Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Public Sector Staff Sick Leave

Clare Daly

111. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of occurrences and total number of days lost through sick absences in the case of members of the Prison Service, excluding civilians, in 2013 to the end of August 2014. [42358/14]

Public Sector Staff Sick Leave

Clare Daly

112. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of occurrences and total number of days lost through self-certified sick absences in the case of members of the Prison Service, excluding civilians, in 2013 and to the end of August 2014. [42359/14]

Public Sector Staff Sick Leave

Clare Daly

113. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of days self-certified sick leave allowed to a member of the Prison Service, excluding civilians, per year; and the regulations applied to the number of such days as a result of reform of the sick leave arrangements in the public service in 2014. [42360/14]

Home-School Liaison Scheme

Clare Daly

120. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who are out of school who attend courses run by the home-school officers; the number of children who are out of school long term who avail of the services of the home-school officers; and if records are kept of all those to whom courses or assistance is provided. [42320/14]

Home-School Liaison Scheme

Clare Daly

121. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of school completion schemes; the budget for the school completion scheme; and the percentage of that budget which provides for salaries and expenses. [42321/14]

Home-School Liaison Scheme

Clare Daly

122. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who are out of school who attend courses run by the school completion scheme; the number of children who are out of school long term who avail of the services of the school completion scheme; and if records are kept of all those to whom courses or assistance is provided. [42322/14]

Home School Community Liaison Scheme

Clare Daly

165. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of home school community liaison officers; the budget for the home school community liaison scheme; and the percentage of that budget which provides for salaries and expenses. [42319/14]

Back to Education Allowance Payments

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the steps she will take to ensure that those entitled to a back to education, education or training and development option are able to access the payment where the course is funded wholly or partly by State agencies and leads to improved employment prospects on completion, as outlined by her Department; and to explain why applicants on courses such as the MSc in GIS and remote sensing in Maynooth, County Kildare, which clearly meet that criteria, are being refused. [41702/14]

National Internship Scheme Administration

Clare Daly

119. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the changes she plans to make to the operation of the JobBridge scheme to ensure that it is not being used to replace real jobs. [41703/14]

Census of Population Data

Clare Daly

138. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach in view of the fact the Central Statistics Office falls under the remit of his Department, the fact approximately 5,000 persons of Roma origin live here and the Pavee Point report, Roma Communities in Ireland and Child Protection Considerations, which states the lack of information on Roma communities makes it difficult to develop effective and appropriate policies and to provide appropriate services, his plans to include Roma ethnicity under the ethnic and cultural background question in the upcoming 2016 census. [41997/14]

Social Welfare Eligibility

Clare Daly

228. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of applications for social welfare supports including child benefit which were refused under the habitual residence condition since its introduction in 2004; in view of the Pavee Point report Roma Communities in Ireland and Child Protection Considerations which states that such refusals negatively impact on the health and well being of Traveller and Roma children, the number of these refusals which involved persons of minority Roma or Traveller ethnic status; her views on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41995/14]

VAT Exemptions

Clare Daly

256. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance in view of the fact that water charges will not be subject to VAT, in line with EU approval, if the Irish Water call out charges will be subject to VAT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41043/14]

Haddington Road Agreement Implementation

Clare Daly

362. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the lowest paid workers in the Civil Service have not had their first hour of unpaid overtime restored since March of this year as per the Haddington Road agreement, even though their higher paid colleagues have had that temporary cutback restored. [40978/14]

Animal Welfare Bodies

Clare Daly

398. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the action he proposes to take in relation to the fact that a charity (details supplied) has had 49 staff leave since May 2013, and the fact that well over €100,000 has been paid out in legal fees; and the reason the warnings about the organisation were not thoroughly investigated when complaints were made. [41045/14]

Rural Environment Protection Scheme Eligibility

Clare Daly

419. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 23 September 2014, in which he stated that this matter had been resolved, if the 39 cattle which is referred to in the letter (details supplied) have now been transferred back. [41340/14]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

484. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence in view of previous statements that ten soldiers were reported as having side effects from Lariam, the number of these that were NCOs and the number that were privates. [42111/14]

