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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: 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...

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]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Industry (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the fact that it is ten years since the publication of the last tourism policy document, New Horizons, if he will develop a new policy; if so, if he will provide details of the way he intends to do so; if he will refer specifically to new policy objectives for the British market; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Safety (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his efforts to improve safety at sea; the consultations that he has had with the Department of Agriculture and Marine in this area; the consultations he has had with his Ministerial counterparts in Stormont and at Westminster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8382/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Regulations (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the envisaged impact of the public procurement process on the school supply sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8803/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the supports that are provided to carers who do not live in the home of the persons for whom they care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8169/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Student Support Schemes (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the supports that are available to Irish students who completed leaving certificate examinations in 2012 and who are studying a course (details supplied) at the Northwest Regional College in Derry City. [8100/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Merchandising of Coal (19 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will provide an update on changes in the merchandising of all coals from 1 May 2013; the way these changes will impact on different merchants with different sized turnover and different distribution methodologies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8267/13]

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 the date on which Lough Foyle was first designated as coastal waters for the purposes of the EC Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive; and the guidelines that were used at that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8833/13]

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 identification of the outer limits of estuaries in Ireland as a subject of a report by the Environmental Protection Agency to his Department in 1995 in which the UK guidelines were accepted in defining Lough Foyle as coastal waters, and with reference to the UK's sea classification for the Severn and...

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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Accident and Emergency Services (14 Feb 2013)

Joe McHugh: To ask the Minister for Health the actions taken to tackle overcrowding and the use of trolleys in the accident and emergency department in Letterkenny Hospital, County Donegal; the impact of these measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7566/13]