Results 5,661-5,680 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Then the Taoiseach sends in heavy detachments of gardaí who manhandle men and women who are conducting peaceful protests.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach not believe that issue should be addressed?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The people cannot get a garda when they need one and they must wait for hours. Instead of having properly resourced community gardaí under the people's democratic control and management, resources are being misdirected in the manner I have described. This is an outrage and the Taoiseach had better address it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The people do not want the Government's meters.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is responsible for it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: But the Taoiseach is responsible for it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is responsible.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Before I agree the proposal, agree not to oppose it, or propose a variation on it, could I ask the Taoiseach to tell us when precisely we will have the promised debate on water charges?
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, but a Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, but-----
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I can either oppose it or propose a variation on the order on the basis that other issues should be discussed.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will raise the matter on the Order of Business then.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Could I ask a question on the same issue?
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: With regard to promised Dáil business and sittings, will the Taoiseach tell me precisely when will we have the promised debate on the water charging regime he intends to continue to enforce on our people? I ask him to please not tell me it is when the Government has finished its deliberations.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is a start. I ask the Taoiseach to elaborate. We are six weeks into a charging regime and vulnerable and scared people-----
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----do not even know what the Taoiseach will be looking for. I ask him to say which day next week we will have a decision and a debate.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will we have the debate on Wednesday?
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is an absolute outrage that working men - it could be women in other circumstances - are forced to come to this House of Parliament, this Dáil, to ask the Government to implement its own writ in regard to how publicly-funded construction contracts, such as schools, hospitals and so on, should be managed to ensure that workers' rights and tax compliance are fully above board. What we...
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister had better get real on this issue because we are going to step up the legitimate pressure for justice for these workers and for others in similar situations. The Minister read a script that any Fine Gael Minister could have done just as well.