Results 7,561-7,580 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: That is as a result of legislation this Government introduced. The legislation should be changed to make investment possible. The Minister for Finance explained how unforeseen terrorist attacks and global downturns can cause problems. Why should the State not protect a vital national strategic asset when international capitalism, for example, enters a global downturn? It is an inevitable part...
- Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: There is no reason it cannot be kept in public ownership.
- Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: By whom?
- Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: If the Government has capital it should put it into Aer Lingus.
- Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: This is a vote of no confidence in public ownership.
- Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: Exactly.
- Programmes for Government. (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government. [15216/05]
- Programmes for Government. (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: I graciously accept your apology, a Cheann Comhairle. On the timescale for the delivery of the commitments in the programme for Government, what is the Government's view on how flexible it is? The Taoiseach is completing the third year of his second term of office, a total of eight years, and has two years to go. Assuming the second term continues for the full five years, 60% of the time has...
- Programmes for Government. (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: I have to illustrate briefly the point I am trying to make. Does the Taoiseach envisage that in two years there will be no persons languishing on trolleys in hospitals? That is a question on the timescale. There is also the question of class sizes and other issues.
- Public Private Partnerships. (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15215/05]
- Public Private Partnerships. (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: Has the cross-departmental team conducted any fundamental review of the very concept of so-called public private partnerships, considering public projects to be delivered in this way will be much more expensive for the taxpayers than need be the case? In regard to construction and housing, did that recent meeting to which the Taoiseach referred, discuss the delivery of the thousands of social...
- Public Private Partnerships. (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: What about housing?
- Public Private Partnerships. (25 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: When will we see houses?
- Written Answers — Hare Coursing: Hare Coursing (24 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 409: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the recent report from the Irish hare initiative which states that at some coursing events actual hare deaths may be as high as 48% of the hares caught for coursing. [17019/05]
- Written Answers — Hare Coursing: Hare Coursing (24 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: Question 410: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he will refuse further licences for hare coursing in line with the precautionary principle advocated in the recent report from the Irish hare initiative. [17020/05]
- Order of Business (Resumed). (24 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: He might revise a few promises.
- Leaders' Questions. (24 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: It is a day when our schools are in mourning over the young lives lost in the awful tragedy in County Meath. Members will express their sympathy and have points to make on the safety of children on school transport. I want to draw the Taoiseach's attention to another aspect of student welfare, which is the urgent and extensive investment needed immediately for physical fitness facilities in...
- Leaders' Questions. (24 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: I am not saying the schools and the physical fitness regime is the only answer, but it is an important one, acknowledged by all.
- Leaders' Questions. (24 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: If such investment has been made, why did the INTO discover that 80% of schools surveyed in Donegal did not have a PE hall, that 70% of schools surveyed in Kerry did not have one and a similar percentage was found in respect of schools between those two counties? The University of Limerick in a study on secondary schools pointed to an absence of adequate facilities, qualified staff and...
- Death of Students: Expressions of Sympathy. (24 May 2005)
Joe Higgins: I and the Independent Deputies express profound shock at the tragedy in County Meath. The loss of a young life at any time is a huge tragedy but when five young lives are snuffed out in a calamity such as this, it scarcely bears speaking of. This tragedy has reached throughout the country to my home parish of Lispole from where Deirdre Scanlon's father came. I am sure the other young people...