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- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: This very morning the Government has thrown thousands of Aer Lingus workers to the multinational wolves, on stock exchanges around the world. Yesterday, the Government had gardaà pushing the decent people of Rossport around the place at the behest of the Shell Oil corporation.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: At every hand's turn the Taoiseach has facilitated the powerful and the very wealthy. Therefore it is no surprise that wealthy businessmen should cough up â¬50,000 to him. What is shocking is that the Taoiseach still apparently does not see that a Minister for Finance taking large amounts of cash from businessmen is by any objective yardstick a massive conflict of interest. The Taoiseach...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââto tell him to pay back the â¬50,000. It was at the very least a catastrophic failure of political judgment. It further beggars belief that he could not give it back. Did the Taoiseach ever hear of a bank draft? This morning it took me two minutes to draft the letter the Taoiseach could send with it: Ah Jaysus lads, you'll have me in huge trouble if you don't take back the...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Finally, we had the hapless Deputy Callely. A businessman gave his house a slap of paint.
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: That caused the Taoiseach to show him the door, while he walked away with the whole house. By those standards, should the Taoiseach not go after the former Minister of State, Deputy Callely?
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: I do not think it is a bit of fun, but sometimes one has to resort to ridicule to show the untenable position the Taoiseach is holding onto with his explanations. The Taoiseach is not the only person who has to offer an explanation to the House. In the face of patronage, cronyism and double standards we have the Trappist-like silence from the Tánaiste and leader of the Progressive...
- Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Far from standing up for standards, he is sitting neatly beside the Taoiseach today. Admittedly, his demeanour is rather tombstone like, without the moonlight even. However, since his appointment two weeks ago, Deputy McDowell is trying to work hard to have us believe he has no previous history in Government, that he has not been in Government for ten years, and that he has no...
- Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [28157/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [28158/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 27: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [29211/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 28: 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. [29213/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 29: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [29214/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 30: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US Administration. [29215/06]
- Northern Ireland Issues. (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 31: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Governor of Florida, Mr. Jeb Bush. [29217/06]
- Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 405: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied) in County Offaly. [29751/06]
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 462: To ask the Minister for Finance the plans which have been made for the Department of Defence offices in Parkgate Street, Dublin 8, following decentralisation. [28166/06]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 1098: To ask the Minister for Transport if he will re-open the Kells to Navan section of the old Navan rail line. [28975/06]
- Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 1208: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will resist attempts to dismantle the Mallow sugar factory and what remains of the Carlow sugar factory and instead investigate the potential for the future re-structured use of these factories, for example in bio-fuel production. [29728/06]
- Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 1209: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will study the EC Council Sugar Regulations published in January 2006 which provide for aiding and assisting Member States in transitional measures, diversification and re-structuring. [29729/06]
- Written Answers — Alternative Energy Projects: Alternative Energy Projects (27 Sep 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 1210: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to the fact that Mr. Klaus Dieter Borchardt, head of the EU Sugar Reform section, is on record as favouring the conversion of Ireland's former sugar factories for ethanol production. [29730/06]