Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Community Employment Schemes Operation

Clare Daly

26. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the steps she is taking and her oversight to ensure that persons on community employment schemes receive proper health and safety and manual handling training prior to starting a placement and that they are issued with proper protective clothing where appropriate. [4520/16]

Community Employment Schemes Operation

Clare Daly

27. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection how she monitors access to training for participants in community employment schemes; and why some persons are unable to access their required entitlements and choices. [4521/16]

Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Data

Clare Daly

52. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 143 of 26 November 2015 and her statement that the statistics were being compiled and would be provided to the Deputy in due course, if she will forward same to this Deputy. [4532/16]

Vaccination Programme

Clare Daly

62. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he has recently met with representatives of the Reactions and Effects of Gardasil Resulting in Extreme Trauma, REGRET, group, to discuss available or potential health support services, and other supports for families represented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3892/16]

Mental Health Services Staff

Clare Daly

82. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the chronic shortage of nursing staff in St. Joseph's Association for the intellectually disabled in Portrane, County Dublin; if he has consulted with the Health Service Executive on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3891/16]

Community Employment Schemes Operation

Clare Daly

136. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the responsibility of employers in relation to health and safety and manual handling courses when persons take up a community employment scheme and to outline a person's rights with regard to concerns they may have about being asked to engage in unsafe practices, but being fearful of refusing to engage in them. [4300/16]

Financial Services Ombudsman

Clare Daly

173. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will purpose legislation or take other steps to change the Statute of Limitations for mis-selling of financial products, so that the six-year time limit will originate at the time a customer becomes aware of mis-selling, rather than originating at the time of sale; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4101/16]

Coroners Service

Clare Daly

265. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if her offices were contacted by the coroner in the case of a person (details supplied); the advice given regarding the decision to consider treating the death of a pregnant woman as being the death of two persons; the legislative basis of a foetus being afforded the legal rights of a person; what she proposes to do about it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4064/16]

Coroners Service

Clare Daly

327. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of the case of a person (details supplied); if he was contacted regarding the matter; the basis upon which a foetus can be considered a person; and the advice given regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4065/16]

School Enrolments

Clare Daly

446. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he will advocate at Cabinet level for the amendment of the Equal Status Acts to give effect to the principle that no child should be given preferential access to a publicly-funded school on the basis of religion as recommended by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission report submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. [3057/16]

Special Educational Needs Service Provision

Clare Daly

463. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills to issue a policy recommendation to all schools that children with special educational needs receive individual education plans, along with advice on the creation and implementation of these plans, in order to ensure consistency across schools. [4062/16]

Private Residential Tenancies Board

Clare Daly

512. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the procedures under the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 whereby landlords who claim to be selling a property are penalised if they subsequently re-let it; if a fine is imposed and awarded to the tenant or if the tenant is reinstated; and how the Private Residential Tenancies Board operate this process. [4011/16]

Private Rented Accommodation Price Controls

Clare Daly

513. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government why the Private Residential Tenancies Board and the Economic and Social Research Institute's rent index on rents is not being used to satisfy the criteria in respect of section 26(1)(b)(c) of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015, and instead an advertisement of three comparable properties within the four-week period is being used, given that this will result in properties being priced at asking prices rather than actual prices. [4012/16]

Voluntary Housing Sector

Clare Daly

546. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 30 and 142 of 21 November 2013, the action he has taken given the new information available (details supplied); how he will address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4364/16]

Child Care Services Expenditure

Clare Daly

9. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will raise the issue of deficiencies in the area of child care here, as noted in the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child's review of the report on Ireland, with the appropriate Departments; and the steps he will take to ensure that appropriate, affordable child care is available for every child. [3056/16]

Tax Code

Clare Daly

67. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the arrangements he made with the Microsoft company in respect of being granted the status of being domiciled here; if that arrangement included a requirement to retain manufacturing here; and if this arrangement is now non-existent given the decision of the Arvato plant in Swords in County Dublin to re-locate its packaging and distribution of Microsoft software to the Czech Republic from July 2016. [3517/16]

