Parliamentary questions

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

183. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the composition of the various pyrite related technical committees that have or are to be established. [53618/12]

Pyrite Panel Report Implementation

Clare Daly

184. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expected timeframe to develop a stand-alone specification for hardcore as per Recommendation 15 of the Pyrite Report. [53619/12]

Pyrite Panel Report Implementation

Clare Daly

185. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expected timeframe to provide a single, publically accessible information point with up-to-date information on standards readily available to all involved in the construction industry as per Recommendation 24 of the Pyrite Panel Report. [53620/12]

Child Detention Centres

Clare Daly

229. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the Health Service Executive report surrounding the absconding from Gleann Alainn Special Care Unit in October 2011 will be published. [53471/12]

Hospital Procedures

Clare Daly

234. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans for the approval, development or analysis of artificial disk replacement surgery as an approved treatment for a disease of the spine that requires surgery [53407/12]

Inland Waterways Maintenance

Clare Daly

42. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason an indemnification is being sought for Waterways Ireland from residents who are seeking a combined mooring and passage permit in view of the fact that insurance companies will not cover such an indemnity. [52867/12]

Road Safety Issues

Clare Daly

129. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review speed limits and to deal with information that has been brought to his attention in relation to road traffic penalties and fines being written off by Gardaí. [52248/12]

Departmental Contracts

Clare Daly

316. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the tender for the process of student grant application was awarded to the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee; the judging criteria for the award; who were the listed applicants and the tender price submitted by each of the bidders. [52921/12]

School Enrolments

Clare Daly

317. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some pupils of a secondary school (details supplied) in County Dublin, are being refused entry because they don't fall into the criteria of having an older sibling that attends the school or where they are an only child, and the steps he will take to address this perceived discrimination. [52925/12]

Wastewater Treatment Issues

Clare Daly

345. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) who manufactured and installed sewerage treatment plants have stopped making and selling the system since March 2009 and the implications this will have for the over 900 tanks that were sold, now that they are no longer certified. [52922/12]

Building Regulations Amendments

Clare Daly

493. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 of 13 November 2012, the reason the specification on hardcore is being developed in conjunction with recommendation 21 of the Pyrite Panel which deals with general insurance issues, rather than recommendation 22. [52923/12]

Proposed Legislation

Clare Daly

502. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the recent tragedy in Galway Regional Hospital and the Coombe University Women and Children's Hospital, Dublin, where two women died within 48 hours in October 2012, if he will confirm when legislative changes to the Coroner's Act will take place to make an inquest an automatic event following all maternal deaths. [52306/12]

Coroners Service

Clare Daly

503. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason repeated requests from family members for an inquest into the death of a person (details supplied) which took place on the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, in March 2010 have not been granted. [52307/12]

Immigration Policy

Clare Daly

536. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons seeking visa renewals at the Garda National Immigration Bureau last week who were not seen because of the large number were told to return next week, however the charge for the visa renewal increased the following week from €150 to €300; his views on whether these persons should be penalised for insufficient staff available to deal with them. [52924/12]

Departmental Legal Cases

Clare Daly

537. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his understanding of the history and status of a case (details supplied). [52926/12]

School Staffing

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Skerries Educate Together, County Dublin, was informed in the last two weeks of the loss of a temporary EAL post which will result in a newly appointed permanent teacher being made redundant, despite meticulous adherence to recruitment rules by the school. [51265/12]

School Accommodation

Clare Daly

154. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the nature of the inspection carried out on the prefabs purchased for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in December 2010 and the subsequent works carried out on them; and his future plans regarding same. [51213/12]

Broadcasting Legislation

Clare Daly

423. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he proposes to implement to ensure that in any upcoming referendum, both sides of the argument are given equal air time. [51137/12]

Hospital Procedures

Clare Daly

575. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans for the approval, development or analysis of APR surgery as an approved treatment for a disease of the spine that requires surgery [50933/12]

Tax Collection

Clare Daly

62. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 189 and 190 of 16 October 2012, if he will make a statement on his answers which show that gross profits of companies registered in Ireland are €28.762 billion manufacturing and €41.196 billion non-manufacturing and they only paid €4.246 billion in tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50526/12]

Northern Ireland

Clare Daly

23. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will issue a public statement calling for the release of Marian Price in view of the fact that she has been imprisoned for 18 months without any trial date and medical reports indicate that she is not fit to attend trial. [50058/12]

