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Written Answers — Irish Red Cross: Irish Red Cross (21 Oct 2010)

Michael D Higgins: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Defence his views on the sums of money being spent on consultants and legal fees by the Irish Red Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38091/10]

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2010: Second Stage (1 Jun 2010)

Michael D Higgins: ...to make a speculative run at the markets and four or five owners later our infrastructural deficit is disastrous. I cannot agree with Deputy Varadkar's proposed reductions in respect of the licence fee, which sustains public service broadcasting. The right of citizens to participate in the common discourse and have access to education, information and entertainment should be sustained...

Written Answers — Nursing Home Charges: Nursing Home Charges (8 Dec 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 86: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if agreement has been reached with nursing home owners to ensure that they do not pass on the inspection fee to their clients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45544/09]

National Asset Management Agency Bill 2009: Report Stage (Resumed). (4 Nov 2009)

Michael D Higgins: ...with the culture of negligence. The various people responsible have gone away into the sunset. What they did in regard to the banking system was appalling. If we are to envisage consultancy fees of €240 million per year, we must not have more of the same. If one says in a letter that Merrill Lynch is the financial adviser to the Department, one must ask by whose decision. The...

Written Answers — Adult Education: Adult Education (13 Oct 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 502: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his views on the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes Report's recommendation that course fees should be introduced for mature students. [35613/09]

Work Permits (27 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: ...to exercise the same principle. Over a period, such migrant workers will have paid PRSI and taxes totalling approximately €1.5 billion. They will have paid €10.986 million in registration fees to various bodies and to the Garda national immigration bureau. They will have paid €15.5 million in work permit fees. Some €140 million will have been paid by international students....

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 150: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, with regard to the proposed ECCE scheme, she agrees with persons working in the area who feel that fixing the fee at €64.50 per child per week is equivalent to price fixing in the industry and in that regard may be open to legal challenge; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21379/09]

Written Answers — Child Care Services: Child Care Services (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 152: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will explain the way the fee of €64.50 was reached in relation to the ECCE scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21381/09]

Stabilisation of the Public Finances: Motion (Resumed) (4 Feb 2009)

Michael D Higgins: ...fund school, road and crucial infrastructural projects. Across society it was said we must not touch the fund. Last year it lost €5 billion. The people who presided over that loss received a fee payment of €20 million. Of the €16 billion remaining, half is required for the recapitalisation of the banks in circumstances in which we do not know the extent of the asset exposure of...

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (4 Nov 2008)

Michael D Higgins: Question 121: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason he did not consider removing State support for private, fee-paying schools in budget 2009; if his failure to do so is in line with his recent comments on third level education and making 33,000 millionaire families pay appropriate fees; his views on the principle of universal access to free education; and if he will make...

Broadcasting Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Oct 2008)

Michael D Higgins: ...of public service broadcasting. Therefore, a distinction is made between the role of the public service broadcaster, which in this case is also a State broadcaster, RTE, supported by the licence fee with certain obligations, and those people who might be performing a public service function. There is a crucial difference. I spent a great deal of my time as a Minister, and it was a great...

Student Support Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2008)

Michael D Higgins: I, with others, welcome this Bill, for which we have waited five years since the original study on supporting equality of access to higher education was published in 2003. In welcoming the Bill, I feel there are ways in which it can be improved and fine-tuned on Committee Stage. These include, for example, responding to the representations of students on the phasing of payments, that is,...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)

Michael D Higgins: ...Dáil at the time, which is now over two years ago. At that time, the issue centred on the fact that Irish Equity had been forced to sign an undertaking stating that the union would not negotiate fees for actors working on commercials for private companies. The rationale given by the Competition Authority, and parroted by the Government at the time, was a fear of price-fixing by actors...

School Enrolments. (13 Dec 2007)

Michael D Higgins: ...of depriving children of their rights. I will concentrate on two cases in the constituency which I share with the Minister present. One case involves two parents, both of whom had paid very large fees to a third-level institution to do postgraduate studies. In one case the mother is continuing her postgraduate study in medieval history and the father has returned to the United States to...

Dáil Reform. (7 Nov 2007)

Michael D Higgins: ...a former Minister with responsibility for broadcasting, who was most vigorous in supporting public service broadcasting, it is important to bear in mind that RTE is not simply funded by the licence fee. It is a mixed model of broadcasting. I am now in favour of separate total coverage of the proceedings of Parliament, which is the only way to get a full range of parliamentary procedure....

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed). (1 Feb 2006)

Michael D Higgins: ...and advertising agencies. It struck down an agreement between SIPTU and the Institute of Advertising Practitioners in Ireland. The agreement in question suggested that before an actor accepted a fee less than that mentioned in the agreement, he or she would revert to the secretary of the union to determine whether to do so. The authority heard the complaint and made its decision. SIPTU had...

Trade Union Representation. (15 Nov 2005)

Michael D Higgins: ...the report by the Arts Council on artists' incomes to see the income of the average actor in this State. Last year Irish Equity was forced to sign an undertaking that the union would not negotiate fees for actors working on commercials for private companies. The result of this is that these actors have suffered serious wage cuts and are denied the right to have unions make representations...

Written Answers — Freedom of Information: Freedom of Information (2 Nov 2005)

Michael D Higgins: ...296: To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Information Commissioner, in her annual report 2004 published on 9 June 2005, called for a review of the fees introduced by the Government regarding the Freedom of Information Act 1997; if he has instituted such a review; when this review will be completed; and if he has not instituted such a review,...

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2005)

Michael D Higgins: ...to persons applying to the Residential Institutions Redress Board referencing the society's complaints procedure is an adequate response to allegations of wrongdoing in connection with solicitors' fees for work before the redress board in terms of ensuring compensation of victims and deterrence of such future practices. [30276/05]

Written Answers — Residential Institutions Redress Scheme: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (25 Oct 2005)

Michael D Higgins: ...to the Residential Institutions Redress Board referencing the society's complaints procedure, is an adequate response to the matter of allegations of wrongdoing in connection with solicitors' fees for work before the redress board, in terms of ensuring compensation of victims and deterrence of such future practises. [30278/05]