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Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Framework Directive (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on whether the current classification of Lough Foyle as coastal waters is not revoked immediately and returned to estuarine/transitional waters, this contentious classification and therefore the looser environmental protection of the Foyle estuary associated with it, will be subsumed into the Water Framework...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Framework Directive (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with reference to the Ramsar designation for the entirety of Lough Foyle as a recognised and desired objective by the Ramsar Convention and its implications for such designation for both the Lough and its surrounding communities, the action he will take to assist in obtaining this designation for Lough Foyle. [8836/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Framework Directive (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government with reference to the ongoing discussions between the UK and Irish governments on the question of jurisdiction over the Foyle and Carlingford estuaries, if the communities around these Estuaries will be assured that rules of environmental protection are built in to any contemplated agreement which will protect against use of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Strength (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the personnel strength of the Donegal Division of An Garda Síochána that obtained on the 31 December in each of the years 2002-2012; if he will declare the distributions by station and District that obtained in the pertinent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8416/13]

Other Questions: Undocumented Irish in the USA (20 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update on his recent engagements with American Senators in respect of resolution for Irish citizens who live without documentation in the USA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8735/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (20 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his strategy for securing immigration resolution for Irish citizens who live without documentation in the USA. [8736/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Staffing Resources (20 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide information on staffing resources (details supplied) each December from 2002-20012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9003/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (20 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will seek an urgent review of a student grant (details supplied) in view of the affected family's difficult financial situation and if he will communicate directly with the person. [9200/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Transport (20 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown by Division of the €5m to be distributed for the purchase and fit-out of Garda transport in 2013. [9186/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: Today we will hear from a number of groups on a bill of rights for Northern Ireland. We will meet first with representatives of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, ICTU. I welcome Mr. Eugene McGlone, president of the congress, Ms Patricia McKeown, past president and member of the executive council of the congress, and Mr. Jack O'Connor, general president of SIPTU and member of the executive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank Ms McKeown.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: I propose to call Mark Durkan, MP, Deputy Joe O'Reilly, Deputy Sean Crowe and Michelle Gildernew, MP.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank Ms Gildernew. We are under a bit of pressure because our members got carried away with their questions, so it is a bit rich of me to ask the witnesses to be brief. Could I ask them to be conscious of the time but not to cut short their answers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank Mr. O'Connor and the other members of the delegation for their thought-provoking contributions. We understand their loud sense of frustration. Perhaps I would differ in so far as I would not share the sense that things have not progressed in the past 15 years. Although obvious challenges are being faced at the moment, a great deal of movement has been made in Northern Ireland in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: I thank the delegates again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: We will continue our discussion on a bill of rights for Northern Ireland. I welcome the following: Ms Adrienne Reilly, protection of rights co-ordinator at the Committee on the Administration of Justice; Ms Sara Boyce, policy co-ordinator on employability at Include Youth; and Ms Helen Flynn, campaigns and membership officer at the Human Rights Consortium. As they were in the Visitors...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To clarify, Mr. Durkan was not expressing that sentiment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: That was certainly helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: Does anyone else have any further comments?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: There were a few invaluable proposals made today. The one that stands out is for us to spend time with the groups and if we can do that, we will. We are always delighted to go up North. Indeed, we just decided in private session today that we will go up North again shortly. We would be willing to do that and meet groups from within loyalism and nationalism. We are trying to be the honest...