Arts Funding

Clare Daly

185. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will ensure that funding for the arts is protected in the upcoming budget. [50302/12]

Telecommunications Services Provision

Clare Daly

190. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Ireland is in breach of EC Directive 2009/136EC by not intervening to stop a company (details supplied) from blocking Skype on their network and not allowing customers to use it out of their paid for data allowances. [50301/12]

Defence Forces Reorganisation

Clare Daly

216. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the number of staff at McKee Barracks that were instructed that they would have to move to Athlone by 1 December; the basis for this decision and the financial supports available to the staff involved. [50303/12]

Home-makers Scheme

Clare Daly

124. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in Budget 2013 for a backdating of the home-makers scheme from 1994 back to 1964 in order to ensure that workers with and interrupted PRSI record do not lose out on their contributory State pension. [49913/12]

Child Benefit Rates

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that there are no further cutbacks in budget 2013 in payment benefits or allowances to elderly citizens and that the cutbacks in the last two budgets for this category be reversed. [49912/12]

Social Welfare Appeals Status

Clare Daly

380. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of reviews that have been carried out by the chief appeals officer each year since 2005. [49923/12]

Building Regulations Compliance

Clare Daly

462. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expected timeframe for developing a stand alone specification for hard core as outlined in recommendation 15 of the Pyrite Panel Report. [49969/12]

Building Regulations Compliance

Clare Daly

463. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made on his dealings with the stakeholders regarding a solution to the pyrite issue. [49970/12]

Proposed Legislation

Clare Daly

480. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in the publication of the Mental Capacity Bill 2008; and if he will address this matter urgently. [49633/12]

Road Safety Issues

Clare Daly

675. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will conduct a review of the location of speed cameras and the inconsistency in speed limits signage in order to improve road safety. [49402/12]

Animal Welfare Issues

Clare Daly

26. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will agree to animal welfare advice not to directly transpose a loophole in the ban on inflicting severe and prolonged pain on animals in experiments, article 55.3 of the animal experimentation directive, and instead require the passage of secondary legislation for the licensing of such high levels of harm [48751/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

244. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that a company (details supplied) is refusing claims of homeowners with heave-inducing pyrite of a level that they previously accepted based on the Pyrite Panel's categorisation of the amber category; and the steps he will take to address this situation. [49334/12]

Defence Forces Allowances

Clare Daly

21. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence his views on whether most of the allowances paid to Defence Forces personnel form part of core pay, and will be protected in the event of any review of such allowances. [48562/12]

Military Archives

Clare Daly

27. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if there is a timescale for the release of the military pension records. [48561/12]

Coillte Teoranta Reports

Clare Daly

96. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine as the main shareholder of Coillte Ireland, if he will indicate a timeline for publication of the geographical survey carried out on Coillte lands in 1989. [47689/12]

Coillte Teoranta Staff

Clare Daly

139. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the present remuneration package for the CEO of Coillte Ireland; and his plans to reduce this package. [47690/12]

Special Educational Needs Services Provision

Clare Daly

320. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department are working on a research document regarding the introduction and merits of applied behavioural analysis in respect of teaching students with autism. [47798/12]

Schools Building Projects Applications

Clare Daly

351. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the issue of the unsafe and substandard prefab accommodation in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the further deterioration and leaking as reported to his Department in October, by sanctioning a permanent extension to the school as part of the building programme or a devolved grant, as the only viable and cost effective solution to these ongoing problems. [48228/12]

Coastal Erosion

Clare Daly

396. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the serious coastal erosion occurring in Portrane, County Dublin; and if he will make provision under the Coastal Protection Fund for emergency measures to protect the dunes to be implemented. [47581/12]

Social Welfare Benefits Numbers

Clare Daly

454. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare benefits that have been stopped following persons being interviewed at Dublin Airport and other Irish entry points, upon returning to the country, and the number of these cases result in the benefit being restored. [47395/12]

Jobseeker's Allowance Payments

Clare Daly

574. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is a problem having jobseekers' payments paid directly into bank accounts, and if so, the nature of problem and the way it can be overcome. [48223/12]

Electricity Transmission Network

Clare Daly

635. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money the delay in the commercial operation of Eirgrid's East West Interconnector will cost electricity consumers and the reason for this delay. [47758/12]

Defence Forces Allowances

Clare Daly

839. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will justify the recent announcement to stop the payment of allowances to all new army personnel; his views on the fact that the removal of ten allowance schemes will impact negatively on already low army incomes and create a two tiered system among the rank and file of the defence forces. [48560/12]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Clare Daly

996. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is currently a four year waiting list to see a consultant with regard to possible tonsillectomy at Waterford Hospital and the action he will take in regarding same. [47393/12]

Departmental Funding

Clare Daly

997. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the budget of Prosper Fingal is protected in next years overall departmental budget. [47394/12]

Ambulance Service Provision

Clare Daly

1011. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Arklow ambulance and hospital services that carry wheelchairs to St. Vincent's and Loughlinstown Hospital have stopped running and the action he will take regarding same [47392/12]

Adoption Legislation

Clare Daly

12. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to safeguard the birth records and files, held in the hands of private individuals and organisations, such as general practitioners, midwives, mother and baby homes, private agencies and so on, which contain important information regarding person's identities. [46752/12]

Adoption Legislation

Clare Daly

18. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if resources will be made available in the context of the planned Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill to ensure that files held in various locations are centralised and safeguarded to assist in adopted persons quest to establish their identity. [46753/12]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues

Clare Daly

22. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will carry out an independent examination into the Cavan/Monaghan Garda Division following repeat summonses being issued to persons (details supplied) in County Cavan over a six year period for charges relating to assault, assault causing harm, public order, breach of the peace and stalking and harassment, which were all subsequently struck out and dismissed due to there being no evidence in any of the cases. [46503/12]

Road Traffic Offences

Clare Daly

32. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the action he has taken in response to the evidence presented to him in relation to the write off of millions of euro in unpaid motoring charges by Gardaí across the State. [46502/12]

Unfinished Housing Developments

Clare Daly

69. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his proposals to rectify the situation facing residents whose homes are seriously defective, posing a major threat to health and safety, to ensure that remediation works are undertaken where the builder has gone out of business. [46126/12]

Building Regulations Application

Clare Daly

100. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the remedies available to the growing numbers of homeowners whose properties are a fire hazard and are in breach of fire regulations. [46127/12]

Banking Sector Regulation

Clare Daly

176. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his view on the fact that as some or all of the recapitalised banks were trading while insolvent, and were therefore in breach of the statutory obligations under Company law and otherwise, the actions that have been taken or are being taken with respect to such banks and the personnel involved. [46253/12]

Banks Recapitalisation

Clare Daly

177. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance in the context of the principle of equality before the law as a corner-stone of the constitution, if he will explain the way it is compatible with that Constitutional provision that mismanaged and insolvently operating banks were and are treated preferentially over and above other financially distressed private companies, businesses and persons; and the factors that make a private commercial bank different in nature to other private companies for the purposes of securing a bail-out courtesy of taxpayers. [46254/12]

Central Bank of Ireland

Clare Daly

178. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance with regard to the Central Bank of Ireland, the persons who owns and are shareholders in same; if it is State owned, privately owned or a combination of both; the names and details of directors and principal shareholders of the Central Bank, whether private individuals, corporations or otherwise; the persons who appoint the shareholders and directors; if owned and operated on behalf of the State, the persons who carry out this remit; the way such directors and shareholders appointed and to whom and in what manner are they accountable. [46255/12]

Banking Sector Regulation

Clare Daly

179. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance in relation to default insurance on banking loans, if this is normal practise; if there is a legal regulation or any rule of enforcement stating that a bank must insure its loans against default; with whom is this insurance policy in place; if there is any legal regulation for financial institutions and banks to retain a provision fund or deposit account to clear defaulted loans; if yes, what is the regulation, if no, is it common practice to set up such accounts regardless and time limit within which a bank must clear defaulted loans. [46256/12]

Banking Sector Regulation

Clare Daly

180. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance with regard to general issues around bank license necessary for operation here, where copies of the licenses, and licence conditions under which banks function, are available; if licence conditions for non-Irish banks operating here are different than domestic banks; if it is possible to trade as a bank without a licence; the person responsible for monitoring compliance with licence conditions; the legal consequences for banks and their customers of a breach of license conditions; if agreements entered into while a bank is operating in breach of one or more conditions of its licence are legally binding; if a bank selling loans and mortgages while insolvent is in breach of the conditions of its licence; the date on which the review of licence conditions took place; where copies of the banking licences of those banks now technically in public ownership are available to members of the Oireachtas for examination. [46257/12]

