Parliamentary questions

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

571. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the percentage of allegations of child sexual abuse adjudged to be either founded or unfounded by Tusla or a specialist unit contracted by Tusla to assess such allegations in each of the years 2014 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [39928/18]

Schools Building Projects Status

Clare Daly

88. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a building project by a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39151/18]

Deportation Orders

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 18 September 2018, if he will respond to the question regarding the statistics for prisoners on protection in Irish prisons as opposed to those on restricted regimes; and the figures for the daily average of prisoners on protection in 2017. [39251/18]

Prisoner Discipline

Clare Daly

105. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 18 September 2018, his views on the measures to reduce the number of prisoners on restricted regimes in view of the fact that the number has increased from 339 in 2013 to 536 in July 2018; and his plans to review the current policy. [39252/18]

Mortgage Protection Policies

Clare Daly

237. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the compulsory mortgage protection insurance on the Rebuilding Ireland scheme costs far above market rates; the reason recipients of Rebuilding Ireland mortgages are not free to obtain their own mortgage protection insurance at market rates; and the steps he will take to ensure that recipients are not obligated to pay over the odds for mortgage protection insurance as part of the scheme. [39176/18]

Public Consultation Process

Clare Daly

71. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the public consultation process on pension reform has been conducted adequately in view of the fact that the process is limited to an online survey only, in contrast to the 2010 public consultation on the national pensions framework, has involved no public meetings, conferences, no opportunity to submit open submissions and in further view of the fact that the consultation took place over the summer during the Dáil Éireann recess thus minimising publicity for and media coverage of same. [38786/18]

Employment Rights

Clare Daly

79. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that current legislation is appropriate to adequately protect migrant workers from exploitation in seasonal employment within agricultural based industry here; and if further steps can be taken to enhance those protections. [38787/18]

Departmental Correspondence

Clare Daly

106. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a copy of DMC47 will be provided to this Deputy. [39011/18]

Mortgage Protection Policies

Clare Daly

114. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his plans to address the failure of insurance companies to offer mortgage protection insurance to persons who have previously experienced mental health difficulties but have been medically certified as having recovered. [38937/18]

Medical Consent

Clare Daly

156. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if there is a State-wide policy in regard to obtaining written patient consent prior to the prescription of an unlicensed drug to that patient. [38918/18]

Medical Consent

Clare Daly

157. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a sanction applies to a clinician who prescribes an unlicensed drug to a patient without having first obtained that patient's written consent. [38919/18]

Medical Consent

Clare Daly

158. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if it is the practice in the public health system to obtain written patient consent prior to that patient being prescribed an unlicensed drug [38920/18]

Hospital Investigations

Clare Daly

206. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if it is the practice of UHL to isolate patients colonised or infected with CPE or other drug-resistant infections; and if so, when this practice commenced. [39070/18]

Hospital Investigations

Clare Daly

207. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when the external review into possible association of CPE with patient deaths between February 2009 and May 2017 will be published; and if the recommendations of that review are being implemented by UHL pending publication. [39071/18]

Hospital Investigations

Clare Daly

208. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recent upward trend in CPE cases at UHL (details supplied); if he has sought an explanation from UHL for this upward trend in view of the fact that both an internal and external review into CPE management at the hospital have been conducted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39072/18]

Internet Safety

Clare Daly

212. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the action he plans to take to deal with the use of social media sites to promote the illegal and dangerous so-called MMS as a purported cure for autism with particular reference to the need for stiffer penalties for those involved who are essentially endangering and abusing children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38921/18]

Registration of Title

Clare Daly

256. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government the nature of the compensation process with respect to form 98 and rule 184 of the Land Registration Rules 2013 (details supplied); if problems with applicants have arisen; if the system has been examined recently; the constitutional position of property owners concerned by the digital mapping systems currently in use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39057/18]

Dog Breeding Industry

Clare Daly

76. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is satisfied that the new dog breeding guidelines due to come into effect in January 2019 will be adequate to deal with the mistreatment and illegal sale of dogs here. [38566/18]

