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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]

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]

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 (1 May 2013)

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

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2013)

John Halligan: Disgraceful.

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 (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 (25 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: The results of several surveys released in recent weeks strongly indicate that the Irish consumer is still paying a premium for groceries compared with consumers in other EU countries. Supermarket chains across the country have refused to disclose their profit margins. The rumour that Tesco dubs this country "Treasure Island" is well known. Although families are struggling to cope with the...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: Will the Tánaiste investigate the possibility of holding talks with the major retail chains to introduce a price freeze on household staples until the economy has turned around? The Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, was able to do it in the 1990s with a price freeze on drink. Surely we are capable of meeting those chains and asking them to...

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 (24 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: He is unable to speak because of the interruptions.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Missing Children (24 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: 226. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs in relation to the European Wide Missing Children's Hotline 116000, if the proposed move of the missing children's hotline from a pilot basis to a full time 24/7 operational basis will take place as planned in May 2013; if her Department has any plans to make funding available for the national promotion and advertisement of this hotline;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: 266. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent posts currently filled at Waterford Regional Hospital; the number of these whole time equivalent posts filled at Waterford Regional Hospial at the end of 2010, 2011 and 2012; the current approved employment ceiling in Waterford Regional Hospital; if it is due to be increased in the near future; and if he will make a...