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- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: Yet the two Deputies are voting for it.
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: While Deputy Mathews spoke quite eloquently about the crisis in Europe, I remind people about the crisis in ordinary Irish households. I am speaking about middle income groups who cannot pay any more. What is it about this that the Government does not understand? It would do well to consult Social Justice Ireland but Ministers did not even give that organisation the courtesy of responding...
- Local Government (Household Charge) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Final Stages (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: They are getting â¬20 million for five years.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: What about the referendum?
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: The value of the euro and property is going down because of austerity measures.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: How much time is left?
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: It is being wasted by the Government.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: We have just had a Labour Minister-----
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: We could not have less.
- European Council Meeting: Statements (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: Will the Taoiseach consent to the view that the vast majority of Irish people see this EU deal as a transfer of a significant amount of power from this House to the European Commission, the European Council and the European Court of Justice? At the same time, it will condemn the Irish people to years of further austerity measures. We are conceding more of our power and sovereignty to what...
- Leaders' Questions (14 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: The Government is cutting their funding.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: The wealthy.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: Children's allowance to 140,000 families has been cut. Will the Deputy confess to them?
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: The Deputy is welcome to interrupt me when I am speaking.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: Significant numbers of the electorate voted primarily on two issues in the last election - honesty and fairness - and this was acknowledged by the current Government parties when in Opposition. People believed the last Government to have been dishonest in its dealings with them. They were told the economy was on a sound footing, when it was collapsing all around us, that the IMF was not...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: In the minds of the majority, the volume of election promises have not been kept. Where then is the honesty? They still see the banks and speculators sticking their two fingers up at society and walking away scot free. They see the rich becoming richer, as the statistics prove, but what about the poor? Some 650,000 people are on the poverty line, 210,000 of whom are children. These are...
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: People ask where the fairness exists when 140,000 families with from three to four children, some of them the most vulnerable families in the country, are deducted much needed money. It is embarrassing to hear the Minister defend this rather than sit quietly and look ashamed. It is embarrassing to society that the Minister defends cutting payments to 140,000 of our most vulnerable people.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: I have no problem in that regard. I give away mine, but what about the â¬4 million Fine Gael gets? What does it do with that? Fine Gael gets some â¬4.5 million every year.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: It is Fine Gael that is creaming off society; it is part of this crowd.
- Social Welfare Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: I met a chap during the election who said he had become politically motivated, in the sense that he could not wait to vote because he wanted to vote Fianna Fáil out. However, when I speak to him now, he thinks he may have been in a time warp or have been beamed up off the planet over the past seven months, as he feels as if he did not vote at all. He is back to stage one again and saying...