Results 3,761-3,780 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: I am sure we have already had an opportunity in the parliamentary Labour Party to wish the Leas-Cheann Comhairle warm congratulations on his achieving 44 years in this House. On today's Order of Business, we are informed that questions to the Minister for Foreign Affairs are scheduled for this afternoon. Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle offer me guidance on a very important matter in this...
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: I am afraid he does.
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: The Chair is in the House longer than I am but I am afraid he is wrong. He does have a function.
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Will the Chair place the issue as an item to be dealt with by the Committee on Procedure and Privileges? It is an abuse of the House.
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: The Office of the Ceann Comhairle has a function in respecting the ordering of business and the right of spokespersons to have questions placed on the Order Paper. There is no point in advising Members to contact the Office of the Ceann Comhairle. I am asking from the floor of this House for respect for the procedures of this House. That is what is at stake. No Minister has the rightââ
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: I have been a Minister, a member of Cabinet, but I would not have tried to engage in the racket of transferring questions arbitrarily.
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Deputy Noel Dempsey would not want to provoke me, given my memories of him when I was a Minister.
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: It would be very easy, yes. The Deputy was not so forthcoming then.
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: I am asking the Chair to place this matter on the agenda of the Committee on Procedure and Privileges as a potential and continuing abuse of the procedures of this House.
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: That is the step I can take. The Chair has a step to take as well.
- Order of Business. (6 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: It does.
- Written Answers — Tax Yield: Tax Yield (5 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Question 147: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on the Exchequer returns for the first nine months of 2005. [26627/05]
- Written Answers — Foreign Conflicts: Foreign Conflicts (5 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Question 231: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the present unstable situation in Haiti; the proposals which have been made to enable the country to make a full return to democracy; and in particular, the role which the United Nations forces might have in this regard. [27125/05]
- Written Answers — Decentralisation Programme: Decentralisation Programme (5 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Question 261: To ask the Minister for Transport if provincial based civil servants who have applied under the decentralisation applications process to transfer to Loughrea will have to travel to the Department of Transport offices in Dublin for training purposes; and if so, the duration of the training and if cost of living expenses will be provided. [27062/05]
- Economic Growth. (5 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will make a statement on his Department's recently published economic review and outlook for 2005. [26628/05]
- Leaders' Questions. (5 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: There is.
- Written Answers — Common Agricultural Policy: Common Agricultural Policy (4 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Question 125: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will make a statement on the outcome of her meeting on 23 June 2005 with the EU Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Ms Fisher Boel, regarding the EU sugar regime, the overshoot of the special beef premium and the management of the dairy market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26451/05]
- Written Answers — Land Prices: Land Prices (4 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Question 133: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if her attention has been drawn to recent figures published by the Central Statistics Office showing that agricultural land prices rose by more than 25% in the last quarter of 2004; her views on the rapid rate of increase in the price of land; her views on the implications of this increase for farmers hoping to expand or those who...
- Corrib Gas Field: Statements. (4 Oct 2005)
Michael D Higgins: I wish to respond to a commentary on the recent event of the release of the Rossport Five. A suggestion in yesterday's editorial in The Irish Times reads: . . . [the] President of the High Court, stood alone in recent weeks in upholding the rule of law, a duty he executed with exemplary even-handedness and for which he deserves to be thanked. During this controversy too many people, and most...
- Written Answers — Regional Airports: Regional Airports (29 Sep 2005)
Michael D Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will outline his concerns regarding the proposed developments at Weston Airport, near Lucan, County Dublin; if he will elaborate on his fears concerning the safety risks for military aircraft flying into the Air Corps base at Baldonnel; if he has received any response to his letter to the Irish Aviation Authority regarding these concerns; and...