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Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

John Halligan: They are not elected by the people. We are; we are elected.

Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

John Halligan: That is all talk.

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: The vast majority of the opposition over the past few months to the introduction of water charges is based on the fact that it is a new tax that is unfair and regressive. In my view, it will impose a greater burden on the poor than on the wealthy. The fact that Irish Water will be allowed to increase prices every year - the company has not said it will not do it - not to mention the fact...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation to outline the number of jobs created by IDA Ireland in County Waterford in 2013; the net increase or decrease in the number of jobs created in 2012; if he considers this figure to reflect a success under the target set out in the Horizon 2020 document for regional development, which aims for 50% of all jobs created through the IDA's...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: Waterford is one of the worst affected areas in the country for unemployment, a fact that has been acknowledged by the Government on several occasions. The latest live figures show that there are now almost 24,000 people unemployed in the city and county out of 52,000 unemployed in the entire south-east region. Since 2008 some 2,441 IDA Ireland jobs have been lost in Waterford and only 581...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: The IDA Horizon 2020 project was published in March 2010. It aims to have 50% of new jobs based in locations outside Dublin and Cork. Will the Minister admit that this plan has since been quietly shelved? Research at NUI Maynooth has found that many of the 82% of jobs created here by overseas firms in recent years have been centred around Dublin, Cork and Galway. Surely the obvious way to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: I do not direct my criticism directly at the Minister. The Minister has a difficult situation and I recognise that it is remarkably difficult for him. My criticism is directed primarily at IDA. We are told by IDA that it cannot direct companies to locate in any particular region. Surely the logical thing to do would be to examine why companies are not locating in places such as Waterford...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Expenditure (28 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: 685. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 219 of 5 December 2013, the exact breakdown of where the funds collected from the parking facilities in Waterford Regional Hospital were allocated; if any of the funds in question were used to top-up any salaries or any executives associated with the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3621/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: City of Culture Initiative (29 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: 5. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current selection process or nomination process involved in the selection of Ireland's city of culture; if he will consider granting Waterford the status of the next city of culture; the formal representations Waterford city would need to make to his Department in this regard; if he or his Department has thus far given any...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: City of Culture Initiative (29 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: The Minister specified community involvement and the bottom-up approach, which is central to the application process. Does it not account for a proportion of the cuts in the arts in every city and town in Ireland? An example is that over the past five years there has been a nationwide cull of funding to regional theatre companies. There is a widespread perception that funding to smaller...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: City of Culture Initiative (29 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: The Minister agreed that the city selected in 2018 will have to seek matching funding from the private sector. Given the current economic climate, it is crucial that time is allocated to the city. The Minister has confirmed that the decision will be reached on the selection soon. I congratulate the Minister on the huge effort for what happened in Limerick. I ask him to consider cities...

Topical Issue Debate: Rape Crisis Network Funding (29 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: Sexual violence remains one of the most under-reported and under-recorded violent crimes in this country. It is notoriously difficult to evaluate the levels of the sexual crime and I, the Rape Crisis Network Ireland and other women's organisations would suggest the available figures only represent the tip of the iceberg. Ireland is still out of step with international standards and badly...

Topical Issue Debate: Rape Crisis Network Funding (29 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: I concur with everything said by my comrade, Deputy Pringle. The rape of a women violates her human rights and dignity. It always has catastrophic effects on the quality of life of the woman who has been violently assaulted, because the violence is not only sexual but can sometimes be extreme and inflict personal and physical damage to the woman. I met some rape victims in the Dáil...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Appointments to State Boards (29 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: 91. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his plans to appoint a new chairman to the Arts Council; considering the vast investment that individual local authorities make to the arts in their respective local areas from their annual budget which in most cases is way in excess of the sum they receive from the Arts Council itself and further considering that these local...

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: What has this Government done to address inequality?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: Did the Labour Party not propose a wealth tax and a financial transactions tax?

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: How did they accumulate that wealth? They did it on the backs of the poor.

Leaders' Questions (30 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: We have not even been told what that allowance will be.

Northern Ireland: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: I concur with Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin that tremendous progress has been made in Northern Ireland. I do not agree, however, with the derogatory remarks directed at political parties from those dredging and digging up the past for political gain or expediency. That is not the way forward. I have been in Northern Ireland on hundreds of occasions as a member of the Workers'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Forthcoming General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (5 Feb 2014)

John Halligan: I thank the Minister of State and offer him belated congratulations on his appointment. I have not had a chance to do so officially yet. He is doing a good job. I have visited Bosnia Herzegovina. What is the Minister of State's opinion? It is a decentralised country with three ethnic groups, ten federations and a large degree of political, economic and religious segregation. I found...