Results 2,061-2,080 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins

Higher Education Grants. (17 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Will he get his grant?

Higher Education Grants. (17 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: He is not excluded under Article 4.5.

Prison Building Programme: Motion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: I was a member of the McBride commission on prisons in the second half of the 1970s, which was a considerable time before the Whitaker report, and whose members included Gemma Hussey and others. I remember clearly that when we began hearings and published the first interim report, the then Minister for Justice, Gerard Collins, referred to us as a self-appointed commission. Be that as it...

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (5 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Question 35: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the changes that will be brought about in the context of the new contract for hospital consultants; the timeframe for increasing the number of consultants and moving from a consultant led to a consultant delivered service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22154/08]

Written Answers — Proposed Legislation: Proposed Legislation (5 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has plans to introduce legislation to ban female genital mutilation here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22153/08]

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: I raised this matter before, but it is necessary to raise it again. This week is the first ever disability and international development week. On the ratification of the United Nations Convention on Disability, I received a reply indicating that the Minister for Health and Children or the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform would reply to me directly, but that has not happened....

Order of Business (5 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Will it be ratified in the lifetime of the Government?

Written Answers — International Monetary Institutions: International Monetary Institutions (4 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Question 141: To ask the Minister for Finance the reforms the Government or the EU favour in relation to affording more accountability on the part of the Bretton Woods institutions. [16848/08]

Written Answers — Financial Services Remuneration Policy: Financial Services Remuneration Policy (4 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Question 142: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the concerns expressed by a number of European Union Finance Ministers that one of the causes of the difficulties being experienced by banks and other financial institutions is the bonus culture of very large sums being paid to people in financial services regardless of the high levels of risk undertaken; if he has plans to curtail...

Written Answers — UN Conventions: UN Conventions (4 Jun 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Question 255: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland is the only EU State not to ratify the Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters; if the treaty was laid before Dáil Éireann; if, close to the tenth anniversary of the treaty, Ireland is the sole European Union country that has not...

Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if his attention has been drawn to reports from the UK that deregulation of the postal market had delivered no benefits to most customers and put the finances of the State owned postal company under severe strain; if there are lessons to be learned from the UK experience; if so, the steps he will take to...

Written Answers — Television Broadcasting: Television Broadcasting (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his views on the recent European Commission report that found that the necessary safeguards were not in place to ensure that RTÉ and TG4 were drawing a clear distinction between public service and commercial activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21378/08]

Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: We all do.

Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: And women over 60.

Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: One I make myself to my constituents.

Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: I listened with great care to the debate that has taken place. A number of fundamental issues arise. Some have been touched on in the last contribution. On the degree of accountability that will be present from the allocation of a contract, moving from a tender to a contract, in the case of State laboratories and the educational preparation of technical and medical personnel, there are...

Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: My question arises from one of the Minister's earlier replies. No one is suggesting that she should behave improperly in relation to the negotiation of a contract, which is beyond her ministerial competence or responsibility. I am concerned that regarding the review of the State or public systems, the Minister said that the report is now a matter for Professor Drumm. I am sticking strictly...

Order of Business (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: When is it the Government's intention to ratify the Aarhus Convention and prepare necessary complying legislation? I understood that it was a deep Green commitment in the programme for Government.

Order of Business (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: It is well promised.

Order of Business (29 May 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Will the Minister try to ensure this answer is produced before the summer because several summers have gone by and I have asked a similar question? It is a convention of fundamental importance to those rightly seeking and securing information on planning matters.