Results 4,521-4,540 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I move: That Dáil Ãireann: notes that the inordinate political influence which major developers and big builders exercised in this State over many decades resulting in a wholly inadequate regime of regulation, supervision and inspection in the construction industry, has left a disastrous legacy of defective buildings and major fire hazards, only recently coming to light; further notes in...
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: This comprehensive motion is in the name of the five United Left Alliance Deputies and is supported by ten other Deputies in the Technical Group. It deals with the plight of tens of thousands of home owners who purchased homes in good faith and then, agonisingly, over a period saw these homes disintegrating around them as they were affected by pyrite or the revelation of major non-compliance...
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: That is the implication.
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I will wait until the Minister speaks-----
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----and I will see what level of inspection he will seek and I will ask if, like in Britain, in the North, in the USA and elsewhere, the figure will be 100% inspection because that is the only way we can be sure of compliance. We demand the State should undertake responsibility for remedial work to make the homes safe for residents and then pursue the developers and recoup the costs. That...
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is not agreed to. The proposal is the debate on the European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2012 should be guillotined after only four hours of discussion. This must be seen in the context of an incredible proposal to have three hours of discussion tomorrow on the European Stability Mechanism Bill 2012. These are two major pieces of legislation to institutionalise in EU treaties new...
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----we did not get an opportunity to discuss them in proper detail.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: At the very least, the Government should give the elected Members of the Dáil, particularly opposition Members, the right to express the concerns of a huge majority of the people about these fundamental issues. Therefore, both debates must be open-ended.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: What is wrong with Deputy Paul Kehoe?
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am opposing the use of a guillotine.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is to allow the ESM to be installed.
- Order of Business (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Martin should read his speech made last December.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is a Pyrrhic victory and the Taoiseach should get on with it.
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I have no problem with Members of the Dáil being free next week to campaign on a full-time basis on the austerity treaty.
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: However, I have a major problem with the Dáil rising today amidst a fog of confusion over what is implied in a vote for the fiscal compact.
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: That is exactly what I am doing. This morning we read that the German Parliament was supposed to vote tomorrow on the austerity treaty.
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is refusing to do so. It has postponed the vote until the autumn and until it sees concrete proposals for growth and investment. The Government returned from yesterday's summit with no such proposal-----
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----but it is still insisting that our people vote next week on pure austerity. Meanwhile, it threatens on a daily basis if our people vote "No".
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am making an argument for a variation-----
- Order of Business (24 May 2012)
Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, under Standing Order 26(2)(a)-----