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Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----sacrificing the health care of our people to the vampires and financial institutions in Europe which are getting the resources-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: -----that should be going into our hospitals?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: You have not put in the resources.

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Following the disgusting spectacle of big business interests using the High Court successfully to batter down the wages of a cohort of workers among the lowest paid in the land, will the Taoiseach bring forward legislation urgently to restore protection to those workers who are wide open to the most grotesque exploitation and who have depended on the JLC system?

Order of Business (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: It is within Standing Orders to ask about legislation.

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 346: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that in the Defence Forces Ombudsman's 2010 report, she noted that 13 individuals from the Air Corps submitted complaints/redresses to her office in 2010 alone; and if he will explain the way that this can be reconciled with the advice given to him by the military authorities which he included in his...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 347: To ask the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to a Defence Forces Ombudsman memo, dated 26 November 2008, that provides documented evidence that the military authorities and the relevant authorities within the Irish Air Corps, in particular the Defence Forces directorate of human resources, systematically and on 60 occasions between January and November of...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 348: To ask the Minister for Defence the course of action undertaken by the Defence Forces Ombudsman as a consequence of the information contained in the Defence Forces Ombudsman memo dated 26 November 2008, to ensure that such breaches of the Defence Act would not continue; and if he at the time was made aware by the Defence Forces Ombudsman of the systematic non-conformance to...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 350: To ask the Minister for Defence, further to Parliamentary Question No. 496 of 16 June 2011, in which it is stated that no instances of reports of investigations into complaints being returned to the investigating officer for changes occurred since 2003, if he will confirm that, if the military authorities were to properly examine their records, they would find reports of such...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 351: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will provide all details of the action taken by him and the relevant military authorities on foot of the report submitted by the then complaints investigation office on 31 August 2007 in which Conclusion 2 indicated that members of the Air Corps were treated disgracefully by military authorities and also that the interference with the...

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 352: To ask the Minister for Defence if he will initiate at the earliest opportunity a credible independent inquiry into the systematic mishandling of complaints in the Irish Air Corps and Defence Forces and the attempts by military authorities to keep the knowledge of such activities from the public domain. [19782/11]

Written Answers — Defence Forces Discipline: Defence Forces Discipline (12 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 349: To ask the Minister for Defence, further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 493 to 497, inclusive, of 14 June 2011, if his attention has been drawn to the advice given to him by the military authorities which he included in his reply, whereby the military authorities stated that all complaints made under section 114 Defence Act 1954 are dealt with in accordance with complaints...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I wish to seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the grave damage caused in the economies of Ireland and other countries in the EU by the actions of faceless, unelected and unaccountable institutions in the financial markets including ratings agencies and the need to bring these institutions into public ownership and under...

Order of Business (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The use of the guillotine will become a major and urgent issue, particularly from September. There will be endless conflict and time wasted if the Government continues to do what it has done in the past three months, which it said it would not do. Every week there are several guillotines. A different approach can be adopted to legislation, which is to ascertain whether there is a high...

Government Accountability (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the way he plans to make his Government more accountable to Dáil Éireann. [18579/11]

Foreign Conflicts (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has made representations to the Israeli Government regarding the safe passage of the recent Irish flotilla to Gaza. [18580/11]

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: The Minister states that funding for special needs is not being cut and thereby covers up the truth that the resources available for schools are being greatly diminished because thousands of extra children are pouring into the education system every year. The reality lies in the examples Deputies have cited from their respective areas. In the greater Blanchardstown area, the fastest growing...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: What we see at present is but the diseased financial system that are the European financial markets? The gamblers and speculators therein, faceless, unaccountable and unelectable, are given such enormous power by the political establishments in all the countries of the European Union that they dictate economic policy, including savage cuts in society such as services to children with special...

Written Answers — State Visits: State Visits (13 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: Question 48: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the total costs to the State of the visits of Queen Elizabeth II and the President of the USA. [19973/11]

Order of Business (14 Jul 2011)

Joe Higgins: I support Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh. The introduction of these savage cuts affecting the most vulnerable has been done in a mendacious and underhand fashion. The very least the so-called Minister for Social Protection can do is to come into the Dáil to defend these cowardly cuts and explain the rationale of the Labour Party in now finding these reductions, which hit the old and the poor,...