Results 5,681-5,700 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: There is no dispute about the fact these workers have been abused. This is rife. The Minister’s predecessor was told about it and neither he nor she has dealt with it. The Minister waves CAS in front of me exactly as it was waved in front of me when I exposed the industrial-scale exploitation by GAMA Construction in 2005. Some of the same arguments were made about the tendering...
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: When is the Minister meeting Unite? Is Unite in the delegation?
- Topical Issue Debate: Industrial Disputes (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Minister meet Unite?
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 121. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 173 of 9 October 2014 the number and percentage of the 13,743 Health Service Executive staff on fixed term-specified purpose contracts as of August 2014 were employed through employment agencies; if he will provide details of the fees, total amount and average percentage of employee salary paid to agencies in this...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 131. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on his discussions on the extension of free general practitioner visits to those under six years of age and over 70 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42789/14]
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is not agreed that this issue should be taken without debate. This is a proposal that one Fine Gael member leaves the commission and is replaced by a second, at a time when the majority of the Opposition, the Technical Group and Sinn Féin, have no representation on this commission. This is a fundamental problem, particularly now with the situation faced by the Technical Group where...
- Order of Business (12 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I never made that point before.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Garda Operations (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Minister should condemn the Labour Party for telling lies before the last general election.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is not unprecedented. It was done in the 1970s.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste should apologise-----
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet sub committee on mortgage arrears and credit availability was held; and when the next one is scheduled. [35185/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that the number of mortgages on private homes in arrears continues to be a source of very grave concern? The Central Bank has announced that in quarter 2 about 120,000 mortgages were still in arrears, of which up to 90,000 were in arrears for over 90 days. It is worrying that in quarter 2, 1,752 private principal dwelling houses were in arrears for over 720 days, or...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): JobBridge Scheme (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of JobBridge participants who have worked in his Department. [43816/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): JobBridge Scheme (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: In recent years quite a number of workers have joined the public sector on insecure temporary contracts and have been retained on successive contracts beyond the permissible period. When such workers took legal cases seeking permanent status, they succeeded, but were then granted conditions of employment inferior to those in their original contracts. Are any such workers employed by the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): JobBridge Scheme (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: What is the difference between the scheme and Government policy?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Discussions (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 8. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Economic Recovery and Jobs was last held and when is the next one scheduled for. [35186/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Discussions (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Over recent months, the Taoiseach and his Government have majored on the so-called "recovery" they say has taken place in the economy. There has been endless propaganda from the Government side. Assuming the Taoiseach gets a chance to talk to ordinary people as he goes about the country, do they tell him what they tell us, which is that they do not feel that recovery and that life is still...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I would like clarification of how the Taoiseach intends to deal with No. 19a, the motion on water sector reforms. I assume it is on the Order Paper for tomorrow. When will Members of the Dáil be furnished with that report? For several days Government Ministers have been placing stories on water charges - the changes they propose to make and the alleged good news they propose to give -...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is all over the newspapers already.
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: For example-----