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

Joe Higgins: Did the Taoiseach order her to attend as a head prefect who has spoken out of turn and must come to the principal's office to be shown who is in charge? I hope the Taoiseach will reply candidly and not go all around the houses. I spent ten years questioning the Taoiseach's predecessor, Bertie Ahern, when he rambled on and on. The Taoiseach is better than the former Taoiseach in that...

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

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach has said all that before. Is there to be a change in the programme for Government?

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

Joe Higgins: There is no change in policy.

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

Joe Higgins: So the whole thing was a bluff by the Minister.

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

Joe Higgins: It is Davos all over again, with the idea that we all went mad.

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

Joe Higgins: The Taoiseach does not need an excuse to filibuster.

Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Will the Taoiseach state whether all Stages of the protection of maternal life Bill will have been passed definitively before the summer recess? Now that the Taoiseach has laid down the law for the Minister for Social Protection and declared that it is a question of austerity as usual, will he proceed with legislation to cut public sector wages before 1 July, as he announced previously?

Order of Business (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: What about the legislation on public sector wages that was promised?

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 122. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the response of the International Transport Federation (details supplied) to the Marine Casualty Investigation Board report into the sinking of the Tit Bonhomme and specifically the proposal made to his Department that persons working illegally in the fishing trade in hazardous conditions be allowed a period of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 260. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider reversing the decision by his Department to stop the funding for an autistic child (details supplied) [18304/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Noise Pollution Issues (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 453. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will commit to providing any necessary funds to complete an action plan on noise reduction in the Strawberry Beds area following the noise mapping currently being conducted by the Dublin local authorities along the route of the M50 [18764/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 583. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider banning the use of sunbeds for those under 18 years of age [18270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the cost to the State of the rental of continuous positive airway pressure machines for persons with sleep apnoea from private firms rather than purchasing the machines for their use. [19110/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 583. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider banning the use of sunbeds for those under 18 years of age [18270/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (23 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 665. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the cost to the State of the rental of continuous positive airway pressure machines for persons with sleep apnoea from private firms rather than purchasing the machines for their use. [19110/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 17. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide figures for the number of persons who have had their unemployment assistance and unemployment benefit cut because her Department was not satisfied that sufficient effort was being made by the people concerned to find employment. [18968/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: National Internship Scheme Placements (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: 30. To ask the Minister for Social Protection following the Indecon Report into the JobsBridge scheme which revealed that 240 of the 7,300 companies surveyed admitted to availing of the scheme to displace paid jobs, the reason that only 12 companies have since been banned from participating in the scheme. [18969/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: No. Deputy Donnelly should be the next Opposition speaker. I will come in myself at some stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Dr. Donovan did not state as much but it seems that the estimates for growth come from a bunch of economists chancing their arm. On one set of assumptions, there may be growth etc. but this may not be the case if demand weakens across Europe etc. and there could be entirely different projections. What the hell are we talking about in terms of a firm perspective for the next three years, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Assessment Report 2013: Discussion with Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (24 Apr 2013)

Joe Higgins: Essentially, everything done is predicated on the dictatorship of the financial markets. There is a moral issue here - what is morally right and morally wrong.