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Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the grave damage caused in the economies of Ireland and other countries in the EU by the actions of faceless, unelected and unaccountable institutions in the financial markets including ratings agencies and the need to bring these institutions into public ownership and under...

Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The use of the guillotine will become a major and urgent issue, particularly from September. There will be endless conflict and time wasted if the Government continues to do what it has done in the past three months, which it said it would not do. Every week there are several guillotines. A different approach can be adopted to legislation, which is to ascertain whether there is a high...

Government Accountability (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the way he plans to make his Government more accountable to Dáil Éireann. [18579/11]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 346: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the Defence Forces Ombudsman's 2010 report, she noted that 13 individuals from the Air Corps submitted complaints/redresses to her office in 2010 alone; and if he will explain the way that this can be reconciled with the advice given to him by the military authorities which he included in his...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to a Defence Forces Ombudsman memo, dated 26 November 2008, that provides documented evidence that the military authorities and the relevant authorities within the Irish Air Corps, in particular the Defence Forces directorate of human resources, systematically and on 60 occasions between January and November of...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 348: To ask the Minister for Defence the course of action undertaken by the Defence Forces Ombudsman as a consequence of the information contained in the Defence Forces Ombudsman memo dated 26 November 2008, to ensure that such breaches of the Defence Act would not continue; and if he at the time was made aware by the Defence Forces Ombudsman of the systematic non-conformance to...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Defence, further to Parliamentary Question No. 496 of 16 June 2011, in which it is stated that no instances of reports of investigations into complaints being returned to the investigating officer for changes occurred since 2003, if he will confirm that, if the military authorities were to properly examine their records, they would find reports of such...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide all details of the action taken by him and the relevant military authorities on foot of the report submitted by the then complaints investigation office on 31 August 2007 in which Conclusion 2 indicated that members of the Air Corps were treated disgracefully by military authorities and also that the interference with the...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 352: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will initiate at the earliest opportunity a credible independent inquiry into the systematic mishandling of complaints in the Irish Air Corps and Defence Forces and the attempts by military authorities to keep the knowledge of such activities from the public domain. [19782/11]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 349: To ask the Minister for Defence, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 493 to 497, inclusive, of 14 June 2011, if his attention has been drawn to the advice given to him by the military authorities which he included in his reply, whereby the military authorities stated that all complaints made under section 114 Defence Act 1954 are dealt with in accordance with complaints...

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Following the disgusting spectacle of big business interests using the High Court successfully to batter down the wages of a cohort of workers among the lowest paid in the land, will the Taoiseach bring forward legislation urgently to restore protection to those workers who are wide open to the most grotesque exploitation and who have depended on the JLC system?

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is within Standing Orders to ask about legislation.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach realise what a contemptible figure he cuts today coming into the Dáil and using the most pathetic excuses to cover up what is a cynical betrayal of the people of Roscommon, in whose hospital he pledged to protect the emergency services? How pathetic is it to use HIQA as an alibi? It makes the young fellow who offers the excuse of the dog having chewed his homework...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Using Fine Gael policy, as it was before the election-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Fine Gael policy is one's new flexible friend to fit all occasions. It is the new Fine Gael brand of pantyhose to cover every possible emergency of every size and form. This is absolutely pathetic stuff considering that the Taoiseach should come into the House to give a simple apology.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach and his Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health, who are beside him, solemnly pledged to secure the emergency accident and emergency services for the people of Roscommon and the greater district. It is a sorry set of circumstances in which three of the most senior members of the Government are shamelessly prepared to resign from their solemn pledge and pretend it is...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The first demand made of the Roscommon Three should be that they honour the pledge they gave to the people of Roscommon. The second demand, which would be of the third member of the troika, the Minister for Health, would be for him to apologise for and withdraw the absolute falsehood he propagated in the Dáil, namely, that the mortality rate in Roscommon was 21% by contrast with 5% in other...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----of the people of Roscommon.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I invite the Taoiseach to reclaim some modicum of dignity by admitting how he gave false promises and that he is now prepared to make good.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: What the people of Roscommon want is to maintain the accident and emergency department which has served them well for decades and which they feel safe having there and quite correctly so. What the people in the other nine threatened hospitals want is similar, including in Loughlinstown which the Tánaiste promised he would protect. Is this another promise that will be broken?