Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Teachers' Remuneration

Clare Daly

61. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of reports that teachers who commenced employment in 2011 will earn between €200,000 and €300,000 less over their careers than teachers who commenced employment before 2011 as a result of measures introduced in the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009 to 2015; and if he will repeal these Acts, given the gross inequity of this situation. [12498/16]

Public Expenditure Policy

Clare Daly

70. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his discussions with the Department of Education and Skills regarding what is described in a briefing document for the new Minister for Education and Skills as "woefully inadequate" capital funding for schools and regarding steps to address this funding crisis. [12499/16]

Irish Sign Language

Clare Daly

82. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the initiatives she proposes to take to ensure that deaf citizens' rights to Irish Sign Language interpreters is protected in order to allow them access essential State services, particularly following an incident (details supplied). [12768/16]

Court Orders

Clare Daly

106. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to investigate the behaviour of members of An Garda Síochána during an eviction (details supplied), specifically gardaí permitting breaches of the Road Traffic Acts. [12531/16]

Refugee Resettlement Programme

Clare Daly

108. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to speed up the resettlement of refugees in Ireland through relocation and resettlement programmes given that Ireland has taken only a small number of refugees over the past year out of the 4,000 agreed; and the consideration that has been given to increasing the number of refugees Ireland has agreed to resettle, given that the global refugee crisis is continuing to worsen. [11900/16]

Intelligence Sharing

Clare Daly

180. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the operation of the financial intelligence unit in the Seychelles and its effect on Ireland; and her views on it employing former Irish public servants with a view to benefiting from their knowledge and expertise. [12769/16]

Waste Management Regulations

Clare Daly

394. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his views that a company (details supplied) will now only accept payment of invoices for bin charges through an online billing system for e-tags, putting persons without access to the Internet at a major disadvantage, given the company's discontinuation of paper tags; and if he will investigate the consumer protection implications of this. [13433/16]

Water Conservation Grant Eligibility

Clare Daly

432. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the action he will take to enable a person (details supplied) to access their lawful entitlement to a water conservation grant. [12631/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

528. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to explain the basis upon which permission was given for a US Marine Corps warplane to refuel at Shannon Airport on the evening of 23 May 2016, given that there is no conceivable reason for its presence except that it was there as part of a military operation, and it is also inconceivable that this aircraft was not carrying weapons and munitions, at the very least the personal arms of the crew and its military passengers. [12770/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

633. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he will take to retrospectively transfer staff at the Central Remedial Clinic, whose pension plan has been dissolved, into the standard public service pension given that they are de facto State employees and given the fact that as it currently stands, staff will lose their pensions if the State does not step in. [13376/16]

Constitutional Amendments

Clare Daly

692. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health following the UN universal periodic review in early May 2016, if the Department of Justice and Equality has made any contact with him regarding Ireland's obligations to uphold women's rights to health, physical and mental, by organising a constitutional referendum to repeal the eighth amendment. [12974/16]

Statute of Limitations

Clare Daly

39. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will reinstate a three-year statute of limitations period for families who have to fight for inquests into maternal and baby deaths, given the absence of legislation regarding a statutory duty of candour for clinicians and until such time as such legislation is introduced and given the inordinate length of time for which families have to fight for these. [12308/16]

Irish Sign Language

Clare Daly

54. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the provision of adequate Irish Sign Language interpreters in the courts to meet the needs of deaf persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12408/16]

Public Sector Pay

Clare Daly

168. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to ensure the recommendations of the public service pay commission, when it is established, will take account of the loss of earnings and allowances by public sector staff in its report and recommendations; and the action he will take in respect of the two-tier pay in the public service. [12453/16]

Natural Heritage Areas

Clare Daly

171. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her actions to stop digging for bait on Bull Island in County Dublin, a practice naturalists describe as inconsistent with the nature reserve status of the island and one which is having a negative impact on birds on the mudflats. [12241/16]

Nursing Staff Recruitment

Clare Daly

203. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health why the Health Service Executive is implementing a nursing embargo against the backdrop of a critical shortage of nurses; his actions to ensure this embargo is lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12411/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

40. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection given the budgetary surplus reported in his Department and further to Parliamentary Question No. 9 of 30 September 2015, in which the former Minister stated on plans to address the inequality experienced by persons who are in receipt of reduced pensions because of the marriage bar, that "we do not as yet have the resources as a country to be in a position to fund what it would cost"; and if he will now address this issue. [11638/16]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

44. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection to outline plans for a universal second-pillar pension system, including the timetable for its introduction. [11639/16]

Crime Investigation

Clare Daly

75. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Henry Street Garda station in Limerick is holding the property of a person (details supplied) despite the case against the person that formed the basis of the property seizure being struck out six years ago. [11995/16]

Property Tax Exemptions

Clare Daly

90. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his plans to amend the local property tax and enable those on low incomes avail of a waiver. [11996/16]

Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

245. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to outline his views on the fact that patients in need of specialist psychiatric care for anorexia are regularly treated in paediatric hospitals that do not have the resources, staff or facilities necessary for such treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11956/16]

Health Services Data

Clare Daly

258. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 386 of 14 April 2016, and given the €38.3 million the State spent on legal fees related to maternity services between 2007 and 2015 and the €58 million in paid plaintiff costs, if he will introduce a statutory duty of candour on the part of clinicians, which would reduce the incidence of adversarial and costly legal actions. [12011/16]

Departmental Functions

Clare Daly

259. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will confirm that the oversight of the maternity claims process, including costs incurred, comes within the remit of his Department. [12012/16]

HSE Investigations

Clare Daly

260. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the cost of the legal fees the Health Service Executive incurred in its suspension of and subsequent legal proceedings regarding a person (details supplied). [12013/16]

Maternity Services Provision

Clare Daly

261. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to resolve the governance conflict between St. Vincent’s University Hospital and the National Maternity Hospital; if any agreement on governance will first and foremost protect the needs and interests of women and supersede the institutional interests of both hospitals including the mastership system of the National Maternity Hospital. [12014/16]

Maternity Services Provision

Clare Daly

262. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the way in which he will embed the governance of the national women and infants health programme with responsibility for the new national maternity strategy in the final governance arrangements reached between St. Vincent's University Hospital and the National Maternity Hospital, given that the new national maternity strategy states that women, their needs and their choices are to be placed at the centre of all maternity services. [12015/16]

Pyrite Issues

Clare Daly

42. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the analysis his Department has conducted on the number of properties with pyrite which do not reach a damage condition rating of 2; and his proposals to deal with these. [11181/16]

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Clare Daly

56. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to fully review the operation of the pyrite remediation scheme, including the criteria for inclusion under it. [11180/16]

Departmental Administrative Arrangements

Clare Daly

61. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach to bring all environmental functions including nature, wildlife, water protection, waste and pollution control together under one Department of the environment, climate and natural heritage. [11583/16]

School Transport Administration

Clare Daly

131. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills the scientific or verification-based monitoring he has in place to ensure that State aid or payments to Bus Éireann for school transport are not used to cross-subsidise the provision of transport services in Athlone, Balbriggan, Cork, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Navan, Sligo and Waterford that Bus Éireann operates in competition with the private sector operators. [11191/16]

Departmental Administrative Arrangements

Clare Daly

209. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to which Departments the environment functions of his Department have passed; if he has successfully split all of the functions of the former Department or if he has dispensed with any of its functions. [11581/16]

State Pensions Payments

Clare Daly

280. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection to clarify that there were 53 weekly payments of the State (contributory) pension for the tax year 2015 and not 52 as previously indicated by his Department (details supplied). [11387/16]

Human Rights

Clare Daly

352. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) being held in an orphanage in south-east Turkey, far from the person's remaining family. [11563/16]

Departmental Functions

Clare Daly

381. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to which Departments the nature functions of her Department have passed; if she has successfully split all of the functions of the former Department or if she has dispensed with any of its functions. [11581/16]

Medicinal Products Licensing

Clare Daly

472. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he has reviewed the evidence for the efficacy of cannabidiol medical marijuana in treating the symptoms of Dravet syndrome; if he will license it for this treatment; if not, the reason for same; his plans to legalise medical marijuana for the treatment of other conditions.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11587/16]

