Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Home Repossessions Rate

Clare Daly

103. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of vacant family homes which have been repossessed in each calendar year since 2008. [8884/16]

Home Repossessions Rate

Clare Daly

104. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of non-vacant family homes repossessed in each calendar year since 2008. [8885/16]

Commissions of Inquiry

Clare Daly

108. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to order the establishment of a commission of inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied), given the concerns regarding the investigation of this person's death, and the allegations of political interference in that investigation. [9169/16]

Consumer Protection

Clare Daly

34. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he is aware that a company (details supplied) is insisting that customers pay upfront for the collection of wheelie bins which are electronically tagged, despite not having made the fee structure pertaining to this available to customers or to the public; and his views on this practice. [8700/16]

Road Traffic Accidents Data

Clare Daly

74. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality what criteria An Garda Síochána uses in classifying a fatality as a road fatality, including but not restricted to the maximum period after a road accident within which a death must take place in order for it to be classified as a road fatality; if another vehicle must be involved in an accident leading to death in order for a death to be classified as a road fatality; if it is a requirement for An Garda Síochána to have attended the scene of an accident in order for it to be classified as a road fatality; the agents and agencies which supply data on road fatalities for collation; and if there is a statutory obligation on An Garda Síochána, the Road Safety Authority or any other body to record a fatality as a road fatality if informed that a death has occurred on a public road. [8710/16]

Prisoner Complaints Procedures

Clare Daly

75. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the progress on the review of the prison complaints procedure initiated by the Inspector of Prisons, with particular reference to publishing the number of prison complaints, the number of complaints that were upheld, and how they were resolved. [8729/16]

Prisoner Complaints Procedures

Clare Daly

76. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality to introduce a fully independent prisoner ombudsman to deal with prisoner complaints. [8730/16]

Departmental Information

Clare Daly

102. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the countries for which the Health Service Executive recommends the use of Lariam or mefloquine, as the only medication to be taken as an anti-malarial; and the countries for which it recommends Lariam or mefloquine, as the first-line anti-malarial. [8701/16]

Aviation Industry

Clare Daly

127. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if drones operated by the military of the United States of America that are overflying any jurisdiction anywhere in the world are controlled or operated from any location in Ireland; if permits for such activities have been sought or issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8714/16]

Aviation Industry

Clare Daly

128. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 21 April 2016, the protocol and criteria he uses in assessing applications for permits to carry munitions through Irish airspace, including whether he seeks opinions for every permit, and if not, the reason he seeks advice in some instances, but not in others; and the basis on which he refuses an application for a permit to carry munitions through Irish airspace. [8716/16]

Aviation Industry

Clare Daly

129. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the evaluations and investigations he has undertaken, when consulted by the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, as part of the munitions permit application process, that lead to conclusions regarding the likelihood that munitions being carried through Irish airspace will or will not be used to commit war crimes or human rights abuses. [8717/16]

National Internship Scheme Administration

Clare Daly

2. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the companies which were banned from participating in JobBridge, and are now being permitted to take persons on, so that the persons who made formal complaints and were assured that their former employers were being excluded from the scheme have access to this information. [8365/16]

Banking Operations

Clare Daly

99. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 14 April 2016, if he is, or was, aware of a bank's involvement with a firm of contractors (details supplied). [8135/16]

Animal Welfare Expenditure

Clare Daly

160. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of several recent high profile instances in which horses have been badly neglected, injured or killed in Dublin, his plans to increase the funding available to animal welfare organisations such that a regular and comprehensive welfare inspection regime can be undertaken by those organisations in respect of all horses. [8235/16]

Greyhound Industry

Clare Daly

163. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if all dogs must be microchipped, under the Microchipping of Dogs Regulations 2015; and his plans to offer an exemption to the greyhound racing industry in this regard. [8257/16]

Garda Vetting of Personnel

Clare Daly

225. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that an organisation (details supplied) is charging persons €30 for Garda vetting; if organisations are permitted to charge for Garda vetting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8400/16]

