Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Shannon Airport Facilities

Clare Daly

95. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the 1944 Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention) and Section 33 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act (1988) have been regularly used to impede peaceful protest and monitoring of US military planes at Shannon Airport, but no action has been taken under Article 16 provisions of the Chicago Convention in relation to the searching of planes suspected of involvement in renditions or arms transportation; and when this situation will be rectified. [53028/12]

Road Safety Issues

Clare Daly

129. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to review speed limits and to deal with information that has been brought to his attention in relation to road traffic penalties and fines being written off by Gardaí. [52248/12]

Departmental Contracts

Clare Daly

316. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the tender for the process of student grant application was awarded to the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee; the judging criteria for the award; who were the listed applicants and the tender price submitted by each of the bidders. [52921/12]

School Enrolments

Clare Daly

317. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some pupils of a secondary school (details supplied) in County Dublin, are being refused entry because they don't fall into the criteria of having an older sibling that attends the school or where they are an only child, and the steps he will take to address this perceived discrimination. [52925/12]

Wastewater Treatment Issues

Clare Daly

345. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a company (details supplied) who manufactured and installed sewerage treatment plants have stopped making and selling the system since March 2009 and the implications this will have for the over 900 tanks that were sold, now that they are no longer certified. [52922/12]

Building Regulations Amendments

Clare Daly

493. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 462 of 13 November 2012, the reason the specification on hardcore is being developed in conjunction with recommendation 21 of the Pyrite Panel which deals with general insurance issues, rather than recommendation 22. [52923/12]

Proposed Legislation

Clare Daly

502. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality in view of the recent tragedy in Galway Regional Hospital and the Coombe University Women and Children's Hospital, Dublin, where two women died within 48 hours in October 2012, if he will confirm when legislative changes to the Coroner's Act will take place to make an inquest an automatic event following all maternal deaths. [52306/12]

Coroners Service

Clare Daly

503. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason repeated requests from family members for an inquest into the death of a person (details supplied) which took place on the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, in March 2010 have not been granted. [52307/12]

Immigration Policy

Clare Daly

536. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons seeking visa renewals at the Garda National Immigration Bureau last week who were not seen because of the large number were told to return next week, however the charge for the visa renewal increased the following week from €150 to €300; his views on whether these persons should be penalised for insufficient staff available to deal with them. [52924/12]

Departmental Legal Cases

Clare Daly

537. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his understanding of the history and status of a case (details supplied). [52926/12]

School Staffing

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Skerries Educate Together, County Dublin, was informed in the last two weeks of the loss of a temporary EAL post which will result in a newly appointed permanent teacher being made redundant, despite meticulous adherence to recruitment rules by the school. [51265/12]

School Accommodation

Clare Daly

154. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the nature of the inspection carried out on the prefabs purchased for a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in December 2010 and the subsequent works carried out on them; and his future plans regarding same. [51213/12]

Broadcasting Legislation

Clare Daly

423. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures he proposes to implement to ensure that in any upcoming referendum, both sides of the argument are given equal air time. [51137/12]

Hospital Procedures

Clare Daly

575. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his plans for the approval, development or analysis of APR surgery as an approved treatment for a disease of the spine that requires surgery [50933/12]

Tax Collection

Clare Daly

62. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 189 and 190 of 16 October 2012, if he will make a statement on his answers which show that gross profits of companies registered in Ireland are €28.762 billion manufacturing and €41.196 billion non-manufacturing and they only paid €4.246 billion in tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50526/12]

Northern Ireland

Clare Daly

23. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will issue a public statement calling for the release of Marian Price in view of the fact that she has been imprisoned for 18 months without any trial date and medical reports indicate that she is not fit to attend trial. [50058/12]

Arts Funding

Clare Daly

185. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will ensure that funding for the arts is protected in the upcoming budget. [50302/12]

Telecommunications Services Provision

Clare Daly

190. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if Ireland is in breach of EC Directive 2009/136EC by not intervening to stop a company (details supplied) from blocking Skype on their network and not allowing customers to use it out of their paid for data allowances. [50301/12]

Defence Forces Reorganisation

Clare Daly

216. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the number of staff at McKee Barracks that were instructed that they would have to move to Athlone by 1 December; the basis for this decision and the financial supports available to the staff involved. [50303/12]

Home-makers Scheme

Clare Daly

124. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide in Budget 2013 for a backdating of the home-makers scheme from 1994 back to 1964 in order to ensure that workers with and interrupted PRSI record do not lose out on their contributory State pension. [49913/12]

Child Benefit Rates

Clare Daly

137. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will ensure that there are no further cutbacks in budget 2013 in payment benefits or allowances to elderly citizens and that the cutbacks in the last two budgets for this category be reversed. [49912/12]

Social Welfare Appeals Status

Clare Daly

380. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of reviews that have been carried out by the chief appeals officer each year since 2005. [49923/12]

Building Regulations Compliance

Clare Daly

462. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the expected timeframe for developing a stand alone specification for hard core as outlined in recommendation 15 of the Pyrite Panel Report. [49969/12]

Building Regulations Compliance

Clare Daly

463. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress that has been made on his dealings with the stakeholders regarding a solution to the pyrite issue. [49970/12]

Proposed Legislation

Clare Daly

480. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delay in the publication of the Mental Capacity Bill 2008; and if he will address this matter urgently. [49633/12]

Road Safety Issues

Clare Daly

675. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will conduct a review of the location of speed cameras and the inconsistency in speed limits signage in order to improve road safety. [49402/12]

