Results 1,141-1,160 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14269/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [14270/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US Administration. [14271/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of the privatisation of the Sellafield nuclear processing plant with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [14278/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (26 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at his meeting with the President of the United States, Mr. George W. Bush. [14281/06]
- Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (26 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 161: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the immediate steps she is taking to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the investigation into complaints made by a person (details supplied) against the early intervention service and the Health Service Executive, north east region in December 2005. [15565/06]
- Written Answers — Semi-State Bodies: Semi-State Bodies (26 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 194: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will extend the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1997 to Coillte. [15596/06]
- Written Answers — Stardust Tragedy: Stardust Tragedy (27 Apr 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 70: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has arranged to meet families bereaved by the Stardust disaster. [14268/06]
- Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Should the Government have started then?
- Leaders' Questions. (3 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The last census was over four years ago. What has the Government been doing for the past four years?
- Departmental Bodies. (3 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14273/06]
- Departmental Bodies. (3 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach aware of a speech made by his colleague, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Cowen, at the second Irish public private partnership policy forum on 5 April 2006? Is it not clear from that speech and from what the Taoiseach himself says that so-called public private partnership is really a flag under which this Government is relentlessly pushing the privatisation of public...
- Departmental Bodies. (3 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: I am illustrating with one or two examples the effects of Government policy because that is how such matters are perceived locally. I want the Taoiseach to be answerable for that. The only reason the Government is driving public private partnerships is for ideological reasons and to facilitate powerful private corporate companies. The experience of the Jarvis schools shows that if schools...
- Energy Resources: Motion. (3 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Written Answers — Professional Qualifications: Professional Qualifications (3 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 207: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on representations from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 concerning the difficulties faced by fully qualified dentists from the Ukraine and other non-EU countries resident here who seek permission to practice as dentists in this State. [16157/06]
- Written Answers — Visa Applications: Visa Applications (3 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 418: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the legal basis of the requirement that a person here on a tourist visa, must return to their country of origin in order to apply for a student visa. [15947/06]
- Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Cad chuige a rinne an Rialtas déileáil leis na comhaltaà móra idirnáisiúnta agus nà ar mhaithe le muintir na hÃireann?
- Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: If the Minister's forebears, even if they were capitalists, showed the same cowardice as him, we would not have an electricity service.
- Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: If the Ceann Comhairle will give me 15 minutes, I will take it. DhÃol an Rialtas gach saibhreas amach.
- Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Hear, hear.