Results 7,801-7,820 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins

Official Engagements. (8 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: The European Council endorsed the report on the implementation of the EU strategy on proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, meaning nuclear weapons. It noted progress in this respect in relation with third countries and re-affirmed its commitment to use all instruments to counter the threat of proliferation. In the Taoiseach's view what moral authority has the European Union to demand...

Official Engagements. (8 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Is it not rather like the bully in the schoolyard who insists on having a stick but will allow nobody else to have one? Does the Taoiseach agree that the campaign now should be that all nuclear weapons should be decommissioned, both within the EU, the United States and elsewhere? The National Forum on Europe has planned out a process of meetings and public debates over the coming period....

Official Engagements. (8 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach be a little more forthcoming?

Order of Business. (3 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Since the Taoiseach's white elephant of the national stadium has been permanently parked, like many of my constituents on the M50 every morning, we have been waiting for plans for Abbottstown. In that context, when will the Abbottstown sports campus development authority Bill be brought before the House and debated?

Humanitarian Relief. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 93: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will report on his meeting with aid agencies to discuss the spending of the Government's donation to the Asian tsunami disaster relief efforts. [1468/05]

Leaders' Questions. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach knew but he said nothing because if he had, he would have gotten the Fianna Fáil equivalent of the concrete shoes, feeding with the small fishes on the back benches and he would not jeopardise his career by taking a moral stand. He knew and they knew that he knew. That is why to this day he is reticent to attack those found guilty of corruption and that is why he had to appoint...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: This is extraordinary. The Taoiseach knows that everybody in the world except Mr. George Bush knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq — everybody knew that. Everybody in the world knows that the Taoiseach knew what was going on. When Fianna Fail councillors could tell me ten, 12 or 15 years ago, with chapter and verse, what was going on — they were not involved in it...

Leaders' Questions. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not answer my question on the terms of the multinationals' exploitation of our natural gas and the fabulous wealth on the Corrib field. The licences Mr. Burke issued were referred to as "frontier" licences. This is quite appropriate because the cowboys obviously wrote the terms as far as the people are concerned.

Leaders' Questions. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: However, when the Taoiseach moves his camp west every summer to Galway he still entertains them in his tent. Will he order a re-examination of those terms in order to take our wealth back following decisions that were, at least, questionable?

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 10: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent trade mission to China. [1450/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 11: To ask the Taoiseach the matters discussed and conclusions reached at his meeting with the Chinese Prime Minister, Mr. Wen Jiabao. [1451/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 12: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received an agenda for the spring 2005 European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1464/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 13: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the spring 2005 European Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1465/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to make during the current session of Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1467/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the role he envisions the National Forum on Europe playing in regard to the proposed new EU constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1472/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 21: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1454/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 22: To ask the Taoiseach if he has spoken to the President of the United States, Mr. George W. Bush, since his recent inauguration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1462/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 23: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US Administration. [1463/05]

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: In the autumn I asked the Taoiseach to raise the treatment of workers in China as the regime rushed to replace its cruel Stalinist regime with rampant capitalism. There are more trade unionists in prison at various times in China than in any other country. Did he raise the issue of workers' rights, including the jailing of trade unionists, and what was the response? He said he met the Mayor...

Official Engagements. (2 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: How can he take the regime's policy on human rights seriously when Amnesty International reported that more than 200 activists from the Tiananmen movement of 1989 were still in prison last year? Will the Taoiseach veto any re-opening of arms sales from EU countries to China, not just on human rights issues, but because it is monstrous that countries such as Germany and France, while...