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Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: I have six minutes. There was some confusion earlier but I will not go over six minutes.

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: I will not waste any more time. The motion recognises that oil and gas are finite resources, and that the burning of oil and gas for energy is a crucial factor in global warming, a threat to our environment which nobody can ignore. Therefore, the motion calls for massive investment in alternative sources of energy, which this Government has been pathetically laggardly in doing over the past...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: I will make my final point. The attitude of this Government is clearly seen in the treatment of the community of Rossport. It refuses to compel Shell, to whom it has given the fabulous wealth of gas and oil off the Mayo coast, to extract oil and gas in a way that does not threaten the community. It was scandalous that five residents had to go to jail to defend their community. Now the...

Energy Resources: Motion (Resumed). (4 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Shell will again be in conflict with the people of Rossport and north Mayo. The sympathy of the Irish people will be with the residents when they again resist these predators to who the Government has handed our entire fabulous oil and gas wealth.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: The key question is who will get the centenarian vote.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Eighty people in a two-bedroomed house.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Why should it not apply to all citizens?

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: That means even at 100 years of age they are second class citizens in the State. This is ridiculous.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Ceann Comhairle, may we have clarification of that issue?

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: A clarification will only take a second. Is the Taoiseach saying that an Irish citizen who is over 100 years of age, is not entitled to the bounty if he or she was not born in Ireland? I hope this is not what he is saying. It would mean that one could be a second class citizen even when over 100 years of age. I hope this is not the case.

Centenarian Bounty. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: No, I am not offering.

Northern Ireland Issues. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach the steps he intends to take following the report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women's Rights concerning the establishment of a commission of investigation into the murder of Mr. Séamus Ludlow. [16030/06]

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: There will be a few High Court judgments along the way, just like after the Gama Construction report was published.

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: The disgusting trafficking into Ireland of young women from parts of eastern Europe for enslavement and prostitution was highlighted on RTE's "Prime Time Investigates" last night. The most urgent action possible is needed to stop this barbarism——

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——and to take the barbarians out of our society.

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: I am asking the Taoiseach to tell me and the Dáil when legislation to outlaw——

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: ——this criminal trafficking, which is a modern form of slavery, will be introduced. Why has the Government been so laggardly on this issue so far?

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: We need clarification.

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: I am not debating the issue.

Order of Business. (9 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: I am sorry, but the Taoiseach's comments were misinformed.