Animal Breeding Regulations

Clare Daly

531. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he will take to address the animal welfare breaches at a puppy farm (details supplied); and if he will take immediate steps to remove the licence held by this farm. [11353/16]

Waste Management Regulations

Clare Daly

613. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is concerned that a company (details supplied) will now only accept payment of invoices for bin charges through an online billing system for e-tags, thereby putting persons without access to the Internet at a major disadvantage, given the company's discontinuation of paper tags; and if she will investigate the consumer protection implications of this. [11273/16]

Children in Care

Clare Daly

630. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of Irish children who have been or who are in care in other countries for whatever reason, including psychological and medical purposes, and the cost of this to the State since 2008; and why they cannot be cared for here. [11742/16]

Preschool Services

Clare Daly

8. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the integrated preschool unit at a school (details supplied); his plans to ensure its survival at that location and to expand services of this nature further to more communities. [10709/16]

DEIS Scheme

Clare Daly

11. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the updated action plan for educational inclusion will examine the possibility of increasing the designation status of delivering equality of opportunity in schools school to incorporate more schools into the scheme. [10710/16]

Control of Dogs

Clare Daly

112. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that Veterinary Ireland has set up a specialised group which has reviewed the current Control of Dogs Act 1998 regulations; and if he will seek the advice from both Veterinary Ireland and other experts, including a person (details supplied) regarding the current regulations. [11009/16]

Aviation Issues

Clare Daly

145. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 28 April 2016, under what circumstances he will not make a recommendation against the carriage of certain weapons through Irish airspace, given his statement, "my Department will generally recommend against granting an exemption for the carriage of grenades, bombs, missiles or rockets." [11017/16]

Public Sector Pay

Clare Daly

152. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if, when and how he will address unequal pay in the public service, that is, the two-tier pay system whereby new entrants are paid less than older colleagues. [10975/16]

Public Sector Pay

Clare Daly

153. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will establish the public service pay commission; and when it will report. [10976/16]

General Medical Services Scheme

Clare Daly

163. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will investigate allegations that a general practitioner surgery (details supplied) is charging medical cardholders for phlebotomy services, given his Department has repeatedly stated that persons covered by the general medical services scheme should not be charged for routine phlebotomy services provided by their general practitioner or by the practice nurse on behalf of the general practitioner, which are required to assist in the diagnosis of a patient or to monitor a diagnosed condition. [11000/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

194. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 5 May 2016, the welfare certification required from exporters of dogs to China and how this operates to protect dogs which are exported. [10990/16]

Bord na gCon

Clare Daly

195. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 5 May 2016, the oversight mechanisms the Irish Greyhound Board has in place such that it has confidence that its advice to owners involved in the export of greyhounds to only export to destinations that provide the expected levels of care and management as defined in the IGB's code of practice for the welfare of greyhounds is being followed; and what sanctions the board has in place should it find that it is not. [10991/16]

Animal Welfare

Clare Daly

196. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that 24 Irish greyhounds that were due to fly from Manchester to China on 12 May, 2016 did not go because of protests and complaints at the airport; and if he will take steps to ensure that the welfare of these greyhounds is secured upon their return to Ireland. [10992/16]

Broadband Service Provision

Clare Daly

203. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 138 of 5 May 2016, the recourse a person has in a situation in which complaints have been submitted to the Commission for Communications Regulation by both consumers and a broadband service provider regarding another service provider (details supplied) failing to perform the necessary engineering works on line connection boxes, resulting in long delays in broadband connection for the customers of the other service provider, but where the Commission for Communications Regulation has failed to act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11066/16]

Air Navigation Orders

Clare Daly

208. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 21 April 2016, the criteria he uses in assessing applications for permits to carry munitions through Irish airspace; if he seeks opinions for every permit; if not, the reason he seeks advice in some instances but not in others; and the grounds upon which he will refuse an application to carry munitions through Irish airspace. [11007/16]

