Results 2,221-2,240 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Insolvency Payments Scheme Payments (9 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: 204. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the recourse available for persons (details supplied) to have their successful claim for unpaid wages against their former employer enforced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46853/14]
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: That is false. They were funding their own campaigns.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: They do not get money from Denis O'Brien-----
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The audacity of it.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Tax.
- Water Services Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Water Services Bill 2014 is a highly duplicitous item of legislation and emanates from a Government that is reeling from a major movement of people power that has come to the fore in the past few months against the imposition of water charges and against Irish Water. The Bill reeks of dishonesty from the Government from start to finish. Water charges were first conceived and introduced...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: No. It is not agreed.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Water Services Bill 2014 is as cynical and duplicitous a piece of legislation as ever came before Dáil Éireann. Now we have a Government punch drunk by a revolt of people power against water charges and six years of austerity desperately trying to construct a fig leaf to cover the betrayals of the Labour Party in particular and to get it past the next general election. The...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----is cynical in the extreme. There will be no Order of Business tomorrow so there will be no Taoiseach or no Tánaiste to be called to account.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: The vote is postponed until Tuesday-----
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: Why is the vote postponed until Tuesday? It is because tomorrow is a charade whereby the Government can disappear for the day but then pretend that it is not repeating the disastrous handling of the first water charges legislation. This morning the Labour Party is teetering over the precipice of annihilation but it is still not prepared to listen to what the people are saying. Its members...
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: A mass mobilisation on 10 December-----
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: -----and a mass boycott of the water charges in April will make sure of that.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: I ask the Government to cut through the charade and abolish these water charges forthwith.
- Order of Business (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: If the debate is not finished and there are speakers offering at 8 p.m. tomorrow, assuming that this goes through, will the Tánaiste indicate when the debate on the Bill will be resumed?
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the non-compliance with circular 0025/2008 relating to the pensions of part-time employees in the institutes of technology and education and training boards and the issuing of circular 0062/2014; the organisations that did not comply with circular 0025/2008; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46554/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (4 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: 166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the decision of Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology not to participate in the proposed new technological university with other institutes of technology in Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46555/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (2 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on European affairs was held and when the next one is scheduled. [35726/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) (2 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he has had contact with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk; and the position regarding his appointment as the next President of the European Council. [41696/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Introduction (2 Dec 2014)
Joe Higgins: 98. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on any research by his Department on the prospects of future water poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41681/14]