Results 801-820 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins
- Leaders' Questions. (31 May 2006)
Michael D Higgins: That is news also.
- Lisbon Agenda. (31 May 2006)
Michael D Higgins: There is a crisis in regard to the implementation of the Lisbon Agenda. Does the Minister of State agree that the following is the basis of that crisis? In every country, particularly France and Germany, where it has come to the fore, there is a perception that the Lisbon Agenda â adopted in 2000, at its mid-term point in 2005 and due to be completed in 2010 â was a text carefully...
- Lisbon Agenda. (31 May 2006)
Michael D Higgins: Exactly. There is a neglect of cohesion.
- Lisbon Agenda. (31 May 2006)
Michael D Higgins: What of the poverty gap?
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: Home helps.
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: They have all been cut.
- Health (Nursing Homes) (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: I welcome the opportunity of saying a few words on the Bill. Any legislation that addresses the issue of care for the elderly, particularly those who are dependent in any way, is welcome. However, when one considers what is required I must agree with Deputies who have suggested that the Bill takes only a small step. In assessing what is required it is important to define the perspective from...
- Business of Dáil: Motion. (1 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairleââ
- Business of Dáil: Motion. (1 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: Is it proposed to distribute the change to the order?
- Written Answers — Hospital Accommodation: Hospital Accommodation (1 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: Question 36: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the planning which has been done in her Department to give effect to the commitment to deliver 3,000 additional acute hospital beds as outlined in the National Health Strategy, apart from those already provided; the progress which has been made in identifying the regions and specialties where further beds will be located;...
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (1 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: Question 25: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on the call from the Royal College of Surgeons for an improvement in services for breast cancer patients across the State; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that six years on from the publication of a report on the development of services for symptomatic breast disease here that inequalities of access...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2006: Second Stage. (2 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister should use his personal half hour for the amendments.
- Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: I apologise to Deputy Allen. Did the Acting Chairman state that supplementary questions are confined to those who tabled questions?
- Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: I put it to the Minister that he is not in a position to say whether prisoners were transited because he never inspected the planes. When Senator Norris and I met two chief superintendents, they suggested that the legislation which transposed the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment into Irish law did not allow them to enter,...
- Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: The Government is entitled to rely, as regards international law, but the Minister has been advised by the United Nations and the Irish Human Rights Commission that this is a matter in which such assurances should not be relied upon.
- Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: They did so.
- Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: Two cases were brought to the attention of the Garda and they were not investigated.
- Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: I believe the Minister, but two cases were taken to the Garda and they were not investigated.
- Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: What does the Minister have to lose by carrying out an inspection?
- Extraordinary Renditions. (7 Jun 2006)
Michael D Higgins: The Human Rights Commission said "No" in this regard and the Minister is ignoring that.