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- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: They are questions that the majority of our people are asking this morning.
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste should reply for the Government because a huge majority of our people are unhappy with Shannon Airport being usedââ
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: What about all the householders being brought to court tomorrow by developers on foot of management company fees? It is a disgrace. When will the Government do something about it?
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: As they do not have them in Cahirciveen, I suppose it makes it acceptable.
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the use of Shannon Airport by the Commander in Chief of the US armed forces to meet and rally US soldiers involved under his orders in the criminal occupation of Iraq, with cataclysmic consequences for the Iraqi people; whether the Irish Government had prior knowledge of and...
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a medical card holder (details supplied) in Dublin 12 cannot get the cost of dental treatment covered by their medical card. [8314/06]
- Legislative Programme. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach his Department's legislative programme for the current Dáil session; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1862/06]
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach when the new task force on active citizenship last met; and when he expects the next meeting to take place. [1867/06]
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach recall saying in a parliamentary reply last November in regard to active engagement in society by citizens there are pressures on this type of civic engagement in modern Ireland because of work, family responsibilities, changing settlement patterns and evolving societal values? Did he read this morning the report of a study by Professor O'Boyle, Royal College of Surgeons in...
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââin the capacity of ordinary people to contribute to society outside of work as active citizens because of these pressures? Does he agree that hundreds of thousands of young working people, in particular, are forced to work inordinate hours to make up the cost of the inordinate mortgages foisted upon them by the limitless greed of land speculators and profiteering in the housing sector,...
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I am surprised the Ceann Comhairle does not recognise their relevance. One should acknowledge the great contribution of ordinary people, who are under enormous pressure, to youth clubs, youth services etc. Rather than having a task force on active citizenship, a change in Government policy that would lessen the pressure on people's lives would create the space for an enormous increase in...
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: The pressures have changed enormously.
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: It is calculated that the price of a house has increased fourfold and that is pressurising.
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is bluffing as usual.
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: If the Government put a stop to the speculators, the price of a house would not be four times what it was when it came to power.
- Active Citizenship. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach must have been eating the ashes as well as putting them on his forehead because he is delirious.
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on drugs and social inclusion last met. [1874/06]
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I know the Ceann Comhairle is waiting to stop me from asking a question before Iââ
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I could see he was holding his breath and waiting to pounce. I suggest the House should revert to its practice during the current Government's first term in office, when the Minister of State with responsibility for social inclusion and drugs problems gave lengthy answers to questions on this matter and Deputies were allowed to ask at greater length about the role of the Cabinet sub-committee...
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I know but, in fairness, if I am confined to just listening to the Taoiseach give us a dateââ