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- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she and her Department are taking to address the delays in processing rent allowance applications; if there are staffing issues here that could be resolved; her views that delays of this magnitude are placing undue hardship on families waiting for approval; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17575/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the medical assessment criteria differs for certain applications within her Department; particularly in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17574/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Applications (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to review the family income supplement renewal process (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17576/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 81. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to revise the criteria associated with applications for jobseeker's assistance where the applicant has been self-employed; the current application process sees such applications fully means tested with no automatic entitlement to a set period of payment unlike applications from their PAYE counterparts; if she will confirm if she has...
- White Paper on Universal Health Insurance: Statements (Resumed) (17 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: The Government will get no argument from me that the existing health service is undoubtedly unfair and penalises those on low incomes. However, jumping into a new system of short waiting lists where everyone is treated the same at no extra cost is a utopian proposal at a time of cruel blanket cuts. I have a feeling that there are huge doubts on both sides of the House about whether this...
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: It was able to get money for bankers and bondholders.
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: I came with a prepared script with statistics, but I do not see the point in reading it because I have been looking at the Minister of State since we introduced the motion and all she has done is read something else. She is not paying any attention.
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: I spent the last two weeks canvassing in my constituency for certain people who I hope will be elected, and people's feelings about the Government's arrogance are coming across on the doorsteps. The Government does not care and is not listening or paying attention.
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: As we discuss the important issue of housing, there is one Government Member sitting across from us, and nobody from the Labour Party. I hope the media takes that into account. When everybody here is out canvassing tomorrow, they should tell the 90,000 people and their families and friends that the response they got to a motion on a subject as important as housing was that one Government...
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: It is arrogance beyond belief. It is contemptuous. It is arrogance personified. It is appalling. When I was mayor of Waterford three years ago, a young couple whom I have known since they were 15 years old came in to me and said they had lost their house. The week before that they had sold their television and a few weeks before that they had sold their car to try to keep their house....
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: It is a disgrace. I should not have bothered to come here and speak. The way the Minister of State treated people here was a disgrace. She was not paying any attention.
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: There are community employment and Tús schemes. That is not getting unemployment down.
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: You do not care. Look at the state of the country. Look at the unemployment.
- Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: I did not mean the Minister of State personally; I meant "you" as a government. It was not personal.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
John Halligan: It is disgraceful.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
John Halligan: That is outrageous. It is scandalous.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
John Halligan: It is not true.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
John Halligan: It has been done before.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
John Halligan: It is done regularly.
- Housing Provision: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 May 2014)
John Halligan: We should get a ruling on that.