Results 5,561-5,580 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will amend the regulations related to the time a person must be in receipt of social welfare payments before being eligible for the back to education allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39866/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Youth Guarantee (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 130. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps that have been taken to date to implement the Youth Guarantee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39867/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funds available to University College Dublin that are ring-fenced for the funding of student societies and clubs. [40450/14]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Water Tariffs: Commission for Energy Regulation (21 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is incredible that the CER does not have this information from a major study by the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Foreshore Licence Applications (22 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 99. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department intervened with Irish Water to secure fresh water supplies for a company (details supplied) to deal with an acute outbreak of disease in their salmon in south Connemara; and if his Department lobbied Irish Water for favourable terms for the delivery of such fresh water. [40656/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (22 Oct 2014)
Joe Higgins: 152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make representations to the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran about the detention of a person (details supplied); his views on outlining Ireland's position on democratic freedoms in the Islamic Republic of Iran; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40639/14]
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 102. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will report on the implementation of the €100 allowance for Irish Water bills through the household benefits package. [41680/14]
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste agree that the €100 benefit against water charges is an utterly inadequate response to the uprising of ordinary people against this latest austerity tax?
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste was not asked about fuel allowances, Christmas bonuses or anything else; she was asked about the crushing new burden her Government has imposed on ordinary people, including poor people. The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and the chief executive of Irish Water made some shape of an apology in the last few days to the Irish people for the...
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The difficulty is that the Tánaiste has reversed everything she said for ten years when she was in opposition, pretending to be the champion of working-class people. Once she got into power, she decided that she would lash another austerity tax on them in the form of water charges and not even look at the millionaires and billionaires who could afford a few hundred million to pay for...
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: People are not stupid and the Tánaiste should not treat them as such. There is an uprising of working-class people out there that the Tánaiste does not seem to recognise, although, admittedly, her Government is dazed, pummelled, punch-drunk and panic-stricken, and so it should be. The Tánaiste is staggering from one crutch to another to extricate herself from the situation....
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The court of Marie Antoinette could not be more out of touch with the suffering and realities of life for ordinary working people than the Labour Party and this Government. The Tánaiste should get real, forget her €100, and abolish the water charges forthwith.
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: What scaremongering?
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Tánaiste take the people for fools?
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: They are the figures from the Commission for Energy Regulation.
- Other Questions: Water Charges Administration (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Get real. Get off the stage.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: He is off again.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach takes the people for idiots. They are not.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should just abolish them, although that will not save his colleagues.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach forgot to mention Ballymore Eustace this time.