Results 6,041-6,060 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach if he met with Republican Representative Peter King during his visit to the USA in March [5797/11]
- Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach meet Representative Peter King?
- Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach have an opportunity to raise the issue concerning the tens of thousands of Irish people who were forced out of their homeland in the 1980s as a result of the crisis at that time? They continue to live undocumented lives in the US, often in very insecure situations. There are many tragic stories, such as being unable to return for the funerals of their parents. This was a...
- Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: I also asked about Shannon Airport.
- Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: How long will the visit last?
- Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: How long will President Obama's visit last?
- Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Are we really?
- Official Engagements (30 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Is it true that it will comprise a five hour photo opportunity?
- Written Answers — Departmental Functions: Departmental Functions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Question 66: To ask the Taoiseach the responsibilities and activities in his Department for which he is responsible to Dáil Ãireann and which may be the subject of Taoiseach's questions. [5803/11]
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach accept it was utterly negligent of him to allow the former Minister for Transport, Energy and Communications, Deputy Lowry, to sideline the Cabinet in which they both served and bounce the entire Government of which they were Members into awarding the second mobile telephone licence to Esat and Mr. Denis O'Brien by foreshortening the process and bringing it forward by one...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: I am asking the Taoiseach, not the tribunal.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach refused to answer the question. He refused to answer for his conduct at the time. He was not exonerated, he was absent. That is the situation in regard to what the tribunal found. I remind him of the relationship between his party and Mr. Denis O'Brien. On 30 August 1995, seven weeks before the award of this licence, the current Minister for the Environment, Heritage and...
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Two months before Fine Gael in Government awarded the most valuable contract in the history of this State the private individual who was desperately looking for it was lubricating the throats of Fine Gael grandees at a gala dinner. Is it not obvious to everybody this was to lubricate the licence process?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Is there any way to describe this other than as a corruption of Government and a peddling of Government by Fine Gael for funds from big business?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach was rostered to be at the private dinner in New York on 9 November 1995, around which time a £50,000 donation was made. Is he aware of the letter from Mr. Austin-----
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Allow me to finish my point.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: I simply ask the Taoiseach to explain a dinner peddling Fine Gael influence to American big business, as is clearly outlined in this letter. He was rostered to be in attendance. Mr. O'Brien used it to make his £50,000 donation. Was he at that dinner and is that not another corruption of politics? How does he explain this?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: What about the principle?
- Order of Business (29 Mar 2011)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach said there would be one hour of questions to a Minister or Minister of State. Does he include himself in this? Will he be here to answer questions during that hour?