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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: May I finish by saying this? I will be brief. We have to be very careful when Dáil Éireann votes on something that it is the democratic view of the Irish people. It is the democratic view of the Irish people to elect those who make the call in Dáil Éireann. One can say that 56% of people do not want to pay their water rates, yet those charges have been introduced. I...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I want to make a couple of quick points.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Shannon Airport Landings: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I want to return to the grey area between peacekeeping and peace enforcement and the difference between the two, which seems to be an issue across the world. If Irish soldiers are protecting a refugee camp and it is attacked, should they open fire, essentially taking military action against the country? Although in nine out of ten situations it is peacekeeping rather than peace enforcement,...
- Events at Ballymurphy in 1971 and Legacy Issues: Motion (15 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: This is an important motion and one would hope, given the overwhelming cross-party support and proposals, that the British Government would acknowledge the solidarity of this Parliament by reconsidering calls for an independent panel of inquiry into the events in Ballymurphy in August 1971 and their aftermath. The Ballymurphy massacre is one of many unresolved legacy issues that need to be...
- Social Services and Support: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: Ireland currently has a ratio of six people to every older person. By 2045, that ratio will be three to one. To give just one example of life-changing conditions that affect the elderly, the number of dementia sufferers in Ireland is expected to almost triple to 140,000 in the next 25 years. Instead of putting into practice current policy, which according to the public service reform...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: At 21.8% or 22%, low pay is entrenched in Ireland's economy. It is reasonable to ask for monitoring by the Low Pay Commission. ICTU stated that any legislation had to include provisions that ensured that employees could not be frustrated in their attempts to improve working conditions, but the commission must go further. If low pay is so entrenched in our society as to make us only second...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I seek clarification on amendment No. 10 with regard to youth and apprentice categories. Did I hear the Minister of State say the recommendation is 70% to people under 18 years of age?
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I understand that, but will the Minister of State clarify that we are stating people under 18 years of age will get 70% of the minimum wage? Is that what he said?
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: The Minister of State does not see it as a recommendation.
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: Could we remove this section? It indicates that people under 18 years of age could be exploited in the sense they do not have to receive the full minimum wage and can get 70% of it. Why have it in if it is not what is recommended?
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I subscribe to everything that Deputies Richard Boyd Barrett and Paul Murphy had to say in regard to amendment No. 7. What we have been speaking for the past half hour in the context of the amendment is the remit of the Low Pay Commission. This is not all about low pay or the minimum wage, rather it is about a living wage. Many examples have been given. It should be within the remit of...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: One meets many people on the minimum wage or earning below a living wage or people employed in the black market who are not even paid the minimum wage. That is a breach of their human rights. That is acknowledged in the European Court of Human Rights. It is acknowledged across Europe that people have a right to earn a reasonable wage. This is an interesting proposal and there is no reason...
- National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: I support the amendment. The problem is that we know that some people, even today, are not even getting the minimum wage. The Rhatigan workers, for example, were paid €5 per hour. I agree that this must be broadened to include introducing comprehensive legislation regarding the minimum wage, in the first place, and we must go further than low pay and towards a liveable wage. The...
- 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...
- Leaders' Questions (9 Jul 2015)
John Halligan: It is a national problem.
- 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: What about the parents?