Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

436. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the fact that national schools of all patronages, when seeking State recognition and thereby State funding, legally committed themselves to be bona fide open to children of all religious denominations and that requiring a commitment to not discriminating on religious grounds on entry to all of these schools remains the first part of the ethos of all national State-funded schools. [3450/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

437. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason religious discrimination has been permitted in admissions to State-funded national schools. [3451/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

438. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of Article 42 of the Constitution only allowing for parents to avail of exclusive religious schools where they are privately funded according to their means, the reason schools in receipt of State funding have been allowed to exclude children on religious grounds. [3452/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

439. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills when she will fulfil her constitutional obligations and ensure that there is no religious discrimination in admissions policies in national schools (details supplied). [3453/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

440. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views that the State made a constitutional commitment to admission of children of all religious denominations with equality to all schools in receipt of State funding or public moneys and did not make a constitutional commitment to support religious instruction in schools. [3454/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

441. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the constitutional review group 1996 (details supplied) indicating that religious instruction in national schools must be done separately to conform with the Constitution, and that this must be changed to allow for multiple religious denominations in all national schools, her views that separate religious instruction is immediately necessary to allow for children not of the patron's faith to attend their local national school; the steps she will take to ensure that this is in place for enrolments in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3455/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

442. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the 1998 Education Act only allowing the patron a role in the manner of publication of admissions policies for schools, and that the board of management must create all schools' admissions policies, the action she will take to ensure that religious patrons stop acting outside the law by instructing boards of management under their patronage to introduce religious discrimination in their schools' admissions policy. [3456/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

443. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to clarify for boards of management their independence, and legal obligation, to be free to remove all religious discrimination from their admissions policies. [3457/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

444. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on Section 7 of the Equal Status Act 2000 which bans religious discrimination on admissions to all schools, recognising that the exception in Section 7(3)(c) applies only to the totally privately-funded schools referred to in Article 42.1 of the Constitution, and does not apply to national schools or any school in receipt of State funding or public moneys as referred to in Article 44.2.4 of the Constitution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3458/15]

Child Protection

Clare Daly

445. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the changes made since the publication of a report (details supplied) regarding the enforcement of legislation and constitutional provisions in dealing with religious patrons. [3459/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

446. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills when she will implement the recommendations of the forum on patronage and pluralism in the primary sector which recommended that all national schools should be catering for children of all religious denominations by being open with equality to children of all religious denominations, having separate religious instruction classes and removing the obligation to have any religious programme in a school. [3460/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

447. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on Joint Committee on Education and Skills conclusions (details supplied); and if she will cease creating schools of different patronage that can then discriminate on religious grounds in their admissions policy. [3461/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

448. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a report that does not indicate that the Department's present policy of creating multi-denominational patronages will ultimately lead to a religious apartheid education system here whereby children of the majority religion will have schools exclusive to themselves, and all other children will be forced to concentrate themselves in a minority of schools which do not discriminate in admissions on religious grounds. [3462/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

449. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she shares the views of her predecessor who indicated that he did not intend to discontinue the national school system here; schools are in receipt of State funding despite the obvious religious discrimination that has become prevalent over the past 40 years and more, particularly with religious discrimination in the past 15 years. [3463/15]

Clare Daly

450. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a copy of all school roll numbers from the introduction of such numbers; if she will include the name and position of the patron, the school address, the foundation date, the closure date, and the roll number of the school to which teachers and pupils moved at the closure of each school. [3464/15]

Religious Discrimination

Clare Daly

451. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills in view of reports (details supplied) which support the obligation on the State to ensure that every child can attend his or her local national school without any religious discrimination on entry, the steps she will take to end this practice. [3465/15]

Residential Institutions

Clare Daly

462. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been expended to date by Caranua and under which headings; and the number of persons that received payment, including administrative costs. [3571/15]

Advertisements in Schools

Clare Daly

480. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views that it is appropriate for Irish Water to sponsor a poster competition for green schools, in view of the fact that the United Nations Special Rapporteur recommended the banning of all commercial advertisements in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3788/15]

Pyrite Issues

Clare Daly

529. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that had the BC(A)R 2014 been introduced prior to the building boom in the 1990s to 2008, and been in effect during the boom, the regulations could not have prevented the pyrite disaster; the reason recommendation No. 18 of the Pyrite Panel, that the system of independent inspections carried out by the building control officers be strengthened, was not implemented in the BC(A)R 2014. [3622/15]

