Results 21-29 of 29 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Michael D Higgins

Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Report Stage (25 Apr 2007)

Michael D Higgins: ...multiple polluters it was possible for them to point fingers at each other. The meeting in question closed at about half an hour after midnight and now, much later, there has been no progress. I feel very strongly that we really need an authority now. I would support the Minister if he introduced a regulation to achieve European Union directives on water. I am speaking personally on...

Prisons Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2007)

Michael D Higgins: ...is a point that has been made against Ireland at the human rights hearings in Geneva. It is not good enough to say one has its elimination under consideration. I do not have time to go into what I feel and it is something I find difficult to speak about, namely, the beating to death of a prisoner in the basement of Mountjoy — Gary Douche. I do not understand how an individual can be...

Crisis in Darfur: Motion (28 Nov 2006)

Michael D Higgins: ...neighbours. It also needs logistical and financial support if it is to be able to sustain its activities. There are other important issues and I do not want to underestimate the depression people feel now that both the signatories and the non-signatories of the southern Sudan agreement have factionalised, sometimes on personality grounds. That is deeply depressing. The international...

Middle East Peace Process. (4 Apr 2006)

Michael D Higgins: ...38: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the results of the parliamentary elections in Israel; the implications which this result holds for the roadmap for peace; the mandate he feels that the incoming Government has been granted with regard to the future of Israeli and Palestinian negotiations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13169/06]

National Archives. (22 Feb 2006)

Michael D Higgins: ...for such archives, my attempts to recover records on my father's activities in north Cork, both during the war of independence and the civil war, were only partially successful. I have a feeling there has been a movement away from this period. If we are to have good social and constitutional histories covering the period to 2016, we will need to examine the state of such records. Some...

World Trade Organisation Negotiations: Statements. (1 Dec 2005)

Michael D Higgins: ...to these in the interest of the elimination world poverty. There has been a suggestion, even by some non-governmental organisations, to allow the new trade regime to fall out so that we can all feel ethical about the consequences. The crux is whether development issues are to be regarded simply as a residuum of a trade round or will they be regarded as the condition on which the trade...

The Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act: Motion. (6 Oct 2005)

Michael D Higgins: ...the manner in which circumstances have changed in the United States, that people who are important to us have already suffered by long periods of detention, deportation and by much exacerbated feelings of vulnerability of being unable to retain contact with their relatives and families. The alternative of securing residency in the United States through the means of the diversity visa...

Criminal Justice Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (2 Jun 2005)

Michael D Higgins: ..., including the right to be in a public space, the right to law and protection and the right of communities to live in peace. We must not be bludgeoned into a strange system whereby anyone who feels like it can get an ASBO against a neighbour. People are crowing about ASBOs in Britain. A recent television programme revealed that ASBOs have been taken out there against old-age pensioners....

Disability Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (22 Feb 2005)

Michael D Higgins: ...itself a set of barriers that stop all citizens from participating equally? The first view suggests the necessity of a set of measures which propose a narrow definition for addressing what one feels to be particular difficulties in a manner in which one can afford to address them. The second perspective, which relates to the fundamental reform of society so as to take fully into account...