Results 1-4 of 4 for construction industry council speaker:Joe Higgins
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: ...political influence which major developers and big builders exercised in this State over many decades resulting in a wholly inadequate regime of regulation, supervision and inspection in the construction industry, has left a disastrous legacy of defective buildings and major fire hazards, only recently coming to light; further notes in particular: â that the Building Control Act 1990,...
- Private Members' Business. Building Control Regulations: Motion (6 Jun 2012)
Joe Higgins: ...and some in Belmayne have been forced to move from their homes. We move this motion in solidarity with those residents who are suffering the consequences of the problems which have emerged in the construction industry and home building in particular. We especially insist on immediate action from this Government as this State has a serious responsibility for the matter which developed....
- Planning and Development (Strategic Infrastructure) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (15 Jun 2006)
Joe Higgins: ...and, indeed, sometimes fly in the face of genuine community interest, nevertheless, when a local authority is making a decision, the community can exercise significant influence through their councillors and also directly on the local authority. The officials of the local authority making the decision are well acquainted with the views of the community and organisations which might be, for...
- Leaders' Questions. (15 Feb 2006)
Joe Higgins: Was the Taoiseach's attention drawn to an assertion that an astounding 70,000 to 120,000 construction workers are being criminally denied their legal and mandatory pension rights by construction bosses, which means that, apart from losing pension entitlements, they are deprived of death in service benefits and sickness benefits? It was not a revolutionary socialist or a trade union activist...