Results 1,201-1,220 of 4,092 for speaker:Michael D Higgins
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: And how we can reform the Department that covered it up.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is right.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: But in the past senior civil servants hid this abuse. The Minister knows that.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: A former Secretary in the Department of Education said everything was wonderful in Daingean.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is right.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: And nothing about the past.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister should put that on a memorial.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is correct.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Headage.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: She was excluded from any committee.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It is just about ten years since the three programmes that made up "States of Fear" appeared on television. When those programmes were broadcast, the reaction was entirely different from what we are witnessing this week in terms of the Ryan report. Much of the reaction then was to assemble the forces that had so successfully denied every assertion of abuse for decades. One could go back...
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is true.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I wish to share my time with Deputy Joan Burton.
- Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Hear, hear.
- Order of Business (11 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Have the necessary ministerial orders been completed for such legislation that exists for the practice of private security companies and their relationship with the Garda? Legislation and legislative initiatives have been promised on the question of the registration and practices of private security companies. However, these would in turn require a set of ministerial orders governing the...
- Written Answers — Children in Care: Children in Care (9 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the Health Service Executive's child protection services are properly resourced to carry out all their competing functions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22058/09]
- Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (9 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 137: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the extent of the backlog in post-adoption placement assessment reports from before 2008; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that this backlog has caused the Russian Federation to suspend inter-country adoptions with Ireland; if the Health Service Executive has informed her of the way it will direct resources to clear this...
- Written Answers — Inter-Country Adoptions: Inter-Country Adoptions (9 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on whether the lapse of the inter-country adoption agreement with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the suspension of inter-country adoptions from the Russian Federation are no fault of prospective adoptive parents; if she will urge the Adoption Board to grant extensions including second extensions to the declaration of...
- Confidence in Government: Motion (9 Jun 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It does.