Airlines Regulations

Clare Daly

209. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is concerned at reports that an airline (details supplied) plans to use its Irish subsidiary to allow it to skirt Norway's employment laws, eroding wages and disrupting work practices; his views on assertions that the airline created this subsidiary specifically to circumvent Norwegian employment law and to allow it to source long-haul crews from South-East Asia on lower wages; if he will withdraw the support of the Irish authorities for the application by the company to the department of transport of the United States of America for a foreign carrier permit, which was offered, in writing, by a former Minister on 13 February 2014 (details supplied); how he will ensure that Ireland is not used by this airline to drive down wages and conditions for airline staff. [11021/16]

NAMA Assets Sale

Clare Daly

15. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance to clarify his statement to the Committee on Housing and Homelessness that it is true that the Real Estate Investments Trusts bought at the bottom of the market but the same buildings were available to everybody else given that in August 2014 a company (details supplied) bought 761 apartments from the National Asset Management Agency for €211 million, a price beyond the reach of most; and his views on the wisdom of the agency selling residential property in large lots that are, equally, beyond the reach of most, if not all, potential purchasers. [10473/16]

Pyrite Issues

Clare Daly

18. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the number of residential property owners whose properties have been shown to have pyritic damage and who have received an exemption from local property tax since the regulations were changed under the Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10474/16]

Banking Sector Regulation

Clare Daly

58. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance the global standing of Irish law firms operating in the service sector of company formation and nominee directorships, which have featured in the Panama papers leak; if he or the Central Bank will create credible regulations on the use of shadow banking systems that rely upon trust vehicles and brass plate directors; and the value of such financial services exports. [10874/16]

Human Rights

Clare Daly

129. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to immediately intervene in the case a person (details supplied) who has now been imprisoned for over 1,000 days in Egypt with no conviction, no fair trial, no adequate access to a lawyer and who has been moved without the family's knowledge. [10753/16]

Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Investigations

Clare Daly

56. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views in relation to the difficulties being experienced by the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in investigating the allegations of Garda Síochána whistleblowers, given the lack of engagement or progress in one instance and the commission's failure to have the Garda deliver documentation in a timely fashion in the other instance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10049/16]

Refugee Resettlement Programme

Clare Daly

64. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the level of engagement she has had with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade on special measures that could be taken when processing refugees, particularly unaccompanied minors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10050/16]

Constitutional Amendments

Clare Daly

68. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach the Minister responsible for setting up the citizens' assembly relating to the eighth amendment to the Constitution; how representatives and members of the assembly will be selected; when this process will begin, if it will be given a definitive time frame to conclude its deliberations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10164/16]

Family Reunification

Clare Daly

75. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her views on whether the services the Office of Refugee Applications Commissioner provides to persons seeking reunification with families abroad are adequate, efficient and fair. [9376/16]

Family Reunification

Clare Daly

76. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average waiting time for reunification between he submission of an application and the final decision under the family reunification scheme. [9377/16]

Family Reunification

Clare Daly

77. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the complaints mechanism available to applicants, or to whom they can turn for recourse, if they believe the Office of Refugee Applications Commissioner has been negligent or obstructive in dealing with an application under the family reunification scheme. [9378/16]

Criminal Assets Bureau

Clare Daly

110. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of forensic accountants the Criminal Assets Bureau employs; and the steps she intends to take to improve the situation. [9895/16]

Preschool Services

Clare Daly

301. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 561 of 17 December 2015, to outline in more detail the complex issues that need to be considered in respect of the application for a naíonra in a school (details supplied), when he will conclude the appraisal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10176/16]

SOLAS Training and Education Programmes

Clare Daly

326. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to expand the safe pass tutor accreditation programme so that the pool of accredited safe pass training establishments may be broadened, given that in the absence of such a programme the pool of accredited tutors is small and relatively monopolised. [10534/16]

SOLAS Training and Education Programmes

Clare Daly

327. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills why a company (details supplied) has been repeatedly declined approval from Solas to deliver the Solas safe pass training programme. [10535/16]

An Bord Pleanála Review

Clare Daly

398. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if is he satisfied with the outcome of the review into An Bord Pleanála that was commissioned in August 2015 and published in March 2016, despite many persons believing they were left out and did not get an opportunity to submit to the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10167/16]

