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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Prison Committals (28 Mar 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will raise with his Spanish counterpart the situation facing Basque prisoners in the Spanish State as has been raised by the Dublin Basque Solidarity Committee, specifically the policy of dispersal and the resultant hardships on prisoners and relatives and the retroactive extension of sentences contrary to a ruling in...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Official Engagements (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he has met with any church organisations in his official capacity. [12662/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet sub committees that have met this year and the number of times each has met. [2338/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the most recent contacts between the Economic Management Council and the banks. [12516/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Economic Management Council is obviously the most powerful Government sub-committee, comprising the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform. Does that sub-committee have a role in industrial relations policy? Was it the policy of the Economic Management Council that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform should...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Yes. It would decimate their income and is a critical part of their pay, despite the Government's propaganda about non-core pay not being touched. As a result of this rejection of the Croke Park II proposals by SIPTU and other public sector workers, will the Economic Management Council and the Government now recognise that austerity has run its course and is a disaster for workers and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Is the Government going to cut pay?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committee Meetings (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: What about the low-paid public sector constituents? Will the Government attempt to cut their pay?

Order of Business (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has not provided clarity. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform promised legislation implementing a 7% across the board cut in public sector workers' wages if the Croke Park II agreement was rejected. The Croke Park II proposals have gone down in flames because low and middle income workers in the public sector cannot take any more cuts, nor can they in the private...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the decision to remove funding for the construction of classrooms and sports facilities at a college (details supplied) in Dublin 15 [17445/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Back to Education Allowance Eligibility (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if he will remove or alter the qualifying period for the back to education allowance to enable greater access to the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16817/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Collection (16 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of households broken down by local authority area that have currently registered for the household charge; the total number of households broken down by local authority area targeted by the Local Government Management Authority for registration for the household charge; if he will provide a breakdown of figures of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (17 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding is immediately made available for a refurbishment and building project (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [17589/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (17 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that funding is immediately made available for a building project (details supplied) in Dublin 15 involving the removal of prefabricated classrooms and the provision of ten classrooms and sports hall. [17588/13]

Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: What is the envisaged timescale with regard to the publication of the legislation to make provision for the judgment in the X case? Will it not be necessary to expand this legislation to embrace issues relating to the health of women in view of the evidence given by the clinical director of the National Maternity Hospital in the Coroner's Court in Galway yesterday to the effect that the law...

Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Briefly, I wish to support the Ceann Comhairle's point.

Order of Business (18 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: The Whips should discuss it. It is wrong that the system crushes people who do not have the protection of parties, etc. I will raise the matter with the Whips.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (18 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of additional revenue that will be raised for the Exchequer if the corporation tax rate here was raised by the same proportion, that is by 25%, as the increase to the Cypriot corporate tax rate in the original Cypriot bailout plan of 16 March 2013. [18152/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of the Programme for Government after two years in office. [12514/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Programme for Government Review (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: The questions asked are about whether the programme for Government will be revised. Does the Taoiseach agree that the policy of the Government on austerity is fundamental to any answer to those questions? The Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Joan Burton, has said that while we have reached the limits of austerity, there still appears to be an inexplicable preference for loading the...