Results 201-220 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 27: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister in Brussels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2798/05]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 33: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Independent Monitoring Commission. [4646/05]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 34: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting in London with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [4647/05]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach aware that, to this day in both Protestant and Catholic areas, loyalist and republican paramilitary organisations, leaving aside major criminal acts, have a heavy hand on their respective communities, interfering with the democratic rights and free expression of groups and political organisations opposed to them? This is manifested in many invidious ways, even in terms of...
- Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (15 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 307: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the terms of any concessions made by his Department to any one of a group of companies (details supplied) with regard to the obligation to pay tax and social insurance in respect of employees; and his estimate of the cost of these concessions up to December 2004. [5017/05]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (15 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Transport if he has received a report outlining the viability of a rail line from Dublin to Dunboyne; and if he will provide investment for this urgently needed public transport infrastructure. [4833/05]
- Written Answers — Teaching Qualifications: Teaching Qualifications (15 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 466: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has received correspondence from the Union of Students in Ireland calling for the suspension of a course (details supplied) in order that a comprehensive debate regarding teacher training, involving student teachers, teachers unions and the general public can take place; and her views on same. [4644/05]
- Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government. [1459/05]
- Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach expect us and the citizens of this country to take seriously and accept as good coin An Agreed Programme for Government? I ask that particularly regarding his integrated transport policy, designed as far as possible to overcome existing delays, bottlenecks and congestion and provide choice through alternative modes of transport. Can we take that seriously, particularly when...
- Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Yes, but the Taoiseach is responsible for his ministerial appointments and for the general oversight of the implementation of the programme for Government. The point that I seek to elucidate is whether we can take seriously An Agreed Programme for Government. I will not labour the point, but I was just saying that so desperate are we in Dublin that when Deputy Callely promised us millions of...
- Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: The Ceann Comhairle is missing my point, but the Taoiseach certainly knows what I am talking about, so I will let him answer.
- Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach guess that everything will be fine?
- Programmes for Government. (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach stated that the metro would reach Dublin Airport by 2007.
- Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: The EPA audit of waste in 2001 showed up the complete sham of a policy over which the Government has stood for years when it reported a complete failure to significantly reduce waste or to put effective recycling programmes in place. All we had were gestures and posturing. The latter were particularly represented in the so-called "Race against waste" television advertisements when, quite...
- Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: There would be no charges except that the former leader of the Deputy's party, Deputy Spring, brought them in with Fine Gael. Let us have some honesty. Who brought them in? Dick Spring brought them in.
- Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Who gave them the weapons to use? Dick Spring gave them the weapons.
- Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Gilmore was in the Workers Party when it denounced Dick Spring, and he comes in here tonight and lauds Mr. Spring, whereas he hated him as a member of the Workers Party.
- Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: In the 1980s he voted against everything.
- Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Vote for bringing in waste charges. Come on.
- Domestic Refuse Charges: Motion (Resumed). (16 Feb 2005)
Joe Higgins: Who stabbed whom in the back? Deputy Gilmore cannot lecture anyone on stabbing people in the back.