Results 61-80 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: I wish to share time with Deputy Quinn. It is important that we leave this debate with a semblance of hope for the many thousands of people who have been contacting Deputies on all sides, that we tell them there is a future for Ireland and a future for Europe beyond the incredible failure into which we have sunk. A real social Europe can be created. That social Europe is not a common...

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: The response in the future involves us all. It also involves a cute evasion - those who say it is not a matter of left or right any more. This is a cop-out. This is to say, "You are afraid to say that a party of the left, the Labour Party, gave its vote in September 2008 against an indiscriminate guarantee, unbounded, from which flows most of these difficulties." There is a strange...

EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support: Motion (15 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: We need to demystify expertise and to hand back information and knowledge to citizens. What is interesting about this notion, and what they are saying is, now at this time when there is a prospect of real change, when the Labour Party, a party of the left offers not just a return to what was there before and what was falling apart, but something that can deliver a real republic as I have...

Order of Business (15 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: You should suspend it.

Requests to move Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 (15 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to discuss a matter of national importance, namely, the need for the Minister for Foreign Affairs to respond to the urgent need to provide consular assistance to an Irish citizen and her family. Having been struck down with a severe illness while in Vietnam, she and her family face enormous daily medical costs, including the cost of...

Leaders' Questions. (15 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: It is a strange version of solidarity.

National Minimum Wage: Motion (14 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: No, he did not. That is incorrect. The Minister of State is repeating the untruth his brother stated last week.

National Minimum Wage: Motion (14 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: The Minister of State is misleading the House.

National Minimum Wage: Motion (14 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: I simply wanted to tell the Minister of State Deputy he is not getting away with it.

National Minimum Wage: Motion (14 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: Auberon Waugh is a prime Fianna Fáil source.

Community Development (14 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: Question 37: To ask the Minister for Community; Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs the affect the announcement of a 10% cut in funding will have on the services his Department can provide to communities [46045/10]

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: New Year's Day.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: Non-executive directors, parasites.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: That is an assertion, not an economic fact.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: He said he would not go around the country making promises.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: The Minister should not be repeating untruths.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: For all his old pretensions he is peddling his own lie.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: Deputy Gilmore said no such thing.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: Yet the old Fine Gael-Fianna Fáil waffle continues with the untruth.

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (No. 2) Bill 2010: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2010)

Michael D Higgins: A legacy of bluff and bluster.