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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: According to figures from the Department of Social Protection which I received during the week, men make up 74% of those who take up the Tús scheme and 65% of the total Tús cohort falls within the 25 to 49 age bracket. That age and gender profile would suggest that in a significant number of cases a Tús worker is also the main breadwinner in a family. That is the argument...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 3. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the rationale behind taxing income gained through employment on Tús programmes (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17796/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: Will the Minister explain the rationale behind taxing income gain through the employment Tús programmes? I understand that income over €350 is taxed at 4%. I draw the Minister's attention to the details I have attached to my question. I gave the Minister an example of a chap who was taxed €15.70 on his €20 which meant he received 22 cent per hour for the 19.5 hours...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Applications (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 25. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps she and her Department are taking to address the delays in processing rent allowance applications; if there are staffing issues here that could be resolved; her views that delays of this magnitude are placing undue hardship on families waiting for approval; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17575/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 27. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the way the medical assessment criteria differs for certain applications within her Department; particularly in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17574/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Family Income Supplement Applications (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 35. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to review the family income supplement renewal process (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17576/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: 81. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to revise the criteria associated with applications for jobseeker's assistance where the applicant has been self-employed; the current application process sees such applications fully means tested with no automatic entitlement to a set period of payment unlike applications from their PAYE counterparts; if she will confirm if she has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of EU Citizens: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: We need to bring the French in to discuss this because they established the reserved constituency to avoid swamping. I am not sure how that works.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of EU Citizens: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: I believe citizens should have a vote in all elections in the country. If I did not mention that, I apologise.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of EU Citizens: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: There is no question about that. However, we have to start on the premise that we are wrongfully disenfranchising our citizens, as Europe has told us. I agree that we need to include the greater diaspora. We cannot just give the vote to Irish citizens in Europe while excluding those in America and Australia.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of EU Citizens: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: No, I did not say that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of EU Citizens: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: First, there is no question but that all of us accept it is a complex issue by virtue of the fact that we have the largest diaspora in the world relative to the population in Ireland. It is in the region of 40 million to 70 million if one is to include everybody who left Ireland. A couple of issues arise. One is that we should be careful how we decide to define an Irish citizen. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of EU Citizens: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: I wish to make it clear before I begin that while I was nominated by the Technical Group I do not necessarily represent the views of its members by virtue of its composition. More than 120 of the 196 nations in the world have enfranchised their citizens who live abroad. Many of the nations which deny the vote are either military dictatorships or given to elections that are neither fair nor...
- Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: I do not have much time but I will say what I can. What is required is a reasoned and truthful debate. Let us remember the so-called debate EirGrid had with many hundreds of thousands of people in its effort to half-con people over pylons. There was very little consultation. As a matter of fact, it was awful. I welcome the Bill. As it states, it is an attempt to impose proper...
- Wind Turbine Regulation Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: I do not know whether they had. They said they would have no problem with exporting energy once we became self-sufficient in energy. That is a reasonable aspect of the Bill and I do not have a problem with it. There are pros and cons to wind energy and we should wise up to that in the debate. Wind energy is green energy and there is potential for enormous power from wind, 20 times more...
- Leaders' Questions (8 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: They are not happy.
- Current Crisis in Ukraine: Motion (3 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: I am deeply disturbed by the tenor of the motion which is completely unbalanced. While one might reject the validity of the referendum in the Crimea, it should be recalled the Crimea was given to the Ukrainians in the 1950s without the consent of the people of the Crimea. Many of the latter still consider themselves to be Russian. My problem with the motion is that it is completely...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: When the Government was in opposition, it called for an investigation into some of these cases. What is the difference now?
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: Someone had €110 million written off.
- Leaders' Questions (2 Apr 2014)
John Halligan: Representatives of the Money Advice & Budgeting Service will be at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform this afternoon. Perhaps the Taoiseach should speak to them. They will tell him about it.