Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Mortgage Arrears Report Implementation

Clare Daly

52. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will formally request from Ulster Bank the details of its procedures for dealing with shortfall unsecured debt, consequent to the proceeds from the sale of a family home not covering the original amount borrowed to buy the house. [13538/15]

Children in Care

Clare Daly

98. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the annual running cost of Crannóg Nua in Portrane in County Dublin; and the reason no residents are living there, and yet staff continue to be employed there. [13468/15]

Disability Support Services

Clare Daly

110. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the relationship between the Health Service Executive and St. Michael's House in Dublin 9, from the point of view that if somebody has a complaint in relation to the manner in which the House is run, to whom do they submit this complaint. [13522/15]

Deer Hunting

Clare Daly

199. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the action she proposes to take in view of recent evidence that the Ward Union Hunt continues to engage in stag hunting. [12668/15]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

170. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has conducted reviews of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 since its enactment; his views in relation to whether he is considering amending the legislation to remove the exemption in the Act which permits live animal baiting in the form of hare coursing. [12669/15]

Military Neutrality

Clare Daly

365. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will confirm that the State will have no involvement in any provision of a centre or museum for veterans or existing military personnel who are Irish citizens but fighting for foreign armies, which would be a complete insult to the position of neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13264/15]

Military Neutrality

Clare Daly

366. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the nature of his involvement with the talks about providing a centre in Kinsale in County Cork to recognise Irish veterans who fought in foreign armies. [13265/15]

Passport Controls

Clare Daly

369. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason requests from both her Department and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport in the summer of 2014 for extra civilian staff to deal with passport control at Dublin Airport were not approved. [11687/15]

Sexual Offences Data

Clare Daly

370. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she will take to address the low rates of reporting of sexual violence and abuse; and her views that this is connected with the failure of An Garda Síochána to take these matters seriously. [12674/15]

Sexual Offences Data

Clare Daly

371. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will initiate a scheme whereby those reporting cases of sexual violence or sexual abuse will be provided legal and other assistance when they report these incidents to the Garda Síochána, from the time of the complaint up to the court hearing, in order to overcome the deficit which presently exists whereby complaints are often not taken on board seriously enough or pursued diligently enough. [12681/15]

Criminal Prosecutions

Clare Daly

401. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will publish the findings of the internal Garda investigation into the murders of persons (details supplied), as promised by a predecessor. [13243/15]

Symphysiotomy Reports

Clare Daly

451. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health regarding the Government symphysiotomy payment scheme, the total number of offers made and accepted to date at €50,000, €100,000 and €150,000. [12861/15]

Symphysiotomy Reports

Clare Daly

452. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the amount of remuneration, including the fees and expenses paid, in total in respect of persons (details supplied) for reports and reviews undertaken. [12862/15]

Symphysiotomy Reports

Clare Daly

453. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the total remuneration, including fees and expenses, paid to persons and organisations (details supplied) in respect of their acknowledged contribution to the independent review of issues relating to symphysiotomy, which was authored by a former judge. [12863/15]

Hospital Staff

Clare Daly

505. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of the 19 maternity units in hospitals that are funded as level 2 units only; his views on the connection between that lower level of funding and the safety of these units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13250/15]

HIQA Reports

Clare Daly

506. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the reports into the reasons behind the baby deaths (details supplied) in Portlaoise in County Laois, promised by the Health Service Executive, while a complaint from that same hospital against an independent midwife (details supplied) was processed in August 2014, in which case no mother or baby suffered harm, but the complaint left 29 women without their midwife, when the midwife was suspended by the Health Service Executive. [13251/15]

HSE Legal Cases

Clare Daly

507. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the officials within the Health Service Executive who sanctioned the office of nursing and midwifery directorate in the executive in suspending a person (details supplied) with apparently no prior contact with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, in view of the fact that the statutory responsibility for all fitness to practice issues lies entirely with the board, and not with the executive. [13252/15]

HSE Legal Cases

Clare Daly

508. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason action was taken to suspend the insurance of a person (details supplied) given that there was no foundation for it in the first place. [13253/15]

HSE Legal Cases

Clare Daly

509. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the cost of the legal action against a person (details supplied) including the cost stated by the Health Service Executive’s solicitor in court on 27 February 2015, that the HSE would pay all legal costs that the person otherwise had borne to contest the suspension. [13254/15]