Treatment Abroad Scheme

Clare Daly

243. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if, under existing legislation or regulations, any sanctions exist for a doctor, consultant or other health care provider who wrongly informs patients that they do not qualify for treatment abroad under the European Union cross-border health care directive. [8071/16]

School Enrolments

Clare Daly

385. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 721 to 723, inclusive, of 14 April 2016, to name the schools which have some spare capacity and the school which indicated a willingness to enroll an additional stream of junior infants in September 2016, given that parents in the Swords area of County Dublin are unaware of where such spare capacity exists. [8188/16]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Clare Daly

391. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills to investigate and address allegations that Caranua has suspended the awards to certain applicants for housing assistance, stating that the award of moneys will be contingent on the number of other survivors that apply. [8220/16]

Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board

Clare Daly

392. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills to investigate and address continuing concerns regarding delays in the processing of applications to Caranua. [8221/16]

Approved Housing Bodies

Clare Daly

436. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the status of representations he has made requesting the National Association of Building Co-operatives to pursue legal action against persons (details supplied). [8183/16]

Industrial Relations

Clare Daly

478. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the action he has taken with management of Iarnród Éireann and management's threat to take action against the trade unions in the High Court, given their failure to engage in the workplace relations machinery of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8126/16]

Garda Investigations

Clare Daly

42. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if a criminal investigation into allegations (details supplied) has been instigated by An Garda Síochána; if the Garda has taken possession of these files; if not, the reasons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7886/16]

Garda Investigations

Clare Daly

43. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason the Tuam, County Galway, site has not been cordoned off as a crime scene in view of the information in an article (details supplied). [7888/16]

Criminal Prosecutions Data

Clare Daly

45. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug dealing convictions under mandatory minimum sentencing provisions for possession of drugs over a value of €12,500 as set out in section 27 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 (as amended by the Criminal Justice Acts 1999, 2006 and 2007) during the years 2011 to 2015 and to date in 2016; and the resulting sentences for each conviction. [7884/16]

Child and Family Agency Investigations

Clare Daly

50. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs with reference to a case (details supplied), the location of the material that the Health Service Executive social worker had been dealing with; and if this matter was brought to his attention. [7887/16]

Foster Care Expenditure

Clare Daly

51. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of financial settlements to children abused in foster care services for each of the past ten years; and the financial amounts of these settlements for each of those years. [7917/16]

Foster Care Policy

Clare Daly

52. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs his views on the support services made available to children who have been abused in foster care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7918/16]

School Transport Review

Clare Daly

112. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the value-for-money review on school transport, if she will publish details of table 5.4 on page 32 and include current information for the years 2009 to 2015, for comparative purposes. [7976/16]

School Transport Review

Clare Daly

113. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills regarding Bus Éireann's administration costs referred to at paragraph 5.5.3 of the value-for-money review on school transport 2011, if she will provide, in tabular form, the sums paid to Bus Éireann for school transport for administration charges for the years 2001 to date in 2016; the number of children transported each year; the average administration charge per child for each year; and the percentage increase-decrease charged for administration for each year since 2001. [7977/16]

Waste Disposal

Clare Daly

143. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that a company (details supplied) is demanding that customers pay upfront for collection of wheelie bins tagged with electronic tags, despite not having made available to customers or the public the fee structure pertaining to the collection of electronically tagged bins, and whether such a demand is legal. [7990/16]

Waste Disposal

Clare Daly

144. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied that a company (details supplied) gave sufficient advance notice to customers that bins tagged with paper tags would no longer be lifted after a certain date and that only bins whose electronic tags had been topped up to a minimum of €25 would be collected. [7991/16]

Air Navigation Orders

Clare Daly

149. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 853 of 14 April 2016, if he will provide a breakdown by country of origin of the 57 refusals of munitions exemptions requests and the reason for these refusals. [7839/16]

