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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub Committee on Irish and the Gaeltacht has met recently. [38962/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub Committee on Public Service Reform Jobs has met recently. [38963/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet sub Committee on Health has met recently. [38964/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: What is the Cabinet sub-committee on economic recovery and jobs doing in reality, particularly given the fact that there were 14,000 fewer jobs in the second quarter of this year than in the first? Consumer spending is down and every element of the domestic economy is being hammered as a result of the Government's austerity policy. Has the Administration not learned the lesson that the...
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: In view of the grave concern that the Government's servile acceptance of the troika diktat for a property tax - in reality, a home tax - is causing ordinary people living in modest homes, can we have clarity on the timeframe as to how this will be worked out?
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: I am referring to No. 16 oi the Government's legislative programme.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: I refer to the finance (local property tax) Bill.
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: It is a little more complicated than that. The Thornhill report will be an important basis for this legislation, but the Taoiseach has indicated that it has not yet been brought to the Cabinet and is still with the Minister for the Environment, Community and local Government. When will it be brought to the Cabinet and published? Second, the finance (local property tax) Bill is listed for...
- Order of Business (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: When will the Thornhill report go before the Cabinet?
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Land Swaps (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will make available from the Office of Public Works all details, including maps, of a land swap between the OPW and Wexford Borough Council; and if he will confirm that this land swap was the same as had been originally arranged in 1992/1993 (details supplied). [40315/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Redundancy Payments (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the reason that when Bord Na Móna made a number of employees redundant in September 1992 the company's superannuation committee instead of preserving the pensions of the redundant employees reimbursed them their contributions minus tax; and the reason that no employers contributions were included in the pension...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (25 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will amend Statutory Instrument No. 242 of1945 arising from the Section 44 of the Transport Act 1994 which governs the terms of the occupational pension scheme of the CIE group of companies particularly the specification that employees who if over 50 years may not enter the pension scheme. [40550/12]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Numbers (26 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of persons that have participated in the jobbridge scheme; the age bands of the participants; the breakdown of placements by company size; the breakdown of participants by type of company, private or public and so on; the percentage of those who started a jobbridge placement that have gained employment; the percentage of those who finished...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Standard Authentication Framework Environment (26 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will clarify the number of forms of proof are needed to verify a person's address as a SAFE registration appointment. [41031/12]
- An Bille um an Aonú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Leanaí) 2012: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: I welcome any parliamentary or Government initiative that highlights the welfare and well-being of children in our society and any attempts to move in a direction that would improve their situation. With regard to the welfare of children and their care on this island, the institutions that preceded the State or were established since it was founded have generally been very good when it comes...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Health in relation to kidney transplant operations in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, where the waiting time for the procedure has increased from three to six months to 14 months, his views on the 70 patients who as of 31 May 2012 are at an advanced stage of work-up to have this procedure done with live donors; the number of those 70 patients thart are pre-emptive patients;...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (27 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Health in relation to kidney transplant operations in Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, at which the waiting time for the procedure has increased from three to six months to 14 months, the measures taken to reduce this delay; the additional resources allocated; his views on the context of the urgent nature of this operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: That is the second Labour Party speaker in a row. Is there a balance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: We are not moving back and forth; we have had two Labour Party speakers in a row.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report September 2012: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (27 Sep 2012)
Joe Higgins: The problem is that I am due to speak at another committee also.