HSE Investigations

Clare Daly

514. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health with reference to comments made by him (details supplied), his views on the treatment of a person by the Health Service Executive who was suspended by its admission on no findings and yet endured serious reputational damage as a direct result of non-implementation of the executive's safety incident management policy. [13274/15]

European Defence Capabilities

Clare Daly

538. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has responded to the unhelpful comments of the President of the European Commission, Mr Jean Claude Juncker, in relation to the creation of a European Union army, in the context of the conflict in Ukraine. [11616/15]

School Patronage

Clare Daly

597. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the purpose of the deeds of variation in national schools; and if there was any monetary compensation involved in the deeds of variation. [13273/15]

Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme

Clare Daly

609. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government how the outcome of the social inclusion and community activation programme tendering process resulted in five vital projects in some of the most deprived communities being axed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12673/15]

Local Authority Finances

Clare Daly

625. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that the management of Sligo County Council believes it will be difficult for the council to submit a sustainable financial plan to his Department without knowing his Department's funding commitment to the council over the next five years; if he is further aware that the council will need to hear precisely, or receive in writing, the funding commitment of his Department over the term of the financial plan; if he will put in place a policy of providing local authorities with advance notice of multi-annual funding proposals; if he will provide Sligo County Council with precise details of the funding he will provide to it over the next five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12860/15]

Local Authority Finances

Clare Daly

679. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Sligo County Council has had a deficit in its revenue account in the years 2008 to 2014; if he is further aware that the council’s cumulative deficit now stands at more than €26 million, with long-term debt in excess of €120 million; if he is aware that a majority of the members of the council approved an increase in its overdraft facility to €13.5 million for the 12 month period, April 2015 to 31 March 2016; his plans to sanction the increased overdraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13378/15]

Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme

Clare Daly

32. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is satisfied with the manner in which the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme Expert Group dealt with the initiative proposed by the Secretary General of his Department and the Secretary General of the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport on 2 December 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11964/15]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility

Clare Daly

226. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an explanation for the inordinate delays regarding the operation of the Caranua scheme and the stress being caused to applicants by waiting periods of nine to ten months before they are contacted. [12472/15]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility

Clare Daly

227. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used in respect of determining hardship in the context of the Caranua handbook, in view of the fact that this is an area which applicants believe is being too harshly monitored and that these criteria could be employed to provide necessary relief for those who are continuing to suffer as a result of abuse they experienced. [12473/15]

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme Eligibility

Clare Daly

228. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to amend the residential institutions statutory fund in order that the partners and children of the survivors of residential abuse can gain some of the assistance outlined in respect of the Caranua fund, in view of the fact that they are also suffering and that their needs are often a huge source of stress to the abuse victim. [12474/15]

Local Authority Funding

Clare Daly

233. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that his Department set aside an allocation of €1 million in additional funding for Sligo County Council in 2014, conditional on a realistic financial plan being agreed between his Department and the council by the end of 2014; that the Department decided to provide only €250,000 of the €1 million to the council, and that in the absence of a detailed plan being agreed before the end of 2014, no further payment was made to the council; if there are ongoing negotiations between his Department and the council in respect of the remaining €750,000; if the decision not to pay the €750,000 to the council is final or if will his Department will reconsider the matter, if a realistic financial plan is submitted to it; if consideration will be given to adding the €750,000 to the extra €1 million allocation set aside for 2015, if a realistic and achievable financial plan is agreed to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12365/15]

Garda Investigations

Clare Daly

110. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the extent of the Garda inquiries into the Tuam mother and baby home scandal; and the reason a full-scale Garda investigation was not undertaken. [12234/15]

Commissions of Investigation

Clare Daly

118. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the terms of reference in the mother and baby homes inquiry in terms of whether section 19 of the Commissions of Investigation Act 2004 means that any person who provides evidence to the commission on their involvement in crimes committed against the women and children involved cannot be prosecuted on foot of that evidence; and the way this tallies with his statements that prosecutions could follow. [12270/15]

Departmental Schemes

Clare Daly

187. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will reinstate funding under the scheme to support national organisations funding to the 23 disability organisations which lost that funding in 2014, in view of the fact that the temporary bridging system put in place has almost expired, with no communication or clarity for the groups involved. [12269/15]

Overseas Missions

Clare Daly

130. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will provide a numerical breakdown of officers and enlisted personnel on overseas peacekeeping missions for each of the past four years; his views on whether officers are being assigned duties that were formerly carried out by enlisted personnel; the impact of such a development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11615/15]

