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- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: I wish to share time with Deputies Catherine Murphy, Ross and Finian McGrath.
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: I welcome any initiative, however small, that will relieve the present horrendous position in which more than 400,000 people are unemployed. Even as matters stand, unemployment is destroying the social fabric of society and testing people's well-being to extremes. Moreover, in this context one should not forget that many more than 400,000 people will experience some form of poverty or...
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: I have almost finished. One must not forget that each year, the multinationals take â¬32 billion in profit out of the country. I refer to the likes of Tesco, Aldi and so on. Do they not owe the country anything? Why is there no initiative whereby they could invest some money in the country to create employment? Have such companies not been approached to suggest that instead of...
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: I really am finished this time.
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: Can this policy be reviewed or revoked-----
- Jobs Initiative 2011: Statements (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: ----- to save jobs? All of these small initiatives will create sustainable jobs, not jobs which will see someone put on to a FÃS course to learn how to re-employ themselves.
- State Visits (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: Concerning pension subsidies-----
- State Visits (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: Some of us have had our hands up for about 15 minutes.
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the specific cuts to child benefits, disability allowances and other social welfare payments signalled in the draft deal with the EU/IMF and in view of the latest research which indicates that 620,000 persons or 14.1 per cent of the population are already at risk of poverty and the expert belief that this figure would be much higher if...
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: The Minister has one of the largest portfolios and there are many questions on the agenda today that affect many people. I am absolutely appalled the Minister is the only Government Deputy present today. I hope the media will take that into consideration. New research by Social Justice Ireland shows that poverty in Ireland is at an all time high. Since 1987 the income of the top 10% high...
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: I will not need six minutes.
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: Will the Minister make a commitment today that there will not be any more cuts in welfare benefits, jobseeker's allowance, disability pensions and carers' allowances to ensure the less well off will be protected? In opposition, the Minister opposed all cuts to social welfare payments and advocated the protection of the less well off. Will she give a commitment to the hundreds of thousands...
- Social Welfare Benefits (10 May 2011)
John Halligan: When the Minister was on the Opposition benches, she spoke about eliminating poverty by 2016. The elimination of poverty is about increasing welfare payments for the least well off, but it starts with not reducing those payments any further. I listened intently to the Deputy in opposition when she was an advocate for the less well off. I would like her to stand by that now for the sake of...
- Residential Mortgage Debt: Motion (Resumed) (4 May 2011)
John Halligan: Deputy Ciarán Lynch recognised that at least this motion is a valuable one, which is in contrast to his few colleagues who bothered to speak on this worthwhile and compassionate debate addressing the issue of thousands of our citizens losing their homes and finding themselves in distress and despair. I refer to the trauma that has been and is still being inflicted upon many of our citizens,...
- Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)
John Halligan: Withdraw that remark.
- Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)
John Halligan: That is an outrageous remark and it should be withdrawn. The man has always opposed terrorists and terrorism anywhere in the world.
- Leaders' Questions (4 May 2011)
John Halligan: That remark should be withdrawn.
- Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (4 May 2011)
John Halligan: I seek to move the adjournment of the Dáil to discuss an issue of national importance and concern, namely, the urgent need to support St. Patrick's Hospital, which is the only hospital serving Waterford city and county and Kilkenny that cares for the elderly. I deplore the reduction of the services for 26 highly dependent patients who were being cared for in St. Brigid's. I also reject the...
- Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (4 May 2011)
John Halligan: -----by the HSE in Waterford be delivered. The people of Waterford richly deserve it.
- Request to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (4 May 2011)
John Halligan: Care for the elderly services are badly needed in Waterford city.