Schools Building Projects Status

Clare Daly

253. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the abandonment of a project (details supplied) in County Kilkenny by a builder if he will immediately organise for the recommencement of the project under a direct labour and materials contract. [46224/12]

Birth Certificates Administration

Clare Daly

357. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that relevant legislation is amended to ensure that the death of an Irish person which does not take place in Ireland may be registered here. [46250/12]

Emergency Services Personnel

Clare Daly

509. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will amend Section 19 of the Public Order Act 1994 to include Airport Police and Fire Service in the definition of emergency personnel in the Act. [46251/12]

Medical Research Regulation

Clare Daly

660. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will consult with experts and stakeholders prior to tabling new regulations in relation to animal testing in view of the fact that the directive gives considerable discretion to national Governments in some key areas such as the way in which animal pain, suffering and distress will be measured. [46252/12]

Organ Removal

Clare Daly

676. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to allegations of organs being removed from dead patients without permission [46344/12]

Schools Building Projects Status

Clare Daly

123. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the continued high demand for school places at second level in north County Dublin, and in particular in the Balbriggan, Donabate and Swords area, if there has been any change in the capacity in the relevant post primary schools (details supplied), from the previous school year 2011-2012 to the current 2012-2013 academic year, and in particular to their first year intake, to accommodate the current demand. [45497/12]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Clare Daly

197. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he is examining issues surrounding the operation of the Bethany Homes and the way in which justice can be secured for former residents. [45496/12]

Foreign Conflicts

Clare Daly

25. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether US threats of military action against Iran are breaches of the UN Charter and international law. [44834/12]

Child Care Services Provision

Clare Daly

171. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will update Dáil Éireann regarding consultation between lone parent groups and various Government Departments regarding the working childcare model based on Scandinavian countries and other proposals for consideration as stated earlier this year. [45215/12]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

273. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made regarding the review into the statute of limitations for the survivors of symphysiotomy. [45370/12]

National Drugs Strategy Publication

Clare Daly

292. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that there are no cuts to the Coolmine Therapeutic Community. [45216/12]

Defined Pension Benefit Schemes Issues

Clare Daly

86. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will overhaul the minimum funding standard for defined benefit pension schemes which is unfair and inequitable in its present form and operates as a deterrent to the well being of these schemes and their members. [42248/12]

Redundancy Payments

Clare Daly

95. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will include a stamped addressed postcard with all redundancy applications which will be sent back to the applicant confirming receipt of the file. [44090/12]

Mortgage Interest Relief Extension

Clare Daly

159. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will extend the mortgage interest relief scheme to home owners who have to rent out their own only property. [44227/12]

Schools Building Projects Status

Clare Daly

231. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his plans for the delivery of a new primary school in Balrothery, County Dublin. [44178/12]

Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme Payments

Clare Daly

574. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason 35 victims of Dr. Michael Neary have not received redress as promised [44179/12]

Home Care Packages

Clare Daly

646. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the parents of an 18 week old baby (details supplied) in County Dublin were refused a home care package [44388/12]

Broadcasting Service Provision

Clare Daly

35. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources the date on which the RTÉ Network Limited will begin transmission of UK public service broadcasts on the Saorview system to complete the reciprocation as envisaged in the MoU (details supplied). [43721/12]

Community Employment Schemes Review

Clare Daly

94. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline the extent of discussions she has had with the Department of Environment, Community and Local Government regarding the introduction of new community employment type schemes to undertake work currently being carried out by council workers. [43963/12]

Rent Supplement Scheme Expenditure

Clare Daly

95. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will reverse her current policy of cuts to rent allowance which has had a devastating effect on families; and if she will confirm that rent allowance will not be further cut in Budget 2013. [43964/12]

Departmental Staff Remuneration

Clare Daly

151. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the remuneration of the chairman and board members of the Property Services Regulatory Authority; the annual running costs of the authority; and if he will provide a list of their achievements to date. [43938/12]

Property Services Regulation

Clare Daly

152. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the steps available to a person who is dissatisfied with the response they receive from the Property Service Regulatory Authority upon making a complaint. [43939/12]

Pilot Training Colleges

Clare Daly

220. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport; Tourism and Sport if he will ensure that the Irish Aviation Authority do not grant approval to a college (details supplied) until there is a full investigation to enure there is no connection between them and the liquidated Pilot Training College Ltd. [43965/12]

