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- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: The budget will be best remembered as an attack on the little people. These are low and middle income families, lone parents, the disabled, the elderly and small business owners. The budget will leave a legacy of fuel poverty. A generation of lone parents and families are being abandoned by the State and less well-off students are expected to survive on just more than â¬1 per day. This...
- Financial Resolutions 2012: Financial Resolution No. 13: General (Resumed) (7 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: Those opposite should be hiding behind their seats after cutting child benefit.
- Financial Resolution No. 4: Value Added Tax (6 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: Last year, nearly 1,300 small and medium businesses went into insolvency. Many of these would tell us this was partly due to high rates, high rent and the downturn in the economy, but it was primarily due to the lack of spending power in the economy. Some 150,000 jobs were lost, with thousands more on the verge. Chambers of commerce and small businesses throughout the country would tell...
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: There is an implication that people who are out sick are deliberately out sick and do not want to work.
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: What statistics does the Government have-----
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: -----along those lines indicating there are people who do not want to work and would prefer to be sick?
- Financial Resolution No. 5: Income Tax (6 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: The Government parties did not see this anomaly when in opposition.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: They left the country.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: The Minister could amend the Bill.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: I did not say that. I said we should not charge the householder.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: The Minister has his facts wrong.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: I am listening to the Minister.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: The argument is that people cannot afford to pay.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: It does not matter what it costs. People cannot afford to pay.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: What about the original manifesto?
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: The Minister has frightened people with a â¬5,000 fine.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: We accept the quality, but not the payment.
- Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: I acknowledge the need to protect our water services but I disagree with this unfair legislation, which will add further debt and suffering for those in negative equity who are in arrears with their mortgage payments and are struggling to feed their families and make ends meet. The tax discriminates in that it penalises people for living in rural communities with no direct access to public...
- Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: I refer to pending legislation, the landlord and tenant Bill, to reform and consolidate the general law on landlords and tenants. Based on Threshold's latest report, which shows the organisation had 20,000 queries on illegal notices, evictions, sub-standard housing and deposit retention, would the Taoiseach consider fast-forwarding the Bill over the next couple of months?
- Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)
John Halligan: Could the Taoiseach give a date? Will it be early? Based on Threshold's-----