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- Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 181: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on his decision announced on RTÃ news in November 2011 that he will meet the costs of remediating illegal dumps in County Wicklow; the funds he has committed to this; if any have already been deployed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17451/12]
- Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 182: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he will respond to a claim in the High Court that his intervention in the matter of the payment for remediation of illegal dumps in County Wicklow would mean the abandonment of court proceedings related to responsibility for the remediation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17452/12]
- Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 183: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he intends to recoup the costs of remediation of illegal dumps in County Wicklow when the companies which might be liable are gone out of business.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17453/12]
- Written Answers — Illegal Dumping: Illegal Dumping (29 Mar 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 184: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if he has received correspondence from the Department of Social Protection in the past number of years requesting an investigation into the council's handling of illegal dumping in County Wicklow and the way the remediation process was handled by the county council and for a full investigation into the...
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: There is no free water; we pay for it through our taxes.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Then fix the bloody pipes.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Deputy Buttimer cannot even get his geography right.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Look at the evidence. Water usage per household-----
- Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: There is no evidence-----
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Notwithstanding what the Taoiseach said this morning, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, said yesterday that he was in favour-----
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----of having water cut off to people's homes.
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Yes, he did.
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, but the legislative issue that arises, a Cheann Comhairle-----
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: -----relates to the Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997. Section 12 removed the power of local authorities to implement water charges for homes and therefore removed the monstrous power to cut off people's water. Could I ask the Taoiseach in that regard what legislative measures - and when - he is bringing forward?
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Well-----
- Order of Business (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Hogan, in response to a journalist clearly indicated yesterday that this was his wish. That needs a legislative response.
- An Bille um an Tríochadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (An Conradh ar Chobhsaíocht, ar Chomhordú agus ar Rialachas san Aontas Eacnamaíoch agus Airgeadaíochta) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil)Thirtieth Amendment of the Constitution (Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: The treaty on stability, coordination and government, otherwise known as the fiscal treaty, will do nothing to address the appalling effects of the current crisis in capitalism, whether that is in Ireland or throughout the European Union. On the contrary, if the further savage cuts and austerity that would inevitably follow adherence to this treaty's fiscal diktats were implemented across...
- Written Answers — Tax Code: Tax Code (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 89: To ask the Minister for Finance the basis for having three differing rates of VAT on the internment of ashes 23%, cremation plots 13.5% and burial plots 0%; if he will consider revising the rates charged on the internment of ashes and cremation plots and bring them in line with the zero rate of burial plots. [19196/12]
- Written Answers — Local Authority Charges: Local Authority Charges (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 859: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the amount spent on advertising and on administration of the new household tax. [18557/12]
- Written Answers — Primary Care Strategy: Primary Care Strategy (18 Apr 2012)
Joe Higgins: Question 1269: To ask the Minister for Health if direct Exchequer funding will be made available for the provision of a primary healthcare centre for Corduff Dublin 15 in view of the previous commitment by the Health Service Executive to revert to the capital programme in the absence of a successful public private partnership application [18322/12]