Results 7,441-7,460 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: It is a national outrage that five Rossport men have been in jail for 91 days. Does the Taoiseach feign innocence as if he were Prime Minister of the outer Hebrides, not the Republic of Ireland which happens to include County Mayo? It is true that it was Shell Oil that got the High Court to do its dirty work but the Taoiseach and his Government carry full responsibility. The Government gave...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: The keys to the jail cells of the Rossport five are in the Taoiseach's hands. All he has to do is pick up the phone and make Shell lift the injunction, thus letting the five decent men home to their families. He should make Shell process the gas where it will not destroy the communities and the environment. While he is at it, the Taoiseach should tear up the contracts which have sold out this...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: What is not true? Tell me.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: It is nine kilometres inland.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: It was the Taoiseach's Government that provided every instrument by which the Shell Corporation is now acting. The Government gave them the power and therefore the Taoiseach carries a responsibility. Let us have done with the red herring of interfering with the courts. If, tomorrow, Shell so asks the President of the High Court, who incidentally threatened to imprison every landholder in Mayo...
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: In this Dáil session, we will not let up in placing responsibility where it belongs, which is with the Taoiseach. Next Saturday, even if the Taoiseach is not listening, I hope people will come in their thousands to the protest rally in Dublin in support of the Rossport five and the issues they have raised.
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: As soon as this debate has finished, will the Taoiseach ring Shell?
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach pick up the phone to Shell?
- Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach phone Shell?
- Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 31: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to New York. [25331/05]
- Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 32: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with former US President Mr. Bill Clinton. [25332/05]
- Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 33: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the recent United Nations General Assembly summit in New York. [25333/05]
- Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 34: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting in Dublin with the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ms Catherine Colonna. [25340/05]
- Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 35: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any bilateral meetings he held on the margins of the recent United Nations General Assembly summit in New York. [25346/05]
- Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 36: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the informal meeting of EU heads of state and government to be held on 27 and 28 October 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25348/05]
- Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 37: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received an agenda for the informal meeting of EU heads of state and government to be held on 27 and 28 October 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25349/05]
- Official Engagements. (28 Sep 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 38: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to make during the current Dáil session; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25351/05]
- Written Answers — Postal Services: Postal Services (30 Jun 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 379: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs if he will make representations to An Post to reinstate a post office service in Castleknock village, Dublin 15, in view of the hardship that the closure of the post office has caused pensioners. [23540/05]
- Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)
Joe Higgins: Will the Minister confirm that there is no barrier to him asking Shell to pull back from confrontation and lay off until the issues are fully discussed and resolved? Does he not find it extraordinary that the High Court is giving every benefit to a major corporation over the small people of Mayo? Is it not incredible that a full hearing of the issues of concern to the people of Mayo will be...
- Natural Gas Grid. (30 Jun 2005)
Joe Higgins: The Minister should call in Shell and tell it to back off.