Foreign Direct Investment

Clare Daly

126. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the arrangements he made with the Microsoft company in relation to being granted the status of being domiciled in Ireland; if that arrangement included a requirement to retain manufacturing here; and if this arrangement is now non-existent, given the decision of the Arvato plant in Swords in County Dublin to relocate its packaging and distribution of Microsoft software to the Czech Republic from July 2016. [3518/16]

Criminal Law Review

Clare Daly

7. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to review the Interception of Postal Packages and Telecommunications Messages Act 1993 and the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009 to protect the privacy and human rights of citizens. [3014/16]

Garda Misconduct Allegations

Clare Daly

19. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the proposed actions of the independent review mechanism, with particular reference to the number of cases where follow-on action was recommended; the nature of the follow-on action. [3015/16]

Carer's Allowance Appeals

Clare Daly

43. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who was advised to maintain a carer's allowance. [3380/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

88. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of an horrific incidence of animal cruelty (details supplied) in County Carlow; the action he will take to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice; and his views that this is totally unacceptable [3398/16]

Fish Farming

Clare Daly

96. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 479, 489 and 490 of 9 June 2015 regarding information on salmon farms operating outside their licensed areas and operating without the required warning lights or radar reflectors by site and by operators and given the level of non-compliance after warnings, if he will include the last element of the parliamentary questions; and the actions he plans to take to ensure his authorised officers are appropriately supported and the licensing conditions are met. [3457/16]

Fish Farming

Clare Daly

97. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if stocking levels on Irish salmon farms are within their licensed tonnage; the details of breaches, by site and by operator; the actions he will take to bring operators under their licensed limits, given that he informed this Deputy on 9 June 2015 that this was a key operational priority. [3458/16]

Property Registration Authority

Clare Daly

108. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the core business of the Property Registration Authority involves examining applications for title registrations; if the State, as custodian of the public interest, is bound to indemnify persons who suffer loss through a mistake made in the Land Registry; her understanding of the internal quality control measures used by the authority to guarantee that its technical determinations are not distorted or undermined when dealings are issued by solicitors. [3362/16]

Overseas Development Aid Oversight

Clare Daly

161. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the checks in place to ensure that development aid funds are not used for the supply of military equipment; and if he will give a categorical guarantee that no such funds have been used for this purpose. [3315/16]

Overseas Missions

Clare Daly

50. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he will review the deployment of Irish troops to the Golan Heights, given that Israel has indicated that it intends to claim oil found in the Golan Heights as its own, in contravention of international law, and the ongoing failure of the United National Disengagement Observer Force mission to achieve the goals laid out in United Nations Security Council Resolution 242. [2951/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

52. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 24 November 2015, if he is concerned that Lariam is a third-line drug for the US military in sub-Saharan Africa and is only issued for personnel who are unable to receive either of the other anti-malarial regimens; that its issue is accompanied by a wallet card containing current safety information from that country's Food and Drug Administration indicating the possibility that the neurological side effects may persist or become permanent; and, given this, why, as noted in his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 14 January 2015, the malaria chemoprophylactic agent of choice of the Irish Defence Forces for use in sub-Saharan Africa continues to be Lariam. [2952/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

57. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence given evidence presented at the United Kingdom Parliament Defence Committee's inquiry on Lariam on 13 January 2016 that noted the impossibility of being 100% certain that in every case, an individual is in fact individually assessed prior to being prescribed Lariam, how certain he is that every member of the Defence Forces is individually assessed prior to being prescribed Lariam; in what year did individual assessment became Defence Forces policy; and the operational procedures in place to both facilitate and ensure individual assessment prior to prescribing Lariam. [2793/16]

Defence Forces Equipment

Clare Daly

58. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 8 October 2015, if any consortium in which the Defence Forces are involved has been successful in its bid for Horizon 2020; the contents of the winning proposals and the identities of those involved in the winning consortium; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2795/16]

Naval Service Operations

Clare Daly

61. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question Number 287 of 24 November 2015, if he has received the findings and recommendations of the review of the fire on board the LÉ Clíona on 29 May 1962; if he has considered those findings; and the steps he will take on foot of them. [2794/16]

Overseas Missions

Clare Daly

63. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the details of his recent discussions with his European Union counterparts in relation to the possibility of increased numbers of Irish troops being sent to Mali. [2797/16]