Garda Investigations

Clare Daly

505. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to examine a person's claims (details supplied) that the Garda bureau of fraud investigations failed to screen the allegations against a company by not interviewing the complainants involved or the alleged perpetrators, or by examining the accounts of the company before the bureau arrived at a decision not to proceed with an investigation. [41191/14]

Family Reunification Applications

Clare Daly

526. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied that allegations of fraudulent documentation and impending Garda investigations were thoroughly investigated in advance of the granting of an EU family unification visa (details supplied). [41843/14]

Garda Misconduct Allegations

Clare Daly

533. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the numbers of cases that have been reviewed by the review panel; if persons have been notified of the results; and the outcome or current status of their cases. [41946/14]

Adoption Data

Clare Daly

568. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children who have been adopted into Ireland from countries not signed up to the Hague Adoption Convention since the Adoption Act was enacted in 2010; the countries from which such adoptions took place; and the number of such adoptions per each of these countries that took place. [41805/14]

Traveller Community

Clare Daly

578. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the Pavee Point report Challenging Barriers and Misconceptions: Roma Maternal Health in Ireland, particularly where it states that not having the proof needed to qualify for social welfare supports under the habitual residence condition acts as a major barrier to women accessing basic general practitioner services during maternity and consequently puts their pregnancies at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41996/14]

Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme

Clare Daly

591. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the total number, from 1940 to date, of symphysiotomies and pubiotomies carried out in each public hospital in the State, and in each private hospital where maternity services are or were provided under arrangements pursuant to maternity services legislation; and, in the case of each hospital, the year in which the last symphysiotomy and-or pubiotomy was performed. [41000/14]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

595. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the cuts of one million euro to a service (details supplied) in County Dublin over the past five years will be reversed in this year's Health Service Executive budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41028/14]

HSE Funding

Clare Daly

618. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if senior officials at a hospice (details supplied) are still in receipt of top-up payments; if so, the persons in receipt of them; and the amount they are in receipt of. [41193/14]

HSE Funding

Clare Daly

619. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the Health Service Executive's criteria for allowing the continuation of top-up payments in some instances as a business case. [41194/14]

Public Procurement Contracts

Clare Daly

620. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when a hospice (details supplied) in Dublin 6W awarded a contract to a company; if the Health Service Executive's tender competition rules were followed with regards to declarations of interest by declaring that the chief executive of the hospice is related to a director in the company. [41195/14]

Medicinal Products Availability

Clare Daly

713. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 367 of 21 October 2014, if he will address the problem of MMS and CD being available via open information sharing by doctors and other doctors, parents, schools, counsellors, therapists and so on, as to the nature of chlorine dioxide, its effects on the human body and co-operating with a company (details supplied) and other online suppliers in order to shut them down and ensure that Customs and Excise can seize products on entry into the country. [41604/14]

Midwifery Services Provision

Clare Daly

716. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the role of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland in respect of the practise of midwifery and whether it is the responsibility of the board, rather than the Health Service Executive, to review the position. [41629/14]

Legislative Measures

Clare Daly

717. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans to amend section 40 of the Nurses and Midwives Act which ties the need for indemnity insurance directly to an unreliable service level agreement with the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41630/14]

Midwifery Services Provision

Clare Daly

718. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the way the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director has been constituted; from whom the authority of the office is derived; the criteria and schedule of work that accompanies the position of national lead midwife; if the national lead midwife post was advertised; if not, the reason for this; when the district midwife officer posts were advertised and the criteria regarding relevant home birth experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41631/14]

Midwifery Services Provision

Clare Daly

719. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the collective experience of the Office of the Nursing and Midwifery Services Director regarding home births; the evidence of continuing professional development, specifically in respect of home birth; the contemporaneous experience of the assistant nursing officer in his Department on working with evidence-based midwifery care; if this structure of Health Service Executive supervisory midwifery officers and departmental advisers is fit for purpose to develop a safe evidence-based maternity service for women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41632/14]

Midwifery Services

Clare Daly

720. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the 25 women, registered with a self-employed community midwife (details supplied) have not had the option of a domiciliary midwifery care package being bought for them under the national purchase treatment scheme. [41633/14]

Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme

Clare Daly

721. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the practice of symphysiotomy confirming that it was never the norm here or elsewhere for difficult births, and was carried out only in extreme circumstances before Caesarian sections became widespread; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41634/14]