Roadworthiness Testing

Clare Daly

608. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way vintage veteran vehicles will be protected; his plans to maintain the exemption from testing for vehicles registered prior to 1 January 1980; his views on changing this to a 30-year rolling exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3814/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

617. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 20 January 2015 if he will provide a breakdown of the country of origin of the 606 applications for exemptions in 2014 under the Air Navigation Carriage of Munitions of War Weapons and Dangerous Goods Order 1973. [3947/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

618. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 617 of 20 January 2015 if he will clarify the statement on whether a foreign state is entitled to transport a large number of troops on their way to war through a neutral state; and whether or not those troops are carrying arms. [3948/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

33. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to change existing arrangements between his Department and the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Defence in respect of the monitoring of foreign military aircraft on Irish territory in order to ensure our neutrality is not breached. [2660/15]

Diplomatic Representation

Clare Daly

40. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on diplomatic immunity and on whether this may not be invoked as an excuse for torture or complicity with torture. [2661/15]

Legal Services Regulation

Clare Daly

115. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 399 of 14 January 2015, her views on whether trust conflicts were illuminated in a declaration of early 2012 by a prominent stakeholder, referred to in the reply as an initial iteration, and that in the public interest and in view of an extraordinary degree of legislative churn these conflicts should be addressed through a genuine conversation with citizen stakeholders; her views on whether for the benefit of online public participation the Bill could be formatted in plain English; and if she will confirm that it is the intention of the Government to guillotine Report Stage of the Bill. [3167/15]

Maternity Services

Clare Daly

26. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans for maternity care in 2015, in view of the number of high profile maternity cases that occurred in 2014, highlighting serious deficiencies in Irish maternity care. [2336/15]

Abortion Legislation

Clare Daly

66. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will amend the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act in view of the effect of the criminal sanction and the subsequent replacement of medical considerations with legal concerns. [2337/15]

Jobs Data

Clare Daly

112. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 15 January 2015 in relation to Industrial Development Agency supported employment in each of the years 2008 to 2014, if he will provide a breakdown of the number of those jobs that were created and lost here. [2954/15]

Defence Forces Operations

Clare Daly

134. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 14 January 2015, the purpose of the deployments of armed soldiers; if it was to protect US military or state aircraft; and the reason this would be necessary if the aircraft are not carrying weapons, or involved in military operations (details supplied). [3058/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

148. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 14 January 2015, the nature of the investigations undertaken; the investigations that were referred to the DPP; and the findings of each investigation. [3057/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

149. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 417 of 14 January 2015, if the difference between the number of requests to search aircraft listed in her response as 33, and the figure of 17 provided in response to the previous ICCPR periodic review was due to requests made subsequent to the review. [3059/15]

Illegal Adoptions

Clare Daly

120. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in view of the Adoption Authority's recent acknowledgement that thousands of illegal adoptions took place here, the steps he will take to have these matters investigated, and-or prosecuted criminally. [2127/15]

Child Care Law Reporting Project

Clare Daly

122. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if changes have been made, or are planned, as a result of the findings to date of the Child Care Law Reporting Project, including an indicative timeframe of when any changes might be implemented. [2128/15]

Medical Card Eligibility

Clare Daly

370. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason persons between the ages of 18 and 25 with an income lower than €164 are being declined by the Health Service Executive for medical cards when the maximum social welfare rates for this age groups is between €100 and €144; his plans to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2815/15]

Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

380. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 9 December 2014, his views that in providing therapeutic courses with a religious dimension, such as dialectical behaviour therapy, the Health Service Executive may be in breach of UN recommendations on secularism within national health services. [2269/15]

Health Services Expenditure

Clare Daly

381. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if chaplaincy services or other religious supports are paid for by the Health Service Executive; if so, the amount the HSE spends on these services each year; and if there is a similar non-religious support provided for atheists. [2270/15]

Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

382. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health in view of the fact that dialectical behaviour therapy is an effective therapy for persons struggling to cope with strong emotions, self harm and suicidal ideation, if the Health Service Executive is in breach of the rights of persons using this service who identify themselves as atheistic, considering that elements of DBT have religious and faith-based inferences; and his plans to address the situation. [2271/15]

HSE Investigations

Clare Daly

469. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the position regarding an incident currently under investigation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2810/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

505. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of requests made by foreign aircraft to carry munitions through Ireland in 2014; the number of these that were granted; the breakdown by country; the number that were for aircraft that landed at Shannon Airport; the total number of military aircraft that landed at Shannon Airport in 2014; the names of the state forces to which these aircraft belong; and the reason these aircraft used the landing facilities at Shannon. [2792/15]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation

Clare Daly

574. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the contracts awarded to date to each of the firms on the pyrite remediation panel. [2816/15]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation

Clare Daly

575. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of applications made to the pyrite resolution board for remediation; the numbers approved for inclusion in the scheme; the number where works have gone to tender; the likely start date for remediation; and when those in estates which have not been included can expect to have their applications processed. [2817/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

617. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of US troops that passed through Shannon Airport in 2014, including the monthly breakdown; the number of requests his Department received in 2014 from civilian aircraft to land at Shannon Airport or pass through Irish airspace while carrying munitions; the number of permits issued for both; the numbers of requests that were rejected; the reasons for rejecting the requests for which permits were not granted; and if he will provide the breakdown of the countries from which the requests were made and the permits were granted. [2791/15]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission

Clare Daly

35. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the controversies surrounding the relationship between GSOC and the Gardaí, and the fact that the outgoing Chairman of GSOC was directly overseeing a number of important cases with very serious implications for senior Gardaí, if she will confirm that these issues are unconnected with their decision to resign and that she has met them and discussed this matter. [1364/15]

Jobs Data

Clare Daly

88. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the jobs lost and created in IDA supported employment for each of the years 2008 to 2014. [1996/15]

Fish Quotas

Clare Daly

94. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total recorded catch for boarfish in 2014; the EU quota allocation to Ireland for boarfish for 2014; and the specific reports or other communications that have been made available to his Department by the Marine Institute regarding the sustainability of this species. [1912/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

95. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the number of reports or communications his Department has received from any source relating to alleged unlawful landings of quota controlled demersal stocks of commercial fish for each of the years 2010 to 2014 inclusive; and the action taken in respect of each allegation. [1913/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

96. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any discussions or communications, formal or informal, have taken place between his Department, the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, the Marine Institute or Bord Iascaigh Mhara in respect of allegations of unlawful landings of quota controlled demersal stocks of commercial sea fish. [1914/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

97. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department issued any instruction or advice, formal or informal, to the Sea Fisheries Protection Authority in respect of alleged unlawful landings or quota controlled demersal stocks of commercial sea fish. [1915/15]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Clare Daly

98. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if scientific reports provided by the Marine Institute on the Galway Bay licence application were rejected by his Department; the scientific basis for their rejection; and if his assessment of this application has been completed. [1916/15]

Departmental Agencies

Clare Daly

99. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the moneys spent by the Marine Institute in providing advice to Bord Iascaigh Mhara for the Galway Bay licence application and, separately, the moneys spent by the Marine Institute in advice to his Department as part of the application assessment process. [1917/15]

Departmental Agencies

Clare Daly

100. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the moneys spent by Bord Iascaigh Mhara in preparing its Galway Bay licence application; and the moneys spent by BIM to date in preparing its licence application for the deep sea site application in County Mayo. [1918/15]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

101. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has taken any action under the Animal Health and Welfare Act to deal with the alleged chainsaw slaughter of a pig in a housing estate in Dunboyne in December 2014, to ensure that no such atrocities are committed again. [1920/15]

Garda Investigations

Clare Daly

121. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the outcome of a Garda investigation into the alleged chainsaw slaughter of a pig on a Dunboyne housing estate in December 2014. [1919/15]

National Lottery Funding Applications

Clare Daly

168. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with the representatives of a support group (details supplied) in County Dublin in order to appreciate the work that they are involved with and in view of being overlooked for his Department's lottery grants; and the way they can be assisted in addressing their urgent financial needs in order to secure a premises to conduct the vital support work that they are engaged in. [1898/15]

Overseas Missions

Clare Daly

3. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence whether he will acknowledge the serious mistake and breach of our neutrality by successive Governments in sending Irish troops to Afghanistan, making us complicit in war crimes and torture; the reason that mistake is now being compounded by the continued presence of Irish troops since the ending of the International Security Assistance Force, ISAF, mission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1318/15]

Defence Forces Properties

Clare Daly

6. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if a stock-take of unused Defence Forces property has been conducted; the amount of property that has been disposed of by transfer to other State bodies or by way of private sale; the plans that exist for the remainder; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1205/15]

Defence Forces

Clare Daly

7. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence in view of the fact that only two officers were ever retired under section 47(2) of the Defence Act 1954, as prescribed by Regulation A15 paragraph 18(1)(f) in the interests of the service, the only clause denying a court martial or right to make a defence, which was removed in 1985, if he will initiate a full independent inquiry into those cases, in the interests of natural justice. [1204/15]

