Results 981-1,000 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I know the Ceann Comhairle is waiting to stop me from asking a question before Iââ
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I could see he was holding his breath and waiting to pounce. I suggest the House should revert to its practice during the current Government's first term in office, when the Minister of State with responsibility for social inclusion and drugs problems gave lengthy answers to questions on this matter and Deputies were allowed to ask at greater length about the role of the Cabinet sub-committee...
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I know but, in fairness, if I am confined to just listening to the Taoiseach give us a dateââ
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Yes, but the Taoiseach has responsibility and attends these meetings.
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Why is he answering questions on it then?
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Technically, all the Ceann Comhairle will allow is for the Taoiseach to name a date and all other Deputies to remain in their seats and stay schtum.
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: One cannot ask a supplementary question, in effect.
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: That is ridiculous.
- Cabinet Committees. (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: It would be more honest not to have allowed these questions at all. I asked the Taoiseach a few questions before I was stopped.
- Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (1 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 79: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a medical card holder (details supplied) in Dublin 12 cannot get the cost of dental treatment covered by their medical card. [8314/06]
- Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the use of Shannon Airport by the Commander in Chief of the US armed forces to meet and rally US soldiers involved under his orders in the criminal occupation of Iraq, with cataclysmic consequences for the Iraqi people; whether the Irish Government had prior knowledge of and...
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: A Leas-Cheann Comhairleââ
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Did the Government give prior approval for the rally of US troops at Shannon Airport with their commander-in-chief? What legislative enactment allows Irish soil to be used in a cynical propaganda stunt by an occupation army to facilitate the ongoing invasion of Iraq?
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: They are questions that the majority of our people are asking this morning.
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste should reply for the Government because a huge majority of our people are unhappy with Shannon Airport being usedââ
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: What about all the householders being brought to court tomorrow by developers on foot of management company fees? It is a disgrace. When will the Government do something about it?
- Order of Business. (2 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: As they do not have them in Cahirciveen, I suppose it makes it acceptable.
- EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Mr. Borys Tarasyuk. [5509/06]
- EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received an agenda for the upcoming European Council meeting in Brussels. [5510/06]
- EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: With regard to the Taoiseach's meeting with the Prime Minister of Croatia who has a wholesale plan of privatisation of public assets and as the Taoiseach is somebody who agrees with this right-wing agenda, did they discuss the privatisation drive?