Irish Water Staff

Clare Daly

418. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the provisions in legislation that permit board members of Irish Water to purchase shares in a personal capacity and the safeguards in place to protect the State's shareholding in the company. [10550/16]

Pensions Legislation

Clare Daly

438. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the rationale for the 0.3% reduction in deferred scheme benefits emanating from SI No. 15 of 2016 which resulted in a further deterioration in deferred members' benefit rates lagging behind the rate at which active members' benefits were increasing. [9394/16]

Pensions Data

Clare Daly

525. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of pensioners who have accumulated the required number of full PRSI contributions that should entitle them to a full State pension (contributory) within the required timeframe, but who are being paid reduced pensions as a result of the averaging tool being applied to their contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10160/16]

Fish Imports

Clare Daly

612. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will follow Sweden in petitioning the European Union to list the American lobster as a foreign species, which would prohibit the import of live lobsters from the United States of America and Canada, as a measure to protect the indigenous lobster population from gaffkaemia. [10075/16]

National Children's Hospital Location

Clare Daly

628. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to meet with a group (details supplied) in regard to the siting of the new children's hospital. [10094/16]

Home Care Packages

Clare Daly

738. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will review cuts to packages under the home care scheme which were recently introduced following a directive from the Health Service Executive to managers, particularly given the hospital overcrowding crisis, which is exacerbated by cuts to home help hours. [9880/16]

National Children's Hospital Location

Clare Daly

739. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if due consideration was given to the need to co-locate a maternity hospital with the National Children's Hospital before permission was granted for the hospital and the views (details supplied) of 15 signatories to a submission to An Bord Pleanála regarding the hospital, including three from the department of cardiothoracic surgery, six from the department of cardiology, and six from the joint department of paediatric intensive care medicine at Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin in Dublin 12. [9881/16]

HSE Data

Clare Daly

747. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the local authorities and private companies from which the Health Service Executive is renting car parking spaces; and the cost per year of this arrangement for each of the past ten years. [9916/16]

HSE Data

Clare Daly

748. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the number of car parking arrangements the Health Service Executive entered into with the family members of its managers. [9917/16]

Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme

Clare Daly

752. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health why the symphysiotomy payment scheme's stated terms of making every reasonable effort to return all documents submitted by applicants has not been adhered to by the scheme’s administrator and why applicants were asked, at a late stage in the scheme, if they would like their documents to be shredded. [9930/16]

Hospital Facilities

Clare Daly

773. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to ensure that the laundry services at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, County Louth remain in-house and will not be outsourced to a private contractor. [10070/16]

National Children's Hospital Location

Clare Daly

782. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to meet with a group (details supplied) in regard to the siting of the new children's hospital. [10095/16]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

1031. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rules governing the importation of live lobsters. [10076/16]

Fisheries Protection

Clare Daly

1032. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the controls in place to prevent the release of live imported lobsters into Irish waters. [10077/16]

Fishing Industry

Clare Daly

1033. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce a system of fish labelling here in order that the source of a catch and the boat landing are identifiable to the consumer. [10078/16]

Air Traffic Control Services

Clare Daly

1131. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if other countries which are part of the Eurocontrol system also apply a discretionary exemption from en route charges for military flights by the United States of America; and if he will provide a list of those countries that do. [9955/16]

Air Traffic Control Services

Clare Daly

1132. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 5 May 2016, to outline in full the "considerable, wider aviation safety and economic benefits to Ireland" he is referring to in relation to the discretionary exempting of the military of the United States of America from en route charges, and if those benefits fully offset the loss to the Exchequer of approximately €3 million per year from this exemption. [9956/16]

Driver Licence Renewals

Clare Daly

1133. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that persons over 70 years of age will have to present in person at National Driver Licence Service centres every time they wish to renew their driving licences, as they must present an up-to-date medical certificate with each application, which constitutes a change in their details; his views on whether this is fair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9964/16]

Bus Éireann Services

Clare Daly

1153. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review the changes made to the103 Bus Éireann route along the M2-N2 corridor which has caused serious inconvenience to the regular users of that service. [10496/16]

