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Harbours (Amendment) Bill 2008 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Restraint is good.

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 89: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacancies which are expected to arise by the end of 2009 which will remain unfilled as a result of the circular issued by the Department of Finance on 27 March 2009 in respect of her Department and each of the State agencies or boards for which she has responsibility. [19828/09]

Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (19 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 97: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of persons working on temporary contracts and the number of such contracts which are due to expire by the end of 2009 in respect of her Department and each of the State agencies or boards for which she has responsibility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19827/09]

Leaders' Questions (20 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Mr. McDowell was vindictive about young people in prison. He will not be missed.

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: When is it proposed that the Government will ratify the United Nations convention against all corruption? On a related matter, has the Minister for Foreign Affairs sought permission to have Irish diplomatic representation at the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi? Will he make a statement today on the Irish part of the European Union concern about this trial?

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: A ministerial order was promised.

Order of Business (20 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: He is a slippery Minister.

Written Answers — Grant Payments: Grant Payments (20 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 99: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of farmers still awaiting payment under REP scheme four; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20170/09]

Written Answers — Disadvantaged Areas Scheme: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (20 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food his plans to restore the disadvantaged area payment rates to their 2008 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20169/09]

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: On the same matter-----

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: I will not refer to an individual but to the same substantive matter. I propose that the debate on the report be structured to take account of related reports, including the examinations of the prison system into which many of the victims went. I was a member of the MacBride commission, which interviewed some of these casualties. They were afraid to come forward at that time. The debate...

Order of Business (21 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: We do not need too much to reflect on it.

Written Answers — Hospital Staff: Hospital Staff (21 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 53: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when her attention was first drawn to the issue of consultants who have opted for a public-only contract not being able to admit patients who have health insurance in a private capacity; the amount of a shortfall in cash to public hospitals that is expected to result from this; the way the money will be made up; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Departmental Expenditure: Departmental Expenditure (21 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the timescale for her consideration of a new way to finance the health system here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20463/09]

Leaders' Questions (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Why too did Secretaries General?

Order of Business (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: It is just ten years and one week since former Minister for Education, the Minister, Deputy Micheál Martin, announced helpfully that he had appointed a senior archivist to the Department of Education because all the files accompanying the Kennedy report, except the Daingean file, had gone missing. I was spokesperson on education for the Labour Party at the time. The Daingean file was the...

Written Answers — Taxi Regulations: Taxi Regulations (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 78: To ask the Minister for Transport when he will respond to the Commission on Taxi Regulations submission on long-standing proposals to take over responsibility for the issuing of small public service vehicle driver licences from An Garda Sióchána; if he will confirm, if a ban on the recruitment of new staff is the reason this reform of the taxi licensing system has been...

Written Answers — Rail Network: Rail Network (26 May 2009)

Michael D Higgins: Question 100: To ask the Minister for Transport if his recently expressed personal support for phase two and three of the western rail corridor means that the full western rail corridor project will proceed on deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21269/09]

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

Michael D Higgins: Question 149: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she has received correspondence from persons involved in the ECCE scheme; the views expressed in this regard that the proposed operation of this scheme will be inoperable; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21378/09]

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]