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- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Does the Minister remember the concept of regulation with a light touch?
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: No, the Minister did not.
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: They cannot be touched, nor can the Minister's golden circle who destroyed this country's reputation.
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I did notââ
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister could not get in because it was so crowded.
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: The Minister sounds like old Hanrahan: "We'll all be rooned".
- Irish Economy: Motion (17 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It is a very small standing ovation, Michael.
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 9: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the savings he proposes in the context of the cut in the overseas development aid budget; the details of the savings it is proposed to make; the programmes to be scaled back, cut or discontinued; and the areas within his Department's spend these are located. [5193/09]
- Written Answers — Overseas Development Aid: Overseas Development Aid (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 51: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the details of the report by the OECD peer group review on foreign aid. [5222/09]
- EU-Israel Relations. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I welcome the strength of the interventions the Minister has been making on this issue, particularly in light of the messages Members have received from those who are not interested in anything other than laying down preconditions of such a nature as to make peace impossible. However, his views are exceptional in the European Union at present and, indeed, certain countries are opposed to...
- EU-Israel Relations. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It is illegal.
- Arms Trade. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: What is revealed in this type of question is another contradiction at the heart of the European Union â I say this as somebody who is in favour of the European Union â in terms of diplomatic activity which is scant in regard to, say, the Middle East, with all due respect to Javier Solana and Tony Blair, whose presence has not achieved much. During the past four and a half years, the...
- Arms Trade. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: At the same time, there is a shortfall in terms of diplomacy. Deputy Deasy and I noted, when in a remote part of Africa called Karamojo, where people are being slaughtered, that spears had given way to AKs. Often there is not even a single weapons producing factory in the countries on the receiving end, which is an obscenity.
- Arms Trade. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That does not make it a good thing.
- Arms Trade. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Yes.
- Arms Trade. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: That is not the point.
- Arms Trade. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Does the Minister favour an end-use requirement where the responsibility would fall on the producer as seller?
- UN Conventions. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: It was a year ago, on 6 February 2008, that I last asked about this issue and I welcome the fact progress is being made. However, in the February 2008 reply, the Minister said there were some legal and administrative issues that arose with his colleague, the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform. Can I take it that, with the passing of the legislation to which the Minister has just...
- Overseas Development Aid. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason, in the recent reassessment of national expenditure, that part of the budget assigned to overseas development aid was cut by a higher percentage than those cuts made in other Departments and areas of Government spending; and if he will explain the implications this will have for Ireland's assurance of devoting 0.7% of GNP to ODA...
- Overseas Development Aid. (12 Feb 2009)
Michael D Higgins: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply and commitment on this matter. Would he not agree that it is distressing for those who work in this area and particularly those who benefited from Ireland's programme that the cuts in overseas development aid were disproportionate? The cut of â¬95 million is an entirely disproportionate cut compared with cuts in any other Department. It...