Results 3,441-3,460 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is fraudulent to ask us to vote on this as it is.
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: Anything concrete?
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is a Pyrrhic victory and the Taoiseach should get on with it.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is not agreed to. The proposal is the debate on the European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 should be guillotined after only four hours of discussion. This must be seen in the context of an incredible proposal to have three hours of discussion tomorrow on the European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012. These are two major pieces of legislation to institutionalise in EU treaties new...
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----we did not get an opportunity to discuss them in proper detail.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: At the very least, the Government should give the elected Members of the Dáil, particularly opposition Members, the right to express the concerns of a huge majority of the people about these fundamental issues. Therefore, both debates must be open-ended.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: What is wrong with Deputy Paul Kehoe?
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am opposing the use of a guillotine.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is to allow the ESM to be installed.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Martin should read his speech made last December.
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I move: That Dáil Ãireann: notes that the inordinate political influence which major developers and big builders exercised in this State over many decades resulting in a wholly inadequate regime of regulation, supervision and inspection in the construction industry, has left a disastrous legacy of defective buildings and major fire hazards, only recently coming to light; further notes in...
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: This comprehensive motion is in the name of the five United Left Alliance Deputies and is supported by ten other Deputies in the Technical Group. It deals with the plight of tens of thousands of home owners who purchased homes in good faith and then, agonisingly, over a period saw these homes disintegrating around them as they were affected by pyrite or the revelation of major non-compliance...
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: That is the implication.
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I will wait until the Minister speaks-----
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----and I will see what level of inspection he will seek and I will ask if, like in Britain, in the North, in the USA and elsewhere, the figure will be 100% inspection because that is the only way we can be sure of compliance. We demand the State should undertake responsibility for remedial work to make the homes safe for residents and then pursue the developers and recoup the costs. That...
- European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Okay. I wish first to denounce the handling of these crucial European Union issues in Dáil Ãireann. The way the Government has approached the debate is scandalously inadequate. The European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 has had approximately four hours of discussion today and, incredibly, the European Stability Mechanism Bill has been allocated approximately four and a half hours...
- European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: We are still waiting for the Lisbon treaty jobs.
- Order of Business (7 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is reckless in the extreme that the Government is proposing, in a single day and with barely 4.5 hours allowed for debate, to ram through Dáil Ãireann the European Stability Mechanism Bill, a Bill that exposes taxpayers to a potential liability of â¬11 billion and taxpayers throughout the European Union to a potential liability of â¬700 billion. This is not to serve as a solidarity...
- European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: The European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012 is entitled a Bill to facilitate in the public interest the establishment of a so-called stability mechanism. This is a false claim. The European Stability Mechanism, ESM, is not being set up in the public interest, that is, the interest of the majority of ordinary citizens in the EU's member states. Rather, it is being set up primarily in the...
- European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012: Second Stage (7 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I have to have more than that, a Cheann Comhairle. I had 12 minutes because my colleague, Deputy Joan Collins, stopped short.