Results 6,401-6,420 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I refer to the Dublin transport authority Bill. I will not ask the Taoiseach whether he is embarrassed by the catastrophic infrastructural void the day after the budget.
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Massive resources were available for emergency action. When will emergency action be taken to save our people from a breakdown?
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I did not hear the Taoiseach's reply because it was not deliveredââ
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: If the Taoiseach stood up and replied properly and maybe addressed the critical issue that has our people on the verge of breakdownââ
- Order of Business. (7 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: ââwe might get some action here.
- Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 305: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce a vaccination against pneumococcal meningitis onto the childhood immunisation schedule as a matter of urgency. [41563/06]
- Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 419: To ask the Minister for Transport if and when he will re-open the disused Mullingar to Athlone rail line. [41572/06]
- Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 464: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will meet a group (details supplied). [41193/06]
- Written Answers — Youth Services: Youth Services (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 465: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make funding available to a group (details supplied). [41194/06]
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 485: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will change the regulations governing higher education grants in order that students granted permission to remain in the State on the basis of having an Irish born sibling may be eligible for grant assistance. [41334/06]
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: The problem is that for several years the Taoiseach has backed and facilitated the extreme right-wing ideology of the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, and her party, the Progressive Democrats, in crucial areas of the health service. He has even done so by not restoring the thousands of beds ruthlessly cut from the system in the 1980s and by allowing cowboys â speculators...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Hundreds of decent people from County Monaghan again braved the cold and inconvenience to make yet another trek to Leinster House to ask the Government to maintain crucial services at Monaghan General Hospital. Deputy Connolly has championed the community in County Monaghan time and again on this issue, to great effect. We want the Taoiseach to clarify exactly where the Government stands on...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: The Teamwork report, commissioned by the HSE, is supposed to be driving this process but it states no services should be removed from local hospitals until better services are in their place. However, the downgrading of Monaghan General Hospital within two years will mean acute patients will be pushed off to the hospitals in Cavan and Drogheda which currently account for 20% of the national...
- Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I should have referred to the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney. Does the Taoiseach stand for the agenda of the Minister or for the absolutely reasonable demands of the people of County Monaghan?
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the recent EU summit in Finland. [35936/06]
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: At the main discussions or in any of the side meetings did the Taoiseach discuss with the EU Heads of State the practice which disturbed many people in the EU in recent times of the CIA and US intelligence agencies kidnapping individuals and bringing them to the Guantanamo gulag or other places to be tortured? Recently, the Taoiseach was quoted in the Irish press as stating that last St....
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: The question is clear. The Taoiseach stated, "I looked at the great President Bushââ
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: I agree. I object to any attempt to thrust greatness on President Bush, the man responsible for one of the biggest disasters in our time.
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: The question is that the Taoiseach stated he looked at President Bush, and asked him whether he could be sure to be sure that so-called "extraordinary renditions" did not involve this country. He was assured this was the case.
- EU Summits. (5 Dec 2006)
Joe Higgins: Yes. Ireland was part of the European Union the last time I looked. It isââ