Results 1,021-1,040 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: In the forthcoming week, there will be women from the likes of Somalia and Nigeria seeking permission to make lives here for themselves and their children. Will the Tánaiste give some signal to those people, who have been enduring great trauma like our own people in the United States, that they will be allowed to make a future for themselves?
- Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: They are seeking asylum.
- Order of Business. (9 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: That is a heartless response.
- Written Answers — Stardust Disaster: Stardust Disaster (9 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has arranged to meet families bereaved by the Stardust disaster. [9377/06]
- Public Inquiries. (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he has had communication from the family of murdered solicitor, Mr. Pat Finucane, in relation to the terms of an inquiry. [5506/06]
- Public Inquiries. (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: With all due respect to the Taoiseach, it is not a question of the reassurances he gave anybody and everybody. It is about what Mr. Blair said to the Taoiseach, when they met during the past two weeks, about a full proper public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. How does the Taoiseach interpret the intention of the British Government to hold the inquiry into that murder on the basis of...
- Public Inquiries. (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââif he does not comply with what the majority of Irish people wish in this regard?
- Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: I must move on to a different topic, but yesterday's events show that mocking is catching.
- Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: When former Deputy Desmond O'Malley predicted wrongly that Deputy Michael D. Higgins would go mad if in Government, it was bound to happen to one of his own. I said from this spot three years ago that it was a mistake to allow the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform close that last padded cell in Mountjoy because it might be required for himself. Yesterday's events go to show that....
- Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach reflect on the inglorious record on privatisation of Fianna Fáil and the Progressive Democrats? Eircom involved an orgy of asset stripping and speculation, with huge detriment to investment in that industry. The Irish Sugar privatisation has wiped out the beet industry to be replaced not by small holders from the Third World but sweated sugar. We had the B&I Line...
- Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Dr. Somers said the NTMA can raise up to â¬5 billion and that this money could, in theory, be invested. He said that is a policy issue and not a decision for him to make. He said that simply put, while it is technically possible it is not his call. It is the Government's call. The Government could make the call. A combination of borrowing in this way and leasing is entirely possible to kit...
- Leaders' Questions. (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: He may have moved on at that stage but that is what will happen. Is the Taoiseach aware of the history of New Zealand Air, which was privatised with disastrous consequences and then had to be bought back by the New Zealand state? I ask the Taoiseach to listen to those workers who have been in touch with him and who have shown tremendous commitment to this public asset and will continue to do...
- Written Answers — Health Service Staff: Health Service Staff (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 144: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if the Health Service Executive will be directed to treat home helps on a par with all other health service employees by granting them written terms of employment, eliminating zero hour contracts and by granting both patients and home helps enough hours to ensure a proper service prevails. [10048/06]
- Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 244: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will reverse the decision not to reimburse the current market price of deltacortril tablets under the drugs payment scheme. [10672/06]
- Written Answers — Drugs Payment Scheme: Drugs Payment Scheme (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 245: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason her Department has advised pharmacists to refer persons with prescriptions for deltacortril and prednisolone qualifying for the drugs payment scheme back to their general practitioners to have another tablet prescribed instead. [10673/06]
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 270: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if an investigation will be ordered into the circumstances whereby a baby (details supplied) became profoundly mentally and physically handicapped subsequent to the administration of the three in one vaccine in 1985. [10894/06]
- Written Answers — Oileáin Amach ón gCósta: Oileáin Amach ón gCósta (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 304: To ask the Aire Airgeadais an dtabharfaidh sé tuairisc maidir leis an mBlascaod Mór a oscailt don phobal. [10962/06]
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 342: To ask the Minister for Finance if a company (details supplied) utilised the arrangement whereby it paid no income tax for its employees here. [10900/06]
- Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 373: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if a stamp will issue in honour of Michael Davitt to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death. [10482/06]
- Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (21 Mar 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 701: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has received a request for funding from the Missing in Ireland Support Service. [10970/06]