Military Aircraft

Clare Daly

155. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any United States military drones that are overflying any jurisdiction anywhere in the world are controlled or operated via any location here; if any permits for such activity have been sought or issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7883/16]

Departmental Correspondence

Clare Daly

163. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he received correspondence in March 2012 regarding allegations of serious fraud in an organisation (details supplied); and the action that was taken by his Department to investigate these allegations following receipt of this correspondence. [7407/16]

Medicinal Products Availability

Clare Daly

300. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he has had consultations with the Health Service Executive regarding the possible funding of a drug, eculizumab, for a person (details supplied); the outcome of those consultations, if they have taken place. [7428/16]

School Transport Administration

Clare Daly

406. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 699 of 6 April 2016, if she will clarify if her Department conducts reviews of Bus Éireann maintenance charges. [7295/16]

School Transport Administration

Clare Daly

407. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 699 of 6 April 2016, if she will clarify if all of the reviews referred to in her reply are conducted by members of the Bus Éireann board, employees of Bus Éireann or persons or organisations paid by Bus Éireann. [7296/16]

Water Quality

Clare Daly

453. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if Irish Water has carried out an analysis on the extent of asbestos water mains piping here; and if Irish Water has plans to upgrade this piping in the near future. [7280/16]

Dog Licences

Clare Daly

464. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if the Dog Breeding Establishments Act 2010 has been amended to remove the €400 per annum dog licence fee exemption for hunting groups and, if so, the steps being taken to ensure payment. [7417/16]

Departmental Staff Redeployment

Clare Daly

67. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her policies regarding the provision of cover staff, or funding for cover staff, in her Department's disability allowance section so that cover is provided for persons on sick leave and inordinate delays in processing of claims are prevented. [7228/16]

Banking Operations

Clare Daly

91. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance his knowledge of the Bank of Ireland's involvement with the US Government's contractors, Dyncorp, organisers of Central Intelligence Agency rendition flights through Iridian Asset Management Limited Liability Company, an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland in 2009. [6429/16]

Fish Farming

Clare Daly

181. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 27 January 2016, which four sites operated by Marine Harvest Ireland he is examining for overstocking, and with reference to each case, to state the amount of overstocking involved and what effect the overstocking has on the organic status of the fish produced at these sites. [6455/16]

Aquaculture Licences

Clare Daly

182. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out separately the moneys spent by Bord Iascaigh Mhara, the Marine Institute and his Department as a result of Bord Iascaigh Mhara’s Galway Bay licence application. [6456/16]

Aquaculture Development

Clare Daly

183. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 20 January 2016, if he will appoint a senior counsel to undertake the proposed review of his Department’s aquaculture licensing system so that non-industry stakeholders and the general public can have confidence that the review is balanced and genuine. [6457/16]

Military Medals

Clare Daly

242. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the status of the report into the incident on board the LÉ Cliona on 29 May 1962. [6418/16]

Defence Forces Expenditure

Clare Daly

247. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the cost of the presence of the Defence Forces at Shannon Airport protecting civilian troop carriers and military planes of the United States of America, by month in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6876/16]

Garda Communications

Clare Daly

279. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality her views on the arrangements in place to enable citizens to access tape recordings from Garda Síochána stations which are being investigated by the Fennelly commission and which the persons believe contain information which could impact upon the cases that were taken against them. [6342/16]

Court Sittings

Clare Daly

315. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality given the very serious backlog in the senior courts' ability to hear cases, the steps she proposes to take to resolve this matter and ensure the human rights of citizens are protected in cases where the person awaiting a hearing is incarcerated. [6555/16]

Garda Deployment

Clare Daly

331. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of the presence of An Garda Síochána at Shannon Airport in County Clare protecting civilian troop carriers and military aeroplanes of the US, by month in 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6877/16]

Maternity Services

Clare Daly

383. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when he will publish the report on the investigation into the safety of babies being delivered in Portiuncula Hospital in County Galway. [6414/16]

