Results 5,421-5,440 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, I know but in fairness, the Standing Order of the Dáil should not prevent Members from getting at the real nub of an issue and the truth of the situation.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Employment Data (23 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: In any case, I refer to the horrific statistics the Minister of State has now given for the unemployed. Anything greater than a quarter of a million is horrific, as would be a number a lot less than that. However, were one to add to that the 158,600 people net who have emigrated since 2008, the 100,000 people on so-called labour activation schemes, as well as other categories that are not...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Health Services Access (24 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: 23. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if translation and interpretation services were available to the case of the migrant rape victim known as 'Miss Y' at all stages of her interaction with State services. [35386/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (24 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: 39. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will make immediate improvements to the living conditions and standards in direct provision hostels for those seeking asylum in the State; if she favours ending the system of direct provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35387/14]
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is outrageous.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: She was deliberately fobbed off.
- Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Government should hold a referendum.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: By decree of the Government, in only seven days time it will have another punitive tax on ordinary people in the form of water charges. Is it not incredible that we still do not have the information from the energy regulatory as to what exactly the Government will demand from households? On the social welfare Bill, will the €100 grant the Tánaiste proposes for some categories of...
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Tánaiste realise how insulted people feel that she thinks that makes up for the complete breach of a promise she made at the election that there would be no water tax when, for a family of four, it will be €500 a year? What does the Tánaiste say to people who are fearful of what is coming down the line?
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: Then the Tánaiste is completely out of touch.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste is a disgrace.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is a disgrace.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is absolute rubbish. Irish Water has underestimated the amounts used, and the Taoiseach knows that.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: Five hundred euro for a family of four.
- Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: No, they have not.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet sub-Committee on Public Service Reform took place and when the next meeting is scheduled. [30898/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: In the statement of Government priorities 2014-2016, the Taoiseach said the Government - Fine Gael and Labour - was now setting its key priorities and that priority number five was the rebuilding of trust in politics and public institutions. In the week that is in it, when the Taoiseach wove such a tangled web that he does not really know where he stands by using and abusing a public...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has been in government for three and a half years. Why are the proposals he has just made, which I have not yet had the opportunity to study, being proposed for 1 November, some three and a half years after he stood and promised his democratic revolution and the cleaning up of politics? Both Fine Gael and the Labour Party are up to their necks in the cronyism stakes, with...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is business as usual. This is the same type of patronage and cronyism I have seen going on in Irish politics by the right wing political parties in the State for 40 years. What the Government is doing now is what Mr. Haughey and the rest of them and other Governments did over the past 40 years, yet it is three and a half years into office and it is now promising that from 1 November this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Public Service Reform Plan Update (30 Sep 2014)
Joe Higgins: Did he take Irish Water with him by any chance?