Parliamentary questions

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]

Northern Ireland Issues

Clare Daly

3. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will give an update on the circumstances of Marian Price's imprisonment in particular on her isolation and medical condition. [44989/12]

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]

Energy Resources

Clare Daly

3. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to enable the State sector including the ESB to develop the offshore wind industry using European Investment Bank funding or otherwise in view of (details supplied); his views on whether the basis for the development of our renewable energy resource has been funded by the State through Sustainable Energy Ireland, the Department of the Marine, the Marine Institute, the HMRC in UCC and the ESB; his further views on whether his plans for the development of the resources will enable multinational energy corporations, including those based here, to extract profits from the development of this resource with no payback to the Irish taxpayer for their investment in this resource over decades. [43958/12]

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]

Departmental Bodies

Clare Daly

409. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress that has been made by the Property Services Regulatory Authority regarding the introduction of mandatory seller packs. [41235/12]

Primary Care Centres Provision

Clare Daly

19. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the way the priority list for primary care centres was approved with particular reference to the changes announced in July 2012 [40940/12]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

65. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health in the context of Ireland's endorsement of the Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006-2015, if he will outline the progress made and specific measures being undertaken to secure equality for people with disabilities, in particular with regard to Action Line 8, 9 and 10 [40939/12]

Adoption Legislation

Clare Daly

34. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Adoption Amendment Bill will address the problems experienced by adopted persons in relation to their information rights following the 1998 Supreme Court (IOT vs B) ruling; and if not, the steps she will take to secure their information and tracing rights as a matter of urgency. [40655/12]

Post-Adoption Contact Register

Clare Daly

38. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs noting her statement in Dáil Éireann on 19 September 2012 that for decades this country has failed its children, her views on whether children illegally adopted were failed by the State; if she will agree to meet with those now adult who have asked to meet her; and if she will ensure to make secure medical and other records in private hands which can provide evidence of the crime committed against these children. [40654/12]

Banks Recapitalisation

Clare Daly

45. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown for each financial institution, of the €7.5 billion of the bank recapitalisation which was paid in relation to mortgage debt; the action that was taken by each bank to ensure that these moneys were used for their intended purpose. [40790/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

119. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the outcome of the discussions with the key stakeholders identified in the pyrite report, including the CIF, IIF, IBF, ICF and Homebond, to come up with a solution to the pyrite problem. [40823/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

120. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will give a commitment that all homes with reactive pyrite will be systematically remediated. [40824/12]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

206. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health in the context of Ireland's endorsement of the Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006 - 2015, the progress made and the specific measures being undertaken to secure equality for persons with disabilities, in particular with regard to Action Line 8, 9 and 10. [39447/12]

Fishing Industry Development

Clare Daly

51. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he intends to take in relation to developing a sustainable fisheries policy, following the Our Ocean Wealth Report. [40385/12]

Household Charge Collection

Clare Daly

289. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the impact of the letters sent by local authorities to those on the non-principal private residence list in relation to seeking payment of the household tax, broken down by county on the basis of numbers of letters sent out each time, and the rate of compliance which followed each letter. [40392/12]

Adoption Legislation

Clare Daly

383. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to deal with the issue of adopted persons' right to access their own information with regard to their adoptions. [40507/12]

Army Barracks Closures

Clare Daly

15. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if a cost benefit analysis was conducted into the substantial reduction in Defence Forces personnel, with particular reference to the towns in which barracks have been targeted for closure. [39526/12]

Defence Forces Deployment

Clare Daly

18. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which Defence Forces personnel carriers were deployed in relation to civilian peace keeping operations; and the cost of these exercises. [39525/12]

Prison Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

3. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he will take to ensure a single cell occupancy policy in relation to Irish prisons. [39371/12]

Asylum Seeker Accommodation

Clare Daly

15. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the handling of the attempted move of asylum seekers from Lisburn Houses in Galway; and if he will outline his plans in relation to the residents. [39372/12]

