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- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: I was contacted in recent days by the owner of a well-known equestrian centre in the south east, Stonehaven. It had run into arrears of €3,000 on a bank loan following a downturn in business. The lady had successfully paid more than two thirds of her repayments last year and continued to make regular, albeit reduced payments, on the loan. However, last week a tractor –...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: They have not taken any hit. Will the Government bring forward legislation to force executives of the bailed-out banks to take a cut in their Rolls Royce retirement schemes? If the Government were to do that the entire country would support it. The Government has repeatedly pointed to the constitutional barriers to the reduction of top-level pensions. Will the Government investigate...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The Government is not listening to what people are saying or it believes the banks.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: Somewhere along the line something has gone wrong when a business could be put to the wall by a bank because of arrears of €3,000 and 15 jobs could be put in jeopardy.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The banks have busted this country.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The Minister suggested that I must be joking. It is not a joke. I deal with people on a daily basis whose lives have being destroyed-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: -----by the banks. Families and businesses are affected. People have taken their lives because of the banks. The Minister completely avoided the question I asked. I expect that everyone in the House would agree with my call - even members of the Labour Party - for legislation to deal once and for all with how the banks are treating this Parliament with contempt. Will the Government put...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The banks are walking all over the Government.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: They are walking all over everybody. A girl called to my office this morning at 8 a.m.-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The bank are trying to take her house from her. I am upset because of the cases I am hearing about every day.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The banks are walking all over us. Enough is enough.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any full report in relation to the review of the configuration of services in the Health Service Executive Dublin south/Wicklow area comprising St Vincent's University Hospital, St Michael's Hospital and St Columcille's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14349/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Smaller Hospitals Framework (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Health when the Framework on Smaller Hospitals Report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14351/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider placing an upper limit cap on the amount charged when a patient is in receipt of a number of prescriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13885/13]
- Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: I thank Deputy Finian McGrath for bringing this important issue before the Dáil. I concur with what Deputy Seamus Healy said about Slí Eile in Clonmel. The anger of people in the south east at the closing of this facility is unbelievable. Last week, I took part in a radio show with some of the workforce of Slí Eile. More than 1,700 calls came into the radio station from...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: I was contacted by a lady in recent days who told me how utterly humiliated she felt when she heard the details of the new personal insolvency service guidelines published in last weekend's press. The lady and her husband have both taken a massive drop in salary in recent years and, on foot of this, were forced to restructure their mortgage. So-called luxuries such as Sky TV, health...
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: Will the family pet be considered one mouth too many to feed?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: Where will it stop? Have we reached the point where the banks that caused residential property hyper-inflation - the banks which are now handing out pensions of €100,000 to 165 personnel - are being given the green light to pillage homes?
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: Developers have said how understanding NAMA is of their plight.