Symphysiotomy Reports

Clare Daly

765. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if the operation of symphysiotomy was carried out at St Luke's Hospital, County Kilkenny, in 2013; if so, under what circumstances, including whether patient consent was obtained; and if his Department and-or the Health Service Executive and-or the Health Information and Quality Authority are investigating the matter. [41939/14]

Maternal Mortality

Clare Daly

767. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of maternal deaths that have occurred to date here since the publication of the confidential maternal death inquiry report 2009-2011; and the number of the women who died in pregnancy during that period who were born outside Ireland. [41966/14]

Maternal Mortality

Clare Daly

768. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health in view of information contained within the confidential maternal death inquiry report 2009-2011 and further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 34 and 35 of 18 December 2013, the measures that have been put in place to ensure that pregnant women arriving from abroad, or women of minority ethnic status living here who do not speak English, have access to interpretive services if they so require it. [41967/14]

Maternal Mortality

Clare Daly

769. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he has read the 2014 Pavee Point report Challenging Barriers and Misconceptions: Roma Maternal Health in Ireland; and, in view of the information contained within the report, and further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 14 May 2014, the actions, measures or strategies the Health Service Executive has put in place to ensure that pregnant women who arrive here from abroad fully engage with health care services as early as possible to avoid any risk to their pregnancies. [41968/14]

Maternal Mortality

Clare Daly

770. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of women who annually present to maternity units or other hospitals in the late stages of pregnancy for the first time without having previously received any pre-natal care; if the authorities have recorded or noted that this is a worrying trend among Roma and other ethnic minorities; and the measures or supports that have been put in place to avoid risk to these women’s pregnancies. [41969/14]

Infant Mortality

Clare Daly

771. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the research done by Pavee Point that infant mortality rates for Travellers are 3.6 times higher than the national average for settled persons and 1.4 times higher for Roma children. [41970/14]

Overseas Development Aid Oversight

Clare Daly

835. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide reassurances that no development aid funds made available by Ireland to countries in Africa are being used to finance instruction in the technique of symphysiotomy or to fund the performance or promotion of this operation in those countries. [41940/14]

Departmental Circulars

Clare Daly

878. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has elaborated on the strategies outlined in circular 30/2014, in particular the use of reactive strategies for junior infant and first year pupils such as applying for special needs assistant support only after all strategies employed by the school have failed the pupil instead of proactive strategies such as special needs assistant support for all special education need pupils who have previously had special needs assistant support during their first year in primary or in post-primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41420/14]

Departmental Circulars

Clare Daly

879. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the research processes which were followed by her Department in regard to the drafting of circular 30/2014; if relevant parties or groups were involved or consulted in advance of the circular being issued; if the circular has been sufficiently circulated to relevant parties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41421/14]

Student Grant Scheme Eligibility

Clare Daly

907. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to a married couple who are separated, although not legally, and whose child is prohibited from getting a grant as they cannot demonstrate they are legally separated, even though if they were still together their income would be sufficiently low to quality for a grant. [41645/14]

Irish Water Remit

Clare Daly

987. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in view of Irish Water's announcement that it intends to apply call-out fees of €188 for the first hour when repairing a suspected leak on a householder’s property and €94 an hour thereafter, and that out-of-hours charges will be higher, at €282 for the first hour and €141 thereafter, if the first fix free commitment is being eliminated or if call-out fees will be applicable to call-outs subsequent to the first fix free call-out. [41042/14]

Irish Water Staff

Clare Daly

998. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if all board members of Irish Water have a current tax clearance certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41163/14]

Data Protection

Clare Daly

1054. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 574 of 21 October 2014, if he will indicate if personal public service numbers constitute part of the asset base of Irish Water. [41948/14]

Irish Water Staff

Clare Daly

1062. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason a person (details supplied) was appointed to the board of Irish Water; the way this appointment was made; their area of expertise or suitability for the job; and the checks undertaken to verity the information submitted by them regarding their experience. [42084/14]

