409 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the adverse effect the uncertainty regarding the potential closure of army barracks across the country is having on the soldiers who will be directly affected; if he will confirm the position in relation to these rumoured closures; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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3 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his strategy for job creation in County Waterford in view of the 575 job losses announced at the TalkTalk call centre in the city and almost 3,000 redundancies in the city in the past four years; if he will establish a dedicated task force to address Waterford’s local economy; the estimated time frame for the establishment of such a task force; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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3 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Health if he will provide funding for a national screening programme for prostate cancer involving a simple examination and a PSA blood test which a prostate cancer charity recently described as the first line of defence against the disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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236 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the fact that there is no notice given where jobseeker’s benefit is finishing and job seeker’s allowance needs to be applied for; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
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5 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the proposed cost per household per annum for these water charges; if he will define the free allowance per household; if there is to be a waiver system in place for those households struggling on low incomes, in receipt of social welfare payments and old age pensions; if he will provide information on the proposed creation of a semi-State owned water company called Irish Water; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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855 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in Waterford at present there are approximately 100 children and adolescents living with type 1 diabetes some of whom are receiving care in the local Waterford Regional Hospital but many of whom have the added disadvantage of having to travel to Dublin for treatment due to the lack of sufficient resources within the local Waterford paediatric team; his plans to provide additional resources to the local Waterford paediatric team.
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854 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Health the number of acute hospital beds in Waterford Regional Hospital; if any of these aforementioned acute hospital beds are closed at present and unavailable; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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853 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Health if he will stand by the promise that he has made in relation to prescription levies being removed; when these levies will be removed.
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608 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the waiting period for persons applying for free legal aid; if his further attention has been drawn to some instances people are waiting between four to five months to be provided with public representation; his plans to rectify this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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265 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will make a statement in relation to the recent announcement by a company (details supplied) that it is to move 130 jobs, currently engaged in providing customer care services, to off-shore locations within the company group to Egypt and India; his views on allowing this company to relocate these jobs out of Ireland would make a mockery of his jobs initiative.
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724 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the proposed increases in fares to be implemented by Bus Éireann and Iarnród Éireann; his further views on whether increases such as these would be inappropriate in the current financial climate particularly given that the public should be encouraged to avail of public transport.
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628 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Health the proposals he will put in place to expedite the time frame associated with the processing of medical card applications; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some instances applicants are waiting for up to four months for assessments to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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156 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he has decided to implement a reduction in the mature student grant and to do so retrospectively; his views on whether this will have a devastating effect on many mature students who, upon enrolling in full-time education for an agreed term, had budgeted the then available grant into their daily lives and who will now find themselves in a position in which they can no longer continue under this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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547 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Health if his attention has bean drawn to the fact that many of the products which were being previously sold in head shops are now widely available to anybody online and are being purchased openly; the action being taken to curtail the availability of these products; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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97 Deputy John Halligan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made or intends to make an official statement regarding the recent unlawful killing of 15 Syrian citizens who were peacefully protesting in the towns of Homs and Kiswa south of Damascus; and if he will ask the Syrian Government to enter into negotiations with Syrian pro-democracy groups whose main aim is to bring Syria to a democracy status.
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3 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will introduce legislation to compel all employers to recognise the right of the trade unions to negotiate on behalf of their members and the right for all individual employees to join a trade union.
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Bill entitled an Act to provide protection from civil liability or penalisation to employees who make certain protected disclosures in relation to the affairs of their employers and to provide for related matters
2 Deputy John Halligan asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs when he intends to formally declare recognition of a fully sovereign Palestinian state, as previously indicated; the representations he has made at EU level to secure the Palestinian people’s right to real democracy; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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141 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Finance if he will compel those banks that are now in State ownership to repay the payment protection insurance which they wrongly sold alongside personal loans, credit cards and mortgages to all those persons who are self-employed, unemployed, seasonal workers or unable to work due to illness; if he will order the banks to conduct a cost analysis into the amount this payout is going to cost the taxpayer; the time frame for the completion of this analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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38 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Social Protection the specific cuts to child benefits, disability allowances and other social welfare payments signalled in the draft deal with the EU-IMF and in view of the latest research which indicates that 620,000 persons or 14.1% of the population are already at risk of poverty and the expert belief that this figure would be much higher if it were not for social welfare payments; and the way she will implement further cuts while simultaneously attaining the target set out in the current national agreement Towards 2016 of eliminating consistent poverty by 2016.
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3 Deputy John Halligan asked the Minister for Education and Skills if the promise in the programme for Government to explore a multi-campus technical university in the south east means that full university status will not be delivered; and when progress will be made in this regard
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