Results 21-30 of 30 for destroyed speaker:Joe Higgins

Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2011)

Joe Higgins: Are they prepared to sit here and see soldiers and towns and local economies destroyed in this way? I am asking the Government to reconsider. What is the rationale for the decision when it cannot even use an economic argument?

Prison Committals (5 Oct 2011)

Joe Higgins: Ms Teresa Treacy is in Mountjoy Jail as we speak. She was thrown in there by order of a judge because she is not prepared to allow the ESB to destroy a swathe of trees through her forest at Clonmore, County Offaly in order to erect massive pylons and power lines. Conifers have already been cut. I have personally seen the destruction that has been done. The next tranche for the chop is a...

Oireachtas Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2011)

Joe Higgins: ...that their massive private gambling debts be piled on the shoulders of the Irish people, despite the fact that this is utterly immoral and unjust and will lower the living standards of our people, destroy tens of thousands of jobs, depress the economy generally and leave this State hovering over a black hole of bankruptcy. It mocks the claims of the Treaty on European Union that it is...

Crime Prevention: Motion (Resumed). (11 Oct 2006)

Joe Higgins: ...belief that the State still permits the deployment of millions of euro each year to portray alcohol as a sexy, social and beneficial drug without which people could not possibly live when its abuse destroys thousands of lives each year, disables many people physically and socially and contributes to devastating behaviour, leaving some people tragically dead or injured as a result of the...

Social Partnership. (23 May 2006)

Joe Higgins: ...their workers and then victimised them when they sought their rights on union advice. This follows from the Irish Ferries debacle. I refer to a regime of proposed labour legislation that would destroy collective bargaining and force workers into individual contracts, one by one, at the boss's behest. It would destroy unfair dismissal protection for all workers in places of employment with...

Commemorative Events. (25 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: ...the ownership of those assets from the people to international speculators? This has happened with the telecoms industry and the Government proposes to do the same with the national airline. It has destroyed the national sugar beet industry by giving it to national and international speculators. As he stood at the GPO on Easter Sunday and thought of men and women who went out to overthrow...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed). (5 Apr 2006)

Joe Higgins: ...Éireann? No doubt the directors of Greencore warmly applaud the decision to privatise Aer Lingus. After all, they made a fortune from another Fianna Fáil privatisation, never mind that they destroyed the beet and sugar industries and the jobs of hundreds of workers in the process. The millionaires who owned Irish Ferries will also warmly support the Government's privatisation plans and...

Chief Executive of Centre for Public Inquiry: Statement by Minister. (13 Dec 2005)

Joe Higgins: The issue is not whether Mr. Connolly did or did not do what the Minister claimed. The fact is that the Minister cannot prove it. The reality is that he has set out to destroy the Centre for Public Inquiry because the Government does not want it investigating issues that have embarrassed it, such as the case of the Shell pipeline, or does not want to risk embarrassing the Minister in the case...

Leaders' Questions. (28 Sep 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...'s hands. All he has to do is pick up the phone and make Shell lift the injunction, thus letting the five decent men home to their families. He should make Shell process the gas where it will not destroy the communities and the environment. While he is at it, the Taoiseach should tear up the contracts which have sold out this fabulous resource to the major corporations. Let us begin a...

Aer Lingus: Motion (Resumed). (25 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...from the right-wing, neo-liberal economic policy of this Fianna Fáil and Progressive Democrats Government. The Government is fully in tune in this sense with the EU Commission which would like to destroy every vestige of public ownership of services and industry within the European Union. There is no other economic reason for the proposed privatisation. The Minister for Finance, Deputy...