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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: So we agreed to that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: Can the committee have a list of the 15% that was agreed to? My interpretation is that requests were made for exemptions and we agreed to 15%. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: My question is what the 15% relates to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: Under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order, the carriage of weapons through Shannon Airport on commercial aircraft is prohibited unless an exemption has been obtained in advance from the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport. My information is no exemptions have been sought or obtained at any stage by the American Government. Like many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: What about the other 15%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: What would such dangerous goods be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: Explosives could be weapons. They could be bombs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: Has the Government agreed to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: To what part of the 15% does the Government not agree?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: Ms Phelan mentioned explosives. Out of the aforementioned 15%, did the Government agree in respect of explosives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: The definition of explosives to me could include a weapon or a bomb. To confirm, the Government did not agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: To clarify, Ms Phelan is stating the Government has not agreed to any of the 15%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: I am a little unsure on this. My understanding is that exemptions were agreed upon for 15% of the total. However, as a public representative I need to know what was the 15% on which the Government agreed? Does Ms Phelan know or does the Minister know?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: Yes, but what are they?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (2 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: I wonder whether water charges will be used to pay off huge legacy debts incurred by councils over the years, for example, overruns on contract failures on various capital projects. My information is that many local authorities have already had to borrow money to settle contractual claims and legal disputes. For example, in Waterford city, substantial legal costs and settlements of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (2 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: My understanding is that local authorities will continue to provide water services as agents of Irish Water. The cost of providing these services vis-à-vispayroll costs and a portion of the councils' central management charges will be recouped directly by Irish Water. However, it is likely that Irish Water will seek a reduction in what it will pay councils. There are considerable...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (2 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: 82. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of revenue that Waterford City and County Council is to recoup next year from Irish Water; the amount of this that is made up of payroll costs to do with water supply and waste water treatment by the council as agents for Irish Water; if he will provide a percentage breakdown of the amount of the overall...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Administration (2 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: On behalf of the Technical Group I offer my sincere condolences to the family of the young man who died in what can only be described as unacceptable circumstances, namely, without a bed or a roof over his head. It is unacceptable that such a thing could happen in Ireland today, which has a relatively small population of 4.5 million people. I thank the Minister for the initiative he is due...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Property Taxation Rate (2 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: 104. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of local authorities that have voted to reduce local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45865/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (2 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: 111. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the recent announcement regarding the provision of additional social housing here to accommodate the current high level of housing shortage the level of additional housing stock that will be built to accommodate the housing crisis in Tramore, County Waterford; his views that there is a massive lack of housing...