Results 181-200 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins

Leaders' Questions. (8 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: ——it takes advantage of its power over vulnerable workers to exploit them. I will not allow that to happen.

Written Answers — Digital Industries: Digital Industries (8 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Communications, Marine and Natural Resources if he will report on contact between his Department and the board of a company (details supplied) before the announcement of the decision to close the research centre in the digital hub. [1461/05]

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1469/05]

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1470/05]

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: An important element of Sustaining Progress is its commitments on transport, which have major implications for workers in terms of accessing work and their living conditions generally. When the Taoiseach was in Adamstown the day before yesterday disguised as a construction worker and giving commitments that the new town would have all the elements of transport infrastructure put in place——

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Yes.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: My questions relate to Sustaining Progress.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: I will bring the matter to a point quickly. I live in a town of 100,000 people, which has massive transport problems. A recent report indicated that reopening the old rail line to Dunboyne is a viable proposition. Will the Government invest in the line as part of Sustaining Progress?

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: I will do that but my question is put in the general context of the importance of transport in Sustaining Progress.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach may have incinerated material on his forehead but he is not wearing sackcloth.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: In that case, he is wearing expensive sackcloth.

Social Partnership Agreement. (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Appearances can be deceptive.

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Amendment No. 2 reads as follows: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: —believes that events in Northern Ireland since the signing of the Good Friday Agreement show clearly that a resolution cannot be found based on the institutionalisation of sectarian division and on political parties that are based on sectarian division; —believes that the large...

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Under Standing Order 51, I ask the Ceann Comhairle to rule the Taoiseach's amendment out of order.

Northern Ireland Issues: Motion (Resumed). (9 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: An amendment should seek to at least add or substitute words.

Order of Business. (10 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: The simple solution is to make more training places available.

Written Answers — Deportation Orders: Deportation Orders (10 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 167: To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Israeli State is threatening to deport a person (details supplied); and if he will request that no such deportation take place before this person's appeal is heard. [4465/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [1449/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [1452/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (15 Feb 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 18: To ask the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet with the British Prime Minister; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1455/05]