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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2012
14 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent meeting with Ms Nancy Pelosi. [25363/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2012
11 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans to visit Northern Ireland in June; and the issues that he intends to raise. [25362/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2012
14 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent meeting with Ms Nancy Pelosi. [25363/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 19 June 2012
11 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his plans to visit Northern Ireland in June; and the issues that he intends to raise. [25362/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 June 2012
5 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the stage at which his privatisation programme is currently at and taking into account the job losses that arose from the previous privatisation and part privatisation of State assets, if he has undertaken an impact assessment study of the likely job losses that will arise from the sale of State assets; and if he has conducted a study of the way such losses would compare with jobs alleged to be created with the proceeds. [28689/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 June 2012
17 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent visit to the United States of America; with whom did he meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22693/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 June 2012
17 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent visit to the United States of America; with whom did he meet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22693/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 May 2012
3 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if he will outline his economic growth and structural deficit and national debt projections in the five years after Ireland makes its scheduled exit from the EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support and the corresponding projections for Ireland’s debt to GDP ratio; if he will estimate the scale of adjustments required during this timeframe in order that Ireland meets it structural deficit and debt to GDP ratio targets contained in the Fiscal Compact Treaty. [25725/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 May 2012
6 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach the number of occasions that the Economic Management Council has met since the Christmas recess. [12200/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 May 2012
10 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach his views on the progress made on the implementation of the Programme for Government after one year in office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22692/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 May 2012
19 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the 15 March 2012. [22691/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 April 2012
313 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if just wages and conditions for Chinese workers was discussed as part of any trade agreement signed with the Chinese Government. [19943/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 April 2012
185 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised any specific human rights issues on his recent visit to China; and with whom did he raise them. [19944/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 April 2012
177 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if his comments on 15 April 2012 in relation to householders paying for their water meters had been agreed beforehand with the Minister for the Environment. [19945/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 April 2012
7 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he raised the question of workers’ rights in China with the Chinese Vice President when he met him. [9632/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 April 2012
6 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he raised the question of human rights activists being persecuted in China with the Chinese Vice President when he met him. [9631/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 April 2012
5 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Vice President of China during his recent visit to Ireland. [9630/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 April 2012
1434 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Dublin Airport Authority workers are being forced to pay pension contributions into a scheme that is in severe financial difficulty and may not pay out any of the money they have put into it because of what appears to be poor investment strategy and lack of regulation and governance. [19200/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 April 2012
1433 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, the pension scheme for Dublin Airport Authority workers, has not been frozen in view of the uncertainty surrounding that scheme. [19199/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 April 2012
1301 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Health the amount of savings that have been achieved by increasing the price from €2 per week to €4.50 per day on meals-on-wheels in the Dublin 15 area; if any provision has been made to offer assistance to those who would have difficulty affording the service. [18558/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 April 2012
1269 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Health if direct Exchequer funding will be made available for the provision of a primary healthcare centre for Corduff Dublin 15 in view of the previous commitment by the Health Service Executive to revert to the capital programme in the absence of a successful public private partnership application. [18322/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 April 2012
859 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent on advertising and on administration of the new household tax. [18557/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 April 2012
89 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Finance the basis for having three differing rates of VAT on the internment of ashes 23%, cremation plots 13.5% and burial plots 0%; if he will consider revising the rates charged on the internment of ashes and cremation plots and bring them in line with the zero rate of burial plots. [19196/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 March 2012
184 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received correspondence from the Department of Social Protection in the past number of years requesting an investigation into the council’s handling of illegal dumping in County Wicklow and the way the remediation process was handled by the county council and for a full investigation into the matter; and the action he has taken regarding same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17454/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 March 2012
183 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to recoup the costs of remediation of illegal dumps in County Wicklow when the companies which might be liable are gone out of business.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17453/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 March 2012
182 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to a claim in the High Court that his intervention in the matter of the payment for remediation of illegal dumps in County Wicklow would mean the abandonment of court proceedings related to responsibility for the remediation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17452/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 March 2012
