Results 3,301-3,320 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Local Property Tax: Discussion with Revenue (7 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: Ms Feehily must be a very charitable person.
- Cannabis Regulation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: The motion before the Dáil calls for the Government to introduce legislation to regulate the cultivation, sale and possession of cannabis and cannabis products in Ireland. I support that. I welcome Deputy Luke 'Ming' Flanagan's motion and the discussion it is giving rise to. It is not a question of being for cannabis use as a recreational outlet any more than one is for the use of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: This is appalling in view of all that has happened in the past six to 12 months with regard to climate change and all the signs that urgent action is needed to control and modify the effects of industrial capitalism and the hunt for profit at the expense of our environment and resources. We need to curb, control and change this, yet the committee has met only once. Is it not the reality...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: We are blue in the face putting forward suggestions, and how to finance them as well.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Climate Change and Green Economy has met since the summer recess. [45918/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that it would seem extraordinary to most people that the social policy committee has met only once since the recess, particularly in the context of a draconian budget that had severe effects, with further cuts to those dependent on social protection payments? In that regard and against a background of just under 400,000 people who are unemployed or seriously...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: Most of them are moving away.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: Yes, and now we have qualified teachers working for €50 per week.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: Of course they do.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should get off the stage.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: There are 32 applicants for every vacancy.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: Hit the working class and let the wealthy off scot free. That is the Taoiseach's motto.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Social Policy has met since the summer recess. [45919/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: 1. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub-committees that have met since the adjournment of Dáil Éireann in July; and the number of times each has met. [39141/13]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: Which committee met 11 times?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: What was the last committee to which the Taoiseach referred met 11 times?
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: The final sentence in the reply speaks volumes. The Economic Management Council, which is composed of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform met 11 times, which is a multiple of many of the other committees. Is it the case that in this Government, Cabinet committees are surplus to requirement because the EMC has assumed...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: People are not thanking the Government. It is a banker's tax and should be abolished.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2013)
Joe Higgins: The Government is taking it out of people's wages.