Results 181-200 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: I am not developing a debate. I am making the point that circumstances have changed because those officials in the local authorities who dealt with student grants are no longer dealing with them because of cuts. It is important the Student Support Bill is brought back to the House to relieve the hardship experienced by students. Deputy Tuffy is quite right to raise the matter. It is a...
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: My first question is about secondary legislation. When will the ministerial orders implementing the Fines Act be introduced to stop the needless incarceration of individuals in prison? These people should simply never have been put in prison. My second question relates to No. 19 in the legislative programme, the European Arrest Warrant (Extension) and Extradition (Amendment) Bill. That...
- Order of Business (21 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister is aware there are many people in prison because the ministerial order has not been made.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: The directors within the mutual model, not the depositors.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: The flaws are of individuals not the model.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: One would not get the ESRI to print that one.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Barristers' bluster.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: It is not a populist chant, and the Minister is well aware of that.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: That is true.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: I too would like to offer my sympathy to the Minister on the death of his uncle. I do not regard forecasting as a science, as the Minister has referred to it, nor do I regard his scenarios as any aspect of science. I would like to ask one or two macroeconomic questions. If one takes as a departure point the most benign of the ESRI's models for exiting the recession, which suggests that in...
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Weather forecasters are better.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Has the Minister a strategy for handling the savings available to him?
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: What is it as a proportion of the growth rate?
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: I asked about the Minister's strategy for turning the extraordinary high volume of savings, which is reflecting a fear in the economy, into an available source of funding, which would give him leverage, even with the markets.
- Statements re Minister for Finance's announcement on banking of 30 September 2010: Questions (20 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Good people fell in with the wrong crowd.
- Written Answers — Planning Issues: Planning Issues (19 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Question 77: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will provide an update on the planning review of six local authorities and the expert panel that was to carry out this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37422/10]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Housing: Local Authority Housing (19 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Question 113: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of properties rented under the rental assessment scheme by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37423/10]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (19 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Question 178: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on the students assistance fund and the disbursement of same; the qualifying parameters of this scheme; and her views as to the possibility of this scheme being widened to accommodate those who at the present time particularly are experiencing grave difficulties in accessing third level education....
- Written Answers — Fiscal Policy: Fiscal Policy (19 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Question 198: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the announcement by Ethiopia's central bank to devalue the birr by one fifth on 1 September 2010; the effect this will have both on Ethiopia and other countries in the region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36119/10]
- Written Answers — EU Presidency: EU Presidency (19 Oct 2010)
Michael D Higgins: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the European Union, in particular that the financial crisis and its impact means moving towards a more economic form of Government [36095/10]