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Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: He should respond to what has been requested by us, rather than fobbing it off to the Whips.

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his involvement in and assessment of the British Irish Council meeting recently. [18578/11]

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Like the Taoiseach's Government, the British Government is imposing a savage programme of cuts on public spending. Did the Taoiseach get an opportunity to question the Deputy Prime Minister with regard to the effect of £4 billion or £5 billion of cuts in Northern Ireland and the effects these will have on hard-pressed communities and working class people, many on the margins, for whom...

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The British loans are completely separate from the other EU loans. Even if the Taoiseach used the excuse that some EU countries are tagging together and he requires everyone's agreement, the Taoiseach does not need it with regard to the loans provided by Britain. I remind the Taoiseach that when the loans were offered, the British Government made it clear that they were doing so to protect...

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: A large majority of the people have great sympathy for and are in solidarity with the suffering people of Gaza who are suffering mass unemployment, the malnourishment of children and extreme penury as a result of the blockade by the Israel. If the Taoiseach knows this and says he knows what the situation is in Gaza as a result of his visit, why did he agree to such a gutless communiqué from...

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why did the Taoiseach not call, in particular, for the Irish ship, delivering aid to the tune of more than €100,000 collected from a great number of Irish people, to be given the right to deliver aid to Gaza? How would he like it if people bringing goods to this country were forced by another power to deliver them through England, for example, which is what he is suggesting with regard to...

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach condemn the sabotage?

Official Engagements (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Conference in Killarney, County Kerry. [19970/11]

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach realise what a contemptible figure he cuts today coming into the Dáil and using the most pathetic excuses to cover up what is a cynical betrayal of the people of Roscommon, in whose hospital he pledged to protect the emergency services? How pathetic is it to use HIQA as an alibi? It makes the young fellow who offers the excuse of the dog having chewed his homework...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Using Fine Gael policy, as it was before the election-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Fine Gael policy is one's new flexible friend to fit all occasions. It is the new Fine Gael brand of pantyhose to cover every possible emergency of every size and form. This is absolutely pathetic stuff considering that the Taoiseach should come into the House to give a simple apology.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach and his Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health, who are beside him, solemnly pledged to secure the emergency accident and emergency services for the people of Roscommon and the greater district. It is a sorry set of circumstances in which three of the most senior members of the Government are shamelessly prepared to resign from their solemn pledge and pretend it is...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The first demand made of the Roscommon Three should be that they honour the pledge they gave to the people of Roscommon. The second demand, which would be of the third member of the troika, the Minister for Health, would be for him to apologise for and withdraw the absolute falsehood he propagated in the Dáil, namely, that the mortality rate in Roscommon was 21% by contrast with 5% in other...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----of the people of Roscommon.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I invite the Taoiseach to reclaim some modicum of dignity by admitting how he gave false promises and that he is now prepared to make good.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: What the people of Roscommon want is to maintain the accident and emergency department which has served them well for decades and which they feel safe having there and quite correctly so. What the people in the other nine threatened hospitals want is similar, including in Loughlinstown which the Tánaiste promised he would protect. Is this another promise that will be broken?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The evidence is that the mortality rate was grievously misrepresented by the Minister, Deputy Reilly.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: A consultant who was 30 years in the hospital did a painstaking study which found it was approximately the same as other hospitals. Senator John Crown, also a hospital consultant, has confirmed this and stated it brings into question the research on which Dr. Reilly is basing the entire hospital reconfiguration programme. At worst, Roscommon had the same coronary death rate as Galway...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should call on the Minister to come in and correct this.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: In a more general way, is not all this another poisonous outcome of the treacherous policy the Taoiseach has continued of-----