Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Adoption Legislation

Clare Daly

34. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Adoption Amendment Bill will address the problems experienced by adopted persons in relation to their information rights following the 1998 Supreme Court (IOT vs B) ruling; and if not, the steps she will take to secure their information and tracing rights as a matter of urgency. [40655/12]

Post-Adoption Contact Register

Clare Daly

38. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs noting her statement in Dáil Éireann on 19 September 2012 that for decades this country has failed its children, her views on whether children illegally adopted were failed by the State; if she will agree to meet with those now adult who have asked to meet her; and if she will ensure to make secure medical and other records in private hands which can provide evidence of the crime committed against these children. [40654/12]

Banks Recapitalisation

Clare Daly

45. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown for each financial institution, of the €7.5 billion of the bank recapitalisation which was paid in relation to mortgage debt; the action that was taken by each bank to ensure that these moneys were used for their intended purpose. [40790/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

119. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on the outcome of the discussions with the key stakeholders identified in the pyrite report, including the CIF, IIF, IBF, ICF and Homebond, to come up with a solution to the pyrite problem. [40823/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

120. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if he will give a commitment that all homes with reactive pyrite will be systematically remediated. [40824/12]

Services for People with Disabilities

Clare Daly

206. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health in the context of Ireland's endorsement of the Council of Europe Disability Action Plan 2006 - 2015, the progress made and the specific measures being undertaken to secure equality for persons with disabilities, in particular with regard to Action Line 8, 9 and 10. [39447/12]

Fishing Industry Development

Clare Daly

51. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he intends to take in relation to developing a sustainable fisheries policy, following the Our Ocean Wealth Report. [40385/12]

Household Charge Collection

Clare Daly

289. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the impact of the letters sent by local authorities to those on the non-principal private residence list in relation to seeking payment of the household tax, broken down by county on the basis of numbers of letters sent out each time, and the rate of compliance which followed each letter. [40392/12]

Adoption Legislation

Clare Daly

383. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to deal with the issue of adopted persons' right to access their own information with regard to their adoptions. [40507/12]

Army Barracks Closures

Clare Daly

15. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence if a cost benefit analysis was conducted into the substantial reduction in Defence Forces personnel, with particular reference to the towns in which barracks have been targeted for closure. [39526/12]

Defence Forces Deployment

Clare Daly

18. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Defence the number of occasions on which Defence Forces personnel carriers were deployed in relation to civilian peace keeping operations; and the cost of these exercises. [39525/12]

Prison Accommodation Provision

Clare Daly

3. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he will take to ensure a single cell occupancy policy in relation to Irish prisons. [39371/12]

Asylum Seeker Accommodation

Clare Daly

15. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the handling of the attempted move of asylum seekers from Lisburn Houses in Galway; and if he will outline his plans in relation to the residents. [39372/12]

Schools Building Contractors

Clare Daly

75. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to problems with employment procedures in some of the contracts awarded for school building projects, in particular the practice of employing workers below the REA rates and below the minimum wage in a school (details supplied) and the action he will take on same. [39579/12]

Pension Provisions

Clare Daly

140. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will justify the rationale of restructuring contributory state pensions in Budget 2012, which discriminate against women who took time out of the workforce to rear their children and will have the effect of reducing the average annual contributions by €1,000 per year, causing immense hardship. [39580/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

157. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government the steps he will take to deal with the fact that banks have been shown to be refusing mortgages to persons because of pyrite being present in particular estates and not the specific property, and insurance companies who are refusing cover even when remedial works have been carried out. [39617/12]

Departmental Legal Cases

Clare Daly

201. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason proceedings in a case by a person (details supplied) against his Department, the Health Service Executive, the Attorney General and Ireland in the High Court have not yet been heard, despite being initiated in February 2001. [39630/12]

Mental Health Services Provision

Clare Daly

216. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the protocol in relation to a second independent consultant psychiatrists opinion being required when it relates to a tribunal to determine a patient's freedom, with particular reference to the fees charged for such an opinion, in relation to the signing of forms and claims for travel expenses even though the assessment may have occurred while the psychiatrist was on duty in another hospital; and if he can confirm that a fee of more than €1,000 would be normal for such assessments. [39616/12]

Departmental Legal Cases

Clare Daly

217. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) was charged for their stay in Shrewsbury House, Clonliffee Road, County Dublin, from 4 September 1992 to 1 May 1995, despite being a medical card holder; and if arrangements will be made to refund the family. [39631/12]

Environmental Policy

Clare Daly

67. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the purpose of the EPA Code of Practice: Waste Water Treatment and Disposal Systems Serving Single Houses (2009). [38907/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme Issues

Clare Daly

77. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the contribution private legal firms made in the preparation of the Pyrite Panel report; the names of the firms and if any such firm had a conflict of interest having represented quarry owners, developers or contractors; and the amount they were paid for work on the Pyrite Panel report. [38906/12]

Consular Services Representations

Clare Daly

169. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made any inquiries in relation to the murder of New Zealand - Irish photojournalist Trent Keegan in Nairobi in 2008; and if his attention has been drawn to the allegations that have been made that the murder was linked to a story that he was investigating at the time. [37692/12]

National Parks Opening Hours

Clare Daly

497. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the plans the Office of Public Works has to reinstate the duck pond and the bridges which have been locked off for more that two years in Pearse Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin. [37162/12]

