Results 901-920 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: An extremely good cara to the speculators. How can workers take this seriously, against the background of the Government giving â¬5 billion in tax breaks to speculators and the super-wealthy? At the same time, the Government is now jeopardising 800 workers' jobs in the Great Southern Hotel Group as it prepares to hand the group over to the asset strippers through privatisation. On many...
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââa fraud. How does the Taoiseach reconcile the fact that for example, there is no inclusion of the massive increase in house prices in the reckoning of inflation in these talks, when it is now crucifying tens of thousands of young PAYE workers? How can we take any of this process seriously?
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: That is incredible. I do not believe my ears.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: This is unreal.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: More houses were built in the bleak 1980s than are being built now.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: There are 50,000 families on the housing list. Is the Taoiseach aware of this?
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: The fumes from that orchid must have gone to the Taoiseach's head because he is delirious, as he said yesterday about the Opposition. He is wandering in aââ
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Gray wrote that, not Shelley.
- Social Partnership. (8 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Flagship is very importantââ
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the PSNI Chief Constable, Sir Hugh Orde. [1854/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 23: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [1855/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 24: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1857/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 25: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [1858/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 26: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US administration. [1859/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: I know the Taoiseach will not heed my advice to boycott any visit to President Bush this year but will he have any new proposals to put forward at his meeting with the US President with regard to the tens of thousands of Irish citizens living clandestinely in the United States? Shall the Taoiseach seek clarification on the President's reasons for misleading him with regard to the reasons for...
- Written Answers — Tribunals of Inquiry: Tribunals of Inquiry (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 130: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the costs to his Department during 2005 of the Mahon tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1873/06]
- Written Answers — Public Transport: Public Transport (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 339: To ask the Minister for Finance if the Office of Public Works has received requests from Bus Ãireann to allow bus routes from Dublin 15 to the city centre through the Phoenix Park; and the response of the Office of Public Works. [5170/06]
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 415: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if the situation will be changed whereby lone parents participating in community education initiatives have their training allowance, above a â¬60 disregard, assessed for rent supplement thus completely negating the recent â¬10 increase in training allowance, just under one third of the entire training allowance being taken off...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 416: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if lone parents participating in community education initiatives will be allowed to retain all of their supplementary benefits. [5371/06]
- Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Was the Taoiseach's attention drawn to an assertion that an astounding 70,000 to 120,000 construction workers are being criminally denied their legal and mandatory pension rights by construction bosses, which means that, apart from losing pension entitlements, they are deprived of death in service benefits and sickness benefits? It was not a revolutionary socialist or a trade union activist...