Overseas Missions

Clare Daly

136. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied with the operation of the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan; and the basis upon which he will decide whether to continue the involvement of the Defence Forces in this mission. [11614/15]

Defence Forces Operations

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the number of occasions the Defence Forces were involved in aid-to-civil-power duties in 2014; and the types of activities the Defence Forces were requested to undertake. [11613/15]

Overseas Missions

Clare Daly

143. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he has been involved in recent discussions in the European Union in relation to a future peacekeeping arrangement in Libya under the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy; his views on whether the involvement of the Irish Defence Forces in such an operation would be appropriate, in view of the role of a number of European Union member states in the bombing of Libya; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11612/15]

Community Employment Schemes Places

Clare Daly

160. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on whether it is appropriate that the Intreo website is offering a community employment scheme (details supplied) in north County Galway for water meter installers. [11148/15]

National Internship Scheme Data

Clare Daly

186. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views that a JobBridge payment of €50, on top of a person's social welfare payment, while working for nine months as a waiter or waitress constitutes appropriate training and development experience. [11379/15]

Post Office Network

Clare Daly

230. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason her Department is encouraging pensioners to transfer their pension payments to bank accounts instead of the post office, in view of the substantial undermining of local post offices which this move would represent. [11895/15]

Tax Data

Clare Daly

272. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance in view of net receipts per sector being recorded by the Revenue Commissioners (details supplied), if he will clarify where revenue earned by the State in respect of Ireland's producing gas fields is recorded in this publication and under which sector. [11817/15]

National Treasury Management Agency

Clare Daly

277. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the level of relationship between Irish State agencies and a bank (details supplied); the number of contracts they hold with respect to Irish treasury operations; if additional overcharging has been discovered; in total the amount of refunds and penalties obtained on foot of misconduct which has been substantiated by the Financial Conduct Authority or admitted by the bank. [11896/15]

Control of Dogs

Clare Daly

349. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding the exclusion of greyhounds from the legislation requiring the compulsory micro-chipping of dogs travelling out of the country. [11556/15]

Control of Dogs

Clare Daly

350. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in the interests of transparency and animal welfare, if he will ensure that information is publicly available relating to the compulsory micro-chipping of greyhounds and the fact that they must be ear tattooed, given that this data is held by the Irish Coursing Club and the Irish Greyhound Board. [11557/15]

Air Navigation Orders

Clare Daly

398. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence to explain the way in which the Defence Forces are aware when aircraft such as the United States of America's Military Hercules EC130H, which made an emergency landing in Shannon on 28 February 2015, are in Irish airspace, in view of the fact that they normally operate in secret. [11326/15]

Defence Forces Deployment

Clare Daly

400. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 10 March 2015 if he will confirm if soldiers on duty at Shannon Airport are issued with any sort of instruction card informing them when and in what circumstances they may use live ammunition. [11515/15]

Defence Forces Operations

Clare Daly

401. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 294 of 10 March 2015, if Shannon airport has been designated as a military installation for the purposes of Irish army personnel providing security for military planes from the United States of America and allowing them to be present while unaccompanied by An Garda Síochána. [11516/15]

Defence Forces

Clare Daly

405. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the contact he has had with a person (details supplied). [11979/15]

Garda Powers

Clare Daly

510. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if An Garda Síochána carried out an inspection of two military aircraft belonging to the United States of America at Shannon Airport on 11 March 2015, namely a United States of America Navy Lockheed C-130T Hercules, number BD5379, and a United States of America Marines KC-130J super Hercules, as they had been requested to do by a member of the public who had serious concerns about international law being breached; and if she is satisfied with this response. [11993/15]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

524. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason cases of historical child abuse, alleged to have been carried out upon persons who were in the care of the Health Service Executive, are being investigated by the executive and not by the Child and Family Agency. [11181/15]

Child Abuse

Clare Daly

528. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the date upon which the Child and Family Agency took over the investigation of all historical cases of child abuse under the care of the Health Service Executive or other State institutions. [11180/15]

Maternity Services Provision

Clare Daly

576. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 25 November 2014, the action he will take on inaccurate information provided in the reply from the Health Service Executive stating that it had approved 12 women for home birth services when the person's indemnity (details supplied) was withdrawn on 12 September 2014, when in fact 20 women were already known to the executive and had notified it of their application prior to that date. [11240/15]

