Results 1-20 of 28 for destroyed speaker:John Halligan

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

John Halligan: .... I urge Members to speak to somebody who has had to bring the foetus of their child in a shoebox back from England after a fatal foetal abnormality. I urge Members to speak to a woman who has been brutalised, her thighs destroyed, her hands broken, her fingernails torn off, forcibly impregnated but told she must carry the child, no matter the consequences. That is how inhuman this...

Paris Terrorist Attack: Statements (17 Nov 2015)

John Halligan: ...its origins are and why and how it came about because that is how we deal with all terrorist groups. In 2003, after the invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi army was dismantled, Iraqi infrastructure was destroyed and a government was installed that was not responsive to the people. Hundreds of thousands were imprisoned, many of them innocent of the asserted crimes and many became radicalised....

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Ceart chun Féinriarachta Pearsanta agus Sláine Colainne) 2014: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Personal Autonomy and Bodily Integrity) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (17 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: ...was what shocked her. Helen went to the State for support. The initial support she got did not amount to much, because the perpetrator did not get what she deemed to be a proper sentence for destroying her life. I have no wish to pass comment on the sentence. Then, when she went to the State because she did not feel as though she could see through having the child, she was told that...

Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: ...for a meal. He asks himself "can I bring my wife out for a meal?". This is exactly what he said to me: "How much petrol can I put in the car this week - €50 or €20 worth?" That is what we have done to people. We have destroyed their quality of life. The Government cannot come along and start saying to people that it is only €5, €3 or €2. That is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Use of Irish Airspace and Landing Facilities: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (3 Dec 2014)

John Halligan: ...on any of the aeroplanes? The problem that troubles me is the possibility that if by some chance there were arms or munitions on those aeroplanes, they could be sent on missions of destruction to destroy human beings or property in places such as Iraq, Afghanistan or wherever. That would be very troubling. Like many people, I simply do not believe that of all the aeroplanes that have...

Disability Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jul 2014)

John Halligan: ...end of the year unless the cuts are reversed. It is a terrible indictment that such organisations might go to the wall. It is unthinkable that we would allow services like Chronic Pain Ireland to be destroyed. The impact of these cuts is not felt in isolation. They have a huge knock-on effect on the family of the person with a disability. I refer not only to the grotesque cuts to...

Children First Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2014)

John Halligan: ...of the case to which the Ombudsman for Children referred. What happened was appalling. I acknowledge that the legislation would not have changed the awful circumstances involved, but it was not the issue of reporting that destroyed these young lives; it was the failure of the State to respond properly to the reports of abuse. The State also failed by not providing for co-ordinated...

Housing Provision: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2014)

John Halligan: ...of their house. The girl collapsed on the floor, which the ushers in Waterford City Council can confirm, and had to be helped and given tea and water. I met that girl a few weeks ago and she is destroyed because she has lost her house and is still in rented accommodation. If the Minister of State saw the appalling accommodation she is in, it would make her sick. The Minister of State...

Gateway Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2014)

John Halligan: ...are many people. I am aware from speaking to some people on unemployment benefit, and there are many in Waterford, which has one of the highest rates, that they find it offensive, humiliating and soul destroying. It is offensive and humiliating because this is the best the Government can offer people who are unemployed. This is what it is offering to young people who might have left...

Topical Issue Debate: Rape Crisis Network Funding (29 Jan 2014)

John Halligan: ...can be irreparably damaged. Her family and children can be affected, her ability to indulge in sex with her partner or husband can irretrievably damaged and her capacity to think positively can be destroyed. We must be careful when we are talking about cutting funding to that individual woman if she requires complex counselling that costs money and a lot of time and effort. I know the...

Bond Repayments: Motion [Private Members] (26 Nov 2013)

John Halligan: ..., while banks say they will do what they like. Despite whatever legislation is introduced. the banks will continue to maul the public. The Government allowed banks, bondholders, investors and speculators to destroy the economy and destroy people's lives, even driving some to suicide. When the banks saw they could get away with that, they knew they could get away with anything and they...

Garda Síochána (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jul 2013)

John Halligan: ...ombudsman, coupled with the worrying impediments that are being placed in the commission's way, makes it clear that action is needed urgently. Crime is demoralising people, terrifying the elderly and destroying the lives of many young people. To tackle this crime, we need an efficient and effective Garda force operating with the full confidence, support and co-operation of the population...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

John Halligan: ...not have chosen to have had an abortion because of the love of their husband or partner. This was not their choice, but there was an inevitability about it in that their own lives would have been destroyed which might have led to suicide. That is why we have to think about what is in a woman’s head if she has been raped, brutalised or carrying a foetus incompatible with life....

Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2013)

John Halligan: ...who do not toe the line are being threatened with so-called excommunication. No such public threats were made to priests, bishops or anyone else within the Catholic Church convicted of abusing and destroying the lives of children. I call on the Tánaiste to condemn the Catholic Church for its attempts to intervene in the running of the State and to call on the church to desist from...

Leaders' Questions (7 May 2013)

John Halligan: ...However, the draft Bill provides little reassurance for rape and incest pregnancies or for those women carrying a foetus with fatal foetal abnormalities, such pregnancies that have the potential to destroy the lives of those women who face them. Startling figures were released last week that showed sexual offences rose 50% between 2007 and 2011 but only one in six cases resulting in...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: ...the big supermarket chains increase their profits year after year. Surely it is not unreasonable to ask the Tánaiste to do as governments have done in other countries, while this recession is still destroying the quality of people's lives, and at the very least ask the supermarket chains to freeze the prices of essential food items. The Tánaiste did not answer all of my...

Topical Issue Debate: Common Agricultural Policy Negotiations (20 Mar 2013)

John Halligan: The Minister suggested that I must be joking. It is not a joke. I deal with people on a daily basis whose lives have being destroyed-----

Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: ...I know the Tánaiste is aware of this matter; having spoken to other Members, I know they are aware of it also. It is a crime that has gone unnoticed compared to serious crimes against the person. It is destroying people's lives throughout the country. There is a fear among people that they are being abandoned and not taken notice of. Often, I have been in court when an...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: ...behind some sort of Shangri-La that it does not know what it is or how it is but if its members pray and say they are sorry, everything will be forgiven. We should not forgive them because they have destroyed human lives. No matter what way we look at it they have destroyed human lives from the time these people were children until they reached adulthood and later on. We are at...

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2013)

John Halligan: ...budgets in 2014 and 2015? Will some of the money be put to use to ease the pressure on individual finances such as restoring some welfare benefits or a clawing back on the increase in VAT to 23% which is destroying job creation and spending in the economy? Will the Taoiseach make a commitment to prioritise job creation, given that the latest figures show that 14.5% of people are out of...