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Northern Ireland Issues: Statements (18 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: The deal cobbled together in St. Andrews in Scotland between the British and Irish Governments and the political parties in Northern Ireland is called an agreement. In reality it is shaky, full of contradictions, and will be prone to collapse because it was an agreement to agree something general with major issues left outstanding. Deals worked out between parties which are sectarian-based...

Official Engagements. (17 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to undertake during the current Dáil session. [29216/06]

Official Engagements. (17 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the Asia-Europe summit in Helsinki. [29219/06]

Official Engagements. (17 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on bilateral meetings he attended on the margins of the Asia-Europe summit in Helsinki. [29220/06]

Official Engagements. (17 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with King Harald V and Queen Sonja of Norway. [29224/06]

Crime Prevention: Motion (Resumed). (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: I commend the Independent Deputies on drawing attention to very important issues in respect of the dangerous drug situation in this country and, particularly, for emphasising the ongoing and devastating consequences of heroin addiction, particularly in working class communities. The motion also notes the failure of the Government to formulate an effective strategy in respect of dangerous...

Overseas Missions: Motion. (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: The United Nations has no credibility as a champion for the people of Lebanon. Resolution 1701 blatantly understates the criminal slaughter of more than 1,000 Lebanese civilians by the Israeli armed forces. The barbaric destruction of huge swathes of infrastructure in Lebanon and the massacre of the innocents was carried out using armaments, aeroplanes and bombs supplied to Israel by two of...

Overseas Missions: Motion. (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: While the Minister has contempt, we will see who will be laughing later.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Tánaiste, Deputy McDowell, stated that the Government has millions to throw away.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: There are no conspiracy theories. I was a member of Dublin County Council at the time and I know what happened.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: I have not yet been obliged to appear before a tribunal.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: How can the Minister, Deputy Cowen, stand here and, apparently without a hint of embarrassment, justify the debacle the Government has created with the privatisation of the national airline? How does he have the audacity, the shamelessness to read a script that was probably prepared by Stock Exchange sharks in New York to cover or justify the massive incompetence of which this Government is...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Not only is the Minister guilty of treachery in sabotaging the future of the national airline, but he is cheating the taxpayer by allowing the grubby international financiers to take the benefit of what has been created over decades by Irish workers and the Irish people. Why is he crying "foul" at Ryanair's attempt when he must have known from the beginning that the law of the Stock Exchange...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Those are not the facts. The State is entitled to invest in its national airline.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: The Government lacks the vision and, more importantly, the commitment to public services, State ownership of an important industry, the thousands of workers, the tens of hundreds of people in the community who depend on the airline and the millions of passengers. This Government has contempt for State projects and for public service workers. Witness the Taoiseach's disgraceful blunderbuss...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (10 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in accordance with sections 45(3) and 45(4) of the Health Act 1970, regulations granting medical cards to home helps were approved by the Houses of the Oireachtas; and, if so, the date of same. [32013/06]

Regulatory Reform. (10 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the OECD report on regulatory reform. [29229/06]

Proposed Aer Lingus Takeover. (5 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: It is not a day to be calm. Does the Minister agree that only weeks after the privatisation of Aer Lingus, he is guilty of creating what is by any standard a shocking debacle for which the Government is responsible? Does the Minister not find it grotesque that an airline that belonged to the Irish people built by the dedication of thousands of workers over decades is in danger of being...

Proposed Aer Lingus Takeover. (5 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

Proposed Aer Lingus Takeover. (5 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: In light of this debacle, for which the Government, with Fine Gael's support, is responsible——