Results 2,401-2,420 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: It does not.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: Section 3(2) states that the Government makes a public declaration about a public interest.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: Including the cases decided this week, which support it.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: Pavarotti is now an undertaking. That is really advanced.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: What about the cases of 2007 such as the Viking case and the Laval case?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: This is fundamentalist rubbish.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: The European Court of Justice this week ruled on exactly the same grounds as this Bill.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: That is a baseless allegation. I thank God I do not have to read out such rubbish.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: That section is qualified.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: Why does the Deputy not quote from the European Court of Justice cases this week?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: The Deputy said it was in the public interest.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: Yes.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: That is right.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am glad that we are discussing, this evening and tomorrow, the Labour Party's Private Members' Bill to amend the Competition Acts. This Bill is about the vindication of a fundamental principle, indeed a right, namely, the right to collective representation. This Bill aims to ensure that legislation cannot be used to undermine the right to...
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: May we anticipate that the Minister of State will, at some point, address the abuse of section 4?
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: Disgraceful.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: Yes, it has.
- Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: The social partners favour this legislation.
- School Enrolments. (13 Dec 2007)
Michael D Higgins: I welcome the opportunity to raise what I believe to be an extraordinary breach of the Irish Constitution, of international law and of the basic rights of the child and the urgent need to redress this breach. I refer to the imposition of conditions attached to student visas which are implemented by the Garda SÃochána and which have the net result of depriving children of their rights. I...