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- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply (25 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: 270. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the percentage of lead piping within residential properties situated in Waterford city and county; if it will be part of the metering contract to replace any existing lead piping, particularly where the property is owned by the local authority; where it is acknowledged by the local authority that lead piping is in...
- Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: The Bill, essentially, applies to the professions of optometrist and radiographer. I take this opportunity to raise an issue which is critically worrying in University Hospital Waterford. The former Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, to great fanfare early in the year, officially visited the hospital to launch the €1.75 million new CT scanner and now the scanner, which patient...
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: A number of commitments have been made by both Fine Gael and Labour in regard to the excessive alcohol abuse in this country. A number of analyses by various groups in Ireland have come to the fore in recent months indicating that we are apparently at critical levels compared to Europe.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: The promised legislation I am referring to is the alcohol pricing Bill. Does the Taoiseach accept we need a constructive debate in this House on what has been happening to Irish youth, the effect this is having on the economy and the effect on the health of the nation?
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: We are now beginning to move ahead of other European countries, such as the Nordic countries, with regard to how alcohol is affecting our youth in Ireland. It is now three and a half years since the Government came in-----
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: -----and a critical issue like this has still not been discussed in the Dáil.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: That is the direct opposite of what the Ceann Comhairle told us last year.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: We have a recording of it.
- Order of Business (17 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: The Chair did not have the courtesy to tell us that in the first place.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Sep 2014)
John Halligan: It is already on the application form sent out to people.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: Exactly.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: So the Tánaiste will not agree to a new referendum.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: Tell that to the Israeli ambassador.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: The Government should bring in the Israeli ambassador.
- Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment and wish him well. Last week, international media, particularly in the United States, watched in bewilderment as the possibility emerged of emergency legislation being drafted in this country to allow five Garth Brooks concerts to proceed in Croke Park. The singer was apparently up in arms that 400,000 ticket holders are going to be...
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: He deserves to have his name mentioned.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: The Deputy should support the Greyhound workers.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: Support the workers.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: The Labour Party does not support workers any more.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2014)
John Halligan: The Labour Party got its answer from the workers in the local elections throughout the country.