Bus Éireann Services

Clare Daly

1156. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to review the changes made to the 103 Bus Éireann route along the M2-N2 corridor which has caused serious inconvenience to the regular users of that service. [10548/16]

Corporate Governance

Clare Daly

1168. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement not having had a forensic accountant employed for the past year; and the steps she is taking to rectify this. [9894/16]

Banking Operations

Clare Daly

16. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 91 of 14 April 2016 and 99 of 26 April 2016, if officials in his Department have or had knowledge of a bank's involvement with a firm of contractors (details supplied). [9217/16]

Greyhound Industry

Clare Daly

25. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to investigate reports that Irish greyhounds are being exported to Hong Kong in order to be raced at the track known as the Canidrome in Macau in China and to immediately take steps to halt such exports, given the decision in 2012 by the Irish Government to halt the export of greyhounds to China by Bord na gCon on animal welfare grounds given the very poor animal safety record of the Canidrome, and given that Australia's greyhound body has banned the export of greyhounds to Macau because it does not meet contemporary animal welfare standards. [9204/16]

Coillte Teoranta

Clare Daly

30. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is concerned about the manner in which it was first announced that staff in Coillte would be facing a redundancy programme, that it was mentioned in an interview in The Irish Times with the chief executive officer of Coillte on 22 April 2016 that 100 staff would be made redundant, before any announcement had been made to staff or consultation engaged in regarding redundancies; if he will seek justification from Coillte for these redundancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9248/16]

Coillte Teoranta

Clare Daly

35. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to close Coillte offices; and the number and location of these. [9265/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

47. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if the Defence Forces or doctors contracted by the Defence Forces conduct or ever conducted specialised testing for the neurotoxic side-effects of mefloquine on soldiers who received the drug while in the Defence Forces; and the specialty of the doctors conducting these tests. [9323/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

48. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence how many soldiers have been referred for testing for mefloquine neurotoxicity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9324/16]

Defence Forces Medicinal Products

Clare Daly

49. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if he is satisfied that manufacturer’s guidelines were always, and in every case, followed by the prescribing authorities of the Irish Defence Forces when prescribing Lariam to Irish Defence Forces personnel, given the British Ministry of Defence’s acknowledgement that British armed forces personnel had been prescribed Lariam outside of the manufacturer's guidelines and that Ministry of Defence's subsequent apology to those personnel, along with the recommendations of the Australian Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade's report. [9325/16]

Vaccination Programme

Clare Daly

61. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason parents are not being provided with the manufacturer's patient information leaflet on the risk involved prior to the administration of a drug (details supplied) to their children. [9196/16]

Housing Issues

Clare Daly

133. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 436 of 26 April 2016, why a housing association (details supplied) remains on the approved list, given that he has the authority to give or to rescind approved status for housing associations, and that under section 6(6) of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992, a housing association wishing to retain approved status must act honestly by delivering and managing its assets including cash, property, liabilities and resources in a correct and proper fashion. [9279/16]

Broadband Service Provision

Clare Daly

138. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied with the level of competitiveness in the provision of broadband services, and if he is concerned that any one company has a dominant position, which allows it to charge fees to other broadband service providers (details supplied) for carrying out necessary services and that this can push up the cost for customers of these other providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9223/16]

Air Traffic Control Services

Clare Daly

146. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he considered suspending or ending the discretionary exemption from en route charges for the provision of air traffic control and communications services in Irish-administered airspace to military flights during the period of massive cutbacks in State spending from 2008, given that these exemptions for the military flights of countries such as the United States of America cost the Exchequer approximately €2 million to €3 million each year. [9266/16]

International Agreements

Clare Daly

147. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a bilateral agreement is in place between Ireland and the United States of America, or a multilateral agreement to which both countries are a party, which has been voted on by Dáil Éireann and which provides for the exemption from en-route charges for military flights by the United States of America; and if he will provide details of this agreement, if it exists. [9267/16]

Census of Population Publication

Clare Daly

1. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Taoiseach why a company (details supplied) was awarded the contract for census printing and data capture services for Census 2016, given that the company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of an American owned contractor associated with human rights abuses in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; and if any other companies tendered for this contract. [9174/16]