Maternal Mortality

Clare Daly

384. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Service Executive Ireland East hospital group has been very vague in relation to any investigation into the first of the two reported maternal deaths in the last four months (details supplied), yet immediately passed on details of the second death to the relevant Coroner's office for inquest. [6415/16]

Maternal Mortality

Clare Daly

385. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health when the Health Information and Qualty Authority will carry out a full report on seven women’s deaths in the maternity services, further to its recently opened public consultation on new maternity standards, which mentions Savita Halappanavar’s death and the baby deaths in Portlaoise, County Laois, but makes no mention of the other seven maternal deaths between 2007 and 2013, where inquests were also held and which returned verdicts of medical misadventure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6416/16]

Health Services Data

Clare Daly

386. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health his views on the funds spent by the Health Service Executive on legal fees concerning all maternity cases and maternity-related matters for each of the years from 2007 to 2015 [6417/16]

Disability Support Services

Clare Daly

387. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the options open to the parents of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin who was discharged from the Central Remedial Clinic two years ago, and who has, to date, had no disability services or multidisciplinary team, given that this is causing concern for the person's parents and teacher; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6423/16]

Mental Health Services Staff

Clare Daly

388. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 2 February 2016, his views that the chronic staff shortages referred to have deteriorated further and now stand at over 50; the steps he will take to immediately address the deteriorating effect on vital services in Saint Joseph's Association for the intellectually disabled in Portrane in County Dublin. [6424/16]

Health Insurance Claims

Clare Daly

389. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he is aware of the practice employed by many medical consultants of charging public patients amounts of between €500 and €1,000 for a simple letter outlining the patient’s injuries for the purpose of claiming compensation, and that public patients are told that the money is charged in order for them to become temporary private patients, thus permitting the specialist to charge these large amounts of money; and to outline or investigate the extent of this practice [6425/16]

Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme

Clare Daly

418. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health why persons who contact the independent symphysiotomy redress scheme receive answers to their inquiries from officials in his Department, given that the symphysiotomy payment scheme is an independent scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6556/16]

Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme

Clare Daly

435. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the legal basis for allowing the assessor of the symphysiotomy payment scheme to destroy copies of applicants' records and to contact the applicants directly, bypassing their solicitors, for consent on this issue [6641/16]

Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme

Clare Daly

436. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health to provide a public statement regarding the records submitted by applicants to the symphysiotomy payments scheme, given the contradictory statements from the scheme and from his Department, when the scheme does not return the forms and asking if the applicant wants the documents shredded or returned. [6642/16]

Hospital Appointments Status

Clare Daly

469. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in providing an operation for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 8; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6718/16]

Disability Support Services Provision

Clare Daly

548. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 2 December 2015, why, given his statement that Praxis services would be in place by the end of March 2016 at the latest, they are not yet in place for the young persons concerned; the way in which he proposes to hold those responsible to account and to deliver the services that these young persons are entitled to [6888/16]

Disability Support Services Provision

Clare Daly

549. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health why services being offered to young persons with disabilities transitioning from school in north Dublin city and north Fingal are not in compliance with the New Directions Guidance Document: Defining New Service Locations, issued in February 2016, in which it is recommended that service provision should serve a local population rather than the needs of a larger geographical area. [6889/16]

Military Aircraft

Clare Daly

617. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if any military drones belonging to the US operated via any location here; if permits for such activity have been sought or issued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6419/16]

Shannon Airport Facilities

Clare Daly

619. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of a recent report entitled Irradiated Iraq by Ms Barbara Koeppel which reveals that for the past 25 years the US and its allies have been using radioactive weapons containing uranium that have been causing cancers in adults and very serious deformities and birth defects in children; and if he is concerned that Shannon Airport in County Clare may have been used in the transport of such weaponry, thus leaving Ireland open to charges of having facilitated the commission of war crimes. [6421/16]

