Results 81-100 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins

Official Engagements. (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 1: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached on his visit to the 23 European capitals in the context of negotiations of the proposed EU Constitution. [15386/04]

Official Engagements. (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 2: To ask the Taoiseach the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the EU-Russia summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15390/04]

Official Engagements. (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: Following the three-legged race around the European Union that the Taoiseach has just described, with just over two weeks to go until the final major meeting of the Irish EU Presidency, will the Taoiseach say what the outstanding issues are in regard to agreeing a proposed EU draft constitution? Given such a short timespan, I imagine the main sticking points between the various states would...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: For very many working people in this State, the revelations about massive fraud and tax evasion in the banking system and the air of injured innocence of the most senior people involved might come from a Monty Python script. A chief executive who had €40,000 invested for him with magnificently generous returns is giving the impression that the closest he ever came to hearing a word like...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: When all else fails one must resort to humour.

Leaders' Questions. (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: The banks wield enormous power over the economy and over the lives of millions of ordinary working people. Why should unelected seniour executives, faceless to most people, be able to control the lives of so many people in this way? Is there not an unanswerable case now for the major banks to be taken into public ownership and to have democratically appointed boards to run them? These would...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: Should we not have a bank policy that is dictated not by greed for super profit but by social need and the provision of what is necessary for people to be able to live reasonable and dignified lives? Is that not the question raised by what has been revealed not just in the past week but in recent years?

Order of Business. (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: What is the latest Government decision in regard to the legislation promised for the break-up of Aer Rianta? Is it envisaged the legislation will come before the Dáil before the summer recess? Has a final decision been made on it and have the apparent difficulties between the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Finance been resolved?

Written Answers — Citizenship Applications: Citizenship Applications (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 319: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a citizenship application made by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [16248/04]

Written Answers — Data Retention: Data Retention (1 Jun 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 332: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the purpose of a motion on communications data retention measures in the EU put down to the Council of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs by Ireland, along with Britain, France and Sweden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16534/04]

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the decentralisation programme as it affects his Department. [18999/04]

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: If there is a logic in not decentralising the Department of the Taoiseach, could the same logic apply to other areas? However, the opportunistic and hasty way in which the Government made the announcement, inappropriately in the course of a budget speech, did not allow for a proper examination of that. If I have heard the Taoiseach correctly some 44 members of his Department have applied to...

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: I am aware of that but I have to put my question in the context of the Minister who made the policy. I want to find out how aspects of the policy appertain the Department of the Taoiseach because the Minister of State at the Department of Finance, Deputy Parlon, the junior Minister, though surely not in his own mind, told the House that 2007 was only an indicative date. Will the Taoiseach say...

Decentralisation Programme. (5 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: Is health still in Angola?

Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (5 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: The Water Services Bill, under cover of modernising the legislation, provides a framework for the privatisation of the water supply in this State and for the introduction of the hated water charges which a magnificent movement of ordinary people power forced out in 1996. A water tax may not be introduced before the next general election. The Government remembers what happened in the mid 1990s...

Water Services Bill 2003 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (5 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: Yes, but as I will show in the limited time available, the suggestion is that water is free and, therefore, having it supplied to our homes without a specific tax or charge on it means we will wantonly waste it. That is always the subtext for saying we must have direct water charges. I reject that. The explanatory memorandum states the Bill deals with management of water in the pipe from...

Written Answers — Air Services: Air Services (5 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: Question 399: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of US military personnel passing through Shannon Airport for each month of 2004 to date. [23485/04]

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: I want to raise a number of issues concerning people originating from outside the European Union now seeking refuge and shelter in this State on humanitarian grounds. The Tánaiste told the "Gerry Ryan Show" on Tuesday last correctly that a hard line should be taken against the atrocity known as female genital mutilation, also called FGM. Will she consider making FGM and the threat of this...

Leaders' Questions. (12 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: That is a very positive development. We would be a disgrace in front the nations and peoples of the world if we were to deport a woman in Juliet Imiruaye's position. Will the Tánaiste elaborate on her last comment on whether she also appreciates the particular case of some thousands of people with children who are Irish citizens who were advised quite solidly by the legal profession and...

Order of Business. (12 Oct 2004)

Joe Higgins: I appeal to——