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Clare Daly

Clare Daly

Independents 4 Change

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Taxes and spending
1 of 32 questions
Money that is currently being saved for future policy challenges (such as climate change and an ageing population) should be spent now on things like housing and healthcare.
  • Agree Your position
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "We can, and should, do both. "

- Clare Daly
Taxes and spending
2 of 32 questions
Taxes on people earning over €100,000 a year should be increased.
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "People in the PAYE system on higher incomes should contribute more, but tax avoidance by big business is a much bigger issue and needs to be tackled. "

- Clare Daly
Taxes and spending
3 of 32 questions
The Universal Social Charge (USC) is a necessary source of revenue and should be kept.
  • Agree Your position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion
Comment: "Brought in by the late Finance Minister Brian Lenihan in 2011, we were assured at the height of the economic crisis that this would only be a temporary measure. "

- Clare Daly
Taxes and spending
4 of 32 questions
Tax on inheritance should be reduced, even if it means cutting back on public spending or increasing other taxes.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Match with candidate
  • No opinion
Comment: "Inheritance tax makes a contribution to reducing wealth inequality. Reducing it would widen the wealth gap, cut tax revenue and shift tax burden to lower-income families. Inequities in the system, for example for people without children, should be addressed."

- Clare Daly
Taxes and spending
5 of 32 questions
Universal payments, such as child benefit and energy credits, should be replaced with more targeted measures aimed at the less well-off.
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Match with candidate
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Child benefit is a universal payment, and should remain so. Energy credits however should be stepped and targeted. "

- Clare Daly
Housing
6 of 32 questions
The government should focus on making houses more affordable rather than providing financial supports to first-time buyers.
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Schemes like Help to Buy have been shown to drive up house prices. They don't 'help' first-time buyers, they just make the houses they want to buy more expensive. "

- Clare Daly
Housing
7 of 32 questions
Planning guidelines should be relaxed to allow for more one-off rural housing
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Match with candidate
  • No opinion
Comment: "Without question, housing needs to be easier to access, but people should be incentivised and supported to live in villages and towns as opposed to incentivising one-off housing by relaxing planning guidelines. "

- Clare Daly
Housing
8 of 32 questions
A rent freeze should be introduced across the country, even if it risks landlords leaving the market
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Rents are catastrophically high. We need to bring them down - a rent freeze won't be a miracle cure, but it would be a start. "

- Clare Daly
Housing
9 of 32 questions
The Local Property Tax should be scrapped, even if it means less money available for local councils
  • Agree Candidate position
  • Neither agree nor disagree Your position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "We should be cracking down on tax avoidance by big business and imposing wealth taxes on the wealthiest 1%. Monies lost from the abolition of LPT should be replaced with funds from the Exchequer for local authorities. "

- Clare Daly
Transport
10 of 32 questions
The provision of public transport (trains, light rail, buses) should be prioritised over building roads
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "We need massive and ambitious investment in public transport if we want people to stop using cars. We don't have time to waste on this. "

- Clare Daly
Transport
11 of 32 questions
The passenger cap at Dublin airport should be lifted
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Match with candidate
  • No opinion
Comment: "It would be a disaster for local residents and local infrastructure and needs to be retained until planning conditions re impact on residents are met. We should be focusing on regional development of our air capacity, for example at Cork and Shannon. "

- Clare Daly
Environment, energy, agriculture
12 of 32 questions
Carbon taxes should continue to increase each year
  • Agree Your position
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Candidate position
  • No opinion
Comment: "Carbon taxes levied on individuals and households aren't effective in changing behaviour in the absence of alternatives - like public transport. We should be taking radical action to tax big emitters instead of priortising punitive measures for ordinary people who often have no alternative. "

- Clare Daly
Environment, energy, agriculture
13 of 32 questions
Ireland should give up its exemption under the EU Nitrates directive
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Nearly half Ireland's rivers are below water quality standards & EPA evidence confirms the livestock sector is the single biggest contributor to the problem. Ireland's Nitrates Action Plans have failed to stop this & if we don't solve it, the EU Commission will step in & remove the derogation anyway"

- Clare Daly
Environment, energy, agriculture
14 of 32 questions
The government should introduce measures to significantly reduce the extent of livestock farming in Ireland
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Methane is the second most significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in Ireland. We need to incentivise farmers to reduce herd numbers and to diversify. "

- Clare Daly
Environment, energy, agriculture
15 of 32 questions
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals should be allowed in Ireland, to improve security of supply
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Match with candidate
  • No opinion
Comment: "LNG is a disaster for the climate and for ecosystems. We should be improving security of supply by ramping up our supply of renewables. "

- Clare Daly
Social issues and education
16 of 32 questions
Abortion should be allowed in a wider range of circumstances.
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Social issues and education
17 of 32 questions
Policies to increase the representation of women in politics have gone too far
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Match with candidate
  • No opinion
Social issues and education
18 of 32 questions
New laws on hate speech should be introduced to protect vulnerable communities
  • Agree Your position
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "We've recently seen Jewish academics in the UK arrested for 'hate speech' for speaking up for Palestine. Huge issues with criminalising any kind of speech & efforts to deal with hate speech need to be approached with utmost care such that they don't end up themselves breaching fundamental rights."

