Search for peat speaker:Joe Higgins (KildareStreet.com)

Housing and Homelessness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (18 Nov 2015): Joe Higgins: ...various Governments, albeit those composed of right-wing political parties, to mobilise State resources in public investment to construct significant enterprises such as the Electricity Supply Board, peat production and sugar beet industries creating thousands of jobs and services and publicly funded home building on a wide scale. In the modern era, we have had a catastrophic implosion of...
Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2007): Joe Higgins: ...of the question. Why are public transport subsidies among the lowest in the European Union under this Government over the last ten years? Why are our electricity generating stations burning more peat now when alternative energy sources have been available for years and have not been sufficiently invested in by the State to replace carbon emitting generation? Is it not extraordinary that...

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