Animal Welfare Issues

Clare Daly

26. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will agree to animal welfare advice not to directly transpose a loophole in the ban on inflicting severe and prolonged pain on animals in experiments, article 55.3 of the animal experimentation directive, and instead require the passage of secondary legislation for the licensing of such high levels of harm [48751/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

244. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that a company (details supplied) is refusing claims of homeowners with heave-inducing pyrite of a level that they previously accepted based on the Pyrite Panel's categorisation of the amber category; and the steps he will take to address this situation. [49334/12]

Defence Forces Allowances

Clare Daly

21. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence his views on whether most of the allowances paid to Defence Forces personnel form part of core pay, and will be protected in the event of any review of such allowances. [48562/12]

Military Archives

Clare Daly

27. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if there is a timescale for the release of the military pension records. [48561/12]

Coillte Teoranta Reports

Clare Daly

96. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine as the main shareholder of Coillte Ireland, if he will indicate a timeline for publication of the geographical survey carried out on Coillte lands in 1989. [47689/12]

Coillte Teoranta Staff

Clare Daly

139. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the present remuneration package for the CEO of Coillte Ireland; and his plans to reduce this package. [47690/12]

Special Educational Needs Services Provision

Clare Daly

320. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department are working on a research document regarding the introduction and merits of applied behavioural analysis in respect of teaching students with autism. [47798/12]

Schools Building Projects Applications

Clare Daly

351. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the issue of the unsafe and substandard prefab accommodation in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin in view of the further deterioration and leaking as reported to his Department in October, by sanctioning a permanent extension to the school as part of the building programme or a devolved grant, as the only viable and cost effective solution to these ongoing problems. [48228/12]

Coastal Erosion

Clare Daly

396. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the serious coastal erosion occurring in Portrane, County Dublin; and if he will make provision under the Coastal Protection Fund for emergency measures to protect the dunes to be implemented. [47581/12]

Social Welfare Benefits Numbers

Clare Daly

454. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of social welfare benefits that have been stopped following persons being interviewed at Dublin Airport and other Irish entry points, upon returning to the country, and the number of these cases result in the benefit being restored. [47395/12]

Jobseeker's Allowance Payments

Clare Daly

574. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if there is a problem having jobseekers' payments paid directly into bank accounts, and if so, the nature of problem and the way it can be overcome. [48223/12]

Electricity Transmission Network

Clare Daly

635. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the amount of money the delay in the commercial operation of Eirgrid's East West Interconnector will cost electricity consumers and the reason for this delay. [47758/12]

Defence Forces Allowances

Clare Daly

839. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will justify the recent announcement to stop the payment of allowances to all new army personnel; his views on the fact that the removal of ten allowance schemes will impact negatively on already low army incomes and create a two tiered system among the rank and file of the defence forces. [48560/12]

Hospital Waiting Lists

Clare Daly

996. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there is currently a four year waiting list to see a consultant with regard to possible tonsillectomy at Waterford Hospital and the action he will take in regarding same. [47393/12]

Departmental Funding

Clare Daly

997. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the budget of Prosper Fingal is protected in next years overall departmental budget. [47394/12]

Ambulance Service Provision

Clare Daly

1011. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Arklow ambulance and hospital services that carry wheelchairs to St. Vincent's and Loughlinstown Hospital have stopped running and the action he will take regarding same [47392/12]

Adoption Legislation

Clare Daly

12. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the steps she will take to safeguard the birth records and files, held in the hands of private individuals and organisations, such as general practitioners, midwives, mother and baby homes, private agencies and so on, which contain important information regarding person's identities. [46752/12]

Adoption Legislation

Clare Daly

18. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if resources will be made available in the context of the planned Adoption (Information and Tracing) Bill to ensure that files held in various locations are centralised and safeguarded to assist in adopted persons quest to establish their identity. [46753/12]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Issues

Clare Daly

22. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will carry out an independent examination into the Cavan/Monaghan Garda Division following repeat summonses being issued to persons (details supplied) in County Cavan over a six year period for charges relating to assault, assault causing harm, public order, breach of the peace and stalking and harassment, which were all subsequently struck out and dismissed due to there being no evidence in any of the cases. [46503/12]

Road Traffic Offences

Clare Daly

32. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the action he has taken in response to the evidence presented to him in relation to the write off of millions of euro in unpaid motoring charges by Gardaí across the State. [46502/12]

Unfinished Housing Developments

Clare Daly

69. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his proposals to rectify the situation facing residents whose homes are seriously defective, posing a major threat to health and safety, to ensure that remediation works are undertaken where the builder has gone out of business. [46126/12]

Building Regulations Application

Clare Daly

100. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the remedies available to the growing numbers of homeowners whose properties are a fire hazard and are in breach of fire regulations. [46127/12]

Banking Sector Regulation

Clare Daly

176. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his view on the fact that as some or all of the recapitalised banks were trading while insolvent, and were therefore in breach of the statutory obligations under Company law and otherwise, the actions that have been taken or are being taken with respect to such banks and the personnel involved. [46253/12]

Banks Recapitalisation

Clare Daly

177. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance in the context of the principle of equality before the law as a corner-stone of the constitution, if he will explain the way it is compatible with that Constitutional provision that mismanaged and insolvently operating banks were and are treated preferentially over and above other financially distressed private companies, businesses and persons; and the factors that make a private commercial bank different in nature to other private companies for the purposes of securing a bail-out courtesy of taxpayers. [46254/12]