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- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I agree with everything that has been said. I do not understand why we are reducing the 20% requirement under Part V at all. My interpretation of this measure is that it is being introduced to incentivise builders to build. We should be trying to get builders to be part of the community and to play a part in resolving the major housing crisis that confronts this country at present. I...
- Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (8 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I am really taken aback that it would take this route. I did not think it would countenance a reduction of even one percentage point in the 20% requirement. The Minister of State and everybody else knows that allowing builders to lease housing back to councils is not going to work. The builders out there tonight must be rubbing their hands together with glee because this will lead to more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I have been in Berlin with some colleagues meeting members of the German Parliament and Government. Does the ambassador think there should be a write-down or cancellation of the Greek debt, or, as some of us would prefer, that the debt should be parked to give Greece some time to organise its economy? Most of us believe that the Greek economy is a failed entity and has been failing for many...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: There is no question but that it is the case. However, we have to judge the quality of life of the people in a country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: There are massive issues and I have been the first to acknowledge that it was a failed economy, with terrible corruption. I am not a fan of Syriza by any stretch. I have met its members. I am making the point that it has been in government only since January. How unfair would it have been for us in opposition to say of our Government after four months in power that it was ruining the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Luxembourg's Presidency Priorities: Ambassador of Luxembourg to Ireland (8 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: The difficulty with TTIP initially related to the proprietary negotiations that took place. Some 96% of the people involved in those negotiations represented corporate bodies, and the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the Human Rights Committee in Europe, for instance, were excluded. Even in America, many democrats and almost all of the trade union movement - like the trade...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: What about childminders?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: Why are many lone parents-----
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: The Tánaiste is deluding herself.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: The Government is taking money off them.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: It certainly was.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: The Tánaiste reduced the age. She should be ashamed of herself.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: By taking money off the parents, is the Tánaiste making that better?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: Has the Tánaiste not met any lone parent who told her about this problem? We have.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: What about the parents?
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: Have working single parents' payments been reduced, or have they not? There will be a reduction of €1,000 in their incomes.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: The Tánaiste needs to answer the question. Are working single parents' payments down? A "Yes" or "No" answer will suffice.
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: It is a national problem.
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Instruction to Committee (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I would like to share time with Deputy Paul Murphy.
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Instruction to Committee (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I welcome the Bill, which I have read in detail. I am unhappy about the way the amendments have been presented to us here today. As has been previously said, it is not a proper way to do business in a democracy. I welcome the Bill, however. It has been said that low pay is endemic and entrenched in the Irish economy. Recent data from the OECD showed that the prevalence of low pay in...