Departmental Staff Career Breaks

Clare Daly

18. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the incentivised career break for civil servants in 2009 which finished in June 2012 in view of the fact that many of the staff have now been told that they will not be re-employed within their Departments for a period of up to twelve months but because of the PRSI contributions paid while they were out, they will not receive any social welfare either. [43238/12]

Legislative Programme

Clare Daly

26. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he intends to take to review the valuation process in relation to business rates, with particular reference to enhancing the appeals process which prevents a business which has been assessed in error from being reviewed, if the original applicant did not appeal it in the first instance. [41289/12]

School Staffing

Clare Daly

70. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way he can justify the cutback in guidance and counselling services to students in a college (details supplied) in County Dublin in the context of the economic downturn and the severe pressures that are on young people to-day. [43614/12]

Information and Communications Technology Issues

Clare Daly

71. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of recent trial schemes at second level schools involving replacing traditional school books with portable devices such as ipads and ebooks, if there is a timescale for the widespread introduction of this technology in the State's second level schools. [43041/12]

School Accommodation

Clare Daly

83. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the continued high demand for second level places in schools across north County Dublin, if there have been any changes in capacity to facilitate current demand. [43040/12]

FÁS Training Programmes Provision

Clare Daly

190. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that all FÁS course places are allocated in a timely manner to enable parents to have adequate time to organise appropriate child care. [43036/12]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme

Clare Daly

202. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will to take to deal with the claims for redress made by victims of the Bethany Homes, who have produced evidence to show that the meet the terms of redress schemes. [42768/12]

Free Travel Scheme Administration

Clare Daly

312. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider implementing a scheme whereby immediate family members of patients who are in long term hospital care due to the seriousness or terminal nature of their illness, in specialist hospitals or facilities, far from the family home, will be furnished with a travel pass to enable them to visit [42702/12]

Social Welfare Code

Clare Daly

318. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection her views regarding that fact that social welfare payments are not being made to civil servants who ended a career break in June 2012 as a result of inadequate PRSI contributions being paid on their behalf; and if she will consider a back dated payment of these contributions as being acceptable to rectify the situation. [42610/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

431. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he has had contact with the Housing Finance Agency with regard to whether, as suggested by the pyrite panel, they will be considering providing money or resources for testing homes for heave inducing pyrite, when such homes have been provided through funding by the agency under council affordable housing schemes. [43189/12]

Nursing Home Repayment Scheme

Clare Daly

558. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he proposes to take to assist those incorrectly charged for nursing home care while in receipt of a medical card as allowed under the 1970 Health Act; if he will recover this money as previously specified in a Supreme Court ruling. [42614/12]

Bank Branch Closures

Clare Daly

36. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will intervene with AIB in relation to the proposed closure of the branch in Rush, County Dublin, which affects more than 10% of the total numbers affected by the 67 closures, concentrated in one community. [42247/12]

Postal Services

Clare Daly

73. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the reason parcel companies (details supplied) have no revenue customs on their premises and An Post is the only parcel depot that has customs personnel present. [42507/12]

Tax Avoidance Issues

Clare Daly

62. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that Section 77 Finance Act (2011) (No 6 of 2011) relating to taxpayer confidentiality, was included following lobbying from the International Financial Services Centre; his views on whether this privacy provision will obstruct necessary oversight of multinational company tax evasion strategies; if he will confirm that this clause does not prevent a case specific application for access to data held by the Revenue Commissioners by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement or Criminal Assets Bureau. [42333/12]

Youth Unemployment Data

Clare Daly

58. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation his proposals for dealing with youth unemployment; and if he will explain the rate of progress that has been made to date. [41290/12]

Foreign Conflicts

Clare Daly

106. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade noting the continuing threats by the US President to support an Israeli pre-emptive military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities, if he will acknowledge that these threats are breaches of the UN Charter and International Law. [41836/12]

Harbours and Piers Funding

Clare Daly

329. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his attention has been drawn to the ongoing refusal by Waterways Ireland to engage in with the barge dwellers at the Marina in Lowtown, Naas, County Kildare, with regards to the future development of the area where they currently reside. [41713/12]

Inland Waterways Maintenance

Clare Daly

330. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the nature of changes proposed by Waterways Ireland to the Canals Act, 1986 (Bye-Laws), 1988. [41714/12]

Departmental Bodies

Clare Daly

408. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the person to whom the Property Services Regulatory Authority are responsible; and to whom a citizen who has a complaint with the functioning of this organisation may make that complaint known. [41234/12]