Results 1,001-1,020 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: With regard to the future of the discussion on Europe and the future of the proposed EU constitution, the next Council meeting will be half-way through the Austrian Presidency which was scheduled to resolve this issue. What is the present thinking regarding a plan of action or a timescale among EU leaders for this debate on the proposed EU constitution? Will it be this year? When the...
- EU Summits. (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: What is positive about driving up prices for the locals?
- Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he had prior knowledge of the visit of US President, George W. Bush, to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9325/06]
- Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he authorised the commander in chief of a foreign army to conduct a meeting in Shannon Airport with US troops under his command who are in military occupation of another country. [9326/06]
- Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 317: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he was consulted beforehand on the meeting between US President George W. Bush and United States' troops at Shannon Airport. [9327/06]
- Written Answers — Visiting Dignitaries: Visiting Dignitaries (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 475: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of security arrangements for the visit of US President, Mr. George W. Bush, to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006. [9344/06]
- Written Answers — Visiting Dignitaries: Visiting Dignitaries (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 476: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaà deployed as part of the security arrangements for the visit of US President, Mr. George W. Bush, to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006. [9345/06]
- Written Answers — Visiting Dignitaries: Visiting Dignitaries (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 477: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he had prior knowledge of the visit of US President, Mr. George W. Bush, to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006. [9346/06]
- Written Answers — Presidential Visit: Presidential Visit (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 567: To ask the Minister for Defence the cost of security arrangements for the visit of US President Mr. George W. Bush to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006. [9328/06]
- Written Answers — Presidential Visit: Presidential Visit (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 568: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of Army personnel deployed as part of the security arrangements for the visit of US President Mr. George W. Bush to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006. [9329/06]
- Written Answers — Presidential Visit: Presidential Visit (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 569: To ask the Minister for Defence if he had prior knowledge of the visit of US President Mr. George W. Bush to Shannon Airport on 1 March 2006. [9330/06]
- Written Answers — Departmental Documents: Departmental Documents (7 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 570: To ask the Minister for Defence if, in view of the fact that the High Court order made on 27 July 2005 quashed the report of the Judge Advocate General from the inquiry into the documentation held by the Department of the Defence and by the Defence Forces into the retirement of a person (details supplied) in 1969 and in further view of the fact that Mr. Justice Quirke of the...
- Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: What is the Tánaiste's position on the latest pandemic of donations amnesia to afflict her Fianna Fáil partners in Government? Is it convincing that the Chief Whip of her Government could forget to tell the planning tribunal about a £2,000 donation from a wealthy landownerââ
- Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: With respect, I am not holding a parallel tribunal.
- Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I am referring to the fact that items have come into the public domain and are admitted and certain. They are in the political domain. It is a nonsense if the Ceann Comhairle says that this Parliament cannot discuss it.
- Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I ask the Tánaiste if it is of any concern to her that last week she said she discussed suspicions of corruption in Dublin County Council in the 1990s with Deputy Kitt and others. I know these were the most torrid days in the history of Dublin County Council because I was there. Speculators and bag men were crashing into each other as they arrived with donations to politicians. The Chief...
- Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Of course the Tánaiste has confidence in the Chief Whip because she herself accepted political donations from speculators. The Tánaiste cannot evade responsibility for the consequences of the ethos which her Government has inculcated into Irish society. Has it ever occurred to the Tánaiste that the escalating cruelty and sheer callousness towards the fate of others, witnessed on the mean...
- Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Nonsense.
- Leaders' Questions. (8 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Taking money from speculators is not honest fundraising.
- Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: On the same subject, thousands of Irish people demonstrated in Washington DC yesterday, and their illegal status is the cause of massive trauma in their lives because of the uncertainty of their awful situation. I ask the Tánaiste if the Taoiseach and Minister for Foreign Affairs will bring any fresh proposals to Washington DC in order to have a right for tens of thousands of our people in...