Results 961-980 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: We could buy a whole bank.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Townhouses.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: We can amend the order.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: We have done it before.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister was not here for most of it.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: And transparency and accountability.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Why does the Minister not answer the questions?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister said he would answer all the questions in three minutes - that was his calculation, not mine.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: We have heard that before.
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I wish to make a few small points about this amendment. I deeply regret that we are not taking amendments Nos. 16 and 82 to 87, inclusive, together. Amendment No. 16, which has been proposed by Deputy Morgan, inserts a definition of market value into section 4. Amendments Nos. 82 to 87 relate to section 70. The difficulty with the Bill as drafted is that section 4 regularly refers onwards...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (5 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: -----it could be an unsecured instrument or derivative that is without real value. Why are we in this difficulty? Why is there an absence of definitional exactitude in section 4 and a type of metaphysical chapter in section 70? I believe it is to cover the fact that â¬7 billion over the achievable value, regardless of what way one dances around it, is being transferred for assets to the...
- Order of Business. (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: When will Ireland be in a position to ratify the United Nations convention on the rights of the disabled?
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Maidir le leasú Uimh. 1, tá sé tábhachtach go mbeadh leagan Gaeilge den Bhille ar fáil. Tuigim go bhfuil brú mór ar an Roinn Airgeadais. Tá sé geallta ag an Aire Airgeadais go mbeidh leagan iomlán Gaelige ar fáil. Tá sé intuigthe go bhfuil sé sin tábhachtach. Tá brú mór ar úsáid na Gaeilge, agus ar an Roinn Gaeltachta féin, ag an bpointe seo. Tá sé tábhachtach go...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Is à an tábhacht a bhaineann leis an leagan Gaeilge ná go bhfuil cuid de na maoin atá i ndeacrachtaà lonnaithe sna GaeltachtaÃéagsúla. Dá mba rud é go mbeadh dúshláin os comhair na cúirte, bheadh an foirm seo den reachtaÃocht in úsáid. Glacaim leis go mbeidh obair mhór i gceist chun an foirm iomlán a chur ar fáil i nGaeilge. Ceapaim go mbeidh sé sin inghlactha nuair...
- National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is the kind of thinking the Governor of the Central Bank had in the day.
- Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.
- National Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I support the inclusion of the word "sustainable". To contribute to the sustainable social and economic development is fine, but when the Bill goes to the Seanad it would be worthwhile to consider including, in whatever form it might be, the social, economic and cultural development of the State. I say that because I listened to reference to large tracts of land which will never be built on...
- National Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Sustainability was first used at the United Nations conference on economic development in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It is used in a way quite different from the way the Minister of State is presenting it, but I am not hung up on it.
- National Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Nobody suggested that.
- Written Answers — Health Service Expenditure: Health Service Expenditure (4 Nov 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has evaluated the proposals in the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes Report as they relate to health and children; her views on the proposals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39283/09]