Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Driver Licence Renewals

Clare Daly

851. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why holders of new National Driver Licence Service issued licences must submit applications for renewal in person at its centres, which then posts those forms to a processing centre run by Abtran in County Cork; why persons cannot post those forms to the processing centre; the source of the funding for the extra cost involved in the additional step created by the requirement that persons present their applications for renewal in person at a National Driver Licence Service centre in the absence of any postal or online facility for submission; and if this system, as it is constituted, represents a cost effective and efficient solution. [6791/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

853. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of troops of the United States of America who transited through Shannon Airport in County Clare in 2015; the number of permits to carry munitions of war through Ireland or through Irish airspace requested and issued in 2015; the countries that made these requests; and the airlines that requested the permits. [6874/16]

Child Maintenance Payments

Clare Daly

20. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to address the deficit in legislation and include a legal requirement for a liable parent to pay child maintenance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5470/16]

Prisoner Data

Clare Daly

347. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality why records of prisoner telephone calls recorded on the old Cork and Limerick prisoner telephone system were destroyed during capital works at the new Cork Prison; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5493/16]

Prisoner Data

Clare Daly

348. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to set down the date or dates when records of prisoner telephone calls recorded on the old Cork Limerick prisoner telephone system were destroyed. [5494/16]

Prisoner Data

Clare Daly

349. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if any requests to the Irish Prison Service by a person (details supplied) for copies of records of telephone calls from 2009 were outstanding when the recordings from the old Cork Limerick telephone system, including those of the person in question, were destroyed. [5496/16]

Law Society Complaints Mechanisms

Clare Daly

353. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if there is any protocol in place, or if she plans to issue any protocol, to ensure that in cases in which a person who is incarcerated submits a complaint alleging serious malpractice on the part of a solicitor to the Law Society and further alleging that the actions of that solicitor had a bearing on the person being convicted of a crime and sentenced to prison, those cases are given priority or expedited; and her plans to instruct the Law Society to process and decide on such cases within a specified timeframe, given that in such cases a person's liberty is at stake and continued incarceration due to delays in processing of such cases may be a breach of human rights. [5570/16]

Human Rights Issues

Clare Daly

357. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will ratify the United Nations Convention against Torture protocol. [5667/16]

Human Rights Issues

Clare Daly

358. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the preparations she has made in relation to setting up an inspection mechanism for all places of detention, as required under the United Nations Convention against Torture. [5668/16]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund

Clare Daly

667. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the amounts paid under the Caranua scheme; and the range of awards in terms of the amounts paid to single persons. [5619/16]

School Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

673. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills to sanction an additional class for a school (details supplied ) in County Dublin, given that over 46 children who meet the eligibility category enrolment criteria for the school have not been granted a place for September 2016, and that other schools in the area are similarly oversubscribed. [5673/16]

School Transport

Clare Daly

699. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 22 March 2016, wherein she stated Bus Éireann's school bus maintenance costs per kilometre, to confirm whether she has a control system in place for maintenance charges and other charges that is independent of Bus Éireann's internal control; her views on assurances received from Bus Éireann regarding school transport services given the qualified certificate in the auditor's report for the annual Bus Éireann statement of account which stated that the opinion of the auditor is not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity's internal control; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5923/16]

School Transport Expenditure

Clare Daly

709. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 454 of 22 March 2016, if there is any difference between the term "return to risk", associated with the school transport business, in the explanatory notes published with the audited statement of accounts of Bus Éireann, published on her Department's website, the term "balancing figure" at page 12 of the RSM Farrell Grant Sparks report 2009; the term "risk reserve", referred to in the table provided in the reply; and the term "profit", at page 12 of the RSM Farrell Grant Sparks report; if she will provide the same tabular information in the reply to include each of the years 1997 to date; and if there is any difference in the meaning of the terms and the amount of the euro sums, in tabular form. [6050/16]

Air Navigation Orders

Clare Daly

806. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the National Air Cargo aeroplane which landed at Shannon Airport in County Clare on 25 March 2016 was en route to Bagram in Afghanistan; and if an exemption was sought under the 1973 order in this regard. [5618/16]

Driver Licence Applications

Clare Daly

815. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why persons who already have the new identification card, pink driver's licence, cannot send the National Driver Licence Service forms by post, but instead have to present themselves when renewing their driver's licence. [5696/16]

National Internship Scheme Administration

Clare Daly

9. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to ensure that no JobBridge vacancies or internships are offered to organisations which engage in animal cruelty (details supplied) in County Waterford. [4729/16]

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Clare Daly

10. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the number of medical assessments which were modified downwards by the deciding officer in contradiction to the original medical assessor for awards for social protection payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4730/16]

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Clare Daly

11. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection why medical eligibility criteria in calculating the fixed percentage of social protection awards is not published; if she will rectify this situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4731/16]

Social Welfare Benefits Data

Clare Daly

12. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her views on the application of medical eligibility criteria in determining social protection payments, with particular reference to the discretion exercised with regard to loss of faculty; if the system is sufficiently consistent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4732/16]

Family Income Supplement Eligibility

Clare Daly

13. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection to review the cessation of payments, under the family income supplement scheme, to persons on reaching 22 years of age, given that they may continue to be full-time dependants in full-time education. [4734/16]