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Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 1301: To ask the Minister for Health the amount of savings that have been achieved by increasing the price from €2 per week to €4.50 per day on meals-on-wheels in the Dublin 15 area; if any provisions has been made to offer assistance to those who would have difficulty affording the service [18558/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 1433: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason the Irish airlines superannuation scheme, the pension scheme for Dublin Airport Authority workers, has not been frozen in view of the uncertainty surrounding that scheme. [19199/12]

Written Answers — Pension Provisions: Pension Provisions (18 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 1434: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Dublin Airport Authority workers are being forced to pay pension contributions into a scheme that is in severe financial difficulty and may not pay out any of the money they have put into it because of what appears to be poor investment strategy and lack of regulation and governance. [19200/12]

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business. After the incredible plethora of different versions over recent days from different Ministers of what new raft of punitive local taxes, between home taxes and water taxes, they want to pile on the already hard-pressed people of this State, we need clarification. We need it because the Tánaiste and Leader of the Labour Party again,...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Government must come before the House to explain to us the rationale for these situations. The Tánaiste should also explain why one year ago it was fine to publish massively expensive adverts in newspapers with the slogan: "Look what Fine Gael have in store for you! €238 per annum water tax. Fine Gael - every little hurts." Apparently it does not hurt if the Labour Party now has...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: I found it over Easter in an old song, over 100 years old, by Percy French, and appropriately it is called "Phil the Fluter's Ball". Phil the fluter, instead of Phil the Minister, did not go around intimidating his neighbours. He invited them into his house to play the flute and fiddle for them and then passed the cap around. The Government might be better off asking Deputy Healy-Rae to...

Order of Business (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government will have a better chance of catching the hare in the corn than he will of breaking the boycott of ordinary, decent people of this new raft of taxes. We need a debate today and tomorrow and the Government should accede to that because it is terrifying decent people with the extent of the burdens it is trying to impose.

Private Members' Business. Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: I wish to share time with Deputies Luke 'Ming' Flanagan and Clare Daly.

Private Members' Business. Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: I commend Deputies Clare Daly and Joan Collins of the United Left Alliance, as well as Independent Deputy Mick Wallace, on bringing forward this Bill, the Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012. By doing so they have insisted that a real debate would take place in Dáil Éireann on the critical needs of women in Ireland whose lives...

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 5: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with the Vice President of China during his recent visit to Ireland. [9630/12]

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 6: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the question of human rights activists being persecuted in China with the Chinese Vice President when he met him. [9631/12]

Official Engagements (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he raised the question of workers' rights in China with the Chinese Vice President when he met him. [9632/12]

Written Answers — Water Charges: Water Charges (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 177: To ask the Taoiseach if his comments on 15 April 2012 in relation to householders paying for their water meters had been agreed beforehand with the Minister for the Environment. [19945/12]

Written Answers — Human Rights Issues: Human Rights Issues (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 185: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he raised any specific human rights issues on his recent visit to China; and with whom did he raise them. [19944/12]

Written Answers — Trade Agreements: Trade Agreements (24 Apr 2012)

Joe Higgins: Question 313: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if just wages and conditions for Chinese workers was discussed as part of any trade agreement signed with the Chinese Government. [19943/12]

Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Joe Higgins: No, it is not agreed. The motion is that the Revised Estimates would be taken without debate. I propose that there should be a debate. I propose that the Taoiseach should require the Minister for Finance to come to the Dáil and explain his utterly false assertion that a "No" vote in the austerity treaty referendum would lead to even worse cuts in the December budget.

Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach should ask the Minister or he should take the debate himself and explain why he continually covers up the extent of further drastic cuts and tax increases that his austerity treaty targets would entail. He should give us clarity rather than threats. Therefore, we should have a debate.

Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Joe Higgins: What about the idle threats of the Minister for Finance? He is threatening the people with a worse budget, falsely. Should we discuss that?

Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Joe Higgins: Could the Taoiseach give us an exact timescale for the treaty establishing the European Stability Mechanism Bill? We know it will be after the result of his austerity treaty is in but does he intend to take it before the summer recess? Will he confirm in that regard that that is not part of European law as yet and cannot be so part until there is a further amendment to the treaty on the...

Order of Business (2 May 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----and this disgraceful threat that is being used to coerce the Irish people to vote "Yes" and that they will be excluded from funding from the bailout mechanism if they do not vote "Yes"?