Results 1,221-1,240 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business. (18 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Perhaps the Tánaiste could show the same compassion to people in a similar situation in this country and apply the same yardstick to them. Will the Tánaiste be precise on the timetable for the publication of the Dalton report because she was not precise in this regard? I accept that those referred to in the report need time to read it and perhaps reply. I am mindful that last year the exact...
- Order of Business. (18 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Committee of Public Accounts is awaiting the publication of that report before it has Bord na gCon in to ask it some hard questions. I want that to happen before the recess of the Dáil. Will the Tánaiste ensure the report is short-circuited? Those involved have had it long enough. Everybody except the taxpayer who has contributed so much to fattening the prizes of the greyhound races...
- Order of Business. (18 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: He has been inclined to wave a red flag recently, in any case.
- Address by the Prime Minister of Australia: Motions. (18 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Australian Prime Minister, Mr. Howard, is not welcome in Ireland. Prime Minister Howard is a warmonger, complicit with Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair in the criminal invasion of Iraq and compliant with the ongoing occupation of Iraq, with Australian troops in that country. Prime Minister Howard is the author of vicious, anti-trade union legislation designed to strip away workers' rights which...
- Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (18 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the primary school situation within the catchment area of the constituency of Dublin west with regard to the number of children seeking places to start primary school in September 2006; the number who currently cannot find places in existing schools; and the actions she will take to ensure that all children have...
- Written Answers — School Placement: School Placement (18 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the action she proposes to take to facilitate children who are being denied places in schools (details supplied) in Dublin 15 due to those other schools being at capacity. [19041/06]
- Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [14280/06]
- Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach the studies currently being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14282/06]
- Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree it is no surprise there is such a significant gap between the employers and workers' representatives with regard to pay levels? For 19 years, so-called social partnership has allowed profits, speculation and rents to rise relentlessly and without restraints, while workers' wages in no way matched them. For example, many hundreds of thousands of workers, particularly...
- Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: It is not incorrect.
- Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: What about MANDATE?
- Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: What about Mr. Howard?
- Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should do so.
- Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach support its trade union laws?
- Leaders' Questions. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: It had everything to do with it. Who is the Taoiseach trying to fool?
- Leaders' Questions. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Shamefully.
- Leaders' Questions. (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: They are not entitled to invade another country.
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 215: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has made a policy decision to introduce newborn hearing screening. [19491/06]
- Written Answers — Hospital Services: Hospital Services (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 216: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has included funding for newborn hearing screening in the budget for the Health Service Executive. [19492/06]
- Written Answers — Hepatitis C Scheme: Hepatitis C Scheme (23 May 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will seek the prompt enactment of legislation to implement an insurance scheme for persons infected with hepatitis C or HIV through provision of contaminated blood or blood products by the State. [19486/06]