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Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (21 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Le cead an Tí, ba mhaith liom mo chuid ama a roinnt leis an Teachta Catherine Murphy. Fáiltím go mór roimh socrú na conspóide maidir leis an ainm caoi ar Dhaingean Uí Chúis. Caithfidh mé a rá gur chuir an chonspóid áirithe iontas orm ón tús. Bhí sé amaideach ón chéad lá aon athrú a dhéanamh ins an slí ina hainmníodh Daingean Uí Chúis. Ariamh ó mo chuimhne féin...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (21 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: What about Dingle-Daingean Uí Chúis?

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2011: Instruction to Committee (21 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: What about the timing?

Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this vital issue for discussion. Some days ago we heard the shocking revelation that the number of people waiting longer than three months for a colonoscopy has more than doubled in the past year. Colonoscopies are used in the early detection of bowel cancer and are therefore a crucial life-saving measure. It is shocking that the waiting list now...

Hospital Waiting Lists (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister agreed with the Irish Cancer Society that it is not possible to clinically identify urgent cases. The response prepared for him by the HSE relies on the fact that so-called urgent cases are seen within 28 days. However, many cases of cancer, which could be advancing with detection, will not, therefore, fall within the urgent case cohort. That issue has not been dealt with....

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is not agreed. I am opposed to taking the Twenty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Judges' Remuneration) Bill 2011 today. Their lordships' fat salaries should indeed be taken down sharply but we can leave it until tomorrow. I want the Taoiseach to change his proposal. After seven weeks of the Dáil being away and six months of the Government, the Taoiseach should have a state of the...

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----the cruel cuts, as we face a cold winter, by a Labour Party alleged Minister for Social Protection.

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: I am making a short argument as I am entitled to do under Standing Orders on why we need a different proposal from the Government. After six months, it is very clear that the Fine Gael, Labour Party and EU-IMF austerity is killing our economy. It is killing hope and driving our young people out of the country. We need a change; we need massive public investment. I ask the Taoiseach to...

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: I have been in or around the Chamber for the past two hours but I have not received a copy of the legislative programme for the autumn session of the Dáil. It may have been delivered recently. This is fairly poor, considering the notice we have had for the return of the Dáil. The legislative programme is simply a list of Bills. I find it highly unsatisfactory that we know only on a...

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Ceann Comhairle will hear that I am very much in order. Does this proposal require a separate Bill and separate legislation or will it be dealt with in the context of the budget? When will the Dáil deal with it?

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: When will the local government (charges) Bill come before the Dáil?

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: When will the legislation be published?

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: This not a chat. I am looking for necessary information. When will the legislation be published?

Order of Business (14 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: When will the legislation be published?

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: I want to raise a decision of the Government for which the Taoiseach cannot blame Fianna Fáil, despite that party's responsibility for the origins of this crisis. Last Saturday, the Government abjectly capitulated to the European Central Bank when the Minister for Finance indicated in Poland that the full €3.5 billion that was gambled in Anglo Irish Bank by the holders of unsecured bonds...

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is as if, rather than kicking his county into history after a brave run forward, he suddenly turned and booted the ball into the faces of his team mates and into his own goal. Rather than going to speculators, this €3.5 billion of the funds of our people should be going into investment and services. I ask the Taoiseach to explain why that is not happening.

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not answer the question. The Minister for Finance was very vocal in Washington. He said he would burn the Anglo gamblers. According to the schedule I have, some €3.5 billion is to be paid to them over the next seven or eight months. A total of €21.5 billion is to be paid to all the other holders of unsecured and unguaranteed bonds, for which the Irish people have no...

Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: This disastrous policy of austerity should be ended.

Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the filling of the position of Secretary General of his Department. [24421/11]

Departmental Appointments (20 Sep 2011)

Joe Higgins: This looks suspiciously like a Fine Gael coup with regard to the management of EU affairs by the Government. Is this the case? Has the Taoiseach elbowed the Tánaiste out to deal with far flung areas such as North Korea and so on while in essence corralling the critical policy and EU matters among himself as a Fine Gael Taoiseach and a Fine Gael Minister for Finance aided and abetted by a...