Results 161-180 of 3,895 for speaker:John Halligan
- 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.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2011)
John Halligan: They left the country.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...