Results 1-3 of 3 for other and baby speaker:John Halligan

Public Sector Management (Appointment of Senior Members of the Garda Síochána) Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Jun 2014)

John Halligan: I commend Deputy Ross on introducing the Bill. I and others find it pitiful that it has taken a member of the Opposition to do so while the Government continues to stick its head in the sand on this issue. That is my estimation from listening to some of tonight’s contributions. In recent weeks, the world's media has looked on in disbelief as the scandal of the mother and baby homes...

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2013)

John Halligan: ...is too traumatised to be here today with all of the women present. She has told me that she went through with the birth having been recommended not to do so because the foetus was so badly damaged and it might have a traumatic effect on her. The young baby lived for approximately 25 seconds. That was three years ago and the woman concerned is deeply traumatised. She is unable to have...

Leaders' Questions (25 Apr 2013)

John Halligan: ...from food deprivation have had to take cuts, yet 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....