Maternity Services Provision

Clare Daly

577. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 365 of 25 November 2014, if he will correct the record for a person's clients being left without cover as a result of the person failing to accept the terms of their indemnity re-instatement when the Health Service Executive was aware that this was not the case. [11241/15]

HIQA Reports

Clare Daly

656. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans following the Health Information and Quality Authority report into Redwood in Stamullen; if he has concerns that there are persons with disabilities residing there; and the safeguards in place to protect them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11730/15]

Maternity Services

Clare Daly

657. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 11 November 2014, if he will provide a copy of the literature review to which he referred which has been commissioned by his Department in preparation for the National Maternity Strategy. [11731/15]

Military Neutrality

Clare Daly

732. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that our legislative position regarding neutrality is sufficiently robust and compliant with international laws governing neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11652/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

740. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade in view of the fact that the primary role of the aircraft which made an emergency landing at Shannon in County Clare on 28 February 2015 is electronic warfare, suppression of enemy air defences and offensive counter information, if An Garda Síochána investigated and searched the aircraft on its arrival at Shannon; and if not, the reason. [11334/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

743. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 10 March 2015, if he will clarify his statement that, on landing, the aircraft declared an emergency due to failure of one of its engine’s, in view of the fact that there were several fire service trucks waiting for it and the emergency had to have been declared well in advance of landing. [11710/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

747. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the presence of two military aircraft belonging to the United States of America at Shannon Airport on 11 March 2015, namely, a United States of America Navy Lockheed C-130T Hercules, number BD5379, and a United States of America Marines KC-130J super Hercules, if An Garda Síochána contacted his Department in relation to the fact that a request was made by a member of the public to search and investigate these aircraft; the direction given by his Department regarding the search, and the basis for this direction. [11992/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

748. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 10 March 2015, in view of the fact that the United States of America air force itself describes the EC-130H as an airborne tactical weapon system using a heavily modified version of the C-130 Hercules airframe and that its primary function is electronic warfare, suppression of enemy air defenses and offensive counter information, the reason he can accept assurances that it was unarmed and did not form part of military exercises or operations when it landed in Shannon on 28 February 2015, without prior permission. [11994/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

749. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions he has taken in view of the fact that incorrect information was provided by the Embassy of the United States of America in relation to the EC-130H that landed in Shannon airport on 28 February 2015. [11995/15]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

750. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 448 of 10 March 2015, if his attention has been drawn to other occasions on which incorrect information has been provided by the Embassy of the United States of America in relation to military aircraft from the United States of America landing at Shannon. [11996/15]

School Enrolments

Clare Daly

753. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 521 of 24 February 2015, if she will investigate and act to stop the apparent illegality in the admissions policy to a national school (details supplied), in view of the fact that she indicated that she would in the reply to the parliamentary question. [11072/15]

Exploration Licences

Clare Daly

941. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the way the increased financial return to the State from discoveries made under future exploration licenses and licensing options, as announced in June 2014 (details supplied), will be monitored; and the way the current and future returns can be scrutinised by Dáil Éireann. [11385/15]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

951. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the action he has taken with the Department of Social Protection in relation to letters being issued by that Department encouraging persons to change the payment method for their pension to a bank account instead of the post office, in view of the significant undermining of post offices that this measure represents. [11894/15]

Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme

Clare Daly

990. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 10 March 2015, if he will clarify his earlier comments (details supplied) regarding the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11897/15]

Renewable Energy Generation

Clare Daly

27. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources noting the lack of progress during 2014 reported by Westwave to the Marine Renewable Energy Industry conference in which he participated, his views that the Westwave strategy of dependence on multinational and Irish private developers with claimed technical readiness level of 7 to 9 to deploy devices at the site off the County Clare coast has not worked; and if he will now review the potential of Irish wave energy developers who have received Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland grant funding, have demonstrated proof of concept, are at TRL level 2 to 3 and consider whether the Government should buy the useful IP of these devices and direct the ESB to develop the most promising TRL level suitable for deployment at Westwave site. [10230/15]

Hydraulic Fracturing Policy

Clare Daly

43. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the Shale Gas REC report published in early March by the European Commission, which revealed an alarming lack of consistency in regulation; and his further views to lobby within the EU for a European wide fracking ban. [10229/15]

Community Pharmacy Services

Clare Daly

199. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 is being denied access to the multiple sclerosis drug treatment, Lemtrada. [10852/15]

