Results 1,101-1,120 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââthe difference between Stalinism and democratic socialism.
- Agreements with Members. (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Was the Taoiseach in a position to offer Deputy Healy-Rae a search party to locate his missing pony recently or did he make any request in that regard?
- Standards in Public Office. (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he intends to amend the code of conduct for office holders. [10201/06]
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Management companies in apartments must be regulated. However, this is only half a Bill because it is confined to apartments but the problem is also critical in housing estates. Since Deputy Catherine Murphy and I raised this matter last Autumn it has, thankfully, been opened up to public discussion. Management companies are being foisted on young people purchasing their first home. In turn,...
- Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2006: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a national hearing screening programme for all newborn babies in view of the fact that the failure to introduce this screening is causing serious lifelong disadvantage to deaf children arising from late diagnosis of deafness and consequent delay in receiving essential support services and in further...
- Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: I wonder if ex-Taoisigh can avail of the money advice and budgeting service concerning the organisation of personal financesââ
- Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââconsidering the utter bewilderment of the former Taoiseach, Mr. Albert Reynolds, about whether he had a few â¬100,000 invested in property.
- Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: The nation is wondering. What hope do poor people have if the MABS cannot look after their investments?
- Written Answers — Vetting of Personnel: Vetting of Personnel (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 152: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will take immediate steps to ensure that a mandatory obligation is placed on every organisation working with children to carry out comprehensive vetting procedures on the employment or contracting of staff. [14200/06]
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 309: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason a person, who is here on a tourist visa, must return to their country of origin if they decide to make an application to remain in Ireland on a student visa. [13978/06]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 356: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, given that her Department is ultimately responsible for the welfare and protection of children, she will take immediate action to guarantee health and safety and child protection standards for children with special needs in cases where Bus Ãireann contracts out its school transport to taxi drivers. [14199/06]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 401: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, given that her Department is ultimately responsible for school transport and contracts out the provision of school transport to Bus Ãireann, she will take immediate action to guarantee heath and safety and child protection standards for children with special needs in cases where Bus Ãireann contracts out its school transport to...
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 402: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will abolish the practice of Bus Ãireann handing over responsibility of school transport to taxi drivers or hackney drivers and introduce instead an appropriate bus service. [14205/06]
- Written Answers — School Transport: School Transport (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 403: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if, until she introduces an appropriate school bus service for the transport of all special needs children, she will immediately introduce an escort, qualified and trained to work with special needs children, to accompany children whose school transport has been contracted out to taxi and hackney drivers at all times during their...
- Written Answers — Child Protection: Child Protection (6 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 404: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take immediate steps to ensure that a mandatory obligation is placed on every organisation working with children to carry out comprehensive vetting procedures on the employment or contracting of staff. [14207/06]
- Commemorative Events. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the preparations for the commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. [14272/06]
- Commemorative Events. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Was it not breathtaking hypocrisy for the Taoiseach's Government to pretend to honour those who fought in 1916 when the Proclamation for which they fought, although certainly not a socialist document despite the presence of the great socialist, James Connolly, asserted the ownership of Ireland by the people? Does it not fly completely in the face of the spirit of that that his Government is...
- Sport and Recreational Development. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 61: To ask the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will make a submission to Fingal County Council regarding the lands at Abbotstown and the county council study to determine a suitable mix of sporting and appropriate commercial, leisure and amenity uses in order to create a vibrant and sustainable sports campus; and if he will investigate the possibility of opening up these...
- Sport and Recreational Development. (25 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: I do not want the Minister to pre-empt the outcome of the study, but I would like him to elaborate on the development of the Abbotstown lands from the viewpoint of having them opened as a residential amenity for residents of the greater Blanchardstown and wider area. Does the Minister agree that greater Blanchardstown is growing at an unprecedented rate, with thousands of residential units...