Results 5,361-5,380 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Is there a brass plate somewhere in Malta carrying the name of this company?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Does the company have any physical presence whatsoever in Malta? Do we know?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Collapse of Setanta Insurance: Central Bank and Department of Finance (9 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: It was in the attic of somebody's house, by the look of it.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (10 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 23. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the amount by which casualisation, internships - both private and Government-sponsored - and temporary working in the labour market have increased since 2007; if his Department will seek to obtain statistics on the growth of zero-hour contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29936/14]

Business of Dáil (11 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: The Government dares to come in with this pitiful amount of time to debate what we are told is to be a radical new policy direction and an almost new Government. The Labour Party had a full six weeks to discuss the disastrous perdition into which it has put our country over the past three years in terms of austerity and to discuss the leader on whose back they might pull themselves out of...

Business of Dáil (11 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: So radical is the Labour Party's approach that its members think it will save them from the gates of perdition at the next election. We have not had sight of that, yet we are supposed to speak in an informed manner on it.

Business of Dáil (11 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: I am asking for more time for all Members who wish to contribute, and also that we be given the documents so that we can have 15 minutes to see the policy proposals that are supposed to turn around the ship and its disastrous course of austerity that has been inflicted on people over three and a half years. That is only fair.

Nomination of Members of the Government: Motion (11 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: This Fine Gael-Labour Party Government was tried, convicted and condemned by the ordinary people of this State at the ballot box on 23 May. Today, however, instead of expressions of remorse and a declaration of major changes to take us away from the disastrous austerity policy, we got rhetoric as usual and a continuation of destructive austerity that has wreaked havoc on our society in order...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings of the Cabinet committee on European Affairs held since the winter recess. [19934/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: I ask the Taoiseach to restate briefly the role of the European affairs committee of the Cabinet. Does it have any particular role with regard to the issue of the retrospective repayment by the European banking system of the tens of billions of euro with which the Irish people were forced, by the institutions of the European Union and the European Central Bank, to bail out Irish and European...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Any indiscriminate firing towards a civilian population is utterly taboo. However, they have not killed anybody, thankfully, but nearly 200 Palestinians have died. Is it not incredible that a State that is supposedly democratic and civilised and is put forward as such by the European Union and United States believes it is okay to massacre innocent relatives - women, men and children - when...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Retirement of Garda Commissioner (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he had any communication with former Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan before his resignation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30902/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Retirement of Garda Commissioner (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: The question put to the Taoiseach pertained to the role that he played in communications with the former Garda Commissioner prior to the latter's resignation. As the Taoiseach did not answer the question, can he tell us what was his role and what were the reasons for the communication? He knew that the Commissioner would have no option but to resign in view of the messages sent through the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the number of meetings held of the Cabinet Committee on Justice. [19935/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: Could the Cabinet committee take on the following issue? Substantial numbers of people in this State feel they have been grievously wronged, and many have, by elements of the justice system, the Garda, the Judiciary, solicitors etc. and that they have no redress and come up against blank walls. Lives are ruined. I am sure the Taoiseach receives letters from people, whose lives are ruined...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Data (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 77. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of investigations that have taken place following complaints made by interns on the JobBridge scheme; the number of these that resulted in a finding against a host organisation; the number of companies that have been banned from the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30935/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 83. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of people affected by the transition from the one parent family payment; the progress she has made on the introduction of safe, affordable and accessible child care as was promised at the time the change in one parent family payment was announced in April 2012. [30936/14]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Staff Data (15 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: 118. To ask the Taoiseach the number of public sector workers who are on temporary contracts or other non-permanent contracts of employment in his Department. [30710/14]

Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: I too agree with the objection to the conclusion of the Dáil today on the basis that the atrocities in Gaza absolutely must be discussed. I also oppose the adjournment while the housing crisis causes ever more suffering in this country. At 4.30 yesterday afternoon three thugs arrived at the home of a vulnerable mother and family in Castleknock-----

Order of Business (17 Jul 2014)

Joe Higgins: -----ripped out their front door and took it away on the orders of their landlord.