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Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach will put it on his grandchildren and not just on his children.

Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The process is certainly not transparent.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent meetings with the political leaders in Northern Ireland. [2343/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the British Irish Council in Cardiff on 26 November. [2344/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on any recent meetings with British Prime Minister David Cameron. [2345/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The fact that the protests over the restrictions on the flying of the Union Jack at Belfast City Hall have receded, at least for the moment, should not prevent an analysis of what transpired or lessons to be learned. The Taoiseach referred to the protests and used the words “underlying causes”, which suggest that while there were reactionary loyalist hard-liners stirring up...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Diplomatic Representation (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: The reality is that there are two communities in the North and each feels various forms of alienation and the effects of the crisis. It is, however, wrong to give the impression that the predominance of suffering and poverty is on one side. For reasons of history and geography, and because of residues of sectarian discrimination, there are differences between the two communities. However,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Safety (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that on foot of evidence of non-compliance with fire safety regulations in an estate (details supplied) requests have been made on behalf of individual house and apartment owners by TDs and a fire safety specialist for an Enforcement Notice from Dublin City Council Building Control,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Air Pollution (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government since the European Environmental Agency report was published in November 2011 entitled Revealing the Costs of Air Pollution from Industrial Facilities in Europe reporting damage caused by plants in Ireland to the environment and human health at an estimated cost of between €0.7 billion and €1 billion, the...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Remediation Programme Expenditure (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Homebond reported a surplus of €25 million following the launch of the Homebond insurance backed guarantee; and if he will consider measures to appropriate this surplus for pyrite remediation. [5780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of foreign nationals that have entered Ireland on transit visas since 2010 in order to board vessels leaving this State and their countries of origin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5249/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: International Agreements (5 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his view on the non-ratification to date by Ireland of the Maritime Labour Convention 2006 and ILO 188 and the basis upon which these standards are not applied here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5248/13]

National Lottery Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: This Bill provides for the privatisation of the national lottery. To justify this on the basis of getting funding from the sale of the licence for the national lottery over a 20 or 25 year period by claiming the proceeds would go to finance a national children's hospital simply adds a touch of cynicism to the whole idea. We have been given no clear figures for the cost of the national...

Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: Government Members have disgraced themselves again.

Business of Dáil: Motion (6 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: Some 800 workers will lose their jobs tomorrow. Is that technical?

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: This is a chaotic and grotesque way to run a State by any standards. It is symbolic, however, of the anarchy by which the financial markets operate and symbolic of the dictatorship of those financial markets, in front of which Governments all over Europe, most notably the Irish Government, prostrate themselves to do their bidding while bleeding working class people to bail out their system....

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: Let us hope KPMG does the grand job it did with Irish Nationwide.

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: Why did the Minister not protect the workers in IBRC?

Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: That is a despicable comment.

Promissory Notes: Statements (7 Feb 2013)

Joe Higgins: No, it does not.