Results 581-600 of 3,895 for speaker:John Halligan
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: The Deputy is insulting carers.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: I wish to make a suggestion related to the issue of arrears. In my constituency, if people get into arrears with Waterford City Council, after a few weeks they are obliged to go the Money Advice and Budgeting Service, MABS, which stops arrears from building up over a long period. Perhaps the Minister could place such an obligation on those who run into difficulties. I understand that there...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (12 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: The banks have a veto.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: Some of us were not allowed to vote on it.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: They take a long time to get money from tax defaulters.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: My sister is a carer. She cared for my mother for seven years and has been taking care of my father for eight years. Unfortunately - or fortunately for us - most of my family work and are unable to help her out, but we know she works 24 hours a day because my father needs that level of care. In light of the work she does and the hours she puts in, I have often thought that if she worked...
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: Will the Ceann Comhairle put the section to a vote? We want to vote on it now.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: We have heard all of this already. Show us some decency and let us vote on the section. The Minister said all of this last night and is saying it all again now.
- Social Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: The Minister is using up the time allocated for this debate.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbours and Piers (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 521 and 522 of 4 December 2012, when a decision will be made in relation the potential inclusion of Dunmore East Harbour, County Waterford, under the 2013 Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Capital Development Programme; if he will confirm where Dunmore East Harbour sits in relation to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbours and Piers (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: Twenty-five years ago, up to 50 fishing boats worked out of Dunmore East employing hundreds of fishermen, with hundreds more employed in fish-processing plants around the harbour. Over the past decade, however, this long-established fishing industry has been under threat from restrictions designed to protect stocks. The local fishermen's co-operative is struggling enormously with EU fish...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbours and Piers (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: Will the Minister reconsider dredging the harbour there? Although he has acknowledged in the past that dredging works in Dunmore East are a priority, it is not possible to wait another five years for this to happen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbours and Piers (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: The harbour has a turnover of €10 million and we are asking for a €4 million investment which could increase that turnover and, in turn, bring more money into the Exchequer.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbours and Piers (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 521 and 522 of 4 December 2012, when a decision will be made in relation the potential inclusion of Dunmore East Harbour, County Waterford, under the 2013 Fishery Harbour and Coastal Infrastructure Capital Development Programme; if he will confirm where Dunmore East Harbour sits in relation to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbours and Piers (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: Twenty-five years ago, up to 50 fishing boats worked out of Dunmore East employing hundreds of fishermen, with hundreds more employed in fish-processing plants around the harbour. Over the past decade, however, this long-established fishing industry has been under threat from restrictions designed to protect stocks. The local fishermen's co-operative is struggling enormously with EU fish...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbours and Piers (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: Will the Minister reconsider dredging the harbour there? Although he has acknowledged in the past that dredging works in Dunmore East are a priority, it is not possible to wait another five years for this to happen.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Harbours and Piers (13 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: The harbour has a turnover of €10 million and we are asking for a €4 million investment which could increase that turnover and, in turn, bring more money into the Exchequer.
- Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: I move:That Dáil Éireann: recognises:— the vital contribution carers make to the economic and social life of the nation, and further acknowledges this by providing them with adequate income supports; — that carers are real and equal partners in the provision of care at every level of public sector planning and service delivery, from designing a service to individual...
- Private Members' Business - Care Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (19 Dec 2012)
John Halligan: I thank my colleagues in the Technical Group for their valuable contributions and, indeed, all those who have contributed to the debate over the past two days. The opening lines of the motion state: "That Dáil Éireann recognises the vital contribution carers make to the economic and social life of the nation ... that carers are real and equal partners in the provision of care at...