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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (29 Sep 2015)

John Halligan: Aside from unemployment, would the Minister accept that mortgage arrears are the single biggest issue facing Irish homes today? He will be all too aware of the many people in long-term arrears on their homes. At the end of June, it was estimated that there were 38,000 mortgage accounts over two years behind in payments. This figure continues to grow as, I believe, will the number of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Mortgage Interest Rates (29 Sep 2015)

John Halligan: Despite the significantly lower cost of wholesale funding, not to mention the €20.8 billion we used to bail out the banks, there is no question in ordinary people's minds that the banks have been underwhelming, to say the least, in their response to this crisis. Of all the institutions I deal with, such as State institutions, the health service, credit unions or whatever, some of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Tourism Promotion (30 Sep 2015)

John Halligan: When Waterford's 147 km coastline was excluded from the Wild Atlantic Way initiative I then sought assurances from the Department that my constituency was not being left behind in what we all know is a highly competitive tourism market. In reply to a Priority Question last April, the Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Michael Ring, told me that the...

Topical Issue Debate: Tourism Promotion (30 Sep 2015)

John Halligan: Am I to take it that the Minister cannot give a commitment that we will obtain money for Ireland's Ancient East in the next tranche of funding? Some €10 million in State funding was given to the Viking triangle, which lies on the Ancient East trail. It is interesting that a couple of weeks later the Minister of State, Deputy Ring, suggested the capital would be invested in Youghal...

Social Housing Policy: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Sep 2015)

John Halligan: It is unbelievable to think that in 2015 the Simon Community would declare there to be, and use the terminology, "a humanitarian crisis in Ireland". If one heard that description in any other country, one would wonder what the hell was going on, were thousands of people dying or being imprisoned or tortured, but in a sense that is exactly what is going on. If one meets people on the housing...

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: He is spending the least amount of time-----

Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: Is there a five-point plan?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (6 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: 515. To ask the Minister for Health if he will acknowledge that the psychology and psychiatry departments in University Hospital Waterford are very seriously understaffed; the reason there has been no maternity cover for the psychology service in Tramore in County Waterford; his views that it is unacceptable to have vital positions remaining unfilled, or at least receiving maternity cover; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (6 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: 640. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to extend eligibility for the special rate of Student Universal Support Ireland grant to those applicants whose family income is below the threshold but who are not currently in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment; her views that where a family income is below a certain level the special rate should be awarded irrespective...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Fáilte Ireland Funding (6 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: 765. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding has been allocated to capital projects in County Waterford under the first phase of funding for the Ireland's Ancient East initiative; if County Waterford projects have received funding under the first stage of branded signage for all counties within the region; the number of applications that were received from interested...

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: HAP is a failure throughout the country

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: That is absolutely correct.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: I will support this measure but smoking is an addiction, which is always very difficult to deal with. I agree with my colleagues, who are on my right but on the Left, that price increases certainly affect those on low income or no income at all. It does not affect those who are addicted to cigarettes and can afford to buy them and it has been shown, time and again, that if a person is...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: Yesterday's budget - as per tradition - was delivered in two halves, the first by the Minister for Finance and the second by Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Since I have been in the Dáil and since the Government took office, it has been the tradition to introduce a range of measures that will cumulatively advance us even further towards an Irish society of two very distinct...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (20 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: 280. To ask the Minister for Finance further to previous parliamentary questions on the issue of the mis-selling of payment protection insurance policies, if he will confirm the current status of the investigation being held by the Central Bank of Ireland; the progress that has been made in the ongoing negotiations with small entities, including credit unions, which sold this insurance; the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (20 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: 485. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who are waiting for an appointment with the Waterford child and adolescent mental health services; the composition of the services team; if all the positions are covered; if the services are taking new referrals; the number of children who were admitted to adult mental health services in County Waterford in 2014 and in 2015 to date;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (20 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: 486. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals or re-referrals to the Waterford child and adolescent mental health services who were offered a first appointment and seen within three months in 2014 and in 2015 to date, in tabular form; the number who were waiting six months, nine months and 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36399/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (20 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: 487. To ask the Minister for Health the number of operations and procedures cancelled at University Hospital Waterford in the first six months of 2015; the number of these that were for inpatients and outpatients, respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36400/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (21 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to review the residency condition which must be satisfied by applicants for Student Universal Support Ireland grants with respect to Irish nationals returning home to Ireland after an extended period abroad; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36682/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Country-Specific Recommendations of the European Semester: Better Europe Alliance (21 Oct 2015)

John Halligan: I imagine there is a more detailed analysis than we have seen but I accept many of the points the report makes. I disagree with Deputy O'Reilly on the subject of primary care and help outside the hospital system, which is way below the European average. It is also hugely expensive and out of the reach of people who can otherwise go to an accident and emergency unit. It means very little to...