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Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: ...English language we use figures of speech for impact and effect, and to drive home a point. My colleague, Deputy Ruth Coppinger, did not refer to men and women who are members of the gardaí as "dogs", as is being alleged.

Leaders' Questions (12 Feb 2015)

Joe Higgins: She has clarified that she was using a figure of speech. "The dogs of war" is a very well-known figure of speech. Read your Shakespeare, Tánaiste, and there you will find it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Management Council Meetings (9 Dec 2014)

Joe Higgins: ...being taken from the pockets of the people, moneys they have already paid through their general taxes, will proceed. If the Taoiseach still does not listen, he will be faced with a huge boycott next April that will dog him right up to the general election and have a huge impact in that election. I advise him, in the quietness of the Chamber, to cut his losses and abolish the water tax,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Sale of IBRC Mortgage Loan Book: Discussion (26 Feb 2014)

Joe Higgins: I know some dogs that are very nice because I know them, but if a new dog arrives on the block, it might be quite vicious. How can Mr. Wallace say that they will not act in a brutal fashion in pressuring people with arrears out of their homes, if it suits them?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (26 Nov 2013)

Joe Higgins: ...and the Marine if he will reconsider signing into law regulations to be made under sections 16 and 17 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 allowing for tail docking and dew claw removal of dogs and that they may be performed by non-registered persons, namely, persons other than registered veterinary practitioners, using no anaesthesia or pain relief as per representations that have...

Sheep Worrying (29 Mar 2012)

Joe Higgins: Some of those dogs might be handy next week.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: ...of the people of Roscommon, in whose hospital he pledged to protect the emergency services? How pathetic is it to use HIQA as an alibi? It makes the young fellow who offers the excuse of the dog having chewed his homework positively credible by contrast.

School Accommodation. (28 Jun 2006)

Joe Higgins: ...whose constituency office is located less than 1 mile from our school; can confirm this. It is very remiss of the local public representatives from the Government side to have failed to fight like dogs to ensure this facility is provided. I seek emergency action so that the children in question will be catered for this September.

Leaders' Questions. (30 Nov 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...the country. In this morning's TheStar newspaper, a reporter wrote about visiting just a few such sites. The report quotes a mother in County Laois as saying "We are living in a site not fit for dogs", adding that shower units are like ice boxes. "You couldn't send a child out to the units to take a shower in that weather", the woman was quoted as saying. The newspaper also reported on...

Leaders' Questions. (1 Mar 2005)

Joe Higgins: ...area. Does the Taoiseach agree with the trade union activist who stated that the resources the Government provides to root out these abuses are pitiful? I am informed that there are at least 40 dog wardens in the State. There are at least as many rogue bosses as there are mad dogs in the country but there are only 21 labour inspectors. I accept that these inspectors are hard-working and...