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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2006
495 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied). [20455/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2006
21 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the bilateral meetings he held on the margins of the EU-Latin America summit in Vienna. [20849/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2006
20 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the EU-Latin America summit in Vienna. [20848/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2006
19 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr. John Howard. [20847/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2006
9 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the President of Croatia. [17721/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 May 2006
8 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach his priorities for the June 2006 summit of the European Council. [17720/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 May 2006
6 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when the National Security Committee last met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14284/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 24 May 2006
1 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing the recommendations of the OECD report on regulatory reform. [14283/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 May 2006
440 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the criteria on which voluntary organisations working in the disability sector who wish to apply for funding under the recent enhancing disability services project funding announcement will be evaluated. [19508/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 May 2006
210 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will seek the prompt enactment of legislation to implement an insurance scheme for persons infected with hepatitis C or HIV through provision of contaminated blood or blood products by the State. [19486/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 May 2006
216 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has included funding for newborn hearing screening in the budget for the Health Service Executive. [19492/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 May 2006
215 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she has made a policy decision to introduce newborn hearing screening. [19491/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 May 2006
3 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the studies currently being carried out by the National Economic and Social Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14282/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 May 2006
1 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the social partners. [14280/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 May 2006
224 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science the action she proposes to take to facilitate children who are being denied places in schools (details supplied) in Dublin 15 due to those other schools being at capacity. [19041/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 18 May 2006
223 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will report on the primary school situation within the catchment area of the constituency of Dublin west with regard to the number of children seeking places to start primary school in September 2006; the number who currently cannot find places in existing schools; and the actions she will take to ensure that all children have primary school places in their local communities. [19040/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2006
274 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will ensure that the Dublin Institute of Technology Students’ Union is represented on the membership of the Grangegorman Development Agency, in view of the fact that the DIT student body represents the largest stakeholder in the impending development in Grangegorman. [18716/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2006
153 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will introduce vaccination against pneumococcal meningitis onto the childhood immunisation schedule. [18626/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2006
6 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when the new task force on active citizenship last met; and when he expects the next meeting to take place. [14279/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2006
2 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on drugs and social inclusion last met. [14285/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 17 May 2006
1 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet sub-committee on Aer Lingus last met [14277/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 May 2006
1 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress to date in implementing An Agreed Programme for Government. [14275/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 May 2006
6 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the steps he intends to take following the report of the Joint Committee on Justice, Equality, Defence and Women’s Rights concerning the establishment of a commission of investigation into the murder of Mr. Séamus Ludlow. [16030/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 May 2006
418 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the legal basis of the requirement that a person here on a tourist visa, must return to their country of origin in order to apply for a student visa. [15947/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 May 2006
207 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children her views on representations from a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 concerning the difficulties faced by fully qualified dentists from the Ukraine and other non-EU countries resident here who seek permission to practice as dentists in this State. [16157/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 3 May 2006
2 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the progress made by the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14273/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 27 April 2006
70 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he has arranged to meet families bereaved by the Stardust disaster. [14268/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 April 2006
194 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if he will extend the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 1997 to Coillte. [15596/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 April 2006
161 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the immediate steps she is taking to implement the recommendations contained in the report of the investigation into complaints made by a person (details supplied) against the early intervention service and the Health Service Executive, north east region in December 2005. [15565/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 April 2006
13 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached at his meeting with the President of the United States, Mr. George W. Bush. [14281/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 April 2006
12 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he raised the issue of the privatisation of the Sellafield nuclear processing plant with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [14278/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 April 2006
11 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the US Administration. [14271/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 April 2006
10 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [14270/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 April 2006
9 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the President of the United States of America, Mr. George W. Bush; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14269/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 April 2006
8 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the parties in Northern Ireland. [14267/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
908 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science her plans for a new secondary school (details supplied) in Dublin 15, in view of the large and growing population increase in this area. [15387/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
654 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of the recommendations made by a judge (details supplied) that have been implemented to date. [14573/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
524 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport the amount by which a company’s (details supplied) portion of the Irish airlines pension scheme is under funded; and the amount of this under funding which is the responsibility of Aer Lingus. [15378/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
523 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport how he intends to resolve the under funding of the Irish airlines pension scheme in relation to former Aer Lingus employees, now working for a company (details supplied) who are members of the scheme. [15377/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
522 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport if, in respect of the topping up of the Irish airlines pension scheme, he will top up the entire scheme or just the Aer Lingus portion of the scheme. [15376/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
521 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport if he will establish an independent pension scheme for the employees of the Dublin Airport Authority. [15375/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
415 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has established who the beneficial owners of a company (details supplied) were in 2005 when millions of euro in Gama workers’ wages were channelled into this company. [14632/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
414 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, further to data received from Gama Construction and Gama Endustri concerning wages paid to their Turkish workers employed here, he has been informed of the number of workers who had accounts in their name in Finansbank Holland in Amsterdam and the total; if all of their workers have been informed of the accounts in their names; if he has been given a list including the amount of funds in each worker’s name; if all of the workers have been enabled to access the funds in these accounts and to dispose freely of them; the total amount of the funds paid into the workers’ accounts in Finansbank Holland since the opening of these accounts in 2002; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14631/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
375 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if his attention has been drawn to a report from the United Nations Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations Relief and Work Agency that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster due to lack of money and of basic food supplies; and if he will raise this matter at the level of the EU the UN and with representatives of the Israeli Government. [15385/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
274 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason she has under-resourced the public home help service while at the same time subsidised private companies providing home help services through the Health Service Executive and through the recently introduced €1,000 home care grant. [15372/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
163 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will make capital funding available to build the planned women’s refuge in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. [14531/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
61 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism if he will make a submission to Fingal County Council regarding the lands at Abbotstown and the county council study to determine a suitable mix of sporting and appropriate commercial, leisure and amenity uses in order to create a vibrant and sustainable sports campus; and if he will investigate the possibility of opening up these lands for recreational use for the residents of the greater Blanchardstown area. [15403/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 April 2006
8 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the preparations for the commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising. [14272/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 April 2006
404 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if she will take immediate steps to ensure that a mandatory obligation is placed on every organisation working with children to carry out comprehensive vetting procedures on the employment or contracting of staff. [14207/06]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 6 April 2006
403 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science if, until she introduces an appropriate school bus service for the transport of all special needs children, she will immediately introduce an escort, qualified and trained to work with special needs children, to accompany children whose school transport has been contracted out to taxi and hackney drivers at all times during their journey to and from school. [14206/06]