Results 41-60 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins
- Order of Business. (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach did not answer when precisely the amending legislation on electronic voting will be brought before the House.
- Written Answers — Schools Recognition: Schools Recognition (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 276: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department will immediately sanction funding for the CABAS south Dublin project in Shankill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4527/04]
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 312: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of special needs assistants employed on a full-time and part-time basis. [4953/04]
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 318: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the budget allocated to the provision of special needs assistants for the school year June 2002 to June 2003; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4960/04]
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 319: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the budget allocated to the provision of special needs assistants for the school year June 2003 to June 2004; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4961/04]
- Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 320: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the budget allocated to the provision of special needs assistants for the school year June 2004 to June 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4962/04]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the criteria currently being employed in the evaluation of the necessity for the provision of a special needs assistant to a school student; if his Department has plans to change these criteria; and if so, when. [4954/04]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 314: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the changes in the criteria used for the assessment of the need to provide a special needs assistant to a school student since 1 June 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4956/04]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 315: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the changes his Department intends to make in the criteria being used for the assessment of the need to provide a special needs assistant over the next 18 months. [4957/04]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has plans to expand the provision of special needs supports to ensure children with special needs achieve their full educational potential; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4958/04]
- Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (17 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 317: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if his Department has plans to allocate special needs assistants on a school by school basis, based on the number of students attending each school, as is currently the case with the allocation of teaching posts; when this will be implemented; and the ratio of special needs assistants to students that will exist. [4959/04]
- Nally Group Report on Omagh Bombing: Statements. (20 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: I am in an impossible position in debating a report that I have not seen. How can we pass judgment by any reasonable standard on a report the Government is insisting on keeping secret? Much less are we in a position to pass judgment on the allegations made against the Garda SÃochána, or elements of it, that it in some way facilitated or made the Omagh bombing possible. This was the reason...
- Tribunals of Inquiry: Statements. (20 Feb 2004)
Joe Higgins: Scéal náireach agus scanallach atá nochtaithe sa mbinse fiosrúcháin maidir le caimiléireacht i gcúrsaà pleanála i mBaile Ãtha Cliath. NÃl aon dabht ach gur truaillÃodh go dona an próiseas pleanála sa gcondae ag lucht mór tógála agus comhairleoirà chondae ó Fhianna Fáil agus, corruair, ó Fhine Gael chomh maith. FáiltÃm roimh an méid go bhfuil an lofacht tughta os...
- Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)
Joe Higgins: This Bill is inadequate to meet the situation that exists in Irish society. Unfortunately, the ordinary citizen has serious concerns about how the financial, economic and political sections of the establishment behave. The Bill is supposed to provide for the establishment from time to time of commissions to investigate into and report on matters considered to be of significant public concern....
- Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)
Joe Higgins: What this legislation proposes is inadequate from the point of view of ordinary working people and taxpayers. The members of the proposed commission of investigation will be the creatures of Ministers who will control the process from beginning to end. The commission is to be established by the Government but based on the proposals of a Minister with the approval of the Minister for Finance....
- Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)
Joe Higgins: The Minister of State is a long way from the barricades and the meat factories â that is for sure.
- Commissions of Investigation Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed). (5 Mar 2004)
Joe Higgins: What would the poor farmers in Ballinamore think?
- Departmental Investigations. (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach agree that, in certain court cases in recent years, it has appeared that the Judiciary, in interpreting the law, has been acting as an extension of the Dáil rather than as pure judges of crucial issues? What does he think should be done to avoid giving huge latitudeââ
- Departmental Investigations. (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question No. 2 asks: "if the Government has directed an audit of the Statute Book in order to ascertain the number of enactments vulnerable to challenge on the grounds set out in the judgments of the courts in cases (details supplied)". Many issues arise from that question, including the discretion of the President in referring legislation to the Supreme Court before it is signed. Something...
- Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (30 Mar 2004)
Joe Higgins: Question 232: To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he intends to take as a matter of urgency to help parents with the excessive burden of child care costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9596/04]