Results 2,301-2,320 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, but a Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes, but-----
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I can either oppose it or propose a variation on the order on the basis that other issues should be discussed.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: I will raise the matter on the Order of Business then.
- Order of Business (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Could I ask a question on the same issue?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is responsible.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: What role has the justice reform sub-committee played in the increasingly political policing in this State, over the past month or two in particular? The private company of a billionaire went to the High Court and got an exclusion order pertaining to the water meter sites where it is installing meters for profit at taxpayers’ expense. It uses the media to smear decent taxpayers who...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Then the Taoiseach sends in heavy detachments of gardaí who manhandle men and women who are conducting peaceful protests.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach not believe that issue should be addressed?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The people cannot get a garda when they need one and they must wait for hours. Instead of having properly resourced community gardaí under the people's democratic control and management, resources are being misdirected in the manner I have described. This is an outrage and the Taoiseach had better address it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The people do not want the Government's meters.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is responsible for it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: But the Taoiseach is responsible for it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform was held and when the next one is scheduled. [35182/14]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach clarify again for Members the role of the Cabinet sub-committee on justice reform? Can he say, for example, whether it will have a role in the next while in responding to the Garda Inspectorate report? While I have not had the opportunity to study it, the headlines that came out of it point to serious ongoing issues within the Garda Síochána on how issues in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Same as the meeting on burning the bondholders.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Yes. I thought the Chair was going to call some of the others.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: Of course the Taoiseach lives in a bubble. He frequently has to have an escort of dozens of gardaí to get him in and out of venues.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (11 Nov 2014)
Joe Higgins: It is unfortunate for the Taoiseach that he is so far removed from the feelings of the ordinary people he has angered so much with his austerity agenda and, in particular, his water tax. It is also unfortunate for the people because they do not want to be protesting on the streets. They have many other things to be doing, but they are on the streets because this is the last straw. Their...