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- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I told the Tánaiste what is in it.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I said nothing about closing down the hospital. The Tánaiste waffled around the issue. What happened to the outrage he expressed when he sat on this side of the Chamber-----
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----regarding the devastating effects of health cutbacks, the suffering of individuals on waiting lists and the fact that working class people and those on middle and lower incomes cannot afford private health insurance? What happened to the Tánaiste's concern for them? The fact is that the budget is set in an arbitrary manner. A cut of â¬20 million in the hospital's funding will be...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I remind the Tánaiste that the doctors in Blanchardstown, who take their responsibilities very seriously, have delivered in terms of the work they do. They have written to local public representatives, including the Ministers for Social Protection and Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputies Burton and Varadkar - who are betraying the hospital - and stated that they cannot guarantee that it...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: So the Government has decided to introduce cuts in the area of health so that we might pay the bondholders and pay interest to the jackals in Europe.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Is that what the Tánaiste said when he was on this side of the House?
- Written Answers — Mortgage Arrears: Mortgage Arrears (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Finance the work he has undertaken to coordinate Government policy on the mortgage crisis facing many householders and families. [24429/11]
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: An underground cable is the solution.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Is the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, coming to the House for this debate?
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Surely the Minister who is in charge of the ESB is the appropriate one.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Why not?
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I wish to protest. The Minister, Deputy Rabbitte, is responsible for the ESB. He should be here.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Government is reverting to the approach of its predecessor, which used to get any old Minister to come in and read out a script. The topical issues format was supposed to involve a meaningful engagement.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I will make my statement anyway.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: I want my strong objection to be noted.
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: Ms Teresa Treacy is in Mountjoy Jail as we speak. She was thrown in there by order of a judge because she is not prepared to allow the ESB to destroy a swathe of trees through her forest at Clonmore, County Offaly in order to erect massive pylons and power lines. Conifers have already been cut. I have personally seen the destruction that has been done. The next tranche for the chop is a...
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Minister of State insults us, the Dáil and the people by coming to the House with that rambling and irrelevant answer. It is incredible. It was written by the Civil Service and I doubt she read it before she came to the House because, otherwise, she would not take responsibility for it. This is supposed to be the Topical Issues Debate; it is supposed to involve relevant engagement...
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: The ESB could go immediately to the High Court-----
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----and to Teresa Treacy to discuss with her the agreement-----
- Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)
Joe Higgins: -----that the cables can be placed underground and then, provided there was agreement, the issue of contempt would finish - full stop. That is what should be done.