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- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The banks are walking all over the Government.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: They are walking all over everybody. A girl called to my office this morning at 8 a.m.-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The bank are trying to take her house from her. I am upset because of the cases I am hearing about every day.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The banks are walking all over us. Enough is enough.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: I was contacted in recent days by the owner of a well-known equestrian centre in the south east, Stonehaven. It had run into arrears of €3,000 on a bank loan following a downturn in business. The lady had successfully paid more than two thirds of her repayments last year and continued to make regular, albeit reduced payments, on the loan. However, last week a tractor –...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: They have not taken any hit. Will the Government bring forward legislation to force executives of the bailed-out banks to take a cut in their Rolls Royce retirement schemes? If the Government were to do that the entire country would support it. The Government has repeatedly pointed to the constitutional barriers to the reduction of top-level pensions. Will the Government investigate...
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The Government is not listening to what people are saying or it believes the banks.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: Somewhere along the line something has gone wrong when a business could be put to the wall by a bank because of arrears of €3,000 and 15 jobs could be put in jeopardy.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The banks have busted this country.
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: The Minister suggested that I must be joking. It is not a joke. I deal with people on a daily basis whose lives have being destroyed-----
- Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: -----by the banks. Families and businesses are affected. People have taken their lives because of the banks. The Minister completely avoided the question I asked. I expect that everyone in the House would agree with my call - even members of the Labour Party - for legislation to deal once and for all with how the banks are treating this Parliament with contempt. Will the Government put...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any full report in relation to the review of the configuration of services in the Health Service Executive Dublin south/Wicklow area comprising St Vincent's University Hospital, St Michael's Hospital and St Columcille's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14349/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Smaller Hospitals Framework (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Health when the Framework on Smaller Hospitals Report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14351/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescription Charges (20 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider placing an upper limit cap on the amount charged when a patient is in receipt of a number of prescriptions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13885/13]
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: I will make two points. First, my contact within IDA Ireland is a conscientious chap and it bothers him to think that all this money is being wasted every year. He made the point to me that in respect of some premises around the country that were taken on 15, 16 or 17 years ago, IDA Ireland now acknowledges it has no hope of introducing multinational companies into those areas because of...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: I have spoken on several occasions about what I perceive to be woeful neglect on the part of IDA Ireland in replacing hundreds of jobs lost in recent years, particularly in the manufacturing sector, and its failure to introduce employment investment, especially in the south east. It has been brought to my attention, from within IDA Ireland, that the organisation is wasting millions of euro...
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan should be left out of it.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: I was taken to visit a cluster unit in my constituency which had been lying idle for 15 years. The position is the same in several other such units throughout the country and this has resulted in an outlay of €2.5 million in rent each year, with no return for the taxpayer in the long term. I am informed that the leases for these properties are unbreakable. I am also informed that...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Regulations (12 Mar 2013)
John Halligan: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to review regulations in relation to environmental impact assessments in view of the decision of a company (details supplied) to surrender its foreshore licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12836/13]