Results 3,001-3,020 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins
- Departmental Expenditure. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister of State should be.
- Departmental Expenditure. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: We cannot export to Latin America if there are no embassies there.
- Foreign Conflicts. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the action he will take and the initiatives, within the European Union, that he will initiate or support by way of response to the UN report on the recent killings, injuries and destruction in Gaza and neighbouring areas in Israel (details supplied); and the further steps as indicated in the report as appropriate Ireland will initiate or...
- Foreign Conflicts. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Is the Minister of State concerned about the use of the name of former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, in dismissing the Goldstone report? The media responses from the Israeli side have suggested that former President Robinson, a distinguished international jurist, declined to participate in the exercise on the basis that the terms of reference were not acceptable to her. Leaving that...
- Foreign Conflicts. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It also criticised Hamas.
- Foreign Conflicts. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Although it is not currently a member, do I take it that Ireland will return to the UN Human Rights Council with a response in respect of the Goldstone report? Will Ireland make a submission in respect of that report?
- Departmental Strategy Statements. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: To be constructive, I wish to make a point on this issue. I understand that NGOs have been more or less told to make preliminary plans on the basis of a 70% allocation and some of them have been trying to respond in this regard. I note the annual audit report of 2008 places significant emphasis, for example, on what one might call the improvement of on-site financial reporting from the...
- Departmental Strategy Statements. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Will the Minister of State consider this particular issue?
- Human Rights Issues. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I welcome and join in the Minister of State's emphasis on defending the rights of those who are being incarcerated and those who are being made the subject of show trials in Iran. He has my support in this regard. I remain unconvinced about the viability of the negotiations with the E3+3 group regarding the issue of nuclear enrichment. The inspector, on behalf of the IAEA, has published a...
- Human Rights Issues. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I am not making the case for Iran. The raising of a non co-operation issue to a treaty breach issue, which it is not, is very dangerous in seeking a resolution to this matter. Proposals have been made, for example with the Russian agency, that would have enabled significant progress to be made but the use of the non co-operation issue and its assertion inappropriately has tended to block at...
- Proposed Legislation. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Can the Minister of State confirm that the process of lodging the guarantees as an agreement with the United Nations, for example, follows the process followed in the Good Friday Agreement, which was also lodged with international bodies? For that reason it acquired status. I refer to the conclusion on the status of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which becomes a primary instrument of...
- Human Rights Issues. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I welcome the Minister of State's reply and I am encouraged that he will use the opportunity to convey the European view to the ASEAN states because it is an opportunity for additional pressure.
- Foreign Direct Investment. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Yes.
- Foreign Direct Investment. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: My reason for tabling this question is that in a number of countries, including some of our partner countries, thousands of acres have been purchased by countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom and others on the basis of there being a global food shortage. That will entirely disrupt native agriculture. I refer to the rights of indigenous producers....
- Foreign Direct Investment. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Not with absentee landlords.
- Foreign Direct Investment. (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: A number of third level institutions have been seduced into accepting the de Soto model which effectively led to the destruction of indigenous economy in Mexico. It is used as the prototype land title model. If it is introduced in Africa, it will be as destructive there as it was in Mexico, which is denied by people like Professor de Soto.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: What happens if they do not want to regulate?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Yes, that is right.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: When I resume my speech tomorrow, I hope I will be able to begin by reflecting on the disastrous mistake it was to regard Anglo Irish Bank as a systemic bank last September and the price the taxpayers will pay for this.
- Public Appointments Transparency Bill 2009: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Sep 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is right.