Results 3,061-3,080 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----that it was opposed to back door taxation.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: By 2003 the vast majority of-----
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----those authorities had privatised their refuse services.
- Leaders' Questions (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is a policy for the Labour Party-----
- Order of Business (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Once again Fine Gael and Labour are doing exactly the opposite of what they argued for during the many years they were in opposition - the arbitrary guillotining of crucial legislative measures. The Finance Bill enshrines all the disastrous austerity provided for in the budget of a few months ago - slashing services and attacking living standards with detrimental effects in general on our...
- Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (16 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 47: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the occupation of Galway City Airport; and his further views that a decision to cut the subsidy to the airport precipitated a crisis for the airport and its workers. [8865/12]
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Dr. Liu Xiaobo is in his third year of an 11 year sentence in China. His crime was to write a charter seeking democracy, freedom of speech and religion and an independent judiciary. Over Christmas, Chen Xi was sentenced to ten years in jail in south-west China for the crime of writing articles on the Internet seeking political reform and human rights. At the same time, Chen Wei was given...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----the rights of its people would merit such a description or is it all right if they do trade deals with him?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Are we to take it that the Taoiseach accepts that not having a perfect human rights record covers and excuses-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----the routine detention of thousands of persons for demanding human and democratic rights, jailing them, torturing them and sending them away for years? Does the Taoiseach accept that he should separate out this kind of violation of the most basic human rights from issues of trade? If the Taoiseach were talking to representatives of trade associations, would it have been appropriate to...
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Is it the case now that as China takes up the position of an economic superpower, almost equalling the United States-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----that we can expect the same obsequiousness, in the media, in the Government and elsewhere, as we had towards the United States, President Bush, etc., in the wake of the Iraq invasion?
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Is that the blind eye that now will be turned to human rights in favour of doing trade deals? Why did the Taoiseach not raise-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----specific issues, for example, the case of Liu Xiaobo, who was even recognised with a Nobel Peace Prize? I ask the Taoiseach-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----to electrify the demand for human rights internationally by, before going to China, demanding from the Chinese Government that he get to visit Liu Xiaobo-----
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----or some prisoner of conscious really to draw attention to what is going on in China.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: That would be doing something good for humanity.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: It got quoted last year. The Taoiseach is out of the loop.
- Leaders' Questions (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: They are jailed for it. Come on.
- European Council Meetings (21 Feb 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the EU special summit on 30 January 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5172/12]