Results 61-80 of 7,975 for speaker:Joe Higgins

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his discussions with his European Union counterparts regarding the need to assist refugees from the Middle East and Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36986/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Terrorism (3 Nov 2015)

Joe Higgins: 875. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the terror attacks in Turkey and the protest movement against these attacks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36989/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Economic Management Council Meetings (20 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the last meeting of the Economic Management Council Cabinet Committee took place. [31775/15]

Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Will she confirm that the spouse of the Garda Commissioner is in charge of this unit, as reported in one particular media outlet?

Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Does the Minister have any appreciation of how sinister it is that a mass movement of ordinary people against a water tax is being policed in this way? People understand that this hated austerity burden, which is part of the bailout of bankers and bondholders, is a precursor to commodification and privatisation. Hundreds of thousands of people have been actively involved in campaigning...

Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Will the Minister acknowledge the reality that her Government's water tax, and the commodification of water that is part of it, does not have the support of the vast majority of ordinary people in this country? Instead of recognising that and abolishing the water charges, we have the institution of political policing to track, observe and keep under surveillance people who are simply...

Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: 111. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if there was an investigation within her Department regarding a surveillance programme within the Garda Síochána named Operation Mizen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35279/15]

Other Questions: Garda Operations (20 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Did the Minister for Justice and Equality, as we asked her months ago, institute an investigation in her Department regarding a Garda Síochána surveillance programme entitled Operation Mizen against anti-water-charge activists? Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Expenditure (20 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: 138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will review the money spent on surveillance equipment and technology by An Garda Síochána. [35278/15]

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: There is no research-----

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: -----on the transfer to smuggled cigarettes.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: We need to have research to see what Revenue says. The Government's own Revenue organisation said it.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: It is 18 years since I first stood up in this Chamber on budget day to oppose this bit of annual hypocrisy by the parties in power, bringing in a punitive tax which particularly impacts on poor people under the guise of health. I am obliged to Dan Macguill at the TheJournal.iefor some research on this, especially as I was taken up with the terrible issues of homelessness and other baneful...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: They should be nationalised. They should be a State monopoly.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Cigarette sales should be regulated and any excess should go into harm reduction and to major programmes to assist people in ending addiction. Prohibitionism on alcohol or tobacco does not work so how can we assist people in not smoking or drinking to excess? Jacking up prices is put across as an effective measure. That is now being challenged quite strongly. It is true that a graph in...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Are they social houses that NAMA will build?

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Outrageous.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: That is outrageous. Four and a half years and you have done nothing. We are dealing with the mess you failed to resolve.

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: Where are they?

Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2015)

Joe Higgins: As cynical a response as we would have expected.