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Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: Who determines the terms of reference for the judge?

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: Let the Minister say that in here.

Leaders' Questions (19 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: No.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services Ombudsman Issues (18 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 220. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact a case in which a bank (details supplied) in County Waterford is refusing to acknowledge receipt of or to apply a TRS payment to a mortgage holders account even though the Revenue Commissioners TRS section has confirmed to the mortgage holder that the payment was made to the bank on the person's behalf; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Expenditure (18 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of the 2013 building projects that have been completed; if any of these projects were completed under budget; if he will consider making any of the unspent funds available to schools with delayed projects such as a school (details supplied) who are waiting to be added to a buildings programme; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Eligibility (18 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 289. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason colleges of further education are not now eligible to apply to his Department for funding under circular 59/2013; when and the reason their eligibility ceased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8225/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Amendments (18 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 523. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Building Control (Amendment) Regulations 2013, SI No. 80 of 2013, which are due to come into force on 1 March 2014, will expressly prohibit Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists, CIAT, members from providing architectural services here; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 690. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the number of persons currently employed at Waterford Regional Hospital under the JobBridge scheme; the type of positions they hold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7556/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Inter-Country Adoptions (12 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: I thank the Minister for her response and intervention. The application was made in good faith by the couple, who at all times intended to satisfy fully all the requirements. This included the mother moving to Vietnam with her eldest child to live and work there for a year. However, unknown to the couple, when they were in Vietnam the requirements were altered in the Adoption Act 2010. A...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Inter-Country Adoptions (12 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: I thank the Minister. I am happy with her response and will await the response of the Adoption Authority.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Inter-Country Adoptions (12 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 5. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will review an application to the Adoption Authority of Ireland for the registration of a child adopted from Vietnam in October 2012 who is now registered and residing here (details supplied); if she will confirm that at the time of this adoption both Vietnam and Ireland had signed up to the Hague and a bilateral agreement that had...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Inter-Country Adoptions (12 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: I believe the Minister already is familiar with the details of this unusual case in which the parents of two children adopted in this country from Vietnam find themselves in legal limbo. During the adoption process, the couple in question did everything asked of them to comply with legal requirements. However, in the case of their second child, there was a change in legislation during the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Stocks (11 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 350. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to this Deputy's various recent questions and in view of the recent positive reports from Inland Fisheries Ireland, which has agreed that eel stocks in the Suir and Barrow rivers could sustain a commercial harvest (details supplied), if he will now reconsider the eel ban in the Waterford-New Ross district; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Anti-Social Behaviour (11 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 382. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm the number of antisocial behaviour officers currently employed in counties and cities here; the cost to his Department of same in the past year; the number of successful prosecutions that have been brought before the courts in each county as a result of antisocial behaviour complaints; and of those the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm for the months, November 2013, December 2013 and January 2014, the number of persons that were left waiting on trolleys for more than12 hours prior to being given a bed; the way these figures compare to the same months in the preceding year; his views on whether the Health Service Executive is providing a sufficient level of care to the...

Northern Ireland: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: I concur with Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin that tremendous progress has been made in Northern Ireland. I do not agree, however, with the derogatory remarks directed at political parties from those dredging and digging up the past for political gain or expediency. That is not the way forward. I have been in Northern Ireland on hundreds of occasions as a member of the Workers'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Forthcoming General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (5 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: I thank the Minister of State and offer him belated congratulations on his appointment. I have not had a chance to do so officially yet. He is doing a good job. I have visited Bosnia Herzegovina. What is the Minister of State's opinion? It is a decentralised country with three ethnic groups, ten federations and a large degree of political, economic and religious segregation. I found...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: What has this Government done to address inequality?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: Did the Labour Party not propose a wealth tax and a financial transactions tax?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: How did they accumulate that wealth? They did it on the backs of the poor.