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Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The evidence is that the mortality rate was grievously misrepresented by the Minister, Deputy Reilly.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: A consultant who was 30 years in the hospital did a painstaking study which found it was approximately the same as other hospitals. Senator John Crown, also a hospital consultant, has confirmed this and stated it brings into question the research on which Dr. Reilly is basing the entire hospital reconfiguration programme. At worst, Roscommon had the same coronary death rate as Galway...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should call on the Minister to come in and correct this.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: In a more general way, is not all this another poisonous outcome of the treacherous policy the Taoiseach has continued of-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----sacrificing the health care of our people to the vampires and financial institutions in Europe which are getting the resources-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----that should be going into our hospitals?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: You have not put in the resources.

Official Engagements (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Conference in Killarney, County Kerry. [19970/11]

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: A large majority of the people have great sympathy for and are in solidarity with the suffering people of Gaza who are suffering mass unemployment, the malnourishment of children and extreme penury as a result of the blockade by the Israel. If the Taoiseach knows this and says he knows what the situation is in Gaza as a result of his visit, why did he agree to such a gutless communiqué from...

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Why did the Taoiseach not call, in particular, for the Irish ship, delivering aid to the tune of more than €100,000 collected from a great number of Irish people, to be given the right to deliver aid to Gaza? How would he like it if people bringing goods to this country were forced by another power to deliver them through England, for example, which is what he is suggesting with regard to...

Official Engagements (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach condemn the sabotage?

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is not agreed. This is the first of three Bills where a guillotine is proposed today. The Taoiseach is quickly becoming the Madame Defarge of the Thirty-First Dáil. All he is short of is a knitting set.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I would rather be a stooge than a stool pigeon like the Minister, Deputy Shatter.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle-----

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: In fairness, I am trying to be kind to the Government backbenchers.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is reported in the press that the backbenchers feel frustrated at not having sufficient time to express themselves in this Dáil.

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: There are three guillotines before us and if we allow the practice now, what will happen in the autumn, when far more pressure comes on this Dáil from legislation and other issues? Has the Government Chief Whip ascertained how many speakers are offering on the Electoral (Amendment) Bill, how many have been cut and why the Government proposes three guillotines? It promised, as one of its...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I have a question for the Taoiseach under Standing Order 36. It appears the posse of men who rode into town last November posing as good samaritans are ripping off blind the Irish people. With only two weeks before the Dáil breaks, will the Taoiseach arrange for a comprehensive report and debate on the real implications of the memorandum of agreement between the IMF-EU and the Government...

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: What other secrets are contained in the execution of that memorandum in the alleged name of solidarity?

Order of Business (6 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: On a point of order, Deputy Boyd Barrett is absolutely correct.