Social Welfare Benefits Eligibility

Clare Daly

77. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection what steps she will take to instigate a review of the habitual residence condition to ensure that it is not discriminatory, particularly in relation to children from migrant and Traveller backgrounds, and asylum-seeking children, as recommended by the report of the Irish Human Rights Equality Commission submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. [2840/16]

Property Tax

Clare Daly

140. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he has considered the Local Property Tax being levied at a lower rate for single occupants of homes, given that in Britain, for example, single persons pay 25 per cent less in Property Tax in recognition of the fact that their living expenses are not hugely less than a two-person household, although they are surviving on a single income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3049/16]

Employment Rights

Clare Daly

252. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there are any matters which he is aware of but on which he has not taken action, given that his Department was aware of issues regarding migrant workers in the fishing industry, as far back as 2010, but did not take any action until it became public knowledge as a result of an article in the British newspaper The Guardian in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3273/16]

UN Missions

Clare Daly

253. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if it is appropriate that Irish soldiers are being used as human shields on the Golan Heights to protect the annexation of Syrian territory and oil supplies by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2953/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

254. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he has received the report of the working group on the use of Lariam in the Defence Forces; and if he will outline its contents. [2954/16]

Garda Complaints Procedures

Clare Daly

286. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the costs associated with the independent review mechanism, including to whom the payments were made. [3018/16]

Garda Complaints Procedures

Clare Daly

287. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to initiate a statutory inquiry and criminal investigation into the death of a person (details supplied). [3051/16]

Human Rights Issues

Clare Daly

301. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will adopt the recommendation of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission that contracts for subcontracted State services for children, including health, care work, immigration and asylum services, be awarded subject to mandatory requirements for human rights compliance. [2838/16]

Anti-Poverty Strategy

Clare Daly

302. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs what steps he intends to take to ensure that anti-poverty and social inclusion targets in the National Policy Framework for Children and Young People 2014-2020 are met within a specified timeframe, as recommended by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission report submitted to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child. [2839/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

462. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a raid on a property (details supplied) found 200 dogs, of which the local authority subsequently destroyed 120; if this is an appropriate response under the Dog Breeding Establishment Act; if a more enlightened response to reports of cruelty is needed, particularly from the point of view that those reporting animal cruelty may be prevented from doing so if they believe the animals will be killed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3144/16]

Forestry Management

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has considered the contribution to flood-risk by non-native shallow-rooted trees, soil compaction by clear-felling with heavy machines and deep vertical drains on uplands; and if will discuss this matter with Coillte to develop a plan for mitigation. [2200/16]

Forestry Management

Clare Daly

23. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has taken note of the findings of the Pontbren Project in Wales which found that the re-instatement of native trees and hedgerows on uplands substantially reduced flooding lower down; and if he will apply the lessons of this project in an Irish context and encourage Irish farmers to take similar steps to those taken by that in Pontbren project. [2199/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

70. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will release the accident report on the loss of 230,000 salmon at Gerahies in County Cork on 1 February 2014, given that the final report was due at the end of August 2014, according to the file examined by the Information Commissioner. [2616/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

71. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why it has taken almost two years so far to produce a report on the loss of 230,000 salmon at Gerahies in County Cork on 1 February 2014 which may contain significant urgent safety issues for the marine environment and which he informed this Deputy on 4 March 2014 was a priority. [2617/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

72. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the date on which the report of the Gerahies salmon loss accident was completed and sent to him; the decision-making process; and the purposes of which this report was prepared. [2618/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

73. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that he has now given the same reasons for refusing to release the interim draft reports on the loss of 230,000 salmon at Gerahies in County Cork on 1 February 2014 that were annulled by the Information Commissioner in July 2015 in relation to the first draft report; and if this represents best practice in dealing with requests under the relevant legislation. [2619/16]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

74. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an independent dive survey was undertaken after the loss of 230,000 salmon at Gerahies in County Cork on 1 February 2014 before he gave permission to restock the salmon production site. [2620/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

88. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the number and the percentage of Irish Defence Forces personnel who were prescribed the drug Lariam in each of the years 2001 to 2015, in tabular form. [2557/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

89. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the percentage of the Irish Defence Forces stock of anti-malarial drugs that is composed of Lariam. [2564/16]