Unnecessary queries in Hibernate - MySql

I am using spring / hibernate / mysql and currently using the following settings in spring-hibernate.xml

I am constantly seeing "select @@session.tx_read_only" and "select @@session.tx_isolation" queries being sent to the DB mostly after select statements for actual data.

Each of these queries add like 20-25ms time and I get like 70 queries run against the DB on a Oauth login. How can I get rid of them ?

I tried statelessSessions and the queries disappeared and I could reduce the number of queries to the application queries only but I read that using statelessSessions will not provide any first-level cache and its also vulnerable to data aliasing effects.

How can I avoid the "select @@session.tx_read_only" and select @@session.tx_isolation" running multiple times.(I use a generic Dao to access the DB a extract is given below) i am using findById, findAll, getNamedQueryAndNamedParam methods...

spring-hibernate.xml

<bean id="dataSource" class="com.mchange.v2.c3p0.ComboPooledDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClass" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
    <property name="jdbcUrl" value="${JDBC_CON_STRING}" />
    <property name="user" value="${USER_NAME}" />
    <property name="password" value="${USER_PASSWORD}" />
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="packagesToScan" value="com.model" />
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">false</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.cache.region.factory_class">org.hibernate.cache.ehcache.EhCacheRegionFactory</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_configuration_file_resource_path">ehcach.xml</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.auto_close_session">true</prop>
    </property>
    <property name="mappingResources">
        <list>
            <value>named-queries.xml</value>
            <value>native-named-queries.xml</value>
        </list>
            </property>
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
    <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
</bean>

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager" />

<bean id="testClassDao" class="com.dao.GenericHibernateDao">
    <property name="clazz" value="com.model.TestClass" />
</bean>

GenericHibernateDao.java

@Repository
@Scope("prototype")
public class GenericHibernateDao<T, PK extends Serializable> implements GenericDao<T, PK> {

private Class<T> clazz;

@Autowired
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

public void setClazz(final Class<T> clazzToSet) {
    this.clazz = clazzToSet;
}

protected Session getSession() {
    return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
}

protected Session getOpenSession() {
    return sessionFactory.openSession();
}

@Transactional(isolation = Isolation.READ_COMMITTED, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public T findById(PK id) {
    Object obj = null;
    obj = getSession().get(clazz, id);
    //obj = getStatelessSession().get(clazz, id);
    return (T) obj;
}

@Transactional(isolation = Isolation.READ_COMMITTED, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public List<T> findAll() {

    String queryString = "from " + clazz.getName();
    Query query = getSession().createQuery(queryString);
    query.setCacheable(true);
    List<T> list = query.list();
    return list;
}

@Transactional(isolation = Isolation.READ_COMMITTED, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public List<T> getNamedQuery(String queryName) {
    Query query = getSession().getNamedQuery(queryName);
    //Query query = getStatelessSession().getNamedQuery(queryName);
    query.setCacheable(true);
    List<T> results = query.list();
    return results;
}

@Transactional(isolation = Isolation.READ_COMMITTED, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public List<T> getNamedQueryAndNamedParam(String queryName, String paramName, Object value) {
    Query query = getSession().getNamedQuery(queryName).setString(paramName, value.toString());
    query.setCacheable(true);
    List<T> results = query.list();
    return results;
}
@Transactional(isolation = Isolation.READ_COMMITTED, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public PK save(T persistenceObject) {
    Serializable save = getSession().save(persistenceObject);
    return (PK) save;
}

@Transactional(isolation = Isolation.READ_COMMITTED, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public void saveOrUpdate(T persistenceObject) {
    getSession().saveOrUpdate(persistenceObject);
}

public void saveOrUpdateBulk(Collection<T> persistenceObject) {
    Session session = getOpenSession();
    Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
    int i = 0;
    for (Iterator<T> iterator = persistenceObject.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
        i++;
        session.saveOrUpdate(iterator.next());
        if (i % 100 == 0) {
            session.flush();
            session.clear();
        }
    }
    tx.commit();
    session.close();
}

@Transactional(isolation = Isolation.READ_COMMITTED, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public boolean delete(PK id) {
    Object findById = findById(id);
    if (findById != null) {
        getSession().delete(findById);
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}
}