Defence Forces Operations

Clare Daly

13. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the number of occasions and cost of Defence Forces personnel being involved in aid to the civil power, ATCP, duties at Shannon airport in 2014; his plans to change same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1207/15]

Overseas Missions

Clare Daly

14. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence in view of the human suffering and human rights abuses taking place in Darfur and in Congo DRC, if this is an area where Irish troops could make a real difference in terms of peace-keeping missions. [1206/15]

Defence Forces Remuneration

Clare Daly

17. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the position regarding the promised review of pay and remuneration for the Defence Forces; and if improvements are likely in the near future. [1208/15]

Property Tax Administration

Clare Daly

25. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that weekly local property tax reductions from payments are synchronised with those payments to avoid extra weeks deductions being made at the year's end. [1041/15]

Departmental Offices

Clare Daly

31. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when she will have an Intreo office fully operational in Swords, County Dublin. [49471/14]

Property Tax Administration

Clare Daly

56. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason three weeks local property tax was deducted from her Department's payments before Christmas. [1039/15]

Property Tax Administration

Clare Daly

57. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the week in 2015 that her Department will be reversing the extra local property tax debit and putting through a credit for social welfare recipients deducted an extra week before the year end. [1042/15]

VAT Exemptions

Clare Daly

121. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if water bills will be subject to VAT. [49611/14]

Public Sector Staff Sick Leave

Clare Daly

218. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if a review of the discriminatory impact of changes in public sector sick leave entitlements which calculated pregnancy sick leave as part of overall sick leave entitlements, backdated for four years has taken place; his plans to eliminate this inequality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1748/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

355. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied with existing arrangements between his Department and the Departments of Justice and Equality and Foreign Affairs and Trade regarding the presence of foreign military aircraft on Irish territory; his plans to recommend a more active role for Defence Forces personnel in protecting our neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1319/15]

Legal Services Regulation

Clare Daly

399. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality regarding the Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011, and in view of the context of a new Bill on lobbying reform, Registration of Lobbying Bill 2014, if she and her Department officials will make a public interest disclosure of lobbying efforts made during the three years since the Bill was published; if her attention has been drawn to a message (details supplied) published in January or February 2012; and if her Bill will go any way towards restoring public trust in the legal system. [49467/14]

Courts Service

Clare Daly

407. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of High Court cases under judicial review and Article 40 cases brought by applicants that were opposed. [49609/14]

Garda Powers

Clare Daly

417. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of complaints or requests to search suspect aircraft that were made at Shannon Garda Station from 2002 to December 2014. [49713/14]

Judicial Appointments

Clare Daly

418. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to enable those of a non-religious viewpoint to truthfully affirm rather than being forced to swear the existing oath, upon taking up high office. [49714/14]

Refugee Status Applications

Clare Daly

422. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce a one-off scheme to clear the backlog of persons in the protection process in advance of the introduction of a single protection procedure, as put forward by the Irish Refugee Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1037/15]

Disability Allowance Payments

Clare Daly

597. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons in receipt of a top-up payment from disability services as they are in units in nursing homes where the weekly cost is in excess of the fair deal limit, due to the specialised nature of the care involved. [1004/15]

Child Care Services Provision

Clare Daly

611. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that nursing hours are provided in respect of a child (details supplied) in County Monaghan to enable them to get to school. [1110/15]

State Examinations

Clare Daly

781. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the additional attributes for students which would be achieved by teachers correcting their own students' work in a classroom which is not being carried out which would improve further the learning experience in each subject at second level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1068/15]

Motor Tax Collection

Clare Daly

886. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the measures he will take to close the loophole whereby a person with an untaxed motor vehicle which is not declared off the road can transfer ownership to another person and escape the financial liability for the period of non-declaration. [49593/14]

Public Service Obligation Levy Application

Clare Daly

887. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if water services charges will be subject to the public service obligation, similar to ESB and gas. [49611/14]

Water Charges Administration

Clare Daly

907. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water will deal with complaints and queries of persons who have not registered; if the first fix proposal will apply to residents who have not registered. [1064/15]

Water Meters Installation

Clare Daly

908. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of water meters that have been installed to date; and the percentage of meters that have been installed as against the target. [1066/15]

Penalty Points System Offences

Clare Daly

984. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to introduce as a fixed penalty notice offence the offence of historical breaches of EU drivers' hours regulations similar to what the UK authorities are currently contemplating. [49583/14]

