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- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: The imposition of the charge is relevant.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: We are giving an opinion on the matters that have been raised.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: If there is a difference of opinion on a matter that has been raised are we not entitled to make an observation or ask for clarification?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: If there is a difference of opinion on a matter that was raised we are entitled to debate that. Are we not entitled to ask for clarification on it?
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: I would like to begin by agreeing with Deputy Paul Murphy, who referred to people who threatened him or some people he knows as "thugs". I would call those people "thugs". Regardless of what people think of Deputy Murphy, I remind the House that some choice words have been used against him without those words being ruled out of order. I do not suggest that the current Chairman was in the...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: I am reminded of what happened when an attempt was made to introduce water rates some years ago. I would describe those who were involved at the time in forcibly cutting off water supplies, threatening and abusing people and passing sexual remarks against women as thugs. I would not withdraw that remark. We are in the dying hours of this debate. The section of the Bill we are discussing...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: If they killed innocent people in another country we would call them thugs.
- Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: Is the Minister sure it is Ireland he is talking about?
- Confidence in Taoiseach and Government: Motion (9 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: As the Taoiseach knows, I come from the Waterford constituency which has one of the highest levels of unemployment and lowest levels of investment. It has suffered severe job losses in recent years. In proportion to cities of the same size, Waterford has lost more SMEs than anywhere else. I run 13 advice centres and I have two offices in Waterford. People from all walks of life seek...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: We have been told the key principles of the Bill are certainty, simplicity and affordability. There is no doubt in my mind and in the minds of many people that this is spin the Government has put on the latest attempt to quell public anger about the Irish Water fiasco. The Government's announcement has failed to address the key complaint of thousands of water protestors about whether every...
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: He had no choice.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (4 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of funding which was allocated to Waterford Council for the year 2014 regarding roads; the portion of this allocation that was spent on resurfacing; his views that the council's current process of spot fixing potholes is not the most economical way to allocate funds and is not solving the problem; if the allocation for 2015...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: Am I correct in assuming that it is at the discretion of the Garda, if it felt there was something untoward going on in a plane or it was carrying something it should not carry, to search the plane, or would the Garda need a request from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to do that? If the gardaí in Shannon Airport suspected that a plane was not carrying personal arms, could...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: Have gardaí searched any plane?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: I know that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: The Chairman spoke about how we would define neutrality. My definition is that if two countries are at war, we decide we will not participate in the war and have no part in it. Would Mr. Burgess agree this is a definition of neutrality? If Ireland decided not to participate in a particular conflict or support any country involved, one would have to define this as being neutral. In the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: While I accept this, I again state that in cases of two countries being in conflict or at war other countries have clearly stated, without writing a script on it, they will not participate in the conflict but will stay neutral. If two families in my housing estate were at war or in conflict with one another and members of one of the families came into my house, which was in the middle, and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: Ms Phelan mentioned explosives, so we agreed to some form of explosives.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)
John Halligan: Explosives.