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- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: Yesterday in the greater Dublin area, the Christmas 2006 Operation Freeflow began. Unfortunately for hard-pressed commuters, whether travelling on private or public transport, it was scarcely noticed this year. It was more a question of operation no-go, as usual. People neither arrived earlier to work nor home to their families. As an example, as usual this morning, it took 30 minutes to...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: Most movements observed in that time related to the moving arms of trainee gardaÃ, frantically trying to push the traffic forward, but there was nowhere for it to go. Had the most famous stable in history been sited on the Blanchardstown roundabout, Mary and Joseph would have got quicker from Mulhuddart on their ass this morning than their unfortunate fellow travellers, all of 2,000 years...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach own up to the responsibility first of all, which would be a start? Operation Freeflow had an effect ten years ago. Today it is irrelevant. Before our people have a collective breakdown induced by gridlock, will the Taoiseach introduce emergency investment and measures in the immediate weeks and months ahead? Double the buses in the cities and the quality bus corridors....
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: What will happen on the M50 in a few weeks' time, when thousands of trucks will be jammed onto it from the port tunnel?
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: This area is already jam-packed for hours every day. What is to happen to the tens of thousands of commuters who must cross the M50 to travel to and from work and who will be caught in a further incredible log-jam? The Taoiseach still allows building to proceed without the infrastructure. I welcome the Adamstown initiative for the new community there. However areas such as Ongar and...
- Leaders' Questions (28 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââ is the same. Can the Taoiseach, in concrete and realistic terms, tell Members and the hard-pressed working people in such areas, who pay their taxes and who commute and struggle to work, what will be changed substantially by the Government's action within the next six months? What will change to make life somewhat more comfortable for them, to waste less time on gridlocked roads and...
- Written Answers — Corporate Hospitality: Corporate Hospitality (28 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 311: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he has been given the name of a civil servant who is alleged to have accepted corporate hospitality during the World Cup 2006 from a party associated with the consortium which holds the licence to develop the Corrib gas field. [40537/06]
- Written Answers — Industrial Disputes: Industrial Disputes (28 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 320: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way a company (details supplied) was able to plead inability to pay redundancy to its workers but was able to hive off its main asset, the site on which the company was situated. [40054/06]
- Written Answers — Pupil-Teacher Ratio: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (30 Nov 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will take urgent measures to reduce class sizes at a school (details supplied) in Dublin 15 as some classes have over 33 students. [40936/06]
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the recent EU summit in Finland. [35936/06]
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: At the main discussions or in any of the side meetings did the Taoiseach discuss with the EU Heads of State the practice which disturbed many people in the EU in recent times of the CIA and US intelligence agencies kidnapping individuals and bringing them to the Guantanamo gulag or other places to be tortured? Recently, the Taoiseach was quoted in the Irish press as stating that last St....
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: The question is clear. The Taoiseach stated, "I looked at the great President Bushââ
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I agree. I object to any attempt to thrust greatness on President Bush, the man responsible for one of the biggest disasters in our time.
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: The question is that the Taoiseach stated he looked at President Bush, and asked him whether he could be sure to be sure that so-called "extraordinary renditions" did not involve this country. He was assured this was the case.
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Yes. Ireland was part of the European Union the last time I looked. It isââ
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: This must be one of the most meaningful glances in the history of the State in the sense that an entire abuse of civil rights, which involved the European Unionââ
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: That is really intolerable.
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I am sorry. The Ceann Comhairle is intruding into the body of my question which is relevant, appropriate and in order. I asked theââ
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: It is in order. I can read Standing Orders for myself. I asked the Taoiseach whether he discussed with EU leaders at the meeting the involvement of countries of the European Union in extraordinary renditions. Is that in order?
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I did not make a Second Stage speech.