Road Safety Data

Clare Daly

985. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver CPC training organisations found in breach of regulations during premises inspections conducted by Competence Assurance Solutions during 2012-13 and 2014; and the number of driver CPC trainers whose services were terminated for breaches of regulations following Competence Assurance Services Class inspections during 2012-13 and 2014. [49584/14]

Road Projects

Clare Daly

986. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the width of road space allocated to motorised traffic travelling west on the N16 at Ash Lane and south on Cleveragh Road in County Sligo following the creation of cycle lanes. [49585/14]

Road Safety Data

Clare Daly

987. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver CPC training organisations found in breach of regulations during premises inspections conducted by a company (details supplied) during 2012 , 2013 and 2014; and the number of driver CPC trainers whose services were terminated for breaches of regulations following services class these inspections during 2012, 2013 and 2014. [49589/14]

Transport Costs

Clare Daly

1004. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the prohibitive fare hikes introduced by Dublin Bus which will see a five day bus pass increase, from €25 to €29.50 per week; the action he will take regarding this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1100/15]

Bord na gCon Remit

Clare Daly

24. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of the fact that the normal practice in sports is to make public all doping tests, both positive and negative, and to disqualify those who test positive as it provides them with an unfair advantage, the reason this is currently not the standard practice in the Irish dog-racing industry; if new legislation to implement these rules is currently being formulated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48395/14]

Bord na gCon Administration

Clare Daly

25. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in its reply to the Indecon report published earlier this year, Bord na gCon outlined a schedule for the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report; if he will shed light on progress made in the implementation of recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48394/14]

International Terrorism

Clare Daly

454. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish authorities sought a deletion of any references to Ireland in the CIA torture report in view of the fact that it has been established that Britain's intelligence agencies were deleted at their request from the report. [49034/14]

Departmental Funding

Clare Daly

533. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 181 of 11 December 2014, when he will issue a decision on the application in view of the fact that the appeal was lodged in July and that Show Racism the Red Card carries out vital racist educational programmes. [49033/14]

Departmental Bodies

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the way he plans to deal with the anticipated substantial extra workload on Labour Court-LRC staff arising from the Workplace Relations Bill and his plans to increase staff numbers to ensure an efficient, accessible and timely service is delivered. [47998/14]

International Agreements

Clare Daly

23. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the discussions he has had with his European counterparts on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47999/14]

Central Bank of Ireland Investigations

Clare Daly

47. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the reason a company (details supplied) was fined only €105,000 for breaching the Consumer Credit Act 1995, despite the fact that it has a turnover of €4.5 billion. [48552/14]

Central Bank of Ireland Investigations

Clare Daly

48. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the legal firm that advised the Central Bank of Ireland regarding their determination in relation to the breaches of the Consumer Credit Act 1995 by a company (details supplied); and if his attention has been drawn to conflicts of interest there. [48553/14]

Driver Licence Data

Clare Daly

112. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of professional drivers prosecuted to date for not complying with the requirement to have acquired a driver certificate of professional competence, CPC, card. [48538/14]

Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes

Clare Daly

126. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the objective of the incentivised regime in relation to remission of sentence is to provide tangible incentives to prisoners to participate in structured activities and to reinforce incentives for good behaviour, leading to a safer and more secure environment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48702/14]

Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes

Clare Daly

127. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is a differentiation of levels of privilege, that is, basic, standard and enhanced currently in operation on the E2 landing of Portlaoise prison, County Laois, and that enhanced privileges are not a right and are in fact dependent on meeting certain criteria, for that level, notably by exemplary behaviour and satisfactory engagement in structured activities. [48703/14]

Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes

Clare Daly

128. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her views that the progression of a person (details supplied) to the enhanced level was dependent on them meeting the criteria for that level, notably by exemplary behaviour and satisfactory engagement in structured activities. [48704/14]

Prisoner Rehabilitation Programmes

Clare Daly

129. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the incentivised regime scheme regarding one third remission is mandatory for each prison and for all prisoners. [48705/14]

Prisoner Releases

Clare Daly

130. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the decision-making process she relied upon to reach her decision to deny one third remission in respect of a person (details supplied); if the incentivised regimes status and reports factored in reaching her decision in these matters, or if it was a political decision. [48706/14]

Garda Promotions

Clare Daly

132. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality with regard to Garda appointments, the reason there seems to be a preference provided to sergeants who were involved in office-bound duties being promoted to the rank of inspector ahead of their peers who carry out front-line duties on a day-to-day basis. [48715/14]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

135. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on statements from her Department that there is no evidence of Irish involvement in CIA renditions when they have been provided evidence of CIA rendition planes passing through Shannon. [48747/14]