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Order of Business (18 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: With regard to the business to be conducted in the Dáil between now and tomorrow evening when this session ends, many stressed homeowners will hope the report to be released today on the pyrite disaster will provide for a resolution to the nightmare and mental anguish they have suffered as a result of being innocent victims of negligence on the part of sections of the construction industry....

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: Ní cheart Bille na Gaeltachta a bhrú tríd an Dáil inniu. Molaim go leanfaidh an díospóireacht ar aghaidh go dtí an fómhar ionas gur féidir linn an reachtaíocht a phlé níos faide. Chuir mé fáilte roimh an cinneadh a dhein an Rialtas an Bille seo a thógaint isteach. Tá an-chuid daoine dáiríre sa Ghaeltacht, eagraíochtaí Gaeltachta agus eagraíochtaí Gaeilge go...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: Má tá aon dóchas gur féidir moill a chur ar bánú na Gaeltachta, atá ag tarlú i láthair na huaire, agus polasaithe a thabhairt chun cinn agus a chur i bhfeidhm ionas go mbeidh saol na Gaeltachta faoi bhláth arís, caithfear smaoineamh domhain a dhéanamh ar conas is féidir é sin a dhéanamh. Conas is féidir linn cumas labhartha na Gaeilge a fheabhsú ar fud na tíre freisin?...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: I cannot hear myself, a Cheann Comhairle.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: The little elves of Fine Gael and Labour have no need to worry. I will not engage in the posturing that their elders engaged in here for 12 years on the issue of the Adjournment.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: I want a variation of this, a Cheann Comhairle, because it is not possible that this Dáil rises today with the warnings and the-----

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----threats by the IMF against the elderly and the unemployed ringing in our ears and screaming headlines about attacking unemployment, the elderly etc.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste tried to make a distinction this morning between the IMF on the one hand-----

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----as part of the troika and Article 4.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: The person making the warnings and threatening the levels of unemployment payment etc.-----

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----is the head of the IMF mission whom I met as part of the troika. Unless he or the IMF are suffering from acute policy schizophrenia we have to take it seriously.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: We should either have an opportunity today to make statements on that or the Tánaiste should state that there will not be these attacks on the most vulnerable people in our society.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: I have the newspaper here.

Order of Business (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: Deputy Shatter, you will die laughing from your own joke if you are not careful.

Gaeltacht Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: Go gairid, a Cheann Comhairle.

Gaeltacht Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: Tá agus táim ag rá go gairid gur tús maith é an Bille seo a thabhairt isteach agus is é tús maith leath na hoibre. Ach an dara leath an rud is tábhachtaí anois. Tá fadhb leis an dara leath toisc nach bhfuil an Rialtas sásta éisteacht le heagraíochtaí na Gaeltachta agus daoine go bhfuil an Ghaeilge ina gcroí acu maidir le hathruithe gur ceart a dhéanamh don Bhille seo. Ní...

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: I move amendment No. 20: In page 13, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following: "(2) Section 26(2)(b) of the Act of 1997 is amended by deleting the words "Trade Union".". The point of this amendment is that for the purposes of making political donations, a trade union should not be considered as a corporation in the same way, for example, as a major bank, a major multinational...

Electoral (Amendment) (Political Funding) Bill 2011 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: What about the other point made?

Written Answers — Passport Applications: Passport Applications (19 Jul 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 22: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason widows and widowers are required to provide a sworn affidavit to support their claims of sole guardianship when applying for new passports for their children when this is not the case for parents whose spouses are still alive. [36550/12]