Schools Building Contractors

Clare Daly

75. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to problems with employment procedures in some of the contracts awarded for school building projects, in particular the practice of employing workers below the REA rates and below the minimum wage in a school (details supplied) and the action he will take on same. [39579/12]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

140. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will justify the rationale of restructuring contributory state pensions in Budget 2012, which discriminate against women who took time out of the workforce to rear their children and will have the effect of reducing the average annual contributions by €1,000 per year, causing immense hardship. [39580/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

157. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the steps he will take to deal with the fact that banks have been shown to be refusing mortgages to persons because of pyrite being present in particular estates and not the specific property, and insurance companies who are refusing cover even when remedial works have been carried out. [39617/12]

Departmental Legal Cases

Clare Daly

201. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason proceedings in a case by a person (details supplied) against his Department, the Health Service Executive, the Attorney General and Ireland in the High Court have not yet been heard, despite being initiated in February 2001. [39630/12]

Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

216. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the protocol in relation to a second independent consultant psychiatrists opinion being required when it relates to a tribunal to determine a patient's freedom, with particular reference to the fees charged for such an opinion, in relation to the signing of forms and claims for travel expenses even though the assessment may have occurred while the psychiatrist was on duty in another hospital; and if he can confirm that a fee of more than €1,000 would be normal for such assessments. [39616/12]

Departmental Legal Cases

Clare Daly

217. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was charged for their stay in Shrewsbury House, Clonliffee Road, County Dublin, from 4 September 1992 to 1 May 1995, despite being a medical card holder; and if arrangements will be made to refund the family. [39631/12]

Environmental Policy

Clare Daly

67. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the purpose of the EPA Code of Practice: Waste Water Treatment and Disposal Systems Serving Single Houses (2009). [38907/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

77. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the contribution private legal firms made in the preparation of the Pyrite Panel report; the names of the firms and if any such firm had a conflict of interest having represented quarry owners, developers or contractors; and the amount they were paid for work on the Pyrite Panel report. [38906/12]

Consular Services Representations

Clare Daly

169. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made any inquiries in relation to the murder of New Zealand - Irish photojournalist Trent Keegan in Nairobi in 2008; and if his attention has been drawn to the allegations that have been made that the murder was linked to a story that he was investigating at the time. [37692/12]

National Parks Opening Hours

Clare Daly

497. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the Office of Public Works has to reinstate the duck pond and the bridges which have been locked off for more that two years in Pearse Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin. [37162/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Clare Daly

1107. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government following the publication of the Pyrite Panel report, his views on whether a close reading of the report suggests that the purpose of the report is to absolve the Building Regulations Advisory Board and his Department of any responsibility for the systematic failures to ensure adequate testing by quarry owners for the presence of sulphur/sulphide/sulphate in hardcore for use as fill under ground floor slabs in housing units which failures have facilitated pyrite induced heave and serious structural damage to tens of thousands of houses in north Dublin, east Meath, north Kildare and Offaly. [38881/12]

Local Authority Charges Application

Clare Daly

1128. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the practice of Cavan County Council writing off substantial amounts of planning contributions or development levies in return for applicants paying the amount up-front or in cash; his views in relation to such practices and the way he proposes to deal with same. [39173/12]

Child Abuse Issues

Clare Daly

1441. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will carry out an investigation into the failure by the Midland Health Board to take any action on the substantial records that they had regarding the vicious and systematic abuse of (details supplied). [37693/12]

Renewable Energy

Clare Daly

9 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if any cost benefit analysis has been carried out to determine the possible advantage of semi-State led development of the world’s best wind and wave renewable energy resource off the Irish coast using EIB loans; and if he will instruct that such a cost benefit analysis be organised. [35738/12]

Postal Services

Clare Daly

18 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether rural Ireland is being affected by the withdrawal of services in rural villages in particular by the closing of rural post offices; his plans to prevent the further decline of services for which he is responsible in rural Ireland.
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Northern Ireland Issues

Clare Daly

72 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are any sensitive and embargoed papers or materials relating to the peace process held in Boston College or other American universities that should be returned to Irish jurisdiction to protect the terms of their confidentiality.
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