Dog Breeding Industry

Clare Daly

89. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps he will take to enforce compliance by dog breeders with the recently published new dog breeding establishment guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38567/18]

Fuel Rebate Scheme

Clare Daly

147. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if the introduction of a diesel fuel user rebate scheme for licensed Irish hauliers has been considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38537/18]

Schools Site Acquisitions

Clare Daly

164. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the progress over the summer months to acquire a site for the new school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38314/18]

Psychological Services

Clare Daly

242. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if all psychologists and social workers working in an organisation (details supplied) have specialist training in forensic interviewing techniques and child sexual abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38680/18]

Health Services

Clare Daly

243. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if an audit of the quality and reliability of the findings of an organisation (details supplied) has ever been carried out; if so, when; and the person or body that carried out the audit. [38683/18]

Public Procurement Regulations

Clare Daly

254. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a company is owned by a person (details supplied). [38294/18]

Public Procurement Regulations

Clare Daly

255. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) has contracted out privately owned companies in which they have an interest to deliver occupational health services to public bodies such as Cork University Hospital or other hospitals in the South/South West hospital group and UCC; and, if so, if this person has declared a conflict of interest to the group and the HSE nationally. [38295/18]

Public Procurement Regulations

Clare Daly

256. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the procurement process for contracting employee assistance support in the South/South West hospital group. [38296/18]

Hospital Groups

Clare Daly

257. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the UHL group has a mortgage on its property portfolio in view of the fact that the HSE is not permitted to hold mortgages; and the person who authorised this mortgage and signed off on same. [38297/18]

Hospital Groups

Clare Daly

258. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the person or body that applied for and authorised a bridging loan of behalf of UHL hospital group going back to 2014. [38298/18]

Public Procurement Regulations

Clare Daly

259. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the CEO of UHL or their family members are renting or leasing property to the HSE; and if so, if the CEO has declared this as a conflict of interest. [38299/18]

Public Procurement Regulations

Clare Daly

260. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the CEO of UHL is a shareholder or holds directorship of a company that owns private property and rents, leases property, space or services to the HSE or its agents. [38300/18]

Public Procurement Regulations

Clare Daly

261. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the university from which the CEO of UHL received the entitlement and award to use the title professor. [38301/18]

Hospital Groups

Clare Daly

265. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the taking out of a mortgage and a bridging loan by UHL has not been reported to the director general by the head of estates for the HSE and head of maintenance; and the reason a formal investigation into the way in which and the reason this happened has not been carried out. [38312/18]

Vaccination Programme Data

Clare Daly

272. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE have obtained all the research behind the Gardasil HPV vaccines research trial data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38353/18]

Cycling Facilities Funding

Clare Daly

418. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration he has given to the pre-budget submission by a group (details supplied) in relation to allocating 10% of the transport budget to cycling in order to radically transform the present situation and positively assist in reaching climate change emission targets and to tackle obesity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38515/18]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

435. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an oversight body monitors the work of an organisation (details supplied) which specialises in reports of child sexual abuse. [38677/18]

HIQA Inspections

Clare Daly

436. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an organisation (details supplied) is regulated and inspected by HIQA. [38678/18]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

437. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an organisation (details supplied) operates independently of or in tandem with Tusla. [38679/18]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

438. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the basis on which An Garda Síochána and Tusla assert that they are bound by the findings of reports on allegations of child sexual abuse from an organisation (details supplied); and if this is the case. [38681/18]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

439. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason second opinions in regard to findings in relation to allegations of child sexual abuse by an organisation (details supplied) are not facilitated by Tusla. [38682/18]

Child Abuse Reports

Clare Daly

440. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 1132 of 12 June 2018, when a response from Tusla is likely to be forthcoming. [38738/18]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

442. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 242 of 27 June 2018, when a response from Tusla is likely to be forthcoming. [38743/18]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

443. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if correspondence from a person (details supplied) and the attachments thereto, which related to the outcome of the deliberations of Tusla's section 3 committee and included documents outlining policy, implementation and a training plan in regard to the management of child sexual abuse allegations, were furnished by Tusla to HIQA as part of the latter's recent investigation into the management of allegations of child sexual abuse against adults of concern by Tusla. [38744/18]

Child and Family Agency Staff

Clare Daly

444. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if complaints, grievances or disclosures have been submitted to her Department or the board of Tusla in relation to the performance of a person (details supplied); and if so, the details of same. [38752/18]

Social Welfare Schemes

Clare Daly

472. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if public sector pension deductions are included as a statutory deduction in social work welfare assessments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38354/18]

Pensions Reform

Clare Daly

495. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the public consultation process with regard to pension reform has been conducted in line with the Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2016-2018 and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform's consultation principles and guidelines. [38704/18]

Pensions Reform

Clare Daly

496. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will re-run the public consultation process with regard to pension reform in view of the perceived serious inadequacies of the current consultation process. [38705/18]

Pensions Reform

Clare Daly

497. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the online briefing document Total Contributions Approach Consultation 2018 contains significant and serious errors which give a distorted impression of the changes brought about by the TCA 2012 system (details supplied). [38706/18]

Pensions Reform

Clare Daly

498. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that up to 20 years of homecare credits can be used under the 40 year TCA 2012 while there is a limit of ten years for other credits such as unemployment and illness in contrast to the National Pensions Framework, which envisaged a standard approach applying to the various categories of persons that receive credited contributions; her views on this provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38707/18]

Local Authority Housing Rents

Clare Daly

519. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if public sector pension deductions are classified as a statutory declaration in the calculation of rent for local authority dwellings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38355/18]

Local Authority Housing Rents

Clare Daly

520. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government if the method of calculation of the differential rent for local authorities and voluntary housing bodies is absolutely identical; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38356/18]

Child Detention Centres

Clare Daly

15. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the rationale for not ordering the publication of a review (details supplied), preventing full public scrutiny of its findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37906/18]

Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries

Clare Daly

23. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the methodology of the scoping exercise into illegal birth registrations, illegal adoptions and other irregularities at mother and baby homes including the number of files and homes that will be included in the exercise; and when it is due to be completed. [37907/18]

Open Disclosures Policy

Clare Daly

126. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if ring-fenced funding will be made available to the HSE for investment in training of personnel in order to support the introduction of mandatory open disclosure as contained in the patient safety Bill 2018; if so, the amount of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38041/18]

Open Disclosures Policy

Clare Daly

127. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE has drawn up training plans for personnel to support them through the culture change necessary to ensure the full and smooth implementation of mandatory open disclosure provisions as contained in the patient safety Bill 2018 [38042/18]

Haddington Road Agreement Implementation

Clare Daly

160. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 586 of 7 September 2018, the reason a formal procedure for informing the relevant individuals of the process to appeal was not utilised in view of a paragraph (details supplied) in the circular in regard to the appeal procedure relating to Circular 17/2013. [38189/18]

Departmental Functions

Clare Daly

208. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he has established a working group for the national stray dog strategy; and if so, the terms of reference. [38183/18]

Rail Services Provision

Clare Daly

6. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action taken by him to address the fact that Iarnród Éireann’s new timetable has reduced the service to commuters in Portmarnock. [37718/18]

EU Regulations

Clare Daly

8. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress and timescale of the legislation for the establishment of the competent authority under EU Regulation No. 598/14. [37715/18]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

26. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1085 and 1086 of 7 September 2018 (details supplied), the measures the airport authority or he has put in place to ascertain if there are munitions or dangerous goods on board aircraft such as this. [37719/18]

Noise Pollution

Clare Daly

30. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the works being undertaken by Fingal County Council as a result of the decision to appoint it as the competent authority under EU Regulation 598/14, with particular reference to the fact that it has not been given legislative authority to carry out these functions. [37716/18]

Bus Services

Clare Daly

40. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the approach taken on the BusConnects proposals which have caused consternation across Dublin during the summer. [37717/18]

