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Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Since the Tánaiste carries a major personal responsibility for the Gama exploitation scandal——

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Yes. The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Deputy Martin, indicated last night that he wants the labour inspectorate report on Gama published as soon as possible, laid before the Oireachtas and debated in the House. As soon as the High Court gag is lifted, will the Tánaiste provide for a major debate on the implications of the labour inspectors' report? In regard to legislation,...

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Would the Tánaiste like to apologise for her role in the matter?

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: How could the company get away with it for five years?

Order of Business. (14 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: He applied for——

European Council Meetings. (19 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach his priorities for the March 2005 meeting of the European Council. [6950/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (20 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 7: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings with the parties in Northern Ireland. [6947/05]

Northern Ireland Issues. (20 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 8: To ask the Taoiseach when he next plans to meet the British Prime Minister, Mr. Tony Blair. [6948/05]

Written Answers — Work Permits: Work Permits (21 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 139: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of and the sectors of the economy in which work permits have been applied for in the past year; and the number which have been granted. [12606/05]

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach feel ashamed or in any way humiliated that a multinational construction company, Gama Construction, believes it can, in 2005 — in the Ireland which the Taoiseach claims to lead — set out to starve its Turkish workers into abandoning their fight for the wages it stole from them with the same arrogance and cruelty that William Martin Murphy and his cohorts treated the...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: It is a welfare issue.

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: No workers should go anywhere, and certainly not back to Turkey, until they get the money owed to them. Otherwise, they will clearly never see that money. With typical generosity, working people throughout this country are being hugely supportive of the Gama workers, who were cheered by residents of the Ballymun flats the other day, as they marched seeking justice. The Government must live up...

Leaders' Questions. (27 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: ——that these migrant workers have experienced is the flouting of it by the company that brought them here on the invitation of the Tánaiste, and that the company is able to hire the most expensive lawyers in Dublin over the workers' unpaid wages to get High Court protection, preventing the truth of its exploitation regime from coming into the open by blocking the report of the labour...

Written Answers — Prison Accommodation: Prison Accommodation (28 Apr 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 204: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if he will meet with a group (details supplied) urgently to afford it the opportunity of discussing its concerns at the selection of the site at Thornton Hall. [13810/05]

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: I have a matter.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (4 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the devastating proposal by the Waterford Wedgewood group to close its plant in Dungarvan with the loss of more than 400 jobs, the need to discuss why this callous decision was made and the need for a full discussion on this issue.

Order of Business. (4 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Luas drivers feel themselves in the grip of a regime of stress, arbitrary sackings and intimidation. A form of industrial action taken yesterday was hampered by a no-strike clause. Does the Taoiseach consider this acceptable?

Order of Business. (4 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Does he believe industrial relations legislation should prevent that kind of regime from operating?

Order of Business. (4 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: This is a very important issue.

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (4 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 138: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the HSE has rescinded all funding sanctioned by the ERHA with respect to the refurbishment and upgrading of the Brú Chaoimhín care of the elderly facility, Dublin 8, and the old Meath community unit for the elderly; and if this decision has her sanction. [13905/05]