Ministerial Meetings

Clare Daly

620. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had talks or consultations with the US Government regarding the Hibernia Atlantic cable being used as a data conduit to facilitate the operation of unmanned drones in the Middle East by its military; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6422/16]

Bank Guarantee Scheme

Clare Daly

621. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department was contacted regarding a breach of Ireland's neutrality through the bailout of Bank of Ireland which owned, among its assets, a US asset management company which had a large holding in Dyncorp, the contractor for the US which organised rendition flights by Central Intelligence Agency agents. [6430/16]

Military Aircraft Landings

Clare Daly

633. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of permits requested and granted for military aircraft to land at Shannon Airport, in each of the years 2013 to 2015 and the country that made the request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6875/16]

Third Level Staff

Clare Daly

700. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied as to the legal permissibility and enforceability of a third level institute enforcing a reduction in the pay of rehired retired staff to an arbitrary level on foot of non-binding written advice from the Higher Education Authority but in the absence of a circular from her advising as to the appropriate level at which such staff should be paid; whether, in the absence of a public sector union agreement as to the appropriate pay level for such staff; she will direct the authority to rescind its advice (details supplied) to higher education institutes on this matter pending a negotiated agreement with unions and the issuing of a circular by her; and if she will direct third level institutions to maintain pay rates until such time as a negotiated agreement has been put in place and a circular issued. [6805/16]

School Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

721. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 673 of 6 April 2016, the year in which her Department performed the analysis regarding the need for a seventh junior infants class in a school (details supplied) in County Dublin and concluded that there was spare capacity available in other schools of the same ethos serving the same area. [7017/16]

School Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

722. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 673 of 6 April 2016, if she has completed an analysis of the capacity available and the demand for places in schools of the same ethos in the same area for the school year beginning in September 2016; and the results of both analyses, including the number of spare places available in each school for which the last estimated numbers are acceptable if concrete numbers are unavailable. [7018/16]

School Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

723. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 673 of 6 April 2016, when she will make a decision on the application referred to. [7019/16]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation

Clare Daly

791. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the estates where pyrite remediation work has started; the number of houses that have been remediated; his plans for starting remedial work in additional estates, including a timetable. [6934/16]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Implementation

Clare Daly

792. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of damage condition rating certificates 1 and certificates 2 submitted to the Pyrite Remediation Board for remediation by housing estate. [6935/16]

Pyrite Panel Report Recommendations

Clare Daly

793. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review the conclusions of the Pyrite report, given the experience since remediation started. [6937/16]

Telecommunications Infrastructure

Clare Daly

816. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is aware if the Hibernia Atlantic Cable Network Operations Centre has played a role at or from its base in Clonshaugh, Dublin 17 in piloting drones operated in the Middle East by the military of the United States of America; if he will request information on this from the operations centre in Clonshaugh; if permits for such activity have been sought and if he has issued such permits; if he has had talks or consultations with the US regarding such activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6420/16]

Postal Codes

Clare Daly

817. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the public and private companies which are using the Eircode system. [6551/16]

Air Navigation Orders

Clare Daly

843. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 806 of 6 April 2016, the basis for his understanding indicated. [6616/16]

Air Navigation Orders

Clare Daly

844. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 806 of 6 April 2016 and the aircraft identified, if the aircraft was on contract to the military of the United States of America on this occasion; if so, whether it, its crew or its passengers engaged in military operations or supporting military operations en route to Bagram airbase in Afghanistan; if not, why it was travelling to Afghanistan on this occasion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6617/16]

Driver Licence Renewals

Clare Daly

850. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question Number 815 of 6 April 2016, why the National Driver Licence Service does not provide any facility on its website or elsewhere to submit applications by post or online for the renewal of driving licences issued by it since January 2013; why it does not process applications for renewal by post, but requires persons who have already presented once at one of its centres to present again in order to have their license renewed; and why it has not made provision for postal or online renewal to date. [6752/16]

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]