181 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on his decision announced on RTÉ news in November 2011 that he will meet the costs of remediating illegal dumps in County Wicklow; the funds he has committed to this; if any have already been deployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17451/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 March 2012
428 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons who have registered for the household tax that were liable to pay the tax; and the number that were exempt. [16770/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 March 2012
427 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of the 1.8 million households liable to register for the household tax that have done so. [16769/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 March 2012
55 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations for the release of a female Irish citizen detained in Dubai on or around 1 March 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15632/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 March 2012
150 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the regulations that exist for private clamping companies. [14742/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 March 2012
6 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach the number of times in the past year that the IFSC Clearing House Group has met; if he will give details of the matters that were discussed; the actions taken as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12523/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 March 2012
3 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet sub Committee on Health has met since the beginning of 2012. [12522/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 March 2012
2 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet sub Committee on Health has met since the beginning of this year. [12201/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 March 2012
46 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will confirm that following a meeting with DNCC chief fire officer in April 2011, that the Dublin City Council fire prevention officer inspected an apartment in the Belmayne development, Dublin, and three other apartments, in which the construction was opened up because of concerns regarding failure to comply with building regulations regarding sound transmission and fire safety; that the fire prevention officer reported at this time Dublin Fire Brigade did not recommend any further action in relation to the Belmayne development; that the DNCC chief officer notified the owner of one of the apartments that there are no issues in Belmayne due to the fire prevention officer’s report; that an insurance company confirmed then that it would not insure the properties in their current state; that the developer asserted based on the DNCC report that the buildings complied with building regulations and refused apartment owners’ requests for remedial works to make them safe; that opening up inspections in another apartment in the same development in January 2012 revealed the same and additional non-compliance with fire safety building regulations and that a second insurance company withdrew cover; and his views that the DNCC fire officer misinformed the Minister with responsibility for housing in relation to the extent of non-compliance with fire safety regulations in the Belmayne development and in relation to the developer’s performance. [13233/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 March 2012
36 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to help the thousands of home owners whose houses are damaged due to non-compliance with building regulations during 15 years of self-regulation of the building industry. [13234/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 March 2012
556 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Health the reason adolescent and child psychiatric services were summarily removed from Warrenstown and Blanchardstown; and the reason the Genesis Psychotherapy and Family Therapy Service is suffering combined HSE/FSA cuts of 22%. [12468/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 March 2012
555 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Health the reason services in greater Blanchardstown, Dublin, are being severely affected by cuts and relocation. [12467/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 March 2012
554 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Health the reason the Genesis centre, the only psychotherapy and family centre in Dublin 15, has been hit with cuts of 10% in funding from the Health Service Executive when it provides an essential service in a budget. [12466/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 March 2012
177 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Skills the way the transfer of responsibilities for skills development to his Department impacts on the budget for other crucial areas of his Department’s expenditure such as primary education. [12465/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 March 2012
14 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will detail the corporations and financial institutions he met on his recent visit to the United States. [9629/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 March 2012
13 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent visit to the United States of America. [9628/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 March 2012
10 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach the number of staff who were to leave his Department under the retirement scheme by the end of February; their grades; if they will be replaced;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12521/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 March 2012
9 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach the number of persons that will be given responsibility in his Department for the implementation of the 2012 Action Plan for Jobs; if additional persons will be recruited or will they come from other Departments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12520/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 March 2012
37 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider making a policy decision in respect of social housing that the 300,000 vacant houses will be matched with the 100,000 households on State housing lists, in place of the recent cuts to rent supplement. [11708/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 March 2012
11 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Social Protection if it is the case that unemployed workers who are highly skilled and qualified in particular fields, for example, nurses, will be forced to accept jobs or internships outside of those fields, or risk losing their benefits under the pathways to work initiative. [11709/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2012
72 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basis on which he defined strategic from non-strategic State assets when making his decision on the State assets that were to be sold under the troika agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11248/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2012
67 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in his review of spending, if his attention has been drawn to the high cost of contract cleaners for the Department of Finance, at €203,556.00, and also for the Office of Public Works, at €704,918.90; if he has done a comparison on the amount it would cost to directly employ cleaners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11247/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2012
2 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on the 25-29 January 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5174/12]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 February 2012
44 Deputy Joe Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if he had discussions on the margins of the EU summit on 30 January about the promissory notes relating to Anglo Irish Bank. [5173/12]