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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the Lebanese Prime Minister and other local officials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26762/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the Middle East. [26763/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach accept that the general policy of Irish Governments towards the Middle East has had zero effect? It has had no beneficial effect on the lives of those suffering in the region. Does the Taoiseach agree that this is the case because this Government and its predecessors subordinated their policies to those of major imperial powers, such as the United States, Britain, and,...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the referenda scheduled for the period ahead. [35179/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will be brief, as I was at the outset. The offering of my colleague here should also be taken.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: In the past few days, some members of Government parties have been speaking about a referendum to keep Irish Water resources in public ownership. What is the Taoiseach's attitude to that? While I am not opposed to it, is the Taoiseach as amazed as I am at the audacity and sheer neck of some of these people, who are responsible for making water a market commodity, therefore, opening it up to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention Recommendations (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Even if they cannot pay?
- Resignation of Member (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It was a very symbolic day. He finally got the message.
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is not agreed. This is the third time in a few weeks that we have had a late sitting in order to do business that is not urgent, when the country is in a state of social insurrection and electoral revolution over the water charges, as we see in Dublin South-West and in Roscommon-South Leitrim, yet we cannot have a debate here on the issue because the Government will not provide the time....
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----to put it up to the Government to abolish this hated tax. They have clarity; they know what they object to-----
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: There was nobody carrying banners saying "We need more clarity". They were people saying "No way; we can't pay," and "Enda Kenny, not a penny." Can we give the Taoiseach a message, if he has not got it from the streets already-----
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Give us the time we need now to discuss this critical issue, which our people are demanding be dealt with here by abolishing this hated bondholder tax.
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I asked the Taoiseach specifically and I am entitled to an answer, according to Standing Orders. When will we get to discuss the issue-----
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----that the people are talking about incessantly?
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Ní fhreagair an Taoiseach an cheist, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Cathain a bheidh am againn díospóireacht a dhéanamh faoin rud seo, faoi uisce na hÉireann?
- Order of Business (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Ní bhfuaireas freagra. I did not get an answer.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Household Benefits Scheme (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 127. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the impact of possible future water poverty on the social protection budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41681/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Supply (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 397. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department intervened with local authorities or other organisations to secure fresh water supplies for a company (details supplied) to deal with an acute outbreak of disease in its salmon in south Connemara; and if his Department lobbied any organisation for favourable terms for the delivery of such fresh water. [41039/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (4 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 596. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the provision of medical treatment in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and his further views on the waiting lists at the hospital. [41032/14]