Results 2,201-2,220 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I oppose this proposal on two grounds. First, the debate should be tomorrow evening after tens of thousands of people have come onto the streets of Dublin to demand the abolition of water charges. They will have voted no confidence in the Government. It should be a real vote as opposed to the charade that will go on here. My second objection - I have a proposal in this regard - is that...
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Then we realised that this was the pair who for four years have shovelled billions of euro of little people's money into the maws of vulture capitalists, parasites and hyenas in the financial markets.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is absolute mendacity.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is only one issue that we need to expose here. The second issue that is of critical current importance is the policy concerning water charges.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The conservation crusade has disappeared and has turned into a save our political skins crusade.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We need an explanation as to the Government's change of policy on this. I am not talking about the housing crisis or hospitals.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes. I am drawing my remarks to a conclusion. I am explaining why we need far more time. I propose that the debate be extended to six hours as opposed to the three hours the Government is proposing.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, I move amendment No. 1:That the debate be extended to six hours as opposed to the three hours the Government is proposing.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Can we have a written copy of that please? It is a different version from what we were given at the door and there is a lot in it.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: We need to circulate it now.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: This was what was at the door for Deputies coming into the Chamber. I assumed this was the Government's programme. It is not what the Chief Whip read out.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I understood the arrangements for the motion of confidence. Then the other business for the day was gone through very quickly and it is important we know what is being proposed.
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Correct, and then the-----
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Report Stage of the-----
- Business of Dáil (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: It would have been helpful if all that had been in the paper we were given.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The fact that the Dáil is sitting after midnight, in the early morning of 10 December, to debate for one hour amendments to the Water Services Bill that could easily be debated in time allocated on Thursday and Friday is a tribute to the overweening arrogance of the newly arrived Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government. He is newly arrived but already delusional...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I am about to. The Minister brought us here at this hour of the night so we will exercise our prerogative to the best of our ability in the time allotted. Should a plebiscite be held, it should not be confined to the citizens of this State, as proposed in the legislation. My colleague, Deputy Ruth Coppinger, will move amendment No. 7. Why should a plebiscite be confined just to citizens?...
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Leading the charge.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: It may be. The Deputy is absolutely right.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: This amendment is part of the general noxious legislation the Minister is pushing through tonight. On that basis alone, it should be opposed.