Results 2,161-2,180 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Nothing in Standing Orders prevents me from standing up a second time.
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government is adamant that a flat rate utility charge - a new stealth tax - will be introduced next year.
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Is the Tánaiste saying he is wrong?
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Excuse me, Ceann Comhairle. It is about legislation.
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: I did not think is was necessary to say it.
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: That would necessitate legislation, so one could argue that legislation is promised.
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: He did not answer the question. He said it had not been discussed by the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach satisfied that with his Government only three months in office, Ministers are displaying an arrogance not normally seen until a second term? Is he in agreement, for example, with the gratuitous insult by the Minister for Education and Skills to parents whose children are forced to attend dilapidated schools starved of investment for decades? Incredibly, he blames them,...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: The issue is the arrogance of Government and of Government policy.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Minister stated on Sunday that he will persist with his attempts to impoverish already poor workers through employment regulation orders.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: I am sorry that the Ceann Comhairle seeks to undermine the import of my question.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Well, you did, a Cheann Comhairle, because you gave consolation to the Government backbenchers who do not have much else to crow about.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: Standing Orders allow me to raise an issue-----
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----of public importance. The issue I raised is Ministers' arrogance and the policies they are stating. I am asking the Taoiseach whether what the Minister for Education and Skills has said is now Government policy and whether it is decided, as the Minister for Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation has proposed, that the Government will cut the wages of the lowest workers - in order words, that...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: I represent those who live in the real world.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: My difficulty is that some of the Deputies sitting behind the Taoiseach whose levels of oratory have not recommended me to find out their names keep interrupting me.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is somewhat distracting.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: For the Taoiseach's information, the real world is one in which hard-pressed parents, under enormous distress as a result of the disastrous crisis arising from disastrous policies by the establishment in this State, are insulted by a Minister of the Government who asked what the hell are they doing. Will the Taoiseach apologise on behalf of the Government to those parents? The Minister was...
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: It is about cutting the pay rates.
- Leaders' Questions (7 Jun 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Government blames the parents.