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- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Government Debt (15 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on the sustainability of the national debt in view of slower growth projections in the economy; and if he will provide the amount of the national debt and interest payments including projections for 2010 to 2014. [50701/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Government Debt (15 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: I thank the officials of the Department of Finance for being very helpful. As the question was whether the general Government debt is sustainable, one definition of sustainable is that it would be capable of being continued with minimal long-term effect. Would the Minister agree that by this measure the debt certainly is not sustainable? The Medium-Term Fiscal Statement the Minister...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: General Government Debt (15 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: My point is that these are shocking interest figures that the Minister has just given us. He states we can make the repayments and that determines sustainability, but at what cost? Is the cost a massive diversion of funds that could, for example, be going into major investment programmes such as public infrastructure that could take tens of thousands of workers off the dole and have them...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Ministerial Meetings (15 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on any recent discussions he has had with Troika officials. [43026/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meetings with victims of the troubles in Northern Ireland and his plans for future meetings. [49708/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report back on his recent meetings with the political leaders in Northern Ireland. [49709/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach the issues that he raised at the next meeting of the North South Ministerial Council on 2 November. [49710/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent discussions with British Prime Minister David Cameron. [49714/12]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Northern Ireland Issues (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: In view of what I have heard from the Taoiseach as the leader of Fine Gael, from the leader of Fianna Fáil and from the leader of Sinn Féin during the first 40 minutes of Question Time, will the Taoiseach admit that not only was the IRA paramilitary campaign an unmitigated disaster for the people of Northern Ireland but so also was the loyalist paramilitary campaign, the sectarian...
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: It has been a full week since the Minister for Health received the report from the expert group on the X case situation and the Taoiseach promised a debate in this Chamber. Why has the report not been published thus far? Given there will be a three-hour debate in the Dáil this week on this issue and the related issue of the sad implications of the Savita Halappanavar tragedy-----
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: ----- will the Government publish that report forthwith to help to inform the debate, rather than debating in a vacuum? The Government is treating this expert report like the third secret of Fatima.
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: What is the problem? When will the Government publish-----
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: No, we have not, a Cheann Comhairle.
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: Why not this Tuesday?
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: When?
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: Starting when?
- Order of Business (20 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: Hopefully the Taoiseach will do a better job in shaking them down when they come, rather than when he goes to Brussels.
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: Regarding debates promised in the Dáil, I refer to the expert group report to examine the A, B and C v. Ireland judgment of the European Court of Human Rights. The Government amendment to the Sinn Féin Private Members' motion calls for support for the decision by the Minister for Health to bring the report to Government on Tuesday, 27 November and his recommendation that it be then...
- Order of Business (21 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: However, the publication will be next Tuesday, 27 November.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Public Sector Reform (21 Nov 2012)
Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to outsource various public services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51869/12]