Irish Water Administration

Clare Daly

1070. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to explain the reason the Irish Water website has no landline listed under contact details, but solely mentions a 1890 number, while the application pack includes a landline but listed as a number for international callers to use, given that most telephone users and mobile networks offer callers free calls to all landlines as part of their package, and that the failure to have clear landline displayed is costing citizens excessive and unwarranted telephone charges; and his plans to address this issue. [42240/14]

Renewable Energy Projects

Clare Daly

10. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied to leave the development of the best wave energy resource in Europe to the private sector or if will he require the ESB to direct resources to developing the wave energy resource to provide renewable energy and jobs for Irish workers. [40171/14]

Renewable Energy Incentives

Clare Daly

13. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position regarding the amount of grant aid paid by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland to Irish wave energy companies by company; the type of wave energy converter proposed in each case; and the technical readiness level of each company before and after the grant aid. [40170/14]

Heritage Sites

Clare Daly

22. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will actively engage with Fingal County Council and the owners of the Drumanagh Promontory in order to secure this important protected national monument, one of the most historically significant sites here, for public benefit. [40045/14]

Hare Coursing

Clare Daly

32. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will reverse her decision to issue the hare coursing licence in view of her comments that the persecution of wildlife is intolerable. [40044/14]

Data Protection

Clare Daly

202. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the precise protections in place to ensure that personal public service numbers are never divulged, sold or transferred to a third or more parties. [40558/14]

National Internship Scheme Administration

Clare Daly

89. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she is satisfied with the appeals process in relation to complaints against the JobBridge scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39811/14]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

111. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update regarding discussions she has had with the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in relation to required changes to give pensioners a voice in discussions involving changes to their pension scheme, which they currently do not have as former employees and are excluded from the State's industrial relations machinery. [39810/14]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

342. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the extra costs incurred by the Garda at Shannon airport on 12 October 2014 for the one-hour peaceful peace vigil at Shannon, including the provision of the Garda air support unit helicopter which had to be deployed from Casement Aerodrome, County Dublin; and the reason this use of the Garda helicopter was considered necessary, in view of the fact that these monthly peace vigils have been taking place for over six years without any security related incidents, while virtually no extra security is provided at Shannon airport for the other 461 hours in each month, in spite of the increasing possibility of a retaliatory extremist attack on Shannon airport due to US military use of Shannon airport while the US is carrying out air attacks against Islamist forces in Iraq and Syria. [40300/14]

Legal Costs

Clare Daly

345. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of money that has been awarded against the State to members of the public and-or other institutions as a result of wrong doings by members of the gardaí during the period 1995 to 2010; and the amount of money actually paid out to these persons in this period by the State. [40405/14]

Medicinal Products Licensing

Clare Daly

367. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will legislate to allow the Health Products Regulatory Authority to fully control the use sale and promotion of MMS and CD. [39772/14]

Hepatitis C Compensation Payments

Clare Daly

370. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will review the opinions expressed in replies to matters raised by way of parliamentary question on the hepatitis C compensation tribunal; his views on the financial and administrative matters disclosed or if he will prefer order an independent value for money audit of the tribunal's conduct during the period in question 2007-2010 [39855/14]

Health Services Staff Remuneration

Clare Daly

407. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on concerns about organisations being funded by the Health Service Executive where the indications are that employees are on the top end of the incremental scale even though that is not the case in reality; and the reason for the discrepancy regarding same. [39975/14]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

432. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health regarding funding for a service (details supplied) if he is satisfied that the wages calculated for staff are at their correct point on the incremental scale or whether staff are claimed as if they had been at the maximum end of the scale; his views on the way wages are assessed for funding purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40126/14]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

484. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 7 October 2014, the position regarding Hercules C130 registration number 16/8073 which landed at Shannon Airport on 30 September 2014, but was at Shannon on 1 October 2014, in relation to his view that it was not involved in any military operations or exercise, in view of the fact that it was operated by a reserve marine corps squadron called the rangers which has been involved in many operation in Libya and Iraq; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40309/14]

Planning Issues

Clare Daly

566. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the granting of planning permission to a company (details supplied) to build at a location in County Wicklow despite an outstanding planning enforcement notice against it by Kilkenny County Council. [40034/14]

Irish Water Remit

Clare Daly

574. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if personal public service numbers form part of the asset base of Irish Water. [40189/14]

