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Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: I have no doubt we are in the grip of a nutritional recession, triggered by food poverty. I appeal to the Tánaiste to deal with supermarket chains that refuse to reveal the huge profits that everybody knows they make. Everyone else in the country has been asked to help the economy. The people who are suffering from food deprivation have had to take cuts, yet the big supermarket chains...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks Closures (25 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: 32. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide a full list of national parks that are closed due to renovations or lack of funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19428/13]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (25 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: 40. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he is concerned and if he is being consulted on the possible implications in terms of our national heritage of the sale of public forests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19427/13]

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: Tomorrow is May Day, a day when trade unions and workers across the world unite in solidarity and in support of workers' rights. It is also 100 years since the 1913 Lockout, when Irish workers endured great hardship to secure such basic rights as the right to join a trade union and decent working conditions. I doubt workers in 1913 could have foreseen the decimation of these hard won...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: As noted by the European committee to which I referred, the human rights of workers in Ireland are being violated in three ways, namely, in respect of the failure to provide for trade union recognition and in aspects of the liquidation and insolvency processes. While I do not have any time for some of the current leadership of the trade union movement, legislation must be introduced to give...

Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: The Taoiseach should ask Dunnes Stores if its staff can join a trade union.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)

John Halligan: Disgraceful.

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)

John Halligan: It has to be six out of six.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Support Services (2 May 2013)

John Halligan: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he intends to replace the direct provision system or put a system in place that would allow asylum seekers the right to work and live independently, which would save the State a considerable amount of money; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20697/13]

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)

John Halligan: I commend the Taoiseach on bringing forward the protection of life during pregnancy Bill. It cannot have been an easy task for him, given all the divisions and tensions within the coalition. It has taken some determination on his part to finally start tackling this highly charged and emotive issue, one where four taoisigh before him have failed. However, the draft Bill provides little...

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)

John Halligan: I never said the Taoiseach did.

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)

John Halligan: I want to be very blunt without being offensive. I do not know if the Taoiseach has ever spoken to a woman who has been raped. I have several years ago. She spoke to me about how she felt after being violated, how she was continually showering and washing herself internally. It is inhuman and deeply offensive to tell a woman who has been violated and raped that she must present herself as...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Subsidiary Protection Applications (7 May 2013)

John Halligan: 301. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding an application for subsidiary protection in respect of a person (details supplied). [21524/13]

Europe Week: Statements (8 May 2013)

John Halligan: I wish to share time with Deputies Seamus Healy and Richard Boyd Barrett. I congratulate and compliment Deputy Dominic Hannigan on his chairmanship of the Joint Committee on European Union Affairs. I note Deputy Timmy Dooley's fine contributions. I am afraid all the niceties are over after that little piece. Today is seen as a celebration of Ireland's membership of the European Union...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (8 May 2013)

John Halligan: 199. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update and progress report of his Department's considerations in relation to the possible sale of the harvesting rights of Coillte; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21886/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta Harvesting Rights Sale (8 May 2013)

John Halligan: 201. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he intends to maintain a sustainable forest strategy in the event that the sale of the havesting rights of Coillte goes ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21888/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long Stay Residential Units (14 May 2013)

John Halligan: 110. To ask the Minister for Health if he will explain his policy regarding the transfer of persons with disabilities living in long term residential homes, such as Cheshire Homes, to local authority housing; the financial rationale for this move; the way he intends to deal with concerns among many residents of these homes and their families that they will not be able to cope in independent...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Offices (14 May 2013)

John Halligan: 360. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to close the Community Welfare Office in Tramore, County Waterford; if this is the case, the way she can justify this closure; her plans to move this office to the Waterford city office; the way she proposes people with lack of financial support and no transport make the journey to visit these offices; her plans to provide more...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company (15 May 2013)

John Halligan: 53. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the proposal to put Dun Laoghaire Harbour Company under the aegis and in co-operation with Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, if he will agree to a meeting with representatives of the workforce as they have requested; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22943/13]

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2013)

John Halligan: There is something deeply reprehensible about what is happening to disabled people in the country. They have sustained a fundamental attack on their quality of life over the past two years. Their disability allowance has been cut as have their home help hours and the number of personal assistants. The domiciliary care allowance has been targeted along with funding therapies for people with...