Middle East Issues

Clare Daly

57. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will call for the Israeli person responsible for the transfer of persons (details supplied) to be prosecuted for war crimes. [37939/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

72. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to serious breaches of the Road Traffic Act 2010 during an eviction carried out at a location (details supplied) on 11 September 2018 without apparent action being taken by gardaí in attendance; and the action he has taken regarding same. [37987/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

73. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has contacted the Garda Commissioner to seek an explanation for the use of balaclavas by gardaí acting as private security for private security company personnel also in balaclavas carrying out an eviction in Dublin on 11 September 2018; and his views on whether this is an appropriate use of Garda time by taking sides in a private matter. [37950/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

80. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will request GSOC to undertake an investigation of the activity of gardaí during an eviction at a location (details supplied) on 11 September 2018. [37983/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

81. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to serious breaches of the Road Traffic Act 2010 during an eviction at a location (details supplied) on 11 September 2018; and the action taken by him to address the apparent lack of action by attending gardaí. [37984/18]

Private Security Industry Regulation

Clare Daly

82. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he has sought information on the reason private security operators in attendance at an eviction at a location (details supplied) on 11 September 2018 did not display their PSA identification in a prominent place on their torso and-or arms where it can be clearly seen; and if criminal background checks were made on the alleged private security operators prior to or on the day they arrived in Dublin to ascertain if they were appropriate persons to be engaged in these activities. [37985/18]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

83. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the driver of a bus in attendance at a location (details supplied) on 11 September 2018 has the relevant vehicle licence D in Ireland or its Northern Ireland or UK equivalent to drive this vehicle; and if the driver holds a current driver CPC or its UK or Northern Ireland equivalent as required by law. [37986/18]

Social Media Regulation

Clare Daly

105. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the action he plans to take to deal with the use of social media sites to promote the illegal and dangerous so-called MMS as a purported cure for autism with particular reference to the need for stiffer penalties for those involved who are essentially endangering and abusing children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37949/18]

Waste Management

Clare Daly

47. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the supports available to facilitate communities interested in establishing local community-based waste collection co-operatives in the interests of best waste management and environmental practice. [37314/18]

Environment Fund Allocations

Clare Daly

60. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applications received to the LA 21 environmental partnership fund in 2018; and his plans to extend and develop it in view of the substantial pressure to deal with Ireland's emissions targets. [37315/18]

State Legal Services

Clare Daly

89. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach the person or body that appoints a solicitor to the position of State solicitor in Cork, Dublin or elsewhere; the person or body to which State solicitors are responsible; and if they report to him. [37337/18]

State Legal Services

Clare Daly

90. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach if the position of State solicitor is a full-time position; if he or she swears an oath on his or her appointment; and if he or she can act as a contractor or subcontractor in any capacity to a foreign state while he or she engaged as a State solicitor here. [37338/18]

Naval Service

Clare Daly

103. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the LÉ Ciara did not proceed on its scheduled patrol on 20 August 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37506/18]

Defence Forces Operations

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if peacekeeping duties performed by Defence Forces personnel in Kosovo included exclusive chauffeur duty to an assigned senior officer. [37526/18]

Prison Accommodation Standards

Clare Daly

288. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prisoners sleeping on the floor in all prisons during the months of April, May, June and July 2018. [37331/18]

Prisoner Data

Clare Daly

289. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the most recent available figures for prisoners on protection in each prison; and the daily average for 2017. [37332/18]

Prison Accommodation Standards

Clare Daly

290. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if refurbishments have been completed in D division in Mountjoy Prison. [37333/18]

Prison Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

291. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when the Inspector of Prisons will be in a position to update bed capacity for Mountjoy, Cloverhill, Wheatfield and Cork prisons. [37334/18]

Prisoner Discipline

Clare Daly

292. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the Irish Prison Service is committed to introducing measures to reduce the number of prisoners held on restricted regimes and ensure that, as a minimum standard, all receive three hours per day of out-of-cell time. [37335/18]