Local Authority Funding

Clare Daly

270. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department set aside an allocation of €1 million in additional funding for Sligo County Council in 2014, conditional on a financial plan being agreed between his Department and the council by the end of February 2014; that the draft financial plan was submitted by the council to his Department on 24 November 2014, with a further draft being submitted in December 2014; that his Department would not release the additional €1 million to the council in 2014 because of the failure of the council management to submit a sustainable financial plan within the timeframe allowed by his Department and that his Department, therefore, decided to release only €250,000 additional funding to the council in 2014; if he will provide the council with the balance of €750,000 for 2014 when a plan is agreed; if an additional allocation of €1 million funding will be set aside for 2015 to assist the council move to a more sustainable financial position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10992/15]

National Parks and Wildlife Service Staff

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is satisfied that the number of National Parks and Wildlife Service officers is sufficient to protect our wildlife. [10014/15]

Teaching Qualifications

Clare Daly

125. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the professional qualifications that Education Services Overseas Limited teachers employed by Education and Training Boards in the basic education sector are required to have. [10666/15]

Teaching Qualifications

Clare Daly

126. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether Education Services Overseas Limited teaching staff are required to be members of the Teaching Council. [10667/15]

Teachers' Remuneration

Clare Daly

127. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the hourly rates of pay for Education Services Overseas Limited teachers and if these vary from one education training board to another. [10668/15]

Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme

Clare Daly

123. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the progress of the initiative proposed on 2 December 2014 by the Secretary General of his Department, and the Department of Jobs Enterprise and Innovation, to the expert panel on the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme dispute, in view of recent information which showed that there was a significant difference between the Dublin Airport Authority's assumptions and the assumptions recommended by the Society of Actuaries in Ireland, when direct-benefit schemes are in trouble; and if he will ask the Dublin Airport Authority and the Shannon Airport Authority to lift the imposed deadline of 15 March 2015 on signing waivers to allow these issues to be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9990/15]

Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme

Clare Daly

142. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the initiative proposed by the Secretary General of his Department and the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to the expert panel in respect of the Irish Airlines (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme dispute has addressed the fact that the substantial changes to the terms and conditions of employment of employees of the airport police and fire service involving medical and fitness tests and a five year increase in retirement age is a major factor in the rejection of the proposal by staff in the Dublin Airport Authority and the Shannon Airport Authority; and if they have plans to address this. [9991/15]

Employment Support Services

Clare Daly

165. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the reason information relating to the misuse of the JobBridge scheme at a factory (details supplied) in County Donegal was not acted upon; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10095/15]

National Internship Scheme Administration

Clare Daly

185. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the way companies (details supplied) are being permitted to advertise jobs as internships. [10533/15]

NAMA Debtors

Clare Daly

202. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will consider the case of persons (details supplied) whose assets were transferred by Allied Irish Banks to the National Asset Management Agency, without informing the agency of the full situation regarding the asset, contrary to section 7 of the National Asset Management Act 2009. [10120/15]

Offshore Exploration

Clare Daly

222. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the way the increased financial return to the State from discoveries made under future exploration licenses and licensing options, as announced in June 2014 (details supplied), will be monitored; and the way the current and future returns can be scrutinised by Dáil Éireann. [10488/15]

Tax Yield

Clare Daly

223. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the percentage change in the total annual amount paid or expected to be paid per year to the Exchequer in taxation in respect of Ireland’s producing gas fields for the past three years from 2012; and the estimated approximate percentage increase to the Exchequer per year for the next five years. [10489/15]

Public Sector Pensions Levy

Clare Daly

238. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will reverse the pension cuts provided for in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts. [10348/15]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Clare Daly

290. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of his recent statement on RTE radio that he was cautious regarding the salmon farming industry, and that he was seeking very detailed scientific and environmental advice on the Galway Bay licence application, if he will act responsibly and suspend licence decisions for all salmon farms, including applications for renewal of licences, and commission a fully independent scientific examination of the environmental effects of salmon farms. [10559/15]

Aquaculture Licence Applications

Clare Daly

291. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contacts his Department has had with Marine Harvest Ireland since the company applied for a licence for a giant salmon farm at Shot Head, Bantry Bay, County Cork; and if these contracts undermine the public's confidence in his Department's impartiality as a licence regulator. [10560/15]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

292. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 96, and 97 of 15 January 2015, notwithstanding the protocols and legislation he cited in his reply, if the communications, instructions and-or advice, formal or informal, referred to in those parliamentary questions occurred. [10561/15]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

293. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 11 February 2015, the way the expenditure for aquaculture under the Seafood Development Programme 2007-2013 achieved any value for money in view of the decline in production during the same period, the minimal direct employment created, the increasing public concern regarding the damage to the environment caused by this industry and the far greater benefit that would have accrued to our coastal communities if the funding had been made available to the tourism and angling sectors. [10562/15]

Defence Forces Operations

Clare Daly

294. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will outline procedures regarding aid to the civil power duties at Shannon airport with particular reference to whether Defence Forces personnel operate under instruction from gardaí, and if gardaí are required to be present at all times. [10089/15]

Garda Misconduct Allegations

Clare Daly

305. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps taken in order to protect evidence (details supplied); and if she will ensure they are considered as part of the internal review mechanism currently under way in her Department. [9909/15]

Garda Investigations

Clare Daly

347. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 7 of 30 April 2014, in respect of hacked material being sourced by News International from its Dublin offices, when the Minister stated that any information on these illegal actions should be thoroughly investigated; and if she will ensure, in view of the settlement by News International with a human rights lawyer (details supplied) regarding an e-mail and personal computer hacking, that an investigation will take place into the level of Garda special branch knowledge of this activity. [10579/15]

Children in Care

Clare Daly

350. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the criteria governing applications for secure special residential care; the number of applications for secure care that have been made by social work departments to the national admissions and discharge committee in the past 12 months; the number of secure care beds available at any one time within the jurisdiction; the number of children who meet the criteria for secure care by the national admissions and discharge committee but who, because of a lack of spaces, are not in secure care for vital therapeutic interventions. [10271/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Clare Daly

356. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the Magdalen survivors who have enhanced medical cards will have the same entitlements to dental, ophthalmic and aural treatment and appliances, as Health Amendment Act card holders, save where those treatments and services relate specifically to hepatitis C and the Magdalen survivor does not suffer from hepatitis C. [10074/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Clare Daly

357. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the Magdalen survivors who have enhanced medical cards will have the same entitlements to drugs, medicines and appliances as Health Amendment Act card holders, save where those drugs, medicines and appliances relate specifically to hepatitis C and the Magdalen survivor does not suffer from hepatitis C. [10075/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Clare Daly

358. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the immediate relatives of Magdalen survivors who have enhanced medical cards will have the same entitlement to counselling and psychotherapy as the immediate relatives of Health Amendment Act card holders, except that the counselling for the immediate relatives of Magdalen survivors will relate to their connection to Magdalen laundries rather than hepatitis C. [10076/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Clare Daly

359. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when the Magdalen survivors will receive their enhanced medical cards; when they will receive a guide to their enhanced medical card; the number of liaison officers who will be employed and when; if there will be an application process and, if so, what this will entail; and whether a complaints and appeals process has been put in place. [10078/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Clare Daly

360. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his Department will contact all general practitioners, public hospitals, private hospitals and other relevant health service providers to inform them of Magdalen survivors’ entitlements under the enhanced medical card; and the measures being taken to ensure that Magdalen survivors do not have to resolve any difficulties with the scheme or explain their entitlements to health care professionals. [10079/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Clare Daly

361. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health in the event that healthcare services do not have the facility to record enhanced medical cards, if cardholders will be reimbursed in the same manner as Health Amendment Act card holders. [10080/15]

Magdalen Laundries

Clare Daly

362. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the progress that has been made on the administrative arrangements for Magdalen survivors living overseas. [10084/15]

Health Services Staff

Clare Daly

393. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify his previous statements regarding the case of a person (details supplied) when he stated that the person's indemnity has been suspended temporarily due to specific and serious concerns expressed by other clinical staff regarding patient safety; and if he will confirm that when the Health Service Executive suspends a person as a precautionary measure subject to a review and-or investigation, it does not do so lightly, in view of the lifting of the suspension no longer being in the public interest. [10090/15]

Health Services Staff

Clare Daly

394. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will initiate an independent inquiry into the way and the reason the Health Service Executive initiated its inquiry into a person (details supplied) in view of the lack of evidence of that person's alleged threat to patient safety. [10091/15]

Health Services Staff

Clare Daly

395. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views regarding the continuation of two inquiries by the Health Service Executive, which precipitated the suspension of a person (details supplied), despite that person's reinstatement and the fact that three reports have vindicated that person's position; the action he will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10092/15]