Road Tolls

Clare Daly

606. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will confirm that installation of cables by the National Roads Authority for the multi-tolling of the M50 has been continuing for more than a year under the auspices of maintenance of the M50; the costs of this exercise; and if this expenditure was authorised by his Department. [40227/14]

Shannon Airport Facilities

Clare Daly

608. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 380 of 14 October 2014, the nature of the munitions on board each aircraft, and the safety and security measures in place to safeguard at Shannon against accident or attack in view of the US use of Shannon and its present campaign of bombings in Iraq and Syria. [40308/14]

Industrial Relations

Clare Daly

27. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views regarding the measures he is putting in place to enable former employees gain access to the State's industrial relations machinery, for example in circumstances where issues arise in relation to a pension scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39074/14]

Garda Operations

Clare Daly

126. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason three uniformed gardaí were present at Glin hare coursing meeting on 3 and 4 October 2014; their purpose at the event; and if the coursing club will be covering the costs of the Garda presence. [39513/14]

Children in Care

Clare Daly

139. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 103 and 104 of 9 October 2014, the reason the number of children taken into care in counties Wexford and Waterford is significantly higher than the national average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39559/14]

Special Educational Needs Staff Remuneration

Clare Daly

199. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason special needs assistants do not qualify for flat rate expenses, which apply to all other grades in education. [39633/14]

Respite Care Grant Eligibility

Clare Daly

34. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection if she will revise the criteria of the respite care grant in order to enable those who work more that 15 hours a week to be able to avail of the payment, as in many instances these persons do provide full-time care. [39214/14]

Property Taxation Deferrals

Clare Daly

63. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 156 of 7 October 2014, the reason persons (details supplied) in County Leitrim whose sole income is disability allowance and whose sole property is vacant, with no rental income and in negative equity, were not granted a deferral of the property tax. [39235/14]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration

Clare Daly

163. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to deal with the massive waiting lists for approval under the fair deal scheme and his views regarding the reversal of cuts in this area.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38940/14]

Departmental Investigations

Clare Daly

189. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the outcome of the investigations by his Department and-or the Health Service Executive into financial irregularities at a company (details supplied), with particular reference to the cost to public funds of inappropriate expenditure by, or on behalf of, this company and-or its directors. [39128/14]

HSE Funding

Clare Daly

190. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the outcome of the review by his Department of compliance with Government and departmental policies on the part of a company (details supplied), an entity that is in receipt of public funds under sections 38 or 39 or both of the Health Act 2004; if this review identified inappropriate expenditure in respect of salaries of the chief executive officer, CEO, or equivalent and staff of the company; contributions towards pensions for the CEO or equivalent or other staff or both; contributions towards the expenses of a private company that are not separately identified in the accounts of the company; whether the sections 38 and 39 review indicated the company has been and is compliant with the provisions of the Companies Acts; and if his Department plans to suspend this company. [39129/14]

Shannon Airport Facilities

Clare Daly

227. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 7 October 2014, if he will answer the question with regard to the Hercules C130 registration number 16/8074 which landed at Shannon Airport on 30 September 2014, but was at Shannon on 1 October 2014, in relation to his views that it was not involved in any military operations or exercise, in view of the fact that it was operated by a reserve marine corps squadron called the Rangers who have been involved in many operations in Libya and Iraq; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39184/14]

Housing Management Companies

Clare Daly

311. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that Rural Resettlement Ireland Limited has operated within its objectives as a non-profit making charity and that the rents it has accrued are in accordance with this objective. [38971/14]

Irish Water Administration

Clare Daly

331. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the requirement for personal public service data by Irish Water is following the USA model of private utilities requiring social security details in order to run credit checks on customers and potential customers to ensure bill payment and collection of delinquent accounts and to ascertain level of deposit required in absence of a good credit rating. [39172/14]

Water Charges Introduction

Clare Daly

334. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the measures that were taken by the Government and Irish Water to ensure compliance with the Irish State's obligations under the Aarhaus Convention in relation to access to information, public participation and decision making and access to justice in environmental matters. [39182/14]

Environmental Impact Statements

Clare Daly

335. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide full and specific details and results of all its environmental impact surveys conducted prior to commencing work including but not limited to the installation to the electromagnetic frequency omitting devices smart meters across the country. [39183/14]

