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Written Answers — National Minimum Wage: National Minimum Wage (11 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 203: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the average wage of disabled persons on the NTDI's community workshop scheme. [15508/05]

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 3: To ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement on the recent Central Statistics Office report, Measuring Ireland's Progress 2004. [15207/05]

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: One of the findings of the Central Statistics Office report, Measuring Ireland's Progress 2004, was that the population has increased to over 4 million, the second highest rate of growth in the European Union. Will the Minister of State agree that after eight years of his Government in power, it is now painfully clear that his preparation for this population increase and its implications has...

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: It was on one point.

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Government has not prepared for it.

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: What is the Government doing about community infrastructure? That is the point.

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: I am asking about social and community infrastructure.

Central Statistics Office Report. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: The Minister of State did not wander.

Irish-US Trade. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: American companies located here are highly profitable. Up to €20 billion is exported in profits by multinationals every year. How much of that is accounted for by US-based multinationals? Is that included in the figures or do exports refer exclusively to products?

Irish-US Trade. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Are repatriated profits included in the data on exports?

Order of Business. (17 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: The National Council on Ageing and Older People has published a report which alleges that some within the health and social services have attitudes towards older people which could only be described as shocking and essentially regard older people as a nuisance to be dealt with. I have objected in the past to the use of the disgusting term "bed blockers" to describe elderly people in the...

Leaders' Questions. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach state clearly if it is his intention today to hand over a majority of Aer Lingus to private interests? If our national airline finishes up in the hands of the sharks who dominate international big business the Taoiseach, his party and his Government will be guilty of outright treachery and of stabbing in the back the thousands of Aer Lingus workers and those associated with...

Leaders' Questions. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: What raiméis?

Leaders' Questions. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: The snide comment from behind the Taoiseach that I should stick with the kebabs, referring to my fight against the exploitation of Gama workers, ill-behoves the Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs, who has responsibility for overseas development.

Leaders' Questions. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Does the Taoiseach believe, as an island nation, that our people should be at the mercy of aviation multinationals? Does he believe that there is no strategic interest in having a publicly owned airline? Is it the reality that his Government has no loyalty to any concept of public ownership and being in hock ideologically and financially to big business is dancing to its tune? What was the...

Leaders' Questions. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Invest in it then.

Tribunals of Inquiry. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 4: To ask the Taoiseach the costs which have accrued to his Department with regard to the Moriarty tribunal in 2005 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15222/05]

Official Engagements. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 14: To ask the Taoiseach if he has received an agenda for his upcoming meeting with the President of the European Council, Mr. Jean Claude Juncker; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15205/05]

Official Engagements. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 15: To ask the Taoiseach the official visits abroad he plans to make during the current Dáil session; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15224/05]

Official Engagements. (18 May 2005)

Joe Higgins: Question 16: To ask the Taoiseach the role he envisages the National Forum of Europe playing in regard to the proposed new EU constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15229/05]