycycline is not notably influenced by simultaneous ingestion of food or milk. [18606/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

224. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the official antimalarial policy for sub-Saharan Africa is still Lariam or unfit to travel; and if so, if he will cite as many examples as possible of other armies who have the same Lariam or unfit to travel policy for that region. [18607/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

225. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if Lariam or unfit to travel is no longer the policy, if he can supply a copy of the new malaria chemoprophylaxis policy for sub-Saharan Africa or individual country policies for that region; and when the changes were first implemented. [18608/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

226. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will request the director of the medical corps to state the year from which prescribing doctors individually screened soldiers for Lariam suitability; and if he will provide all documentation in support of that answer. [18609/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

227. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason some troops, including those who subsequently took their own lives, were prescribed mefloquine despite clear written contraindications already recorded on their medical files. [18610/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

228. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the percentage of troops the director of the medical corps expects to be contraindicated from being prescribed Lariam; and to list the medical studies or other data used in support of this figure. [18611/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

229. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the percentage of the remaining troops not contraindicated to Lariam, the director of the medical corps expects to then experience adverse drug reactions which mandate discontinuation of the drug as per the Health Products Regulatory Authority safety instructions and to list the medical studies or other data used in support of this figure. [18612/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

230. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the director of medical corps accepts that Lariam can be associated with suicide. [18613/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

231. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to release the study or the raw data and methodology if no formal study exists, which shows a decreased risk of suicide in the period when Lariam was being prescribed by the Defence Forces, so that it can be subjected to independent scrutiny. [18614/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

232. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will instigate an independent study to establish if, as per an analysis (details supplied), there was a three to five times increased risk of suicide in Irish soldiers prescribed Lariam in comparison to a similar group who also served overseas but did not take the drug. [18615/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

233. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the working group on malaria prophylaxis been reconvened in the original context of current and future litigation, or if it is now instead tasked with examining best practice malaria prophylaxis in a military population with a view to making policy recommendations purely in the context of future overseas missions to sub-Saharan Africa. [18616/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

234. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he or any of his officials contacted persons (details supplied) with a view to them contributing to the reconvened working group on malaria prophylaxis after their very generous offer. [18617/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

235. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the resources are available to check individual personnel files relating to the prescription and use of Lariam in the Defence Forces, thus releasing crucial information previously requested in a number of different parliamentary questions on the subject. [18618/16]

School Enrolments

Clare Daly

22. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will legislate to protect families from religious discrimination in the enrolment process to all schools, by amending section 7(3)(c) of the Equal Status Act as a first step towards providing equal school access for all, with the option of teaching religion at the end of the school day. [17913/16]

Legislative Programme

Clare Daly

71. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce or amend existing equality legislation in order to abolish mandatory retirement ages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18408/16]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund

Clare Daly

132. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if Caranua has informed him of the introduction of financial limits to eligible applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18253/16]

Voluntary Sector Funding

Clare Daly

167. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to ensure that Show Racism the Red Card receives funding under the support scheme for national organisations (details supplied). [18586/16]

Local Authority Functions

Clare Daly

189. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to ensure that the Local Authority Members Association, LAMA, is invited to attend the local government review committee, which is being run by his Department on an ongoing basis. [18162/16]

Local Employment Service

Clare Daly

243. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection his views on the gap in provision for essential equipment for a person (details supplied) on a training course who is expected to pay €500 for tools because his or her address is different from other participants on the same course who have been provided with the same equipment without charge. [18274/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

314. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if permission was sought and if he granted it for two four-engine military planes to land at Ireland West Regional Airport on 20 June 2016; his views regarding their presence at the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17951/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

315. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if permission was sought and if he granted it for a military plane (details supplied) to be present at Ireland West Regional Airport on 20 June 2016; his views regarding its presence at the airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17954/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

409. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to a parliamentary question to make available a copy of the business case submitted by the Central Remedial Clinic, CRC, in regard to the pensions in the CRC pension and death benefits plan when that business case is received by him. [18160/16]

Hospital Procedures

Clare Daly

446. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that women can wait for four months for an appointment for a breast magnetic resonance imaging scan in the Mater Hospital in Dublin 7 and subsequently have to wait for the results to be interpreted over a period of six weeks or more, as consultants only examine these results on Mondays and Wednesdays, causing extreme stress for the women involved; his views on same; and his plans to rectify this matter. [18446/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

456. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he took no action to ensure that Irish producers of organic farmed salmon meet the requirements under European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009, given that the Food Safety Authority of Ireland was alerted in February 2016 that organic salmon was being marketed here without the warning required to inform consumers that the product had been treated with chemical veterinary products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17940/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

457. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his plans to ensure that the public is made aware of when chemically treated organic salmon is marketed, as required under European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009. [17941/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

458. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he took no action to ensure that Irish producers meet the requirement to protect the consumer, given that organic salmon is being marketed without the warning required under European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009 to inform consumers that the product had been treated with chemical veterinary products; and his plans to address this and to protect consumers. [17942/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

461. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that the European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009 requires that packaging states clearly when a product has been treated with chemical veterinary products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17937/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

462. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his plans to ensure that stocks of organic salmon treated with chemical veterinary products are clearly identifiable to the consumer and that any products on the market without this warning are withdrawn from the market and no further organic products permitted on the market without meeting European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009. [17938/16]

Veterinary Medicines

Clare Daly

463. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why his Department holds no relevant records, given that the European Commission Regulation No. 710/2009 requires that whenever veterinary medicinal products are used such use is declared to the control body or the control authority before the animals are marketed as organic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17939/16]

Sports Funding

Clare Daly

513. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding the State awarded to Athletics Ireland in each of the years 2010 to 2016 to date. [18059/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

522. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person (details supplied) has made any representations to his Department regarding military use of Knock Airport, by the United States of America; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18244/16]

Grant Payments

Clare Daly

536. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to correct her Department’s claim in paragraph three of correspondence dated 20 February 2004 (details supplied) that the release of the approved grant was requested on 14 July 1997, whereas in fact that payment application had been withdrawn on 16 July 1997 and resubmitted on 11 September 1997 after her Department had checked and approved the unpaid invoices which, nevertheless, were later reported to the Director of Public Prosecutions as fraudulent solely by virtue of being unpaid. [17960/16]

Grant Payments

Clare Daly

537. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if, in its formal statement to the fraud squad dated 26 April 1999, her Department fully informed An Garda Síochána that there was no prohibition on non-Government organisations using unpaid invoices to claim grant payments and that her Department had in August 1997 checked and approved the three unpaid invoices before the payment application was received and acted on (details supplied). [17961/16]

Grant Payments

Clare Daly

538. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation why correspondence (details supplied) to her Department dated 29 January 1999 from a non-government organisation, which for the first time specifically questioned the validity of using unpaid invoices to claim European Union and European Social Fund grants and was the basis of the subsequent complaint to the fraud squad, remains unanswered. [17962/16]

Grant Payments

Clare Daly

539. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department’s assertion that the application for payment had been made before it had seen the invoices, an assertion which is inaccurate, was the product of its six week internal investigation that it had agreed upon with a person (details supplied) in order to establish the facts. [17963/16]

Grant Payments

Clare Daly

540. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to take note of the communications from persons (details supplied) and identify any ministerial response or parliamentary reply which specifically disclosed the truth, namely that there was no prohibition on the use of unpaid invoices by non-Government organisations to claim payment of European Union and European Social Fund grants. [17964/16]

Youth Work Projects Funding

Clare Daly

555. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of an application by an organisation (details supplied) for funding under the special project for youth. [18138/16]

Missing Children

Clare Daly

556. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs , further to Parliamentary Question No. 697 of 13 May 2014, other than social media to advertise the 116000 hotline, if there are posters on display in all Garda Síochána stations, public libraries and schools; and if it states on the posters that members of the public may call the hotline if they see a missing child or if they have any information to pass on regarding a missing child. [18154/16]

Missing Children

Clare Daly

557. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of calls received by the 116000 hotline in each of the years 2013 to 2015. [18155/16]

Missing Children

Clare Daly

558. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the 116000 helpline is handed out to print media or Aertel each time a child goes missing; and where exactly on the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children's web page, missing children's hotline, does it state that members of the public can call the 116000 helpline if they see a missing child or have any information to pass on regarding a missing child. [18156/16]

Missing Children

Clare Daly

559. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the location on the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children website it states that members of the public can call the 116000 helpline if they have a concern for a child's welfare; and if the 116000 helpline can be used to report issues other than a missing child. [18157/16]

