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- Topical Issue Debate (14 Sep 2011)
John Halligan: Many of the people in FÃS-----
- Topical Issue Debate (14 Sep 2011)
John Halligan: -----got jobs from all the money being put into the organisation. I am here to represent the people of Waterford and speak about all the jobs that have been lost in Waterford.
- Topical Issue Debate (14 Sep 2011)
John Halligan: Waterford city and county has been abandoned. The Deputy should stand up and speak.
- Topical Issue Debate (14 Sep 2011)
John Halligan: The Deputy would speak for one minute and ten seconds. Is that her contribution to what has happened in Waterford? Over the past few years some 3,000 people have lost their jobs. Changes are being allowed in the Dáil procedure to benefit all Deputies on an issue of national importance and Waterford has one of the highest unemployment rates in the country. We are being allowed a minute...
- Topical Issue Debate (14 Sep 2011)
John Halligan: There will be 45 seconds to sum up after the Minister speaks.
- Topical Issue Debate (14 Sep 2011)
John Halligan: I am standing here to speak up for the people of Waterford who elected me and know I am speaking today. I want a debate on what has happened in Waterford over the past three years, as the city has been abandoned by successive Governments.
- Topical Issue Debate (14 Sep 2011)
John Halligan: Will the debate be allowed? It is an insult to be allowed to speak only for one minute and ten seconds, with 45 seconds to sum up. I refuse to do it.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (21 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: Question 628: To ask the Minister for Health the proposals he will put in place to expedite the time frame associated with the processing of medical card applications; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in some instances applicants are waiting for up to four months for assessments to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21985/11]
- Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (21 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: Question 724: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the proposed increases in fares to be implemented by Bus Ãireann and Iarnród Ãireann; his further views on whether increases such as these would be inappropriate in the current financial climate particularly given that the public should be encouraged to avail of public transport. [21986/11]
- Commission of Investigation Report in the Catholic Diocese of Cloyne: Motion (20 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: I will share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Wallace and Boyd Barrett. I was horrified and sickened to read the findings of the Cloyne report. That abuse was not reported in the Diocese of Cloyne is utterly reprehensible. I call on the Government to break off diplomatic relations with a state that, at its worst, shields paedophiles. The Papal Nuncio should be...
- Written Answers — Student Support Schemes: Student Support Schemes (19 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: Question 156: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he has decided to implement a reduction in the mature student grant and to do so retrospectively; his views on whether this will have a devastating effect on many mature students who, upon enrolling in full time education for an agreed term, had budgeted the then available grant into their daily lives and who will now find...
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: Deputy Spring should be sitting with Fianna Fáil.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: I heard two expressions tonight that I should not be shocked at. One came from a Fine Gael Member. He said: "when we know where the special needs need to go". Does he not know that? Second, he referred to leaner and smarter. I heard that phrase used last year on the bench opposite. To me, leaner and smarter always means job losses.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: That is what the Members opposite are talking about. At the demonstration outside these Houses today by the many hundreds of people who came from all around the country I noticed one placard which read: "If you tolerate this, then our children will be next". I thought about that from the stand where I was speaking and I asked myself what have we tolerated. We have tolerated gambling and...
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: Boards of management across Waterford were notified by letter last Friday week that no junior infants class will be allocated special needs assistants in the coming school year except where the behaviour is extremely challenging and dangerous. At a meeting in Waterford last Monday night hundreds of parents, children, special needs assistants and teachers thronged into the Tower Hotel because...
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: Tell me now that the cap, even if it is only on the number of special needs assistants, will not affect the most vulnerable in society.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: They should hold their heads in shame.
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: On three occasions-----
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: -----they used the expression "value for money audit".
- Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)
John Halligan: I ask them to put a measure on value for money against the education of a child. That is exactly what they are doing. High quality education is the single most important building block if we are to find a base for economic recovery and avoid social breakdown. If the Members opposite continue on the path they are on and hitting the most vulnerable in society, social breakdown is exactly what...