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- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----of having water cut off to people's homes.
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yes, he did.
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, but the legislative issue that arises, a Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----relates to the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997. Section 12 removed the power of local authorities to implement water charges for homes and therefore removed the monstrous power to cut off people's water. Could I ask the Taoiseach in that regard what legislative measures - and when - he is bringing forward?
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Well-----
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, in response to a journalist clearly indicated yesterday that this was his wish. That needs a legislative response.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: There is no free water; we pay for it through our taxes.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Then fix the bloody pipes.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Buttimer cannot even get his geography right.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Look at the evidence. Water usage per household-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: There is no evidence-----
- Sheep Worrying (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Some of those dogs might be handy next week.
- Job Losses (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am also speaking for Deputy Clare Daly. The Socialist Party and the United Left Alliance condemn the brutal fashion in which the GAME workers are being treated. This is the third time in less than six months that a group of workers have been dealt with in such a callous and brutal fashion by a major company. How the GAME workers have been treated is as disgusting as the manner in which...
- Job Losses (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Topical Issue Debate is becoming a joke.
- Job Losses (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, but it is ridiculous. These debates are supposed to be meaningful and Ministers are supposed to attend. Now it is by ministerial rote.
- Job Losses (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Topical Issue Debate was supposed to make a revolutionary change to the way the Dáil operated by facilitating a real engagement between Members and the Government on issues arising around the country. Game workers came from Dublin and further afield to engage the Government through their elected representatives but all they got was a script that was dry as dust. It is not good enough...
- Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 181: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on his decision announced on RTÃ news in November 2011 that he will meet the costs of remediating illegal dumps in County Wicklow; the funds he has committed to this; if any have already been deployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17451/12]
- Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to a claim in the High Court that his intervention in the matter of the payment for remediation of illegal dumps in County Wicklow would mean the abandonment of court proceedings related to responsibility for the remediation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17452/12]
- Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to recoup the costs of remediation of illegal dumps in County Wicklow when the companies which might be liable are gone out of business.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17453/12]
- Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 184: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received correspondence from the Department of Social Protection in the past number of years requesting an investigation into the council's handling of illegal dumping in County Wicklow and the way the remediation process was handled by the county council and for a full investigation into the...