Results 601-620 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: We would have liked to have heard more from the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment last night on the issue I wish to raise. He is very voluble this morning. After three hours of Private Members' debate on the initiative of the Independent Deputies and me, we still do not know whether the Government intends to introduce legislation to outlaw the disgusting strategy of Irish Ferries...
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: ââwith exploited labour.
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Will we have legislation?
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Will the Tánaiste make up for her own instrumentality in bringing exploiters like Gama here by at least trying to save the Irish Ferries workers? Is the answer "no"?
- Order of Business. (13 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: What is the answer, a Cheann Comhairle?
- Public-Private Partnerships. (18 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by the interdepartmental team on infrastructure and public-private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25342/05]
- Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: In recent years, many local authorities, when giving planning permission for new residential communities, are dictating that crucial public services, such as water supply, sewerage systems, road repairs, public lighting and care of public open spaces, are maintained by private management companies rather than the local authorities themselves.
- Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: This is becoming the standard in the Dublin local authorities, County Kildare and a number of other areas. The upshot is that mainly young working people buying their first homes are saddled with huge management company fees of up to â¬500 or more in the case of apartmentsââ
- Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: ââwhich are demanded by the companies for these services on top of their mortgages, child care and transport costs. Tyrellstown in Fingal is a new community of 2,000 homes built in the past four years and will have a population of 5,000 or 6,000 soon, which is the size of many medium sized towns around the State. It is twice the size of Dingle town, for example, or perhaps I should say An...
- Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: However, by the underhanded means by which the local authorities effect this wholesale privatisation of services, the management companies are foisted on the householders and a new local tax is levied. This is a significant inequity because in neighbouring estates built a few years earlier that may include a "millionaires row", services from the local authorities are provided through general...
- Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Unelected managers of local authorities impose this as a condition and the fundamental inequity is that young people now purchasing a home under great duress and at high cost are saddled with a local tax of between â¬500 and â¬1,000 per year. In the first five years it is payable to the developer to clean up his or her act and finish the estate so they can move on. Kilnamanagh was an...
- Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: They have been mentioned elsewhere. Under this system, in the example illustrated by the Taoiseach these particular developers would get fees for 20 years. The inequity is compounded by the fact that management companies' contracts are presented to young house buyers at the same time as they sign contracts for their new homes. That is a time of immense stress and the contracts are signed...
- Leaders' Questions. (19 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: They work down the road.
- Regulatory Reform. (19 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the OECD Report on Regulatory Reform. [25356/05]
- Written Answers — Physical Education Facilities: Physical Education Facilities (20 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 192: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funding will be made available for a sports hall in a school (details supplied) in Dublin which has been approved since 2000. [29992/05]
- Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (20 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 193: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if the necessary funds will be made available to carry out the necessary structural and refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) in Dublin. [29993/05]
- Written Answers — Multi-denominational Schools: Multi-denominational Schools (20 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make available to Educate Together the finances it has requested to underpin the need for such schools in the State and if the development of multi-denominational education will be put on a statutory footing. [29994/05]
- Written Answers — Schools Building Projects: Schools Building Projects (20 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 195: To ask the Minister for Education and Science her Department's provision and timetable to cater for primary education for the massive new development on the site of the former Phoenix Park racecourse. [29995/05]
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach endorse the overweening arrogance of the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, Deputy Noel Dempsey, who last week insulted, bullied and threatened 8,000 postal workers because they dared to exercise a democratic right to vote for industrial action over a pay dispute? Does he endorse that Minister's threat to privatise the postal service because post...
- Leaders' Questions. (25 Oct 2005)
Joe Higgins: There has been routine replacement of unionised jobs and rates of pay by semi-slave labour. Will the Taoiseach instruct An Post to pay its workers and pensioners what they are due and to separate this payment from other negotiations on the postal services? Will the Taoiseach introduce legislation to outlaw the replacement of established jobs with semi-bonded labour, and the grotesque...