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Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: I apologise. We are actually believing them when they say they did not know what it meant.

Establishment of Independent Anti-Corruption Agency: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: Exactly. If some poor old age pensioner fills out a form incorrectly, it is sent back. He or she might not get his or her medical card or pension. We are tolerating those who claim as a last resort that they really did not know what they were filling out, or what they should have filled out. Is this what we have come to in this country? Are we now allowing some people to subvert...

Dying with Dignity Bill 2015: First Stage (15 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make provision for assistance in achieving a dignified and peaceful end of life to qualifying persons and related matters. This Bill proposes to introduce legislation recognising the right of clearly consenting adults who are enduring intolerable physical suffering to seek medical help to end their lives. It was inspired by...

Dying with Dignity Bill 2015: First Stage (15 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: Since a court in Northern Ireland ruled that a near-total ban on abortion there is in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights concerning women who are pregnant with fatal foetal abnormalities or pregnant as the result of sexual crime - that is, rape - a number of highly courageous women have come forward and publicly told their heart-breaking stories. These involve having to travel...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: On 29 November, a 32 year old woman called Anna Marie left Waterford, driving alone to Dublin and then flying to London. There she was picked up by a mini-bus with eight other women in the vehicle. She told me that the eight others were all aged 17 to 19, some of whom were vomiting and weeping. She said that what frightened her most was the silence on that mini-bus as they were taken to...

Leaders' Questions (16 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: They are without family, friends or partners. Knowing that we have exported this problem over to England, I think it is inhuman. I would ask the Taoiseach to reconsider this position, particularly concerning people with fatal foetal abnormalities, or women who have been violently sexually assaulted and raped. This is an issue of compassion. We cannot continue to be inhuman in dealing with...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: This is serious issue.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: It is not if we support the American war machine.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: They do.

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

John Halligan: We do not know what atrocities some of those Americans carried out in Iraq having flown through Shannon Airport.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (13 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: 670. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 3 of 22 October 2015, if he will confirm that the planning application has been submitted; and if so, the proposed starting date of this project. [1283/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: 775. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the allocation of secondary school places and the relationship schools have with their feeder schools, particularly in relation to a school (details supplied) County Waterford; if the system used by schools is fair and equitable; if schools are obliged to follow recommendations from her Department or if they are within their...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: I move:“That Dáil Éireann has no confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection.” I wish to share time with Deputies McGrath, Murphy and Healy, and there might be another Deputy Murphy.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: It does not give me any pleasure to put forward a motion of no confidence in any Minister or Member of the House - it is not what I am about. I speak regularly to Deputy Burton and she is very courteous to me, as I am to her. There is no animosity between the Tánaiste and myself. However, when they listen to what I have to say and to why I am angry and upset, many people may...

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: I apologise as I should have indicated that Deputy Catherine Murphy would speak.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: The Unite union did it.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: It was the Unite union that solved the problem at Waterford Glass, not David Begg. The Unite union fought in Europe and fought in Ireland.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: I did not criticise David Begg. I made no comment on what he did.

Confidence in Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2016)

John Halligan: I never criticised David Begg. I criticised the way he was appointed.