Results 41-60 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (8 Dec 2015)

Joe Higgins: 0. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet committee on health took place.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (1 Dec 2015)

Joe Higgins: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Construction 2020, Housing, Planning and Mortgage Arrears took place. [31774/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Seanad Reform (1 Dec 2015)

Joe Higgins: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on proposals for the reform of Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40212/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on discussions he has had with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Mr. David Cameron. [31784/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on discussions he has had with the Northern Ireland First Minister, Mr. Peter Robinson, the Deputy First Minister, Mr. Martin Mc Guinness, and the former acting First Minister, Ms Arlene Foster. [31785/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (24 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 29. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any official meetings or contact he has had with the leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, Mr. Jeremy Corbyn. [40214/15]

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: I welcome to the Dáil residents of the greater Dublin area who have been campaigning for housing accommodation for themselves and people generally who are in urgent need of a home. This includes some who are actually facing the horror of eviction in the next week. This history of the Irish State has been characterised by an economically weak capitalist class that was utterly incapable...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: Ask where the ministerial muppet is.

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Applications (12 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: We are not feeling the recovery. That is the problem. We are not feeling it in our schools.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (10 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 12. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon. [31776/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on meetings of the European Council he attended. [31773/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): EU Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his discussions with other European Union heads of government on the refugee crisis. [31772/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: The European Union has substantial trade and other links with Egypt. Has the Minister made any strenuous representations to those in the appropriate senior positions in the European Union that they should put pressure on the Egyptian Government for the release of Ibrahim Halawa? The British Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, is scheduled to meet President el-Sisi this week. Has the Minister had...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: Notwithstanding what the Minister said, is it not clear that far more pressure needs to be put on the Egyptian Government regarding the need for the immediate release of Ibrahim Halawa? He is not just an Irish citizen in an Egyptian jail; he is, to my knowledge, the only European Union citizen in an Egyptian jail on a political charge. Is it not clear that the Irish Government should demand...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 102. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the assistance provided to a person (details supplied) currently detained and awaiting trial in Egypt. [37200/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: I want the Government to step up massively the attempt to secure the immediate release of Irish citizen, Ibrahim Halawa, unjustly imprisoned in an Egyptian jail for an unconscionable period.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Sustainable Development Goals (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the United Nations' sustainable development goals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36987/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Syrian Conflict (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on how the conflict in Syria can be ended. [36988/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent events in Palestine and Israel which have seen a number of civilians die in violent circumstances. [37732/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to raise lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights internationally, in particular with states that criminalise sexual relations between persons of the same sex. [36990/15]