Hospital Consultant Remuneration

Clare Daly

457. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to reinstate the new entrant consultant salary rates that were reduced in October 2012 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37301/18]

Medicinal Products Reimbursement

Clare Daly

471. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if funding for a life-saving treatment for persons with spinal muscular atrophy, Spinraza, will be approved in line with the BeNeLuxA initiative (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37349/18]

Disability Services Provision

Clare Daly

521. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason funding for a person (details supplied) has been deferred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37500/18]

Ports Development

Clare Daly

637. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there has been a financial investment through public funds in Rosslare port and harbour in the past five years. [37015/18]

Rail Services Data

Clare Daly

667. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the supporting information on the way in which passenger data were calculated to influence the decision to reduce the frequency of commuter trains through Portmarnock train station will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37467/18]

Dublin Bus Services

Clare Daly

668. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding for the proposed changes to the Dublin Bus network is inclusive of the cost of changes to the physical infrastructure which would result as a consequence of developing orbital routes throughout the city. [37468/18]

Community Services Programme

Clare Daly

691. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated impact on vulnerable service users and their families of the disruption of a service (details supplied) caused by significant numbers of drivers leaving the company as a result of poor working conditions. [37524/18]

Community Services Programme

Clare Daly

692. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his attention has been drawn to the refusal of the management of a company (details supplied) to meet union representatives; and his views on the possible consequences of this lack of meaningful dialogue on the service for some of the State’s most vulnerable citizens. [37525/18]

Industrial Disputes

Clare Daly

745. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to a case (details supplied); and her plans to investigate whether the company's actions are in breach of the law. [37444/18]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Clare Daly

750. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to enable working persons in receipt of a contributory widow's pension to access illness benefit when sick in the interests of fairness in view of the fact that such benefits are available to all other workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37505/18]

Naval Service Staff

Clare Daly

5. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 12 July 2018, if the figures provided include those on leave prior to being discharged and those that have been granted transfers to the Army. [35832/18]

Naval Service Staff

Clare Daly

6. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if it is Defence Forces policy that all those that leave the Naval Service engage in an exit interview; if records of these interviews are collected; if so, if those records are ever reviewed to detect patterns that may be driving persons to leave; and if an audit of records of exit interviews has ever been conducted in order to ensure that proper records are being kept. [35833/18]

Naval Service Staff

Clare Daly

10. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of enlisted Naval Service members with discharges pending as of 1 August 2018. [35885/18]

Defence Forces Ombudsman

Clare Daly

18. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces Ombudsman's 2016 recommendation that appropriate investigation arrangements need to be established and agreed with his Department, including procedures for compliance with the production of information provisions of section 8 of the Ombudsman (Defence Forces) Act 2004, have been implemented; and if so, when it was implemented. [36104/18]

Defence Forces Ombudsman Complaints

Clare Daly

19. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if outstanding administrative and systemic reforms recommended by the Defence Forces Ombudsman have been audited; if so, the most recent date on which they were audited; and the number and percentage of reforms the audit found were still outstanding. [36105/18]

Defence Forces Ombudsman Complaints

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of recommendations made by the Defence Forces Ombudsman in complaint cases which were not implemented in each of the years 2010 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [36106/18]

Defence Forces Ombudsman Complaints

Clare Daly

21. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if recommendations made by the Defence Forces Ombudsman following its adjudication on a complaint are binding; and if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36107/18]

Pesticide Use

Clare Daly

22. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the pesticide that was used by the Defence Forces at camps during overseas missions in each of the years 2008 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [36120/18]

Naval Service Operations

Clare Daly

25. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 39 of 3 July 2018, if a picture (details supplied) was taken on the LÉ Niamh on 5 August 2015, in view of other images posted by the Naval Service and dated the same day which show the same details on the floor, the canopy and the particular blankets used on the ship that day. [36195/18]

International Agreements

Clare Daly

40. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has an active status of forces agreement with the United States of America; if so, the date that this agreement was signed; and if he will provide a copy of same. [36093/18]