Results 5,841-5,860 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: These are not my problems.
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: They washed their hands.
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach doing a Bertie Ahern on it?
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: I wish to share time with Deputies Luke Flanagan, Catherine Murphy and Richard Boyd Barrett.
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Sadly, this Finance Bill is a caricature of a real job creation strategy. This is all against a background of almost 500,000 of our people unemployed, the spectre of long-term unemployment within that cohort increasing and thousands of young people leaving the country yearly. In all of this hardship, we have had a consistently reducing scale of ambition by the Government parties from the...
- Finance (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Sadly, the reduction in VAT from 13.5% to 9% will not have the dramatic impact the Government hopes it will have. We are, unfortunately, talking here about the background of the wider crisis. Ordinary working class people from Britain, those on whom we depend most to come here and share their hard earned wealth with us, are being mercilessly hammered by Prime Minister Cameron and the...
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Did it occur to the Taoiseach at all that the political establishment in this State, and the established media, lost their collective reason over the past week and seemed to have lost all touch with reality, with the intoxication of the visits by high profile establishment figures, the Queen and the Prime Minister of Britain and President Obama? Is it not clear that all elements of the...
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is saying that he did not discuss with the Prime Minister the single issue that the Prime Minister controls, the interest rate on that debt.
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: That is incredible.
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Yes.
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not discuss the only issue that the Prime Minister could determine.
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Ceann Comhairle should not encourage the Taoiseach.
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: The loan the British Government extended to the Irish State for its own clear economic and selfish reasons is set at a relatively high interest rate over which Prime Minister Cameron has complete control. Why did the Taoiseach not discuss a reduction of this interest rate when he met the Prime Minister?
- Ministerial Air Transport (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 52: To ask the Minister for Defence the projected costs of using the Government jet for 2011. [10395/11]
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Queen Elizabeth II. [11493/11]
- Official Engagements (24 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent talks with British Prime Minister Cameron. [11494/11]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (18 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 234: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with Iarnród Ãireann and Fingal County Council to service the immediate opening of the new Hansfield train station in west Dublin, which has been lying idle for a year despite a major demand for public transport in the area. [12014/11]
- Proposed Legislation (18 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: At the time of the Abbeylara tragedy and when the report thereon was issued, during the term of the 29th Dáil, I called for a referendum. Does the Minister agree that some of the proposals made, including that on judges' pay, are non-controversial and would - I am not being presumptuous about the people's vote - probably be supported by an extensive majority? Does he also agree that a...
- Global Intelligence Forum (18 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: The question is whether the Deputy will be wiser after hearing the Minister's response on the forum.
- Global Intelligence Forum (18 May 2011)
Joe Higgins: Unlikely.