Missing Children

Clare Daly

560. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of European Union and State funding the 116000 helpline has received in each of the years 2013 to 2015; the number of full-time staff who are employed by the 116000 hotline; and if there has been any cut back to staff recently.. [18158/16]

Defence Forces Pensions

Clare Daly

566. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is aware of any concerns regarding the administration of the soldiers' welfare fund in Baldonnel. [18163/16]

Departmental Equipment

Clare Daly

567. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amounts received by his Department for the sale of the Government jet. [18164/16]

Defence Forces Remuneration

Clare Daly

568. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why he has not made payments to Army rangers and cooks which were due to be awarded under an adjudication process, given that the public finances have been restored to stability. [18165/16]

NAMA Loans Sale

Clare Daly

15. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he has full confidence in the operation of the National Asset Management Agency, particularly following recent developments in relation to those involved with Project Eagle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17494/16]

Home Repossessions

Clare Daly

38. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he believes that the framework agreement between the State and the banks is fit for purpose, given the numbers of repossession cases and manner in which they have been handled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17495/16]

Rent Supplement Scheme Payments

Clare Daly

161. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection to ensure that his Department releases the rent supplement for a person (details supplied). [17655/16]

Postal Services

Clare Daly

290. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the proposed increased postal charges announced by An Post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17849/16]

Garda Misconduct Allegations

Clare Daly

24. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she has taken to ensure that Garda Síochána whistleblowers are not subjected to bullying and harassment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17105/16]

Garda Misconduct Allegations

Clare Daly

34. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has reconsidered the situation of those hundreds of citizens who made submissions to her review mechanism and that the initiation of a proper commission of investigation dealing with these cases should now be established, given the publication of the O'Higgins commission report, which showed the serious impact of Garda Síochána behaviour on victims. [17109/16]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Administration

Clare Daly

36. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission is adequately legally structured and supported to enable it to act in the role of confidential recipient for Garda Síochána whistleblowers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17106/16]

Asylum Applications

Clare Daly

49. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her discussions with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on establishing a system for processing applications for asylum by unaccompanied minors in Calais and Dunkirk in France; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17107/16]

Garda Misconduct Allegations

Clare Daly

66. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality why she chose to initiate a statutory inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) under section 42 of the Garda Síochána Act 2005 rather than under the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004. [17108/16]

Fire Safety Regulations

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the current fire regulations that have to be adhered to in the construction of family homes here and what checks are in place to ensure compliance with those regulations. [17408/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

145. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection to establish the necessary mechanisms such that LGBT employees and pensioners who were never given the opportunity to leave a survivor pension to their same-sex spouse be given an opportunity to do so now. [17378/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

146. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection to amend section 81 of the Pensions Act 1990, which prevents LGBT pensioners who have been retired for more than one year from challenging the refusal of a pension in the Equality Tribunal, to bring it into line with the requirements of European law. [17379/16]

Equality Issues

Clare Daly

199. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to reform legislation, such that there is no longer any discrimination against LGBT persons in the field of pensions, as recommended in the report of the United Nations working group, in its periodic review of human rights in Ireland in May 2016. [17380/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

278. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to put mechanisms in place so that retired workers can access the State's industrial relations machinery when their pensions are affected. [17547/16]

Defence Forces Operations

Clare Daly

30. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of aid-to-the-civil-power duties the Defence Forces carried out at Shannon Airport in County Clare and at Dublin Airport in County Dublin involving military aircraft of the United States of America, by month, in 2016; if he has concerns regarding the frequency of these duties; if he plans to discuss these arrangements with the Department of Justice and Equality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16706/16]

Prison Accommodation

Clare Daly

80. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide the policy document and latest information on the implementation of the cell-share risk assessment tool proposed as part of the Prison Service's strategic plan; the locations where it is in operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17014/16]

Prison Service

Clare Daly

81. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of a dignity at work charter in the Prison Service, including when she will publish information on it; if she has launched a dignity at work campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17015/16]

Prison Service Strategies

Clare Daly

82. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will publish the strategies for older prisoners, young prisoners, sex offenders and prisoners requiring protection; when these strategies and the joint strategy for women prisoners will be operational in each prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17016/16]

Prison Service Strategies

Clare Daly

83. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the women in prison strategy published in March 2014 has been unsuccessful (details supplied); her plans to address the level of overcrowding and the continual increase in the number of women being committed to prison each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17017/16]