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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will review the rent supplement scheme caps in view of an increasing number of tenants being forced out of their homes and localities due to the lower limits imposed since the beginning of the year. [44500/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (16 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current levels of payment for the household charge by local authority area. [44231/12]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (16 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current payment levels of the household charge nationally; the figures by county; the number of households liable in each county; and the percentage of registration in each county and nationally. [44588/12]

Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Put him in restraints.

Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: When will the legislation for the property tax be introduced to the Dáil? Will it be before the budget or after? Is it the intention of the Government to repeal the household tax legislation currently applying before the end of the year or will it be implemented for the first half of next year? The Government has indicated that from 1 July, the property tax will apply. Does the...

Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: When will that be?

Order of Business (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Will it apply to the Minister for Justice and Equality in the Dáil?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the revelations contained in the New Zealand made television documentary Who Killed Trent Keegan, by Melting Pot Studios and carried on TVNZ which details the encroachment on the land of the Masai people by safari companies; the death in suspicious circumstances of a New Zealand citizen of Irish decent Trent...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Presidency Expenditure (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans for when Ireland assumes the Presidency of the European Union on 1 January 2013. [43032/12]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Availability (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 4 October 2012, regarding Section 535 of theTaxes Consolidation Act 1997 and the CGT exemption, if payments for crash repairs which exceed the €1,270 threshold and have been paid by the insurer directly to the insured and not paid to the garage or shop, have a tax liability; if there is not also an outstanding...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: I will be succinct. The Minister said that inward investment, which is at record heights, compensates for the removal of demand from the domestic economy. I put it to him that that is manifestly not the case. Inward investment by multinational corporations is highly specialised and highly capital-intensive. While the jobs created are of course welcome, such investment is highly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: On the rich and super-rich.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Not on the family home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Perhaps the Minister would give the detail in respect of the household charge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: I heard the Minister. He does not need to waste time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: Will the household charge apply next year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is extraordinary that people will not know-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Finance Vote Group: Discussion with Minister for Finance (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: -----until three weeks before the end of the year whether the Government will be seeking a household tax on 1 January 2013.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: 2013 Allocations for Public Expenditure - Office of Public Works: Discussion with Minister of State (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: It is impossible to work close to others if people are on the telephones. It is too much of a distraction and less productive.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure and Reform Vote: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (17 Oct 2012)

Joe Higgins: I will be succinct. The only thing the Minister said that I can agree with is when he defended low and middle income public sector workers, but I point to the fact that his Government and its predecessors have hammered them significantly already. In a previous era Croke Park conjured up the excitement of Gaelic football and hurling. Croke Park is now a term of abuse of public sector...