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Departmental Expenditure (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is a fair question.

Interdepartmental Committees (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: What role, if any, will the economic management council have in the implementation of the jobs programme that was announced by the Government recently? Will it have an overseeing role? Will various agencies of the State have to answer to it? How will the economic management council supervise the achievement of the target of creating 100,000 net jobs by 2015? As that has not been...

Interdepartmental Committees (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: The lips of the Minister for Education and Skills have not ceased to move since we started Question Time. That leads me to believe he might be playing the role of a political ventriloquist today.

Interdepartmental Committees (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I will not be so impolite to say what that might make the Taoiseach. Many people consider that several billion euro of the bailout money to the banks was related to difficulties with household mortgages which the banks have not reflected in their policy of writing down debt. Is this the Taoiseach's understanding? Surely the alternative to having unfortunate people dragging mountains of...

Interdepartmental Committees (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is not unusual at all.

Order of Business (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: What is the date for the referendum?

Written Answers — Expenditure Reviews: Expenditure Reviews (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 67: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in his review of spending, if his attention has been drawn to the high cost of contract cleaners for the Department of Finance at €203,556.00 and also high cost of contract cleaners for the Office of Public Works at €704,918.90; if he has done a comparison on the amount it would cost to directly employ cleaners; and if he...

Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (28 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the basis on which he defined strategic from non-strategic State assets when making his decision on the State assets that were to be sold under the troika agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11248/12]

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: A Cheann Comhairle, the-----

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I refrained from a riposte because the issue-----

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----I want to raise with the Taoiseach is of significant seriousness.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Some months after the scandal of the fire hazard at Priory Hall, which is causing awful hardship to the innocent residents there, another fire hazard scandal is unfolding at Belmayne, which is also on the north Dublin fringe. Kitara developers have written to hundreds of apartment owners to tell them they might have to move out of their homes for three or four days to allow fire hazards to...

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I will have no problem repeating it outside the Chamber.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: When the Minister of State with responsibility for housing at Cabinet level, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, spoke in this Dáil 16 hours ago, she repeated what Dublin City Council told her, which is that this issue first came to light just one month ago when a leaking pipe led to an investigation that showed up-----

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----some fire problems. That is a blatant lie.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: In March 2011, the Dublin chief fire officer and the assistant fire officer had a three-hour meeting with residents.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: Deputy Terence Flanagan was in attendance. These problems and serious issues were unveiled and acknowledged at that meeting. A fire officer who visited saw the full extent of the problem.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: In July, the chief fire officer wrote to residents-----

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----to say there was no problem.

Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2012)

Joe Higgins: I will not withdraw it.