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Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: We are inviting clarification from the Minister regarding these issues.

Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Minister must clarify. He stated that it was an insult to the people of Balbriggan and Swords to suggest that they could only get their primary care centres by favouritism, but what is an insult to them is that the centres have been chosen in a manner that is open to questions of political favouritism. No one is insulting the people of those areas. The Minister is constantly trying to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance noting the Memorandum of the US Senate Permanent Sub-Committee on Investigations regarding US based multinational companies use of tax havens to avoid US taxes on profits derived from Intellectual Property and that Irish registered companies are central to this alleged tax evasion, if he will take action, including implementing recommendations of the Mahon...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Nevin Economic Research Institute estimate that 29,000 jobs will be lost if he proceeds with a fiscal adjustment of €3.5 billion which prioritises cuts in government spending. [42255/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Correspondence (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on any recent discussions with Troika officials. [38966/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Official Engagements (3 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance if any representatives were sent to the World Economic Forum in Tianjin on 11 to 13 September. [38953/12]

Address by H.E. Mr. Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament (4 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: There will be much pomp, ceremony and chatter to accompany the Irish Government assuming the Presidency of the European Union in 2013. However, there will be no change in the disastrous and destructive austerity policy being ruthlessly imposed on the Irish and European working class, middle and low income workers, the unemployed, pensioners, the poor and the young. As President of the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry Regulation (4 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will confirm that, when car insurers are authorised by way of written consent for the insured including specific instruction to pay the garage/shop for windscreen replacement, and, following said instruction the insurer settles the claim by sending payment to the insured rather than the garage/shop, and, the insured does not subsequently make payment to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Employment Support Services (4 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the total number of placements on jobbridge which do not run for their full term. [42489/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent developments regarding the establishment of the Constitutional Convention. [38950/12]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: What on earth does the Taoiseach need a constitutional convention to deal with reducing the age of voting to 17 and reducing the term of the Presidency to five years? I suggest the discussion on both issues would take one hour each. The Taoiseach should just do it. The age should be reduced to 17 or even 16 since young people are, unfortunately, increasingly victims of the policies of...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: The issue is easily dealt with. Of course the term of the Presidency should be five years. Is it possible that the convention could examine the Presidency more fundamentally? For example, one could ask whether we need a Presidency, which is a bauble, a luxury that is ill-afforded. The mechanism for the selection of a President is undemocratically rigged to suit the establishment political...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Why does it not consider meaningful rights such as the right to work, the right to decent accommodation without being held to ransom by landlords and rights that would make life easier and more fruitful for people? Should those much more fundamental issues not be considered rather than the more superficial issues, especially the first two?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: I assure the Taoiseach there is no party of break-up. Tá an Páirtí Sóisialach faoi lán seoil. Let the Taoiseach not worry.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: A little bit of ice cracking off the edge does not sink the iceberg. The other issue relates to representation. Assuming the Government is to go ahead with the constitutional convention, how will proper representation on it be guaranteed? Apart from people who give submissions, how will the members be representative of society? Deputy Martin's question related to the Gay and Lesbian...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Convention (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is referring to the wrong party. He should withdraw that remark.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach is a recent convert to the abolition of the Seanad. Some of us have expressed the view for decades that it is thoroughly undemocratic and a rotten elitist borough which should go. Is the Taoiseach aware of the suspicion that nothing tangible has been done in this regard in a year and a half because he is under pressure from many members of his own party and of the Labour Party...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Constitutional Amendments (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Is the Taoiseach aware of that suspicion and can he confirm it?

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Croke Park Agreement (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on any recent discussions with the social partners. [38954/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (9 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will examine the case of person (details supplied) in Dublin 15 who will shortly face homelessness in view of the fact that they cannot find a new home within their new allocated rent allowance cap and their landlord will not reduce the rent to the amount requested. [43228/12]