Results 3,381-3,400 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Programmes for Government (15 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: There is another minute to go, actually.
- Programmes for Government (15 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Is it the case that we do not need to amend Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union-----
- Programmes for Government (15 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----to legally underpin the ESM?
- Order of Business (15 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Could the Taoiseach give a specific timescale for the introduction of the Treaty Establishing the European Communities Act 1972 (Amendment) Bill? The Taoiseach's legislation programme states it relates to the amendment of Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union underpinning the legal standing of the treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism. Why did the...
- Order of Business (15 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: When will it be taken?
- Order of Business (15 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is necessary to have it ratified before there can be legal standing for the European Stability Mechanism.
- Order of Business (15 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, the Taoiseach did not. That is the problem.
- Order of Business (16 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: My question relates to the scheduling of the fiscal responsibility Bill, the Bill relating to the treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism, and the European Communities Act 1972 (Amendment) Bill. Is it the Government's intention to have these items of legislation relating to the fiscal treaty, or, more accurately, the austerity treaty, completed before the summer recess? Why...
- Order of Business (16 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will he not come out and debate in any language, Irish or English, so that we can get to the nub of the issue, man to man and woman to woman? Will he agree to debate with us in a public forum? Why is he hiding?
- Order of Business (16 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will it be brought forward before the summer recess?
- Order of Business (16 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach step outside the House and debate the matter with us?
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It was said about the treaty of Limerick that it was broken "ere the ink wherewith 'twas writ could dry". That was all the way back in 1691. I am afraid this morning that the fiscal treaty is in the same lamentable state. What is the Government going to do about the European Stability Mechanism Bill - known as the fiscal responsibility Bill - which enshrines the austerity treaty, in view...
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Clearly-----
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It has been, but unfortunately-----
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Unfortunately, we have a Bill that is now redundant.
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, this is a matter for you and the Dáil. We have a fiscal responsibility Bill-----
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I know, but it is redundant.
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste probably has the quelques mots. The French Minister said "le traité ne serait pas ratifié en l'état."
- Order of Business (17 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It will not be ratified, so what is going to happen with the schedule?
- Economic Management Council (22 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the number of occasions that the Economic Management Council has met since the Christmas recess. [12200/12]