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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 July 2004
52 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance the reason there are no plans to remedy the anomaly whereby injured minors cannot reclaim the DIRT paid on interest on their court awards. [19867/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 July 2004
51 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance the revenue which was generated by DIRT on court awards to injured children for the most recent year for which figures are available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19866/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
275 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí deployed for the visit by President Bush; and the cost of the security operation. [19776/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
274 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if water cannons were deployed in the State during the visit by President Bush; and the cost of same. [19774/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
273 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the arrangements put in place at Shannon Industrial Estate regarding setting up a Garda station and holding cells for prisoners; and the cost of same. [19773/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
268 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport the details of the arms and armaments brought into the State by any agency of the US Government in the context of the visit by President Bush. [19775/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
267 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport if prisoners have been transported through Shannon Airport in transit to or from the US base at Guantanamo Bay or other US holding centre. [19772/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
186 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if prisoners were transported through Shannon Airport in transit to or from the US base at Guantanamo Bay or other US holding centres. [19771/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
172 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Defence the number of Army personnel deployed for the visit of President Bush; and the cost of this deployment. [19777/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
10 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [18249/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 30 June 2004
9 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [18248/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 29 June 2004
368 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of an application for family reunification made two months ago by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19243/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2004
228 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport if Bus Éireann workers who would not be in a position to relocate to Mitchelstown will maintain the same rights and promotion possibilities as before. [18580/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2004
227 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport the number of workers in Bus Éireann head office that would have to agree to relocate to Mitchelstown before this decentralisation could be viable. [18579/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2004
226 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport the number of workers in Bus Éireann head office that have agreed to relocate to Mitchelstown. [18578/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 June 2004
225 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport the number of jobs in Bus Éireann head office that have been marked for decentralisation to Mitchelstown. [18577/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 June 2004
313 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Education and Science when a school, details supplied, in County Dublin will come under the remit of the Residential Institutions Redress Board. [17868/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2004
332 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the purpose of a motion on communications data retention measures in the EU put down to the Council of Ministers of Justice and Home Affairs by Ireland, along with Britain, France and Sweden; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16534/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2004
319 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the status of a citizenship application made by a person (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [16248/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2004
2 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the matters discussed and conclusions reached at the EU-Russia summit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15390/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 June 2004
1 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the matters discussed and conclusions reached on his visit to the 23 European capitals in the context of negotiations of the proposed EU Constitution. [15386/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2004
135 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if the Government will argue within the EU for the adoption of an international arms trade treaty by 2006 to prevent the export of arms to locations in which they contribute to violations of international human rights and humanitarian law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15746/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2004
134 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs his views on the adoption of an international arms trade treaty by 2006 to prevent the export of arms to locations in which they contribute to violations of international human rights and humanitarian law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15745/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2004
6 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his address to the IBEC conference in April 2004. [15385/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 26 May 2004
5 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the pre-1922 legislation he proposes to repeal as outlined at the IBEC conference on regulation. [15384/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2004
8 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent contacts with the political parties in Northern Ireland. [15383/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 25 May 2004
7 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach the matters discussed and conclusions reached at his recent meeting with the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15382/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
200 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí drafted into Dublin from outside the Dublin area for the May Day weekend. [13939/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
199 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí deployed in the proximity of the Liffey Quays and Heuston Station on the occasion of a march by a group (details supplied); and if any alleged public order incidents or arrests took place. [13938/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
198 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of persons arrested as a result of alleged public order incidents in Killarney on the occasion of the Rally of the Lakes; and the number of persons arrested as a result of alleged public order incidents in the Ashtown area on May Day. [13923/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
197 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the number of gardaí deployed in Killarney for the rally of the lakes; and the number of gardaí deployed in the Ashtown area on May Day. [13922/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
196 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if Garda personnel operated the water cannons used in the Ashtown area on May Day 2004; and the persons who trained the operators. [13921/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
194 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the person who gave the order to use water cannons in the Ashtown area on May Day 2004; and the reason this decision was made when the situation clearly did not warrant such a disproportionate response. [13919/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
195 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform when negotiations began with the suppliers of the water cannons used by the Garda in the Ashtown area on May Day 2004; and when a decision was made to acquire the apparatus. [13920/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
193 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the nature and details of any agreement with the suppliers of the water cannons to the Garda Síochána including whether they were purchased or leased or loaned; the location of the two water cannons now; and if it is intended to acquire such apparatus on a permanent basis. [13918/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
192 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the person who supplied the Garda with the two water cannons used on May Day 2004 in the Ashtown area. [13917/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
191 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the reason it was necessary to spend public funding on security fencing in the Phoenix Park when the whole park was completely sealed off by the security forces. [13916/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
190 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of the fencing erected in the Phoenix Park in relation to the May Day 2004 visit of EU leaders. [13915/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
189 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the cost of the security operation in Dublin on the May Day weekend 2004. [13914/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 12 May 2004
2 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when he next expects to meet the social partners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9099/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 11 May 2004
2 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the cross-departmental team on infrastructure and public private partnerships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9103/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 5 May 2004
60 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the Government’s progress to date in implementing the recommendations of Judge Cory’s report. [9100/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2004
191 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason a period of two years has elapsed since the Irish Vaccine Injury Campaign was promised that a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State would be set up without indication of such a scheme being set up in the immediate future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12453/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2004
190 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Health and Children if his Department will put in place immediately a compensation scheme for all persons who were brain damaged by vaccines administered in this State as recommended by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children as a matter of urgency in its July 2001 report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12452/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2004
152 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if he intends to change the situation whereby injured children awarded money by the courts pay DIRT on the interest on the capital sum that is invested on their behalf and are not entitled to a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12476/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2004
151 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that injured children awarded money by the courts pay DIRT on the interest on the capital sum that is invested on their behalf by the courts, even when their income is below the threshold for paying tax, and that they are not entitled to a refund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12475/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2004
136 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment her views on the opinion of the Dangerous Goods Safety Advisors Association of Ireland that its members should not have to repeat their examinations every five years but instead should be obliged to take refresher courses every two years when they would be granted an extension to practice for the following two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12450/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2004
135 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Ireland will sign up as a contracting party to the ADR agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12449/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2004
59 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Minister for Transport if he will report on his recent contacts with SIPTU regarding strike action at the airports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9090/04]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 4 May 2004
5 Mr. J. Higgins asked the Taoiseach when he expects to receive a further report on the Dundalk and Belturbet bombings from the Barron commission of inquiry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9104/04]