Results 1,561-1,580 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I might as well come in with an algebraic formula and put it in front of the Taoiseach if we are not allowed to utter a single word outside of the Ceann Comhairle's extremely narrow definition of what is in order. Does the Taoiseach think, and is there any suggestion, that within the European Union, which claims to be a zone where human rights are respected, there should be a common position...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Hundreds of decent people from County Monaghan again braved the cold and inconvenience to make yet another trek to Leinster House to ask the Government to maintain crucial services at Monaghan General Hospital. Deputy Connolly has championed the community in County Monaghan time and again on this issue, to great effect. We want the Taoiseach to clarify exactly where the Government stands on...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Teamwork report, commissioned by the HSE, is supposed to be driving this process but it states no services should be removed from local hospitals until better services are in their place. However, the downgrading of Monaghan General Hospital within two years will mean acute patients will be pushed off to the hospitals in Cavan and Drogheda which currently account for 20% of the national...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I should have referred to the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. Does the Taoiseach stand for the agenda of the Minister or for the absolutely reasonable demands of the people of County Monaghan?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: The problem is that for several years the Taoiseach has backed and facilitated the extreme right-wing ideology of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and her party, the Progressive Democrats, in crucial areas of the health service. He has even done so by not restoring the thousands of beds ruthlessly cut from the system in the 1980s and by allowing cowboys â speculators...
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 305: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a vaccination against pneumococcal meningitis onto the childhood immunisation schedule as a matter of urgency. [41563/06]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 419: To ask the Minister for Transport if and when he will re-open the disused Mullingar to Athlone rail line. [41572/06]
- Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 464: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will meet a group (details supplied). [41193/06]
- Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 465: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make funding available to a group (details supplied). [41194/06]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 485: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will change the regulations governing higher education grants in order that students granted permission to remain in the State on the basis of having an Irish born sibling may be eligible for grant assistance. [41334/06]
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: An important new record was set this morning when it took two hours and 25 minutes for the 39A bus to come from Ongar to the city centre, a journey of 12 miles.
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Any crash, big or small, around north-west Dublin creates instant gridlock for 20 miles.
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Yes.
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I refer to the Dublin transport authority Bill. I will not ask the Taoiseach whether he is embarrassed by the catastrophic infrastructural void the day after the budget.
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Massive resources were available for emergency action. When will emergency action be taken to save our people from a breakdown?
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I did not hear the Taoiseach's reply because it was not deliveredââ
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: If the Taoiseach stood up and replied properly and maybe addressed the critical issue that has our people on the verge of breakdownââ
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââwe might get some action here.
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the workers made redundant from the Irish Glass Bottle Company are to receive moneys from the sale of the site on which the company was located. [42136/06]
- Written Answers — Job Losses: Job Losses (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 134: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the legislative situation which allowed a company or its successor (details supplied) to hive off its main asset, the site on which the company was located, and plead that there were no assets to make redundancy payments to the workforce. [42137/06]