Homelessness Strategy

Clare Daly

348. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views regarding State property which has been made available for housing purposes or to assist in dealing with the homelessness crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38168/14]

Irish Airlines Superannuation Scheme

Clare Daly

369. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 1 October 2014, if he will acknowledge that the deferred members and existing pensioners in the Irish aviation superannuation scheme were not involved in the consultation process, had none of their concerns addressed and in the context of the massive reduction in their living standards that they are expected to endure, to reconsider his statement in relation to signing the ministerial orders to allow the scheme trustees to amend it. [38921/14]

Shannon Airport Facilities

Clare Daly

380. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 610 of 7 October 2014, if he will list the aircraft from the five companies that were granted permits to carry munitions; and the dates on which those permits were granted. [39185/14]

Freedom of Information Remit

Clare Daly

381. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Irish Aviation Authority does not fall under the Freedom of Information Act. [39244/14]

Aviation Issues

Clare Daly

382. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the relationship between the Irish Aviation Authority, as the aviation regulator, and the companies it regulates; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that allegations were made about confidential communications being passed from the IAA to some of these companies; his plans to deal with this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39245/14]

Hare Coursing

Clare Daly

388. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of hare coursing meetings the National Parks and Wildlife Service intends to monitor in 2014. [38948/14]

Hare Coursing

Clare Daly

389. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts; Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason no post-mortem evidence has been supplied to the National Parks and Wildlife Service to confirm the number of hares cited as dying from natural causes at coursing meetings. [38949/14]

Public Sector Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

23. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will lift the public sector recruitment embargo in order to secure the effective delivery of necessary public services. [38169/14]

Children in Care

Clare Daly

103. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children currently in State care in the north Wexford area; the way this figure compares with the national average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38688/14]

Children in Care

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average duration children in the north Wexford area spend in State care; the way this duration compares with the national average; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38689/14]

Medicinal Products Licensing

Clare Daly

152. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 30 September 2014, in addition to the measures that he will be undertaking, if he will initiate an immediate awareness campaign among local autism groups, schools, general practitioners, and online, warning people of the dangers of MMS and CD, as there are citizens taking or being given this poison in the belief that it is a cure. [38758/14]

Passport Applications

Clare Daly

176. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a person (details supplied) is being refused a passport, despite being the holder of an Irish passport previously. [38759/14]

Teacher Training Provision

Clare Daly

201. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills to set out her views on the hardship caused for primary school teaching students for whom the subsidy towards the compulsory Gaeltacht placement has been removed; and if she will reinstate same. [38717/14]

Motor Tax Rates

Clare Daly

212. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the inequality in the motor tax rates which means that those who can only tax their car for a short period are heavily penalised vis-à-vis those who can pay the amount for a longer period in a lump sum; if this is not an attack on those of limited means; his plans to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38619/14]

Water Supply Leakage

Clare Daly

240. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the first fix free policy from Irish Water and their statements that it will not be available before 2015; in view of this, his views that this is encouraging water wastage (details supplied); and if he will take action to ensure that leaks which emerge now are fixed. [38609/14]

Water Services Provision

Clare Daly

241. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the reason figures have been put in the public domain, that the expected yearly consumption per adult will be 52,000 litres, yet Irish Water is using a figure of 60,000 litres. [38610/14]

Pyrite Issues

Clare Daly

242. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will engage with the Irish Insurance Federation and direct it to insure dwellings which have pyrite. [38615/14]

Water Charges Administration

Clare Daly

248. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the allowance that will be awarded to persons with health conditions which require water; and the criteria that will be used by Irish Water to award those allowances. [38718/14]

Special Educational Needs Staffing

Clare Daly

30. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she will abolish the cap on special needs assistants numbers and allocate resources based on need in accordance with the EPSEN Act 2004. [37928/14]

Financial Services Regulation

Clare Daly

48. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that a non-Governmental organisation (details supplied) operating here and funded by a membership entirely located here, can have its banking services terminated at short notice because of the decision of an American company which a bank is using to process financial transactions which are wholly transacted between Irish bank accounts by persons resident here. [38366/14]