- Clare Daly
Social issues and education
19 of 32 questions
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have too much power in Irish policy making
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree Your position
  • No opinion
Comment: "NGOs are a professionalised arm of civil society. An active & strong civil society - from trade unions to NGOs to activists - is extremely important. Insofar as we've seen a decline in broad civil society & increased prominence of NGOs, the answer is to give more support to a broader range of actors"

- Clare Daly
Social issues and education
20 of 32 questions
Religious instruction should only take place outside school hours in Irish primary schools
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "School premises should however be made available after hours for the religious instruction that parents request. "

- Clare Daly
Social issues and education
21 of 32 questions
Gender diversity and transgender issues should be taught in Irish primary schools
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Children should learn in school about the whole diversity of the society they live in. If they don't learn about it in school, they'll learn about it outside it anyway. "

- Clare Daly
Immigration and asylum
22 of 32 questions
More resources should be given to improving conditions for asylum seekers
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Resources should be better spent. The government is giving money hand over fist to private businesses who are wholly unqualified to accommodate & integrate vulnerable people & profiting handsomely from it while accommodating them in often awful conditions. We need a public system & better conditions"

- Clare Daly
Immigration and asylum
23 of 32 questions
Communities should be obliged to take their fair share of asylum seekers, even if there is local opposition
  • Agree Your position
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Communities should be involved and consulted in a genuine process - we haven't seen that so far."

- Clare Daly
Immigration and asylum
24 of 32 questions
Accommodation centres for asylum seekers should not be located in economically disadvantaged areas
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree Match with candidate
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Every decision on an accommodation centre should be taken on a case-by-case basis, taking into account the appropriateness of the accommodation for the people who'll have to live there, local service capacity, integration potential, and the number to be accommodated. "

- Clare Daly
Immigration and asylum
25 of 32 questions
Rules on immigrant work permits and student visas should become more restrictive
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Match with candidate
  • No opinion
Comment: "Businesses all over the country are having difficulties getting staff. Our rules are already highly restrictive. It would make no sense to tighten them up further. "

- Clare Daly
Crime and policing
26 of 32 questions
The solution to anti-social behaviour lies in tackling poverty and disadvantage rather than tougher policing
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Policing priorities have to be looked at however and we need more visibility & intervention from gardaí in communities that have been abandoned by the Garda establishment and political decisions. "

- Clare Daly
Crime and policing
27 of 32 questions
Gardaí should take a more robust approach to dealing with political protests
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Match with candidate
  • No opinion
Foreign policy and defence
28 of 32 questions
Ireland should continue to provide financial and political support to Ukraine in response to the ongoing war
  • Agree Your position
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "Ireland is a neutral country and should be giving political support to arguing for peace in Ukraine. We should of course continue to give humanitarian aid to Ukraine in light of the devastation wreaked on that country."

- Clare Daly
Foreign policy and defence
29 of 32 questions
The EU should suspend its trade agreement with Israel
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "It should have been done in October 2023. The EU-Israel Association Agreement includes a suspension clause, and is conditional on human rights being upheld. It is utterly beyond belief it hasn't been suspended before now. "

- Clare Daly
Foreign policy and defence
30 of 32 questions
Ireland should retain its ‘triple lock’ rule for deploying troops abroad
  • Agree Match with candidate
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "The Government wants to get rid of the triple lock so it can join in EU military missions abroad that have not been sanctioned by the United Nations. We should not be deploying Irish troops abroad in support of any mission that doesn't have a UN mandate. "

- Clare Daly
Foreign policy and defence
31 of 32 questions
Ireland should collaborate more with other EU member states on defence and security
  • Agree
  • Neither agree nor disagree
  • Disagree Match with candidate
  • No opinion
Comment: "The EU is turning into a war union, and Ireland has no obligation to join in, nor should it. The entire focus of EU policy is geared now towards turbocharging the military-industrial complex, something which is anathema to Ireland's neutrality. "

- Clare Daly
Irish unity
32 of 32 questions
A referendum on Irish unity should be held in the next five years
  • Agree Your position
  • Neither agree nor disagree Candidate position
  • Disagree
  • No opinion
Comment: "It should be held when the time is right and has the greatest chance of success rather than setting an arbitrary deadline on it. "

- Clare Daly

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