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- Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)
John Halligan: I am sharing with Deputies Finian McGrath and Seamus Healy. Many of us are having great difficulty coming to terms with how the HSE expects hospitals to meet the ambitious targets for emergency departments and elective surgery set out in the national service plan while battling with an average budget drop of approximately 4.4%. This is not possible. In my constituency of Waterford, for...
- Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)
John Halligan: I am sorry, but I must suggest to the Minister that he should come to Waterford. He is always welcome in Waterford. He should pop down to the Waterford Regional Hospital, which serves 500,000 people, and speak to the staff, nurses and doctors there. He should visit at 5 a.m. on a Thursday or Friday morning and see what is happening in the accident and emergency ward and then tell me that...
- Health Service Plan 2012: Statements (Resumed) (1 Feb 2012)
John Halligan: No one should wait for two hours for a bed.
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: Regarding the proposed noise nuisance Bill, the Taoiseach will be aware across Ireland many thousands of families, night after night, live in dreadful conditions because of anti-social behaviour, most of it noise-related. As a matter of urgency, can this Bill be brought before the House earlier? Is the Taoiseach confident the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act, the main legislation for...
- Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: Many families affected do not believe it is sufficient. Will the Taoiseach consider strengthening the public order Act to include greater sanctions against those involved in anti-social behaviour?
- Written Answers — Employment Rights: Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: Question 26: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if his attention has been drawn to the case of workers in the Jane Norman chain who were ejected from their jobs in an almost identical manner to that which occurred in the La Senza chain, when the company was put into administration in June 2011, and at which to date the workers have still not been paid approximately a...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: I refer to the troika's warning this week that a financial bomb would go off in Dublin if Anglo Irish Bank senior bondholders are not repaid. This was a horrendous scaremongering tactic designed to create anxiety and panic among the people. The implication that the troika holds a bomb that could decimate the Irish economy is shameful and wholly inappropriate. It is emotive and threatening...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: He continually told the people of Ireland "this is not our debt". The people no longer believe the Government, members of which are deliberately trying to confuse them. The Government has not succeeded. The people believed Fine Gael and the Labour Party that they would not pay the bondholders because they told them so. Both parties used the phrase "burn the bondholders" on television...
- Promissory Notes: Motion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: That is all right.
- Employment Rights (25 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation in the context of the treatment of workers in Vita Cortex, La Senza and Lagan Brick and other similar cases such as the Jane Norman chain in mid 2011, in which workers are denied the rights and entitlements by employers, the measures and legislation he proposes to put in place to ensure that such occurrences are not...
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (24 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: Question 180: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm if there will be any subsidies available for parents wishing to send their children to schools with a Protestant ethos when there is no alternative free schooling available in the area (details supplied). [3325/12]
- Written Answers — Garda Transport: Garda Transport (24 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: Question 476: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm that once Garda patrol cars reach a mileage of approximately 300,000 km they are to be automatically decommissioned and replaced, if this is indeed the case and particularly in the Waterford area if these patrol cars are being replaced once decommissioned; and if he will provide the latest data in respect of same....
- International Agreements: Referral to Joint Committee (24 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: A Cheann Comhairle, will that motion come before the-----
- International Agreements: Referral to Joint Committee (24 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: It will come back to the Dáil.
- International Agreements: Referral to Joint Committee (24 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: It will not come back for debate in the Dáil.
- School Staffing (19 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: Question 3: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will confirm the number of 475 special needs assistants posts which were withheld last September that have been allocated to date; the criteria that was applied to these remaining posts; if and when the remaining posts will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3232/12]
- School Staffing (19 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: While I welcome any progress made in the allocation of special needs assistants, the Minister may be aware that 800 applications were made for the aforementioned 475 posts. It was envisaged that 300 of these posts would be filled prior to Christmas. I do not understand the logic of delaying the allocation of posts given that no new SNAs were made available for new children coming into...
- School Staffing (19 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: I am reasonably satisfied with the Minister's answer and I trust he will do what needs to be done. From my conversations with other Deputies and people from my constituency, it appears there is staggering inconsistency in the appeals process. The parents perceive the process as not being independent. I welcome that the Minister may consider the matter over a period of six months but I ask...
- Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (11 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: I wish to share time with Deputy Clare Daly.
- Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Bill 2011: Second Stage (11 Jan 2012)
John Halligan: Like the previous speaker I welcome the Bill's aim to provide the country's 35,000 agency workers with entitlement to equal treatment, pay and conditions of permanent staff in order that they cannot be used to drive down pay and conditions generally or to undermine the hard fought equality rights as has been happening in recent years. Many of us have encountered an increasing number of...