Pyrite Remediation Programme

Clare Daly

1107. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government following the publication of the Pyrite Panel report, his views on whether a close reading of the report suggests that the purpose of the report is to absolve the Building Regulations Advisory Board and his Department of any responsibility for the systematic failures to ensure adequate testing by quarry owners for the presence of sulphur/sulphide/sulphate in hardcore for use as fill under ground floor slabs in housing units which failures have facilitated pyrite induced heave and serious structural damage to tens of thousands of houses in north Dublin, east Meath, north Kildare and Offaly. [38881/12]

Local Authority Charges Application

Clare Daly

1128. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment; Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the practice of Cavan County Council writing off substantial amounts of planning contributions or development levies in return for applicants paying the amount up-front or in cash; his views in relation to such practices and the way he proposes to deal with same. [39173/12]

Child Abuse Issues

Clare Daly

1441. Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will carry out an investigation into the failure by the Midland Health Board to take any action on the substantial records that they had regarding the vicious and systematic abuse of (details supplied). [37693/12]

Renewable Energy

Clare Daly

9 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications; Energy and Natural Resources if any cost benefit analysis has been carried out to determine the possible advantage of semi-State led development of the world’s best wind and wave renewable energy resource off the Irish coast using EIB loans; and if he will instruct that such a cost benefit analysis be organised. [35738/12]

Postal Services

Clare Daly

18 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on whether rural Ireland is being affected by the withdrawal of services in rural villages in particular by the closing of rural post offices; his plans to prevent the further decline of services for which he is responsible in rural Ireland.
[35737/12]

Northern Ireland Issues

Clare Daly

72 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if there are any sensitive and embargoed papers or materials relating to the peace process held in Boston College or other American universities that should be returned to Irish jurisdiction to protect the terms of their confidentiality.
[35151/12]

Northern Ireland Issues

Clare Daly

507 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if the decommissioning papers held in the Burns library at Boston College will be returned to Irish jurisdiction where they will be kept confidential as mandated by their 30 year embargo.
[35150/12]

Treatment Abroad Scheme

Clare Daly

757 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in processing the E112 application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; if he will expedite the matter as the person conforms with all of the terms and conditions of the Health Service Executive treatment abroad scheme and needs the necessary guarantee of funding to enable the operation to proceed.
[34584/12]

Departmental Staff

Clare Daly

95 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the salary package of the head of Science Foundation Ireland.
[34133/12]

Work Permits

Clare Daly

98 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the suggestion of introducing a special technology visa to allow those with specialist skills and experience to take up employment here.
[34130/12]

Homeless Persons

Clare Daly

136 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will award adult rates of social welfare payments to young persons trying to get out of homeless accommodation.
[34125/12]

Mortgage Interest Supplement

Clare Daly

135 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Social Protection the instructions that have been issued to community welfare officers in relation to requesting documentary evidence from financial institutions regarding mortgage distress when processing mortgage interest supplement.
[34124/12]

Advertising Standards

Clare Daly

164 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will deal with advertising standards and protocol in relation to the highly offensive and inaccurate youth defence advertisements.
[34134/12]

Departmental Reports

Clare Daly

174 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will make public the report of the pyrite panel, which has been in his possession for a number of weeks and which is long overdue
[34128/12]

Health Services

Clare Daly

235 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if she will address the registration of creative arts therapists to ensure that creative arts therapies are included in the list of professions covered by the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005.
[34126/12]

Pilot Training Courses

Clare Daly

262 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene with Enterprise Ireland to ensure a satisfactory outcome for students left abandoned by PTC Ireland, whose contract has been terminated by the Florida Institute of Technology, to enable them to complete their studies.
[34132/12]

Pilot Training Courses

Clare Daly

268 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will assist students caught up in the PTC crisis in Florida, in view of the fact that the Irish Aviation Authority licensed this course, and that the State failed to ensure appropriate regulation.
[34131/12]

Lourdes Hospital Redress Scheme

Clare Daly

489 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied), in order to progress the issue of seeking a mechanism to compensate women who were excluded on age grounds from the Lourdes Hospital redress scheme, as is stated in the programme for Government; when it will be possible to arrange a meeting with this organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[33249/12]

Economic Policy

Clare Daly

9 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on the conclusions of the Nevin Economic Research Institute’s Quarterly Economic Observer Summer 2012 report that cutting public expenditure and other austerity measures result only in a much reduced public service and do nothing to promote economic growth; and if he will act on the Institute’s advice and do no further harm. [32439/12]

Public Sector Pay

Clare Daly

19 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will guarantee that increments and allowances which are enshrined in the contracts of low and middle income public servants will continue be paid.
[32440/12]

Sale of State Assets

Clare Daly

134 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on Ryanair’s attempt to take a majority stake in Aer Lingus; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32105/12]

Water and Sewerage Schemes

Clare Daly

471 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government in relation to the proposed sewage treatment plant in north County Dublin, the distance from the three potential sites to the load centre or centres; the cost per kilometre of the pipes; the size of the pipes; the level of treatment the sewage will be given; if a tidal flow study has been done on the area of sea in which the pipes will be; the distance out to sea that the outflow pipes will go; if his attention has been drawn to an incident (details supplied) in view of the distance of the outflow pipes and the possibility of waste being carried a significant distance along the coast; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
[32302/12]

Freedom of Information

Clare Daly

539 Deputy Clare Daly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 168 (details supplied) if he will reconsider his reply.
[31654/12]