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Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2013)

John Halligan: It does not require constant monitoring; rather, it requires immediate action. I do not believe for one moment that the Taoiseach would accept that children should go to school hungry. I do not think he is that type of person and know that he knows that this is the case. We are maintaining levels of support for schools, but the problem is that there are more and more children going to...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

John Halligan: My first question to the Minister is whether the Bill will prevent a Minister for Health from accelerating projects in specific areas without due consideration for due process. If many of us received copperfastened guarantees that this would be the case, it might be worthy, but somehow I doubt this will be the case. I was a city councillor in Waterford when the HSE's predecessors, the...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

John Halligan: They are a waste of space. I was on one and the Deputy served very well on them. Was he not chairperson at one stage?

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

John Halligan: Maybe he should have been.

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Jan 2013)

John Halligan: I thank the Deputy. I recall the times when maybe 50 or 60 councillors would turn up, and the staff from the HSE. The councillors got their travelling expenses. Everything was crammed into a two-hour meeting during which nothing could be achieved. If ever there was a waste of money, time and procedures, it is the health forums. The Minister should really examine them. If they were...

Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2013)

John Halligan: The refusal rate is 64%.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Other Questions: Energy Schemes (31 Jan 2013)

John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to roll out a large scale national pay-as-you-save retrofit programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4600/13]

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: Over a period of two years, 1,560 small businesses went to the wall. Many of them say their biggest problems were rent and rates. After that came car parks and overhead costs. I have spoken to small business owners in my own constituency. Even on the outskirts of the city they are paying the same rent per metre as the big stores in the centre of the city. I spoke to the owner of a small...

Other Questions: Commercial Rates Calculations (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: If the Minister gave us a little extra.

Other Questions: Property Taxation (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that local authorities will be liable for the property tax with regards to their housing stock, the way he intends local authorities to deal with this; if he will be or has already issued any communication to local authorities in this regard; and his views on whether council tenants should be asked to pay...

Other Questions: Property Taxation (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: I will be as brief as I can. There are a number of Deputies who want to contribute. There is confusion and concern here. The confusion is that, although I am opposed to household charges of any form, when the household charge and the property tax were introduced, the indications were that these would not be placed upon those living in local authority houses. The concern is that this may...

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: Many were brought in forcibly by the State.

Promissory Notes: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: The promissory notes were not, as has often been portrayed, the rock to which Ireland clung in its hour of need. On the contrary, the entire eurozone benefited in some way through some financial stability, yet Ireland pays 42% of the total cost of the European banking crisis. If the burden had been shared equally throughout the eurozone it is estimated the amount owed by Ireland would...

Promissory Notes: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: Let us cut to the chase. Passing the bank debt on to our grandchildren is not a solution no matter how one dresses it up. Any such deal would be pitiful and a humiliating outcome for the Irish people. This moral and unjust imposition of private bank debt on the country and its resources, citizens and future cannot continue and we need to give the Irish people back their dignity. A group...

Promissory Notes: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: It is unjustifiable.

Promissory Notes: Motion [Private Members] (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: There is no record of any of us-----

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will review the situation that many councils across the country are reliant on parking charges to run basic services which results in high parking charges which are one of the main contributors to the difficulties that are being experienced by retailers in town centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Energy Rating Compliance (5 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he intends to ensure compliance with the legal requirement that all existing buildings let or sold after 1 January 09 have to have a BER rating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4599/13]

Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: Sorrow is not enough. The Taoiseach should accept the responsibility of the State.

Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: Deputy Donohoe is the only one mentioning Argentina.