Results 2,881-2,900 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is true.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is correct.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Headage.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: She was excluded from any committee.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: When Jim Kemmy raised the issue he was abused for his trouble and attacked by the activists and frontliners who set about attacking those of us who raised all these issues over 30 years.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: No, it is not.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: There was no hidden agenda. That is the kind of cheap comment we would expect.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Deputy should ask them how they got on.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: And how we can reform the Department that covered it up.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is right.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: But in the past senior civil servants hid this abuse. The Minister knows that.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: A former Secretary in the Department of Education said everything was wonderful in Daingean.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is right.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: And nothing about the past.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister should put that on a memorial.
- Written Answers — Arts Funding: Arts Funding (16 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will provide a commitment that funding to the Arts Council will not be further reduced in view of the cuts suffered by that organisation during the past nine months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23602/09]
- Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (16 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures she suggests in order to update and improve the process of adoption here. [23777/09]
- Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (16 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 135: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the measures she proposes, notwithstanding the importance of properly vetting all potential adoptive parents, her plans to speed this process up; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23778/09]
- Written Answers — Adoption Services: Adoption Services (16 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will suggest improvements to the system of adoption here in which, as is currently the case, persons seeking to make a complaint against the adoption process in which they are involved have to